Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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To understand why Wilfred Jones wanted an ambulance, you have to understand where he lives. San Juan County, in southeastern Utah, is nearly as big as New Jersey but is home to fewer than 15,000 people. The lower third is part of the Navajo Nation and is almost entirely Ute and Navajo. The upper two-thirds are white and predominantly Mormon. Jones, a 61-year-old grandfather with jet-black hair and a diamond stud in each ear, lives in the lower third, five miles south of the blink-and-you-miss-it town of Montezuma Creek. It’s rough, rocky c...
FARMINGTON — The country’s first tribally controlled college wants to open a police academy for tribal law enforcement. The Farmington Daily Times reports that Diné College on plans to outline plans to create a police academy. The tribe has had no law enforcement training facility since the Navajo Law Enforcement Academy in Toyei, Ariz., closed three years ago. http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/briefs/local-and-regional-news-in-brief-july/article_fe75c3cd-3ffb-55c8-8c41-5fe611cffd27.html...
Despite the clamour from doctors, lawyers, religious groups and advocates for the disabled, the softer voices of Indigenous parliamentarians were instrumental in shaping the Trudeau government's cautious approach to medical assistance in dying. Indigenous MPs and senators played a central role in securing passage of the new assisted dying law, bringing to the debate what they describe as a unique perspective on the sanctity of life. http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/indigenous-parliamentarians-brought-unique-perspective-assi...
Josie Valadez Fraire knew that protesting a Donald Trump event could end with her arrest. But she couldn’t have guessed that she would soon be locked in handcuffs and hauled away by police ostensibly for carrying a sacred indigenous object. Fraire, 22, who is Xicana (Chicana) and a member of MEChA, a national Chicano/a activist student organization, attended a protest outside of the Colorado Convention Center in Denver on Friday. Inside, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, was scheduled to speak at the Western C...
Independence Holiday in the USA becomes a time when citizens tend to reflect on the nations two hundred forty year history. It is a history typical of six European empires in the areas of genocide and plunder. - genocide: 1. the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. plural: genocides [Google Dictionary] http://www.globalresearch.ca/independence-day-celebrate-240-years-of-profit-driven-genocide-african-slaves-native-americans-mexicans-filipinos/5534136...
America had an Indian Savage problem. Before July 4, 1776, the day the USA declared its independence, savage Indians, history records, would sneak into homes of new immigrants from Europe, and brutally stab to death sleeping men, women and children, who never did the least harm to the Indians. History records that these Indians would boast of their heinous cruelties at night-long campfire celebrations. This was Amalek in America. The Amelek that attacked the Israelites after the Exodus were a true horror. The Indians attacked defenseless women...
A couple who run a Native American-led retreat center and farm in rural Sandoval County have obtained a restraining order against the Pueblo of San Felipe that allows Larry and Deborah Littlebird to use – for now – the rutted dirt road that leads to their property. It is the latest step in what has been a messy, yearslong battle that went all the way to the state Supreme Court. Justices almost ended the fight last month when they ruled that the Littlebirds cannot sue to get access to the road because tribes have federal immunity from alm...
WASHINGTON, DC — Alaska Native tribes can now petition the federal government to take their land into “trust,” an action previously barred in Alaska that could result in greater federal support for village efforts to ban alcohol and prosecute some crimes. A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Friday rejected an appeal by the state of Alaska, saying the state’s argument was moot because the Interior Department had already done away with the regulation that Native groups were challenging. The ruling marks a major legal change for Ala...
Binghamton, N.Y. — FOR more than two centuries, we have been reading the Declaration of Independence wrong. Or rather, we’ve been celebrating the Declaration as people in the 19th and 20th centuries have told us we should, but not the Declaration as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams wrote it. To them, separation from Britain was as much, if not more, about racial fear and exclusion as it was about inalienable rights. The Declaration’s beautiful preamble distracts us from the heart of the document, the 27 accusations again...
The Obama administration has made great progress on issues important to Native Americans, and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Wednesday encouraged tribes to keep the pressure on Washington, D.C., after a new president is sworn in next year. Jewell spoke at a conference of the National Congress of American Indians, where she urged tribal leaders to make sure their voices are heard. "We have done a lot, but we have a lot to do," Jewell said. "We need to prepare the next lesson plans for the administration that will take over."...
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A 1990 theft of historically significant Native American remains by a national monument superintendent entrusted with protecting them was larger and more harmful than previously acknowledged, internal National Park Service documents show. After decades of investigations and cover-ups, the case is scheduled to end in a federal courtroom Friday when retired Effigy Mounds National Monument superintendent Thomas Munson is sentenced for carrying out the theft. The 76-year-old has apologized and hopes to avoid a prison sentence. h...
LINCOLN — A cache of previously unknown photographs are among the most important 19th century images of Plains Indians in northwest Nebraska because they tell a story of a land and culture in transition, historians say. The newly published photographs from an Indian agency near what became Fort Robinson are from a period of traumatic change for Arapaho and Oglala Lakota Tribes on the Northern Plains — the end of tribal traditional lifestyles and the beginning of restriction to reservations. It was the period during and after the Great Sio...
The very first Jr. NBA camps in Indian Country are taking place this month. NBA players Detlef Schrempf and Spencer Hawes will headline the camp at the Tulalip Boys and Girls Club on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington from July 8-10. The event will be followed by a camp featuring coach David Joerger at the Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Reservation, home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe, in South Dakota from July 29-31. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/07/04/native-youth-participate-in-first-jr-nba.asp...
The winged Nike is once again swooshing over Indian country in the form of new Nike N7 shoes, the latest version of the shoe designed specifically for American Indians as a way of promoting physical fitness. The Air Native N7 for rezball/roundball athletes was designed with a larger fit for Indigenous feet, as well as a culturally-specific look. This is the first time Nike has designed a shoe for a specific race or ethnicity — this one’s wider at the toe, with a thicker sock liner for comfort and fewer seams to cut down on irritation. Read mor...
WASHINGTON – The Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) at the Aspen Institute has begun a three-year project funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to promote racial equity and healing for Native American youth. The $450,000 grant will foster racial healing through peer-to-peer dialogues with Native youth and a collaborative strategy to shift the national narrative to highlight the strengths and resiliency of Native American youth. “Native youth are doing incredible things to address the considerable challenges across Indian Country,” said...
