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  She triumphed over apathy. See, nobody cared whether she ultimately won or lost. Nobody cared if she showed up late for school, or if she even went to school at all. Nobody seemed to care that she regularly drove her drunken mom around to the various bars around her tiny, little reservation town when [...]

It was a scorching hot day at this year’s Central States Fair until dark clouds drifted slowly over the Black Hills and brought the temperatures down. It was a special day for Native Americans because a man named Roon Jeffries and his assistant, Dixie Holy Eagle, took the challenge of the Year of Unity Committee [...]

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s trite to say, “everything is connected.” It’s a phrase that comes up in the context of family, the environment, or perhaps, philosophy. When the subject is reservation violence, however, that same notion could be rewritten as a blunt question: Docs or cops? Cops are getting most of the attention after the [...]

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The Haudenosaunee right of return

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by: Steven Newcomb For some 30 years, the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse), often known as the Six Nations Confederation, have been accustomed to traveling internationally from and back to North America on Haudenosaunee passports. Now, however, the United States government has evidently taken issue with the Haudenosaunee passports. As a result, the Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team has been delayed from its [...]

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An editorial by Indianz.com on Indianz.com asks, “What happens if Congress doesn’t approve the $3.4 billion settlement to the Indian trust fund lawsuit? It answers its own question with, “Nothing. No one gets any money. Litigation will continue at the expense of the Bureau of Indian Affairs budget and Congress will continue to do nothing [...]

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Has the Indian Health Service been an effective, government-run delivery system? Consider this from a White House memo: “While there has been improvements in health status of Indians in the past 15 years, a loss of momentum can further slow the already sluggish rate of approach to parity. Increased momentum in health delivery and sanitation [...]

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NEW YORK – A groundbreaking report examining the roots of Christian domination over indigenous peoples and their lands was released this week at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. North American Representative to the Permanent Forum Tonya Gonnella Frichner, an attorney and founder of the American Indian Law Alliance, presented a preliminary study [...]

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It has been more than 30 years since a Democrat sat in the seat of the governor of South Dakota. A Democrat who fashions his campaign on the past actions of former Senator George McGovern, a Harvard man named Scott Heidepriem, hopes to open that door again. “When McGovern decided to run for the South [...]

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Michele “Shelly” Vendiola, Communications Facilitator, Swinomish Climate Change Initiative “Mother earth has a fever, she is very sick.” Carrie Dann, Elder, Western Shoshone Defense Project In 1961 President Dwight Eisenhower spoke of the military industrial complex as the trilogy of U.S. government, military and industry.  Today the government is seemingly hijacked by corporations: 7 of [...]

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The labor of thousands of peasants brought from Mexico into Arizona in 1917 contributed to the farming revolution that placed a new state on the path of progress and the workers on a historical dimension. Avondale. Arizona April 13, 2010. In the midst of the solitude of the Goodyear Farms Historic Cemetery,  there are countless [...]

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