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Mass Migrant Crossing Floods Texas Border Facilities
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 46 Comments • 6 Likes • 2 years ago
Hundreds of migrants, part of a caravan of people mainly from Nicaragua, crossed en masse into the United States at El Paso on Sunday, among the largest single crossings along the West Texas border in recent years. The group of about 800 to 1,000 people was one of several in recent days that...
In Native American adoption case, Supreme Court explores race and tribal sovereignty
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 1 Like • 2 years ago
“One family's fight could upend decades of federal law.”
Dr. Jennifer and Chad Brackeen and their four kids are a blended family in a fight to stay together. But in the process, they could upend more than 40 years of federal law on the sovereignty of America's Native tribes and affect the fate of numerous Native children. Jennifer Brackeen, an...
'Our environment shapes us': Ojibwe architect Sam Olbekson designs from an Indigenous perspective
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“Olbekson's work centers Indigenous values on culture and sustainability.”
Sam Olbekson was first exposed to architecture at age five, when his uncle was a construction worker on a project to build the Minneapolis American Indian Center. Decades later, Olbekson, 51, now runs his own architecture firm, Full Circle Indigenous Planning. He’s also MAIC's board president,...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEVIL DOGS
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https://www.facebook.com/marine.corps.birthday/photos/10159670750244322 UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY On November 10th, The United States Marine Corps Birthday commemorates the establishment of the Continental Marines. #MarineCorpsBirthday The United States Marine Corps, a branch of...
University returning 1,500 artifacts to Oneida Indian Nation
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“Colgate University is returning to the Oneida Indian Nation more than 1,500 items buried with ancestral remains”
Colgate University is returning to the Oneida Indian Nation more than 1,500 items once buried with ancestral remains — a collection of culturally significant items that includes pendants, pots, bells and turtle shell rattles, some dating back 400 years. The “funerary objects” were purchased in...
Native child welfare law faces major Supreme Court challenge
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 years ago
“The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday on the most significant challenge to a law that gives preference to Native American...”
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday on the most significant challenge to a law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children. The outcome could undercut the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act,...
Legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants at risk after court talks collapse
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Negotiations between the Biden administration and attorneys representing hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the U.S. under a temporary humanitarian program collapsed this week, paving the way for Trump-era decisions to revoke their legal status to take effect absent court...
CBP records highest EVER annual number of migrants crossing southern border illegally - 2.37m - and that doesn't include the ones that got away!
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 years ago
America has broken its record for the highest number of illegal immigrants intercepted at the border in a single month and a single year. Customs and Border Patrol figures released late Friday night revealed there were 227,547 'migrant encounters' last month alone. And for the fiscal year...
Do You Remember S&H Green Stamps?
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 4 Likes • 2 years ago
We are all familiar with customer loyalty programs. Reasor’s Foods, Walgreens Drug Stores, Ace Hardware, and other retailers offer Rewards cards or apps that offer discounted prices, on their products, or in the case of Reasor’s Foods, a discount on QuikTrip gasoline. For many years, Warehouse...
After 187 years, the Cherokee Nation wants its seat in Congress
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 23 Comments • 2 years ago
“The 1835 treaty that led to the devastating Trail of Tears included a provision that the Cherokee should get a delegate seat in the House.”
A few years ago, Kimberly Teehee had her family genealogy done, wanting to learn about her Native American roots “pre-removal.” Using a memorial in North Carolina, with names of the Cherokee people who were forcibly moved west, her family discovered at least eight Teehee ancestors who...