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TULALIP TRIBAL MEMBERS DONATE SALMON, GOODS TO NAVAJO NATION
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
A Tulalip Tribes seafood wholesaler used the economic challenges of the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to help out another tribal nation. With restaurants closed and residents of Washington state ordered to stay home to stay healthy, tribal member Rudy Madrigal of Coast Salish Seafood...
Hard-hit tribe takes strict steps as virus surges in Arizona
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 4 years ago
People in the deserts of Arizona flee to the White Mountains when the triple-digit heat is too much to bear, cooling off in the forest a few hours away. That worries a Native American tribe that calls the area home, as coronavirus infections and temperatures have both spiked in one of the...
Theodore Roosevelt: ‘The Only Good Indians Are the Dead Indians’
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 27 Comments • 4 Likes • 4 years ago
“Theodore Roosevelt: ‘The Only Good Indians Are the Dead Indians’. Roosevelt: 'I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead...”
When Theodore Roosevelt took office in 1901, he already had a long legacy of animosity toward American Indians. Seventeen years earlier, Roosevelt, then a young widower, left New York in favor of the Dakotas, where he built a ranch, rode horses and wrote about life on the frontier. When he...
Hippo Bird Eggs two Ewe Perrie
By: 1stwarrior • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 56 Comments • 17 Likes • 4 years ago
Another glorious year for our lady of the RA Perrie - Hippo Bird Eggs two Ewe Hippo Bird Eggs two Ewe Hippo Bird Eggs, Hippo Bird Eggs Hippo Bird Eggs two Ewe. And I hope it's a beautiful one Perrie.
Mashpee Wampanoag: US Court ‘stood up for justice’
By: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 30 Comments • 4 Likes • 4 years ago
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has cleared a major hurdle in its legal battle to maintain its reservation status. A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Interior Department to reexamine its previous decision taking the tribe’s more than 300 acres in Massachusetts out of trust. “While we are...
Vote-by-mail systems could offer challenges for Native Americans
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 16 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
As the coronavirus has ravaged the country, killing 100,000 Americans and leaving 40 million without jobs, states are beginning to consider voting by mail as a safer alternative to in-person voting. However, while voting by mail may make it easier for some voters to cast their ballots, it isn't...
4 Native candidates for Congress advance to November
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 4 years ago
At least four Native candidates for Congress will advance to the general election. Both candidates running in Idaho on Tuesday — Paulette Jordan, Coeur d’Alene, and Rudy Soto, Shoshone-Bannock — will appear on the November ballot. Jordan will face incumbent U.S. Senator Jim Risch, while Soto...
On this day, all Indians made United States citizens
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
On June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act, which marked the end of a long debate and struggle, at a federal level, over full birthright citizenship for American Indians. The act read that “all noncitizen Indians born within the territorial limits of...
Groot In Hot Water After Recent 'I Am Groot' Comments
Via: 1stwarrior • Entertainment • 4 Comments • 5 Likes • 4 years ago
HOLLYWOOD, CA—Another Hollywood celebrity has come under fire for making controversial statements that some are calling “the worst thing anyone has ever said anywhere, at any time in the history of the universe.” “I am Groot,” Groot proclaimed while addressing a packed auditorium in a video...