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Paul Westphal, Hall of Famer and NBA champion, dies at 70
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 3 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 • 4 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 • 4 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...
A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
Marie Sanchez, chief tribal judge on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, arrived in Geneva in 1977 with a clear message to deliver to the United Nations Convention on Indigenous Rights. American Indian women, she argued, were targets of the “modern form” of genocide—sterilization. Over the...
For Native Americans, Rep. Haaland's nomination as interior secretary signals a new start
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
“The selection of Haaland by President-elect Joe Biden 'is a deep resetting of the federal government's relationship with Native peoples," one...”
President-elect Joe Biden's selection of Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., to lead the Department of the Interior — potentially the first Native American to do so and serve as a Cabinet secretary — is being celebrated across Native American groups and viewed as a fresh start for tribal relations with...
'Level of suffering is unlike anything we’ve ever seen before'
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 5 Likes • 4 years ago
“Already in crisis mode, reservation health care buckles under COVID-19 burden”
Initially the death and suffering driven by the COVID-19 virus seemed far away from the Plains of South Dakota. Like the news of wars and natural disasters from distant foreign places, it seemed like a big city problem where people live chock-a-block in high rises and ride densely packed mass...
New Mexico shut down nearly everything to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by covid. It wasn't enough.
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 62 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago • LOCKED
The governor had been sounding the alarm for more than a month. But by mid-November, it was clear to Michelle Lujan Grisham that she would need to take extreme measures to head off the "most serious emergency that New Mexico has ever faced." With covid-19 cases rising exponentially and hospital...
Failing grades spike in Virginia’s largest school system as online learning gap emerges nationwide
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 18 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
A report on student grades from one of the nation’s largest school districts offers some of the first concrete evidence that online learning is forcing a striking drop in students’ academic performance, and that the most vulnerable students — children with disabilities and English-language...
Wes Studi revisits 'Dances With Wolves' and the changing depictions of Native Americans in film and television
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
Like many kids who grew up in the 1950s, Wes Studi remembers racing to the television after school and switching on the black-and-white adventures of The Lone Ranger. But he wasn’t tuning in to watch Clayton Moore as the title character. Instead, his eyes were drawn to pioneering Indigenous...
United States Marine Corps birthday
By: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 24 Comments • 6 Likes • 4 years ago
The United States Marine Corps Birthday is celebrated every year on 10 November with a traditional ball and cake-cutting ceremony. On that day in 1775, the Continental Marines were established. The official birthday of the United States Marine Corps is on 10 November 1775. That was the day when...