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Justice Department working with tribes on missing persons
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
“The Justice Department has finalized its first plan to help address the problem of missing and murdered Native people on one of the largest...”
Jermain Charlo vanished in June 2018. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribal member hasn’t been seen since. Valenda Morigeau, Charlo’s aunt, reported her missing to the Missoula Police Department in the days after her disappearance. But Morigeau said the detective initially assigned to the...
The Border-Crisis Deniers
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 46 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
“The defenses of Biden’s performance at the border are tendentious or dishonest.”
It should be perfectly obvious what’s happening at the border, but the Biden administration and journalistic allies are denying it all the same. Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been leading the way with a haze of misrepresentations. On Sunday, he said that Title 42, the...
Majority of Americans disapprove of Biden's immigration and gun violence policies: Poll
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 25 Comments • 5 Likes • 4 years ago
A new poll shows a majority of Americans disapprove of President Biden’s handling of the surge of migrants at the U.S. border. Fifty-seven percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s approach to the border crisis, according to the latest ABC News/Ipos poll. Broken down by partisan affiliation,...
A Minnesota man can’t be charged with felony rape because the woman chose to drink beforehand, court rules
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 4 years ago
After a 20-year-old woman took five shots of vodka and a prescription pill, she said she was standing outside a Minneapolis bar in May 2017 when a man invited her and a friend to a party. She agreed but soon found out there was no gathering, she later testified. She “blacked out” instead,...
‘Warrior Restaurants?' How the Army hopes to boost DFAC usage
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 20 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
Base cafeterias will always be “chow halls” for many, while others call them DFACs. But the Army is trying to add a new term to the lexicon: warrior restaurant. In an effort to change how and what soldiers eat, the service has begun rebranding its dining facilities, modernizing them and...
Biden administration limits what Border Patrol can share with media about migrant surge at border
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 19 Comments • 4 Likes • 4 years ago
“Restrictions on what border agents can share with the media were passed down verbally, say officials. Some have released videos of the border surge...”
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is restricting the information Border Patrol agents and sector chiefs can share with the media as a surge of migrants tests the agency's capacity at the southern border, according to four current and two former Customs and Border Protection officials....
White House says it must ‘work more’ to discourage illegal migrants coming to US
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 32 Comments • 6 Likes • 4 years ago
Thousands of illegal immigrants are being set free across the country as the crisis on the southern border escalates — and the White House admitted Monday it isn’t doing enough to discourage people from seeking unlawful entry to the United States. Speaking to reporters during a press briefing,...
10 Native Women You Should Have Learned About in History Class
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
“During National Women's Month, learn about the inspiring leaders our history textbooks missed.”
Throughout history, Native American women have always served as leaders, healers, artists—and anything else they wanted to be. But you wouldn’t know it from reading most history textbooks. Typically, only Pocahontas and Sacajawea are discussed, and all too often their stories take a supporting...
March is Women's History Month
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“The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National...”
2021 Event Highlights Film and Video Series Throughout 2021 Viewfinder: Women's Film and VideoJoin us on the first Thursday of each month to celebrate the breadth of women-made films and videos from across Smithsonian collections. These special screenings of rarely seen short-form...
HOW NAVAJO PHYSICIANS ARE BATTLING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
“Combining traditional medicine and modern science, these courageous doctors have risen to the challenge”
Ayear ago, when spring rains made their way through the Southwest and the frozen earth began to warm, the first cases of Covid-19 appeared in Navajo Nation. Though sparsely populated, with 172,000 residents in a region the size of West Virginia, Navajo Nation was particularly susceptible to the...