Native Americans

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump has a long history of proclaiming that he understands things better than the people who are experts in those things. When Dr. Robert Redfield, the head of the Centers for Disease Control, testified to Congress that mask-wearing is even more effective against Covid-19 than a vaccine is likely to […]

Native Americans

Clean Energy Produced on Navajo Land will Help Power Los Angeles

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

By Sarah Donahue ( Cronkite News ) – LOS ANGELES – In a city renowned for its green policies, Prius drivers and biodegradable straws, it was only a matter of time before officials would vote to move away from coal powered electricity. To transition to clean energy, the city sold its shares of a coal-powered […]

Native Americans

The DNA Industry and the Disappearing Indian: DNA, Race, and Native Rights

Aviva Chomsky

Native rights rest on an acceptance that race and identity are, in fact, the products of history.

Native Americans

Sen. Warren Calls on Trump to Pay $1 mn. to Charity as her DNA shows Native Ancestry

AFP

Washington (AFP) – US Senator Elizabeth Warren, a potential 2020 Democratic presidential contender, released DNA test results Monday confirming her Native American ancestry and challenged Donald Trump to donate the $1 million he promised if the results proved her claim. The 69-year-old Warren, a leading progressive voice, has been derisively called “Pocahontas” by the president […]

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Could Deb Haaland be the First Native American Woman in Congress?

Javier Tovar

We have people in Congress right now who… don’t know what it’s like” to be without food or proper health care

Native Americans

Sharice Davids, Native American and Gay, Aiming for US Congress

TeleSur

In a political arena dominated by White, mostly straight men, Davids – a former Mixed Martial Arts fighter – is aiming high. Sharice Davids, who won the Democratic nomination for a House seat in Kansas on Tuesday, is poised to become one of the first Native American women in the U.S. Congress and the first […]

Native Americans

Indian Country Remembers the Trauma of Children Taken from Their Parents

Mark Trahant

This is not the first administration to order the forced separation of families

Donald Trump

Is Trump’s threat to sacred Bears Ears like Taliban blowing up Buddhas?

contributors

George Nicholas | (The Conversation) | – – For many archaeologists, one of the darkest moments in memory was the destruction of the fourth and fifth-century Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban in 2001. That tragedy was later eclipsed by ISIS’s destruction of Baghdad museum artifacts, Palmyra temples and other structures elsewhere. mypubliclands / Creative Commons […]

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Navajo Nation to Sue Trump over Shrinking Bears Ears Monument

contributors

TeleSur | – – The Navajo Nation has vowed to sue U.S. President Donald Trump over his decision to shrink Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent. Hundreds of people – including native tribe, the Navajo, and others – along with environmentalists gathered in Washington to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s damning decision to […]