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RCMP 'herded' native kids to residential schools Social Sharing
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 1 Like • 7 years ago
Former aboriginal students who say the RCMP herded them off to residential schools are expressing a sense of validation following the release of a report into the Mounties' role in the notorious school system. However, not all the survivors believe the report will help with their healing. The...
On the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, Native Americans Remember Veterans’ Service and Sacrifices
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 1 Like • 7 years ago
““I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory! Good luck! And let...”
Eighty Native American delegates have traveled to France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. On June 6, 1944, the largest amphibious invasion in history began as Allied forces landed on the Normandy coast. Some 160,000 soldiers, sailors, and airmen, aboard 5,000 ships and 13,000...
More than 55,000 children caught at border in May
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 10 Comments • 1 Like • 7 years ago
“DHS on border: 'We are bursting at the seams'”
The government set another grim record in May with more than 55,000 children nabbed by Border Patrol agents along the southwest border. They were part of more than 130,000 unauthorized migrants Border Patrol agents and officers at the ports of entry encountered last month, up from about 109,000...
Record number of undocumented immigrants flooded the southern border in May
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 27 Comments • 1 Like • 7 years ago
“"We are in a full-blown emergency, and I cannot say this stronger: The system is broken," said acting CBP Commissioner John Sanders.”
Border Patrol officers encountered more than 144,000 undocumented immigrants at the southwest border in May, the largest monthly total in 13 years, officials said Wednesday. More than 132,000 were stopped while crossing the border illegally; the rest presented themselves at legal ports of...
Cherokee actor will receive an honorary Academy Award
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 28 Comments • 5 Likes • 7 years ago
Santa Fe’s Wes Studi, a veteran Cherokee actor whose list of credits includes Dances With Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans, in October will receive an honorary Academy Award for his lifetime of work. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officials announced four Governors Awards...
Congress tackles crisis of missing and murdered Native American women
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 4 Likes • 7 years ago
Although May 5 is nationally considered a day for celebration, in many tribal communities, it is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native American Women. The date commemorates the birthday of Hanna Harris, a young mother and member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana,...
High school track star runs to raise awareness for missing and murdered indigenous women
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 6 Likes • 7 years ago
Even without the three gold medals, one silver medal and the sportsmanship award she earned at the Class 1B state meet in Washington, Rosalie Fish would’ve been impossible to miss when she took to the track in late May. This was by design and it worked as flawlessly as her strides against the...
Poll: Obama 'worst president' since World War II
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 46 Comments • 4 Likes • 7 years ago
President Obama has topped predecessor George W. Bush in another poll, but not one he would like. In a new Quinnipiac University Poll, 33% named Obama the worst president since World War II, and 28% put Bush at the bottom of post-war presidents. "Over the span of 69 years of American history...
THIS DAY IN HISTORY — JUNE 2, 1924: CONGRESS ENACTS THE INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 24 Comments • 5 Likes • 7 years ago
On June 2, 1924, Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law; until 1957, some states barred Native Americans from voting. In a WPA interview from the 1930s, Henry Mitchell...
A brilliant idea helped make Chickasaw man a billionaire
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 7 years ago
BOX ELDER— Six miles east of Rapid City at Exit 67, there is a Love’s Travel Shop and Country Store. There is a Hardee’s attached to the Love’s, and what was once an isolated field of roadside grass, is now the busiest spot on any given night in the town of Box Elder. Most of the people who stop...