Welcome to News from Native American Netroots, a Sunday evening series focused on indigenous tribes primarily in the United States and Canada but inclusive of international peoples also. A special thanks to our team for contributing the links that have been compiled here. Please provide your news links in the comments below. … Continued
Welcome to News from Native American Netroots, a Sunday evening series focused on indigenous tribes primarily in the United States and Canada but inclusive of international peoples also. A special thanks to our team for contributing the links that have been compiled here. Please provide your news links in the comments below. … Continued
This is my summary of the OVERSIGHT HEARING on The Preventable Epidemic: Youth Suicides and the Urgent Need for Mental Health Care Resources in Indian Country held Thursday, March 25, 2010. WEBCAST here. [172 mins.] Senator Franken called the hearing to order, he was visibly exhausted from a voting session that lasted until 3 AM … Continued
A memorial service for Chief Wilma Mankiller was held today at the Cherokee Nation Cultural Grounds in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She died earlier this week at the age of 64 after a bout of pancreatic cancer. While she was born in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, she spent her childhood in San Francisco. During the 1950s, … Continued
When Americans first began to enter into and explore New Mexico in the nineteenth century they believed that American Indians were primitive peoples who were incapable of building great cities and monumental architecture. When they encountered ancient ruins in the Southwest, they assumed that these must have been made by people unrelated to the local … Continued
In 1838, the United States Army rounded up the Cherokee who were living in Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama. Mounted soldiers, using their bayonets as prods, herded the Cherokee like cattle. One of the soldier-interpreters for the Army wrote: “I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes and driven at bayonet … Continued
There have been a number of major earthquakes recently-Haiti, Chile, Turkey-and, as usual, there have been some religious explanations about why they happened. During the past century there have been a couple of earthquakes here in North America which involved Native American spirituality. The most intense series of earthquakes in North America happened in … Continued
Obama should sign thethe Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples because… The South Dakota Attorney General said, “never even read the Ft. Laramie Treaty.” When asked whether or not Means had a valid argument to move his case to a federal court based on constitutional rights violation, Long replied, “Mr. Means ‘claims’ that the … Continued
Obama should sign theDeclaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples because… The South Dakota Attorney General said, “never even read the Ft. Laramie Treaty.” When asked whether or not Means had a valid argument to move his case to a federal court based on constitutional rights violation, Long replied, “Mr. Means ‘claims’ that the Black … Continued
When European colonists first began arriving in North America they were often startled to find that American Indian women were not the property of their husbands. The Europeans were often shocked by the fact that American Indian women freely expressed their sexuality, that they took active leadership roles in their societies, and there were few … Continued
