Showing posts with label Native American. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native American. Show all posts
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Native American actor says she was detained by ICE officers who said tribal ID ‘looked fake’ | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
Elaine Miles of Northern Exposure was stopped by four masked men in Seattle while walking to bus stop…
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Medicine River (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)
After we cover state/church news around the country, FFRF Senior Litigation Counsel Sam Grover recounts FFRF’s recent victory stopping the Ten Commandments from being posted in Texas public schools.
Then, journalist Mary Annette Pember, a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe, describes her new book Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools.
Interview:
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Texas library board wrongly labels Wampanoag history book as fiction
If government officials can dismiss a well-researched, factual account of history as fiction, then what other truths will they try to silence?
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Republican yells at Native American candidate to 'go back to where you came from': report (RawStory)
The dispute began when Foreman categorically proclaimed discrimination did not exist in Idaho, reported Boise State Public Radio on Thursday.
Carter-Goodheart took issue with this, pointing out that there is an extensive and painful history of white supremacist organizations in northern Idaho. The state GOP has on multiple occasions had to fight off takeovers by those white supremacist groups.
https://www.rawstory.com/dan-foreman/
Carter-Goodheart took issue with this, pointing out that there is an extensive and painful history of white supremacist organizations in northern Idaho. The state GOP has on multiple occasions had to fight off takeovers by those white supremacist groups.
https://www.rawstory.com/dan-foreman/
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Republican yells at Native American candidate to 'go back to where you came from': report - Raw Story
The dispute began when Foreman categorically proclaimed discrimination did not exist in Idaho, reported Boise State Public Radio on Thursday.
Carter-Goodheart took issue with this, pointing out that there is an extensive and painful history of white supremacist organizations in northern Idaho. The state GOP has on multiple occasions had to fight off takeovers by those white supremacist groups…
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Kansas School Demands Native American Student Cut His Hair to Attend - The New York Times
Refusing to accommodate the student's religious and cultural beliefs violates state and federal law, the A.C.L.U said...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Killing of Native American Man Stirs Anger at Border Patrol - The New York Times
As the agents handcuffed and flipped Mr. Mattia onto his back, one yelled out to "secure the gun" that they said was beneath his limp body. Instead, they found a cellphone and its case…
Thursday, April 6, 2023
How poverty and racism 'weather' the body, accelerating aging and disease (Dave Davies; Fresh Air podcast)
In 2020, the overall life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by 1.5 years, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the reduction wasn't shared equally among the general population; Native American people lost an average of 4.5 years of life expectancy; Black and Hispanic people lost, on average, 3 years, while white people lost only 1.2 years.
This figure tracks with other health trends: In general, Black and Hispanic people and those living in poverty in the U.S. have worse health outcomes — more high blood pressure, higher rates of diabetes and increased maternal and infant mortality — than the overall population.
Public health researcher Arline Geronimus from the University of Michigan says the traditional belief that the disparities are due to genetics, diet and exercise don't explain data that's accumulated over the years. Instead, she makes the case that marginalized people suffer nearly constant stress from living with poverty and discrimination, which damages their bodies at the cellular level and leads to increasingly serious health problems over time.
Interview:
This figure tracks with other health trends: In general, Black and Hispanic people and those living in poverty in the U.S. have worse health outcomes — more high blood pressure, higher rates of diabetes and increased maternal and infant mortality — than the overall population.
Public health researcher Arline Geronimus from the University of Michigan says the traditional belief that the disparities are due to genetics, diet and exercise don't explain data that's accumulated over the years. Instead, she makes the case that marginalized people suffer nearly constant stress from living with poverty and discrimination, which damages their bodies at the cellular level and leads to increasingly serious health problems over time.
Interview:
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Uncovering The ‘Unspoken Traumas’ Of Native American Boarding Schools (The 1A)
For generations, indigenous children in the United States and Canada were forcibly sent to boarding schools to assimilate. Exactly what happened at those schools is still being uncovered.
Last week, the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school, just one month after more than 200 unmarked graves were found at another school in British Columbia.
Speaking at the virtual conference of the National Congress of American Indians last week, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, announced the department would open its own investigation of these boarding schools.
“I come from ancestors who endured the horrors of Indian boarding school assimilation policies carried out by the same department that I now lead,” Sec. Haaland said.“To address the intergenerational impact of Indian boarding schools and to promote spiritual and emotional healing in our communities, we must shed light on the unspoken traumas of the past, no matter how hard it will be.”
What do we know about what happened at these schools? And what will this investigation mean for the indigenous communities directly impacted?
Interview:
Last week, the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school, just one month after more than 200 unmarked graves were found at another school in British Columbia.
Speaking at the virtual conference of the National Congress of American Indians last week, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, announced the department would open its own investigation of these boarding schools.
“I come from ancestors who endured the horrors of Indian boarding school assimilation policies carried out by the same department that I now lead,” Sec. Haaland said.“To address the intergenerational impact of Indian boarding schools and to promote spiritual and emotional healing in our communities, we must shed light on the unspoken traumas of the past, no matter how hard it will be.”
What do we know about what happened at these schools? And what will this investigation mean for the indigenous communities directly impacted?
Interview:
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Video shows park ranger tasering Native American man in New Mexico
A park ranger tasered Darrell House, who is Oneida and Navajo, after he stepped off trail while on a walk at Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque.
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Indigenous Leaders Furious After EPA Grants Oklahoma Control Over Sovereign Tribal Lands | Common Dreams News
"We must fight back against this underhanded ruling," said one Indigenous leader. "In the courts, on the frontlines and in the international courts, life itself is at stake."....
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/05/indigenous-leaders-furious-after-epa-grants-oklahoma-control-over-sovereign-tribal
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/05/indigenous-leaders-furious-after-epa-grants-oklahoma-control-over-sovereign-tribal
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Supreme Court: Half of Oklahoma Is Native American Land
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a large portion of Oklahoma is Native American reservation land, belonging to the Creek Nation, and is therefore not subject to state jurisdiction. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that because Congress failed to formally undo the Creek Nation’s 19th-century reservation, the land located in eastern Oklahoma remains “Indian Country” for purposes of federal criminal law.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-rules-half-of-oklahoma-is-native-american-land
https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-rules-half-of-oklahoma-is-native-american-land
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