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Why a Native American Nation Is Challenging the U.S. Over a 1794 Treaty
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 2 Likes • 10 months ago
Four or five years ago, Sidney Hill’s young son came to him with a question that Hill didn’t know how to answer. The boy had learned that day about the millions of acres of land that his people, the Onondaga, had once called home, and the way that their homeland had been taken parcel by parcel...
Arizona’s new voting laws that require proof of citizenship are not discriminatory, judge rules
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 38 Comments • 6 Likes • 10 months ago
“U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton said Arizona legislators didn't discriminate when they adopted the laws and the state has an interest in...”
A federal judge is upholding provisions of new Arizona laws that would require counties to verify the status of registered voters who haven’t provided proof of U.S. citizenship and cross-check voter registration information with various government databases. In a ruling Thursday, U.S. District...
Georgia lawmakers eye allowing criminal charges against school librarians over sexual content of books
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 3 Likes • 10 months ago • LOCKED
A proposal that would require school libraries to notify parents of every book their child checks out was advanced by Georgia state senators Tuesday, while a proposal to subject school librarians to criminal charges for distributing material containing obscenity waits in the wings. The measures...
South Dakota City Asks Oglala Sioux Tribe to Waive Sovereign Immunity to Fulfill Records Request
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 1 Like • last year
The City of Martin, South Dakota, wants the Oglala Sioux Tribe to either waive its sovereign immunity or pay an unknown amount of attorneys and administrative fees upfront to receive public records related to the city’s new redistricting map. A statement from the Native American Rights Fund...
The A-list stars, politicians and leading figures named in the Jeffrey Epstein files:
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 4 Likes • last year
The identities of dozens of well-known figures linked to Jeffrey Epstein have been revealed in court papers unsealed in the US overnight. The files are part of a defamation case brought against Epstein's madam Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in jail for sex trafficking underage girls...
‘We are not equipped to deal with this’: Migrant surge overwhelms U.S. border
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 5 Likes • last year
A MIGRANT ENCAMPMENT NEAR SÁSABE, Arizona – At a remote spot in the Arizona desert, near a hole in the border wall, dozens of migrants huddled over wood fires. After fleeing war in Sudan, violent gangs in Central America or Mexican cartels, the men had all crossed into the United States...
MINNESOTA UNVEILS A FLAG DESIGN TO REPLACE A FLASH POINT OF RACIAL TENSION
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 1 Like • last year
Minnesota unveiled its new flag design Tuesday in an effort to replace one with a seal that some Native Americans deemed offensive.The 174-year-old seal on the state’s current flag depicted a White settler plowing a field, a rifle leaning on a nearby tree stump, while an Indigenous man rides away...
Biden is breaking the border on purpose — he wants mass amnesty
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 6 Likes • last year
The backlog of pending cases in the nation’s immigration courts has hit 3 million, as millions of border migrants have been released into the United States to seek asylum in the past three years. It’s a shocking figure, but just the latest example of President Biden’s efforts to break the...
UW-Madison to cover full cost of college for Native students from Wisconsin tribes
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 2 Likes • last year
“Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise Program to begin in fall 2024”
Beginning in fall 2024, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will cover the full cost of an undergraduate degree for students who are members of one of the 11 federally recognized Indigenous tribes in Wisconsin. The school is also launching a five-year pilot program to cover in-state tuition and...
No good answers for Biden as voters recoil over border crossings
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 22 Comments • 4 Likes • last year
“President Joe Biden finds himself caught between the right and the left, searching for answers on immigration ahead of the 2024 election.”
Worried about the large numbers of people crossing the border from Mexico, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas went to White House officials with some advice: Get the word out about all the people the Biden administration has been deporting in hopes of deterring undocumented migrants from entering the...