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10 Native Women You Should Have Learned About in History Class
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 1 Like • 3 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
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 5 Likes • 3 years ago
“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 • 3 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...
Why Did Ancient Indigenous Groups in Brazil Hunt Sharks?
Via: 1stwarrior • Anthropology & Archeology • 11 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
“New studies show that shark meat may have constituted half of their diet and that the beasts’ teeth were used as arrow tips and razor blades”
In a snowy forest near Montreal, Martin Lominy aimed his bow at a butchered hog, hanging from twine between two trees. A craftsman who recreates ancient tools, Lominy was helping archaeologists test whether or not arrows tipped with shark teeth could pierce game. “I figured that’s not going...
Haaland Retains Her Composure in the Face of “Immense Disrespect” in Confirmation Hearing
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 1 Comments • 3 years ago
WASHINGTON — “I carry my life experiences with me everywhere I go. It’s those experiences that give me hope for the future. If an Indigenous woman from humble beginnings can be confirmed as Secretary of the Interior, our country holds promise for everyone,” Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-NM)...
Tempe acknowledges traditional homeland
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 3 Comments • 3 years ago
“The statement recognizes the area was once inhabited by the O’odham (Pima), Piipaash (Maricopa) and their ancestors. It was approved unanimously by...”
An Arizona city has formally recognized the traditional homelands it was built on more than a century ago. Tempe, along with metropolitan Phoenix, sits on traditional O’odham and Piipaash land. Recently, the city acknowledged that its 40 square miles are on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian...
Son of former Pojoaque governor named White House director of tribal affairs
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 3 years ago
PaaWee Rivera, son of George Rivera, former governor of the Pueblo of Pojoaque, is the new director of tribal affairs for the Biden Administration and senior adviser to the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. PaaWee Rivera, who was sworn in the day Biden was inaugurated,...
Exclusive: indigenous Americans dying from Covid at twice the rate of white Americans
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
“One in every 475 Native Americans has died since the pandemic began: ‘Families have been decimated’”
Covid is killing Native Americans at a faster rate than any other community in the United States, shocking new figures reveal. American Indians and Alaskan Natives are dying at almost twice the rate of white Americans, according to analysis by APM Research Lab shared exclusively with the...
'Trailblazer' Ojibway musician Shingoose dies of COVID-19 at 74
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 15 Comments • 4 Likes • 3 years ago
“Shingoose was inducted into the Manitoba Music Hall of Fame in 2012, recorded with Bruce Cockburn”
Longtime folk musician and activist Curtis (Shingoose) Jonnie died Tuesday morning at the age of 74 after testing positive for COVID-19, his daughter says. Shingoose, who is Ojibway from Roseau River Anishinaabe First Nation, had been living at the Southeast Personal Care Home in Winnipeg for...