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Sherri Mitchell on Stolen Children: ''Don't Look Away from the Suffering You See''
Via: Kavika • Anishinaabe - The First People • 5 Comments • 8 years ago
Sherri Mitchell on Stolen Children: “Don’t Look Away from the Suffering You See” by Sherri Mitchell Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools - PBS Commentary Published June 22, 2018 I recently stood in solidarity with many of my fellow citizens to say NO to the brutal separation...
NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANS INDIANS: SEPARATION OF IMMIGRANT CHILDREN FROM FAMILIES IS IMMORAL
Via: Kavika • Anishinaabe - The First People • 11 Comments • 8 years ago
Published June 19, 2018 WASHINGTON — Jefferson Keel (Chickasaw), president of the National Congress of American Indians, on Tuesday called the Trump administration separation of immigrant children immoral and called on Congress and the president to end the zero-tolerance immigration policy....
Trump Administration's policy of seperating children is reminiscent of Indian Boarding Schools.
Via: Kavika • Anishinaabe - The First People • 30 Comments • 8 years ago
of news these days about the Trump administration separating children from their parents at the U.S. border to Mexico. On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions even invoked the Bible to bolster the federal government’s justification of its zero-tolerance immigration policy that uses the...
Native American Bronze Sculptures and Monuments by Mark James (10 Pictures)
By: Kavika • Anishinaabe - The First People • 5 Comments • 8 years ago
Mark James now lives and maintains his studio in Lander, Wyoming on a working Cattle Ranch at the base of the Wind River mountains, bordering Indian Reservation Territory which spans 2.2 million acres and is home to 2500 Eastern Shoshone and more than 5000 Northern Arapaho Indians....
Canadian politician speaks Mohawk to the last living Mohawk code talker Levi Oakes
Via: Kavika • Anishinaabe - The First People • 11 Comments • 8 years ago
WEDNESDAY Canadian politician to speak Mohawk in the Canadian House of Parliament, made a surprise visit to Levi Oakes to honor him with a medalLast week, Canadian Politician and Quebec Liberal MP Marc Miller, the first Canadian politician to speak Mohawk in the Canadian House of...
Kavika in the Land Down Under - A Night At The Opera
By: Kavika • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 43 Comments • 8 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 a...
Indian Country Relay Racing, No place for old men or wimps...
By: Kavika • Sports • 32 Comments • 8 years ago
The season start of ''Indian Relay Racing'' will be on full display this coming week. The basic rules of Indian Relay Racing.. The rules of Indian relay racing, generally simple, can vary somewhat from event to event. Teams are composed of four people and three horses. Team members are...
Who Knew: Guatemala Has an ‘Israel Friendship Law’
By: Kavika • Light Unto the Nations • 3 Comments • 8 years ago
Photo Credit: Haim Jelin's Facebook page MK Haim Jelin in his Kibbutz Nahal Oz near the Gaza Strip Against the backdrop of the transfer of the Guatemalan embassy to Jerusalem, members of the Guatemala-Israel Inter Parliamentary Friendship Group in the...
Paulette Jordan, running to be the first Native American governor, wins Idaho’s Democratic primary
By: Kavika • Anishinaabe - The First People • 1 Comments • 8 years ago
She’s a young, progressive face in the state’s Democratic Party. Paulette Jordan is trying to make history in Idaho. On Tuesday, she won the Democratic nomination in Idaho’s governor’s race, progressing her long-shot goal of becoming the United States’ first Native American governor. The two...
Austin-area dig gives rare clues to how people lived 16,000 years ago
By: Kavika • Anishinaabe - The First People • 10 Comments • 8 years ago
Austin-area dig gives rare clues to how people lived 16,000 years ago METRO-STATE By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz - American-Statesman Staff Highlights Prehistoric humans began gravitating to the Gault Site about 16,000 years ago, Texas State researchers say. The Gault Site...
