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Nearly 400 years later, it's time to recognize tribal sovereignty
Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 8 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
Visiting my grandparents on the Tohono O’odham Nation keeps me rooted in my peoples’ history. As I drive through the beautiful Sonoran desert, my gratitude for family is simultaneously flooded by memories of people and lands stolen from tribal communities. Thanksgiving is a fraught holiday for...
Navajo Nation VP Delivers Prayer Before President Trump Signs Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Executive Order
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer and Second Lady Dottie Lizer joined President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, for the signing the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Executive Order. U.S. Attorney Gen. William Barr, U.S. Department of the Interior...
The Horror of Trump’s Wounded Knee Tweet
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 144 Comments • 7 Likes • 7 years ago • LOCKED
“The president poked fun at a devastating massacre and reinforced racist, misogynistic stereotypes.”
On Sunday, President Donald Trump took aim at one of his favorite targets: Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is hoping to unseat him in 2020. Responding to a video Warren posted on Instagram in which she drinks a beer in her kitchen and introduces her husband, Trump tweeted: “If Elizabeth Warren,...
Senate Republicans Unveil Violence Against Women Act That Hurts Tribes
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 24 Comments • 3 Likes • 7 years ago
“It rolls back crucial protections for Native women. It also strips out LGBTQ protections and a gun safety provision.”
WASHINGTON ― After months of delays, Senate Republicans finally unveiled their bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act, a vital 1994 law that lapsed this past February. It’s landing with a thud. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), the bill’s sponsor and a survivor of domestic violence...
'Political football': Protections for Native women caught up in partisan stalemate
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 1 Like • 7 years ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Efforts to protect Native women and children from violence and to address the crisis of missing, murdered and trafficked Native Americans are being thrust into fresh partisan rancor on Capitol Hill. On the same day the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs acted in a bipartisan...
Republican Time-Wasting Is Killing Native Women
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
“Dragging their feet on VAWA, the GOP proved again that protecting women and honoring tribal sovereignty aren't priorities in modern conservative...”
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), a landmark 1994 bill aimed at curbing domestic and sexual violence, which currently has to be renewed every five years, lapsed in February. On Thursday, the GOP unveiled its counterintuitive, anti-Indigenous VAWA replacement. There is a disturbing...
William Barr to announce plan addressing crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
Attorney General William Barr will announce a nationwide plan on Friday to address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people as concerns mount over the level of violence they face. Barr will announce the plan, known as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative, during a...
Supreme Court puts hold on House subpoena for Trump financial records
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 50 Comments • 5 Likes • 7 years ago
“Democrats said they needed the documents to investigate whether the president accurately filled out required disclosure forms.”
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday put a temporary hold on a House subpoena for President Donald Trump's financial records spanning eight years. The House Government Oversight committee subpoenaed the material in April. The committee acted after former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testified...
