( – promoted by navajo) Will Native American women finally get equal protection under the law? Right now Native American women on reservations are 3 times as likely to be raped as a white woman. Due to an insanely complex series of jurisdictional issues, limited law enforcement, minimal political will and racism, perpetrators of sexual … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Via TPM Muckraker (although their link is wrong) comes this article in the Washington Post: GAO: Indian health agency lost millions in goods. No wonder they can’t deliver services to reservations… they are too busy losing small items like: all-terrain vehicles and tractors, laptop computers and digital cameras. Apparently they … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) I just received an email from a fellow tribal attorney in regards to the ongoing Congressional Black Caucus – Cherokee Nation dispute. Apparently Barney Frank has appointed his conferees to the Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act conference committee. I just received an email from a fellow tribal … Continued
Native American Netroots Caucus July 17, 2008 I wanted to write this diary sooner but I was simply redlining the entire time we were in Austin. There were so many things to do at the same time that it was hard to choose at any given moment. I was also responsible for another intensive project … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) This title is not an exaggeration or misstatement, although I really wish it were. I did not go to Netroots Nation to learn that it was possible to rape a woman, right here in the United States and walk away with absolutely no consequences to the rapist. But that’s what … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Navajo asked me to post this video here. I wasn’t expecting to take any footage at this panel here in Austin, but I felt I had to once the panelists started talking. The panel and its report are titled, “Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual … Continued
http://www.mexica-movement.org/ Our history, our people, our Identity. Learn the true history, study and confront the lies. Mexicamovement presents it in this way. In honor of our ancestors,the ones who died, the ones who fought to survive; we are descendents of that 5%that survived the biggest genocide in the history of humanity that began on that … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) This is a diary that I will fill in later. It is a place for this morning’s caucus attendees a place to post their individual recaps in the comment section. I am in a session right now about GOTV and talking to your neighbors. I will try to post my … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) The sterilizations of indigenous women were covert means of the continuation of the extermination policy against the Indian Nations. At least three indigenous generations from 3,406 women are not in existence now as the result. The sterilizations were not unintentional or negligible. They were genocide. What would the indigenous culture … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Last week the Washington Redskins scored a legal victory for themselves and another moral failure for American Judicial system. Patent and Trademark law and the investment of millions of dollars into a racist name and a stereotyped image assured another few years of denigrating headlines, repeated televised use of an … Continued
