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'Political football': Protections for Native women caught up in partisan stalemate
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Efforts to protect Native women and children from violence and to address the crisis of missing, murdered and trafficked Native Americans are being thrust into fresh partisan rancor on Capitol Hill. On the same day the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs acted in a bipartisan...
Republican Time-Wasting Is Killing Native Women
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
“Dragging their feet on VAWA, the GOP proved again that protecting women and honoring tribal sovereignty aren't priorities in modern conservative...”
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), a landmark 1994 bill aimed at curbing domestic and sexual violence, which currently has to be renewed every five years, lapsed in February. On Thursday, the GOP unveiled its counterintuitive, anti-Indigenous VAWA replacement. There is a disturbing...
William Barr to announce plan addressing crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
Attorney General William Barr will announce a nationwide plan on Friday to address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people as concerns mount over the level of violence they face. Barr will announce the plan, known as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative, during a...
Supreme Court puts hold on House subpoena for Trump financial records
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 50 Comments • 5 Likes • 5 years ago
“Democrats said they needed the documents to investigate whether the president accurately filled out required disclosure forms.”
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday put a temporary hold on a House subpoena for President Donald Trump's financial records spanning eight years. The House Government Oversight committee subpoenaed the material in April. The committee acted after former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testified...
Happy Birthday U.S. Marine Corps.
Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 59 Comments • 15 Likes • 5 years ago
Today is the 244th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps. If you're close to anyone who ever served in the Marines, you might know this already. Yes, the other services -- the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard -- celebrate their birthdays each year (June 14, October 13, September...
'Coup has started,' whistleblower's attorney said in 2017 posts calling for impeachment
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 34 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago
Mark Zaid, one of the attorneys representing the intelligence community whistleblower at the center of the Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry, tweeted conspicuously in January 2017 that a "coup has started" and that "impeachment will follow ultimately." Then, in July 2017, Zaid remarked, "I...
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Congressional Medal of Honor hero Ernest 'Ernie' CHILDERS [1918 - 2005].
Via: 1stwarrior • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
Ernest Childers (1918-2005) (Creek) joined the National Guard of Oklahoma in 1937 on graduation from Chilocco Indian School, and was called up for active duty in the U.S. Army by President Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Orders of August and September 1940. Indians from Montana Indian...
Cities, tribes try a new environmental approach: Give nature rights
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 5 years ago
When members of the White Earth band of Ojibwe in Minnesota take out their canoes to harvest wild rice, they're gathering a source of nourishment and following a tradition that has connected them to the land for generations. But to the White Earth people, manoomin isn't just a resource to be...