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Cherokee actor will receive an honorary Academy Award
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 28 Comments • 5 Likes • 5 years ago
Santa Fe’s Wes Studi, a veteran Cherokee actor whose list of credits includes Dances With Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans, in October will receive an honorary Academy Award for his lifetime of work. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officials announced four Governors Awards...
Congress tackles crisis of missing and murdered Native American women
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago
Although May 5 is nationally considered a day for celebration, in many tribal communities, it is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native American Women. The date commemorates the birthday of Hanna Harris, a young mother and member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana,...
High school track star runs to raise awareness for missing and murdered indigenous women
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Even without the three gold medals, one silver medal and the sportsmanship award she earned at the Class 1B state meet in Washington, Rosalie Fish would’ve been impossible to miss when she took to the track in late May. This was by design and it worked as flawlessly as her strides against the...
Poll: Obama 'worst president' since World War II
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 46 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago
President Obama has topped predecessor George W. Bush in another poll, but not one he would like. In a new Quinnipiac University Poll, 33% named Obama the worst president since World War II, and 28% put Bush at the bottom of post-war presidents. "Over the span of 69 years of American history...
THIS DAY IN HISTORY — JUNE 2, 1924: CONGRESS ENACTS THE INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT
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On June 2, 1924, Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law; until 1957, some states barred Native Americans from voting. In a WPA interview from the 1930s, Henry Mitchell...
A brilliant idea helped make Chickasaw man a billionaire
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 5 years ago
BOX ELDER— Six miles east of Rapid City at Exit 67, there is a Love’s Travel Shop and Country Store. There is a Hardee’s attached to the Love’s, and what was once an isolated field of roadside grass, is now the busiest spot on any given night in the town of Box Elder. Most of the people who stop...
Top Democrat's wife may have gained 'illegal private benefit' from his committee activities
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
“A charity run by the wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings received millions from special interest groups and corporations that had business before her...”
Cummings, 68, a Maryland Democrat, is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. His wife, Maya Rockeymoore, 48, is the chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party and briefly ran in the state's gubernatorial race last year. The couple married in 2008. Cummings was once...
Supreme Court: Should Eastern Oklahoma Be Considered An Indian Reservation?
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 10 Comments • 5 years ago
“The Supreme Court hears a capital case in which it will have to decide whether nearly half of Oklahoma, a massive area including much of Tulsa, is...”
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Today the Supreme Court heard arguments over whether the entire eastern half of Oklahoma should be considered an Indian reservation. A case that began with a murder could end up having broad implications for everyone who lives in that part of the state, Native American...
Public Banned From Seeing School Shooting Case Involving Transgender Anti-Trump Culprit
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 21 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
“Entire case file sealed by judge.”
The case of two anti-Trump leftists, one of whom is transgender, who shot up a school in Denver last week has been placed under seal by a judge, banning the public from seeing it. Devon Erickson, 18, and Alec McKinney, 16, opened fire on two classrooms at the Science, Technology, Engineering...
Supreme Court sides with Native American hunter as Gorsuch joins liberals
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 54 Comments • 5 Likes • 5 years ago
The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a Wyoming hunter charged with off-season hunting, ruling 5-4 that a 150-year-old treaty between a Native American tribe and the United States was still active and protected the man's rights. Clayvin Herrera was charged in 2014 with off-season hunting,...