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Why Did Ancient Indigenous Groups in Brazil Hunt Sharks?
Via: 1stwarrior • Anthropology & Archeology • 11 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 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 • 4 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 • 4 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 • 4 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 • 4 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 • 4 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...
Paul Westphal, Hall of Famer and NBA champion, dies at 70
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
Paul Westphal, a Hall of Fame player who won a championship with the Boston Celtics in 1974 and later coached in the league and in college, died Saturday. He was 70. He died in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to a statement from Southern California, where Westphal starred in college. He was...
University Claims Words ‘Picnic,’ ‘Brown Bag’ Are Offensive
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 18 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
“Say "gathering" instead of "picnic" and "lunch and learn" instead of "brown bag."”
The University of Michigan has a “Words Matter Task Force.” Seriously. Maybe that’s why out-of-state tuition costs more than $66,000 a year. The WMTF, set up by the school’s Information and Technology Services (ITS) department, has declared that it finds more than two dozen words and phrases...
Even Homer Gets Mobbed
Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 17 Comments • 8 Likes • 5 years ago
“A Massachusetts school has banned ‘The Odyssey.’”
A sustained effort is under way to deny children access to literature. Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers and Twitter agitators are purging and propagandizing against classic texts—everything from Homer to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Dr. Seuss. Their ethos...