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The Horrific Sand Creek Massacre Will Be Forgotten No More
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
“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
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 16 Comments • 4 Likes • 4 years ago
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
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 61 Comments • 4 Likes • 4 years ago
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
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 years ago
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 • 4 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
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
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
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 203 Comments • 6 Likes • 4 years ago
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...
NIH is now accused of spending $100m of taxpayer's money on torturing lab monkeys with ACID and snakes:
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 29 Comments • 4 years ago
“DeSantis leads calls for Fauci to quit after he was revealed to have funded horrific testing on beagles”
The National Institutes of Health has spent millions of taxpayer funds to conduct animal testing on monkeys and dogs The monkey testing, which was first unveiled by the White Coat Waste Project in 2019, has cost taxpayers 'nearly $100 million just since 2007' The primates were tortured with...
Diné Organization Files Petition Against United States, Citing Human Rights Violations
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 4 years ago
For decades, the people on Navajo Nation have had no drinking water, due to uranium mining. Today, the Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) submitted the additional documents needed for a petition it filed in 2011 against the United States over the issue, to the Inter-American...
Illinois House Resolution Supports the Return of Lands to Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
DEKALB COUNTY, Ill.—Late last week, the Illinois General Assembly convened and introduced House Resolution 0504, in support of returning the illegally sold Shab-eh-nay Reservation lands back to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (PBPN). The Kansas-based tribe was originally from the Great...