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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 • 3 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 • 3 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
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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...
Oklahoma Appeals Court Affirms Quapaw Nation’s Reservation
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On Thursday Oct. 21, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the Quapaw Nation reservation in northeastern Oklahoma was never disestablished by Congress and has existed without abrogation since 1833. The decision was by a 4-0 vote. Thursday’s decision comes on the heels of last year’s...
Fox News Attacks Native Americans After Vice President Harris Calls on Americans to Reckon with Its Shameful Past
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Opinion. On Monday, tribes across Indian Country commemorated Indigenous Peoples’ Day from Alcatraz Island to New York City and throughout hundreds of tribal communities in between. The commemorations and celebrations featured singing, dancing and speeches laced with truths recognizing the...
Teacher Who Did a Poor Job of “Playing Indian” in Video that Went Viral is Placed on Leave
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A Riverside High School math teacher may know a lot about trigonometry, but she lacks wisdom on life matters—especially when it comes to Native Americans relations. A video that went viral on social media shows a Caucasian teacher prancing among students in a classroom, wearing a...
Biden is first president to mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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President Joe Biden on Friday issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, lending the most significant boost yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus toward an appreciation of Native peoples. The day will be observed on Oct....
FACT SHEET: President Biden Restores Protections for Three National Monuments and Renews American Leadership to Steward Lands, Waters, and Cultural Resources
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 3 years ago
As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s effort to better protect, conserve, and restore the lands and waters that sustain the health of communities and power our economy, President Biden will sign three proclamations restoring protections for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and...
All-out search, media attention for Gabby Petito reveals glaring disparity for Wyoming's Indigenous people
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“A report says 710 Indigenous people were reported missing in the state over the past decade.”
The search for Gabby Petito by five different agencies last week in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park was almost as massive as the attention it received from a nation gripped by the disappearance of the 22-year-old white woman. Petito's saga ended in tragedy Sunday when authorities found her...
Under Pressure, S.D. Gov. Noem Delays Social Studies Standards That Erase Native History
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Facing bipartisan pressure and calls for her resignation by the South Dakota Education Equity Coalition, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told the state Department of Education to postpone controversial changes to its social studies standards for up to one year to allow for more public input....