, 2023-01-21 02:04:54, Editor’s noteThis story may be interesting to some readers. Lakota from reservations across South Dakota gather at Wounded Knee Cemetery on the Pine Ridge Reservation to commemorate the ancestors massacred by the U.S. Cavalry in 1890. On top of two-foot snowdrifts in the cemetery on December 29, 2022, lay a stack of […]
, 2023-01-21 00:28:50, Lavin Village, Arizona. – During seventh grade at Phoenix Indian School, Birchley Mom signed up for what the school called an “outing”—which she promoted as opportunities for Native American students to earn money to spend off campus. They were opportunities – for cheap labor. Most people have no idea, Amy said, that […]
, 2023-01-19 09:00:00, Tatum Lindquist For the next six months, a 4-year-old from the Navajo Nation will be caught in the middle of a legal debate with decades of history. Its outcome has the potential to destroy the sovereignty of Native American tribes across the country. the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Act 1978 to […]
, 2023-01-14 02:00:42, Editor’s noteThis story may be interesting to some readers. Lakota from reservations across South Dakota gather at Wounded Knee Cemetery on the Pine Ridge Reservation to commemorate the ancestors massacred by the U.S. Cavalry in 1890. On top of two-foot snowdrifts in the cemetery on December 29, 2022, lay a stack of […]
, 2023-01-14 06:00:22, Editor’s noteThis story may be interesting to some readers. Lakota from reservations across South Dakota gather at Wounded Knee Cemetery on the Pine Ridge Reservation to commemorate the ancestors massacred by the U.S. Cavalry in 1890. On top of two-foot snowdrifts in the cemetery on December 29, 2022, lay a stack of […]
, 2023-01-13 05:42:00, The US Department of the Interior announced Thursday that it has given new names to five places that previously included a racist term for a Native American woman. Renamed locations in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas are complete A year-long process to remove the historically offensive word “Squaw” is a toponym […]
, 2023-01-12 10:15:41, Joshua Emerson might seem like your typical comedian – at least in the sense that he likes stand-up more than he does stand-up. “Comedy requires a lot of action for very little benefit,” the 31-year-old said Monday on Steuben’s Uptown’s BLT. “And I love every second of it. Even the grind.” But […]
, 2023-01-07 02:09:04, Here is a roundup of some of the top stories related to Native Americans in 2022. Native Americans scored big victories in the midterm vote 2022 saw a record number of Native American/Alaska Native political candidates running for federal, state and local office in the November 8 midterm elections. Of the 150 […]
Written by FELICIA FONSECA and TED WARREN, Associated Press Cheryl Andrews-Maltais takes note of the harrowing dates that remind the Wampanoag families that they are still in the midst of an opioid drug crisis — the lost birthdays of loved ones, the anniversary of their deaths. Then she extends her hand with a phone call […]