Kavika at the Opera

By: Kavika  •  Anishinaabe - The First People  •  18 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  5 years ago

We were living in Australia at the time and my wife was an opera fan. Me, not so much, well actually not at all...Really I hated it.  I had been on a business trip to S.E. Asia and had just returned home. We were living in an area of Sydney named Elizabeth Bay, or as we knew it, E Z Bay. I was...

Hero Rat Magawa Is Retiring From A Career Of Sniffing Out Land Mines In Cambodia : NPR

Via: Kavika  •  News & Politics  •  9 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  5 years ago

“Magawa is credited with saving lives. The African giant pouched rat has found 71 land mines and 38 items of unexploded ordnance. Now, he has...”

Canadian minister: Pope needs to apologize to Indigenous People

Via: Kavika  •  News & Politics  •  7 Comments  •  6 Likes  •  5 years ago

“'I think it is shameful that it hasn't been done to date,' Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said”

Memorial Day 2021

By: Kavika  •  News & Politics  •  13 Comments  •  10 Likes  •  5 years ago

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow”

The Filthy Thirteen - The Real Life Dirty Dozen

Via: Kavika  •  News & Politics  •  6 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  5 years ago

“The real life inspiration for The Dirty Dozen-- meet: The Dirty Thirteen. Read this story and more on FieldEthos.com.”

They were the original Dirty Dozen (+1) On Memorial Day in honor of the ''Greatest Generation'' of which the ''Filthy 13'' was an intricate part. 

11,760 acres of land to be returned to Leech Lake after wrongful seizure | Duluth News Tribune

Via: Kavika  •  Anishinaabe - The First People  •  9 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  5 years ago

“More than 11,000 acres of land wrongly transferred to the Chippewa National Forest in the 1940s and 1950s will soon be returned to the Leech Lake...”

Haunted by World War II internment - Alaska Natives The Aleut People

Via: Kavika  •  News & Politics  •  32 Comments  •  12 Likes  •  5 years ago

“Joaqlin EstusIndian Country Today The Alaska Legislature unanimously voted on Monday to help protect an Unangax, or Aleut, cemetery in Southeast...”

Alaska Native/Oglala Lakota Teen Makes Waves as May Vogue Mexico Covergirl | Currents

Via: Kavika  •  Anishinaabe - The First People  •  8 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  5 years ago

“Growing up in rural Alaska, 18-year-old Quannah Chasinghorse (Han Gwich'in and Oglala Lakota) didn't see herself as beautiful. "I have really...”

Hummer Erupts in Flames Just Feet From Gas Pump After Stockpiling Fuel in the Trunk

Via: Kavika  •  News & Politics  •  11 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  5 years ago

“Fire crews found roughly 20 gallons of gas stored inside the vehicle, though the cause of the fire has yet to be released.”

President Biden Nominates Muscogee Citizen Lauren J. King to Federal Bench for the Western District of Washington | Currents

Via: Kavika  •  Anishinaabe - The First People  •  12 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  5 years ago

“WASHINGTON — Lauren J. King, a tribal citizen of the Muscogee Nation, was nominated by President Joe Biden on Wednesday to become a federal...”