Wounded Knee Massacre

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The armed resistance was over. The remaining Sioux were forced into reservation life at gunpoint. Many Sioux sought spiritual guidance. Thus began a religious awakening among the tribes of North America. Arrival of the "Ghost Dance" Called the "Ghost Dance" by the white soldiers who observed...

Ex-boarding school for Native children owning up to its past

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Middle schooler Rarity Cournoyer stood at the heart of the Red Cloud Indian School campus and chanted a prayer song firmly and solemnly in the Lakota language — in a place where past generations of students were punished for speaking their mother tongue. Her classmates stood around her at a...

The Value of a "Greater Chaco" National Park

Via: 1stwarrior  •  Anishinaabe - The First People  •  4 Comments  •  1 Like  •  3 years ago

When President Biden recently announced his intention to ban mineral leases for 20 years within a 10-mile buffer zone around what is now called Chaco Culture National Park in northwest New Mexico, he continued a process begun more than a century ago when President Theodore Roosevelt invoked the...

The Horrific Sand Creek Massacre Will Be Forgotten No More

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“The opening of a national historic site in Colorado helps restore to public memory one of the worst atrocities ever perpetrated on Native Americans”

Jeff Campbell worked for 20 years as a criminal investigator for the state of New Mexico. He specialized in cold cases. These days, he applies his sleuthing skills to a case so cold it’s buried beneath a century and a half of windblown prairie. “Here’s the crime scene,” Campbell says, surveying...

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: November 29, 1864 – 230 Cheyenne & Arapaho Massacred at Sand Creek

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Monday, November 29, 2021, is the 157th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, where approximately 230 Cheyenne & Arapaho were killed at the hands of 675 U.S. soldiers, known as the Colorado territory militia. Among the dead were at least 105 women, children and elders....

3 men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s death convicted of murder

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Three men were convicted of murder Wednesday in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was running empty-handed through a Georgia subdivision when the white strangers chased him, trapped him on a quiet street and blasted him with a shotgun. The February 2020 slaying drew limited...

The jingle dress: The story behind a Native American dance and its power of spiritual healing

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When the United States was hit with the influenza pandemic in 1918, the women of the Ojibwe tribe practiced a healing ritual known as "the jingle dress" dance. It is characterized by the tinkling sounds made by the silver cones that adorn the dress each time the dancer moves. And now, one...

Minnesota Highway Signs Mark Boundaries of 1854 Treaty

Via: 1stwarrior  •  Anishinaabe - The First People  •  10 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  3 years ago

“Transportation crews are installing 12 highway signs in northeastern Minnesota that have significant, historic meaning.”

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Transportation crews are installing 12 highway signs in northeastern Minnesota that have significant, historic meaning. The signs, more than a decade in the making, mark the boundaries of a treaty signed in 1854 by the federal government and three Ojibwe tribes —...

Native Lawmakers Ask President Biden to Release Leonard Peltier

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On Tuesday, October 26, a group of lawmakers sent a letter to President Biden advocating for the release of Turtle Mountain Chippewa member Leonard Peltier. The group of lawmakers are all members of federally recognized tribes and represent 10 separate state governments.  The effort was largely...

U.S. in Talks to Pay Hundreds of Millions to Families Separated at Border

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The Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation, according to people familiar with the matter, as several agencies work to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who...