BELIEVE AND NEVER GIVE UP - Sharing our story

I can say I had a horrible day yesterday (Friday). My youngest dog was seriously ill Thursday night when I got home from work. Took her to the vet, it didn't look good ad the prognosis was bad. She was cold, possible blood loss, blood pressure low. She was admitted to the hospital. Nobody knew...

I think this is an important project - help if you can

I did. In honor of my friendshttps://www.indiegogo.com/projects/native-america/x/8084556

10 Ways to Tell: ‘You Know You're a Native Elder When…’

Love this oneAnd by far the most popular reason You Get To Eat FirstConsidering there were almost a hundred comments regarding eating first at a powwow, being first in line and all the young ones bring you a plate of food. This seems to be the biggest indicator of being a Native Elder.Also worth...

Dr. King spoke out against the genocide of Native Americans

"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood...

I was blogged :)

Went for a class and took my last project to be finished. Ended up being bloggedhttp://www.notyourgrandmothersneedlepoint.com/2014_01_18_archive.html

U.S. owes 30,000 Native Americans royalties for land but can't find them

But as the payments are being made, more than 100 years after the trust program began, tens of thousands of American Indians who are owed money cannot be located.For months now, lawyers, specialized settlement administrators and volunteers, like Chavez, have fanned out across reservations, trying...

Native American memorial bill signed into law

In Indian Country were very sensitive to the heritage that we pass down from generation to generation and when you get into the sacrifice that Indian Country has made, we have made a tremendous sacrifice even before we had the right to vote, and every conflict and every war thats come across our...

Smithsonian examines history of post office murals depicting Native Americans

WASHINGTON Hundreds of murals commissioned as public art for U.S. post offices in the New Deal era are the focus of a new online project created by the Smithsonian.Of the 1,600 murals created in post offices and federal buildings through federal art competitions, about 400 of them depict...

OMG - I didn;t know about that

If you are under the misconception that the genocide of Native Americans has long since ceased in the United States, think again. During the late 1960s and the early 1970s, a policy of involuntary surgical sterilization was imposed upon Native American women in the United States, usually without...

11,000-Year-Old Seafaring Indian Sites Discovered on California Island

Fascinatinghttp://westerndigs.org/11000-year-old-seafaring-indian-sites-discovered-on-california-island/Just offshore from the chock-a-block development of Southern California, archaeologists have discovered some of the oldest sites of human occupation on the Pacific Coast.Modern members of the...