David Cyrus, 8, of the Crow Nation poses for a portrait prior to the Grand Entry during the Denver March Powwow on March 24, 2017, in Denver, Colorado. Conditioning parole and probation on the ability to pay fines and fees is bad policy, period. Just as cash bail and disproportionate fees and fines discriminate against … Continued
Hiking near Benson, Arizona, site of the proposed Rosemont mine Some good green news for a change in southern Arizona, where Trump’s Interior Secretary, David Bernhardt, a former oil industry lobbyist and lawyer, has bent over backwards to help his mining and developer friends dig mines and build giant housing developments in sensitive ecological zones … Continued
Over at our favorite website for classy headlines and snarky stories, Wonkette, there’s a fall-flat-on-your-face article about a twitter exchange that begins with a post by White House correspondent Lucian Wintrich, who writes for the right-wing conspiracy blog The Gateway Pundit. Seems Mr. Wintrich was none too pleased with a photo of three Native Americans … Continued
WINNER! Deb Haaland was just elected to Congress, representing the great state of New Mexico! In this beautiful year of women storming into office, the lawyer and single mom shares the historic milestone—of being the first two Native American women elected to the House—with Sharice Davids, who was also victorious in Kansas tonight. With my … Continued
YouTube Video Friends: By now, you’re most likely aware of the ridiculous $250M defamation lawsuit filed against The Washington Post on behalf of Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann’s family in the wake of his confrontation with Omaha elder Nathan Phillips following the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 18. Unsurprisingly, the … Continued
#NoDAPL TV Spot Exposes Discrimination and Hypocrisy in Moving of Dakota Access Route YouTube Video To our netroots relatives: We want you to know that, despite the raids clearing the frontline camps, our movement to stop the Dakota Access pipeline isn’t over by a long shot. Oil has not yet begun to flow, and new … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Reposted with permission of the author, Prof. Ernest R. Rugenstein, from his blog The Cultural Historian. The 370 million indigenous people around the world are beginning to reclaim the rights they once had. Most were the victim of Social Darwinism where with natural selection the stronger subdues and subjugates the … Continued
I am wondering about a phenomenon in identity and ethnicity. Recently I attended a poetry reading at a Hispanic Cultural Center. Each of the poets included a poem about an indigenous person either from Mexico or the Southwest USA and each of these poems was affectionate. When I asked one of the poets why, with … Continued
