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NATIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 5 Likes • 5 years ago
Public Service Announcement History of National American Indian Heritage Month What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the contributions of the many intertribal cultures, as well as to educate everyone about the rich history,...
Native American tribe regains island taken after 1860 massacre
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 2 Comments • 5 years ago
“Most of an island off northern California will again belong to the Wiyot Tribe, which was decimated by settlers in 1860.”
An island off the coast of northern California was the site of a massacre of members of an indigenous tribe, a place that was contaminated by a shipyard and flush with invasive species. But it is also the spiritual and physical centre of the universe for the small Wiyot Tribe, and it will belong...
Amazon Tribe Wins Lawsuit Against Big Oil, Saving Millions Of Acres Of Rainforest
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
The Amazon Rainforest is well known across the world for being the largest and most dense area of woodland in the world. Spanning across nine countries, the Amazon is home to millions of different animal and plant species, as well as harboring some for the world's last remaining indigenous...
Trading Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples' Day: For some, an overdue change
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 48 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago
““Celebrating Columbus Day continues a dangerous narrative that erases Native American voices” Congresswoman Deb Haaland told NBC News.”
When Grand Forks, North Dakota, replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day in July, Courtney Davis Souvannasacd brought her son, Benjamin, with her to the city council chambers to watch the vote. “It’s not something you typically bring a 12 year-old kid to," Souvannasacd, an enrolled...
Ukraine whistleblower wants to testify in writing instead of appearing in person
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 109 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago • LOCKED
The Ukraine whistleblower at the center of the House Democratic impeachment inquiry wants to testify to Congress in writing instead of appearing in person, Fox News has confirmed. The Wall Street Journal first reported that lawyers for the anonymous CIA officer have asked lawmakers if the...
Custer Died For Your Sins, tributes from Indian Country
Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 12 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
“Individuals share how the book impacted their lives #IndianManifesto. Fifty years ago Vine Deloria Jr. published Custer Died For Your Sins: An...”
Fifty-years years ago Vine Deloria, Jr., an enrolled citizen of the Standing Rock Lakota Nation, published Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. For 1969 mainstream America the title was an attention-grabbing, blasphemous play on the well-known and oft-used Jesus-died-for-your-sins....
Waiting on the Supreme Court to return eastern Oklahoma to Indigenous nations
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
All of Indian Country is waiting on the U.S. Supreme Court to do what is morally and legally right and return to reservation status the lands of the forcibly removed southern nations, the “Five Civilized Tribes”—Cherokees, Muscogee Creeks, Choctaws, Seminoles, and Chickasaws—in Eastern Oklahoma....
Army Combat Fitness Test Fiasco! Slides Reveal 84% of Women Failing ACFT
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 46 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
In previous articles for ClearanceJobs, I’ve thrown rocks at the Army’s catastrophically ill-considered Army Combat Fitness Test—the planned successor to the proven and successful Army Physical Fitness Test. I will admit, however, that my arguments against it emerged strictly from experience and...
JUDICIAL WATCH: COURT FORCES RELEASE OF CLINTON WIKILEAKS DISCUSSION EMAIL THAT CONFIRMS STATE DEPARTMENT KNEW ABOUT HER EMAIL ACCOUNT
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
Judicial Watch announced today that the State Department provided a previously hidden email which shows that top State Department officials used and were aware of Hillary Clinton’s email account. On December 24, 2010, Daniel Baer, an Obama State Department deputy assistant secretary of state,...
City bans calling someone an ‘illegal alien’ out of hate
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 5 Likes • 5 years ago
It’s now against the law in New York City to threaten someone with a call to immigration authorities or refer to them as an “illegal alien” when motivated by hate. The restrictions — violations of which are punishable by fines of up to $250,000 per offense — are outlined in a 29-page directive...