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Native Americans
Sen. Warren Calls on Trump to Pay $1 mn. to Charity as her DNA shows Native Ancestry
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 […]
Could Deb Haaland be the First Native American Woman in Congress?
We have people in Congress right now who… don’t know what it’s like” to be without food or proper health care
Sharice Davids, Native American and Gay, Aiming for US Congress
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 […]
Indian Country Remembers the Trauma of Children Taken from Their Parents
This is not the first administration to order the forced separation of families
Is Trump’s threat to sacred Bears Ears like Taliban blowing up Buddhas?
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 […]
Navajo Nation to Sue Trump over Shrinking Bears Ears Monument
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 […]
Trump meets Native Vets, uses ‘Pocahantas’ as Insult
TeleSur | – – “(Trump should) stop using our historical people of significance as a racial slur against one of his opponents,” a Native American advocate said. President Donald Trump has provoked the ire of Native Americans once again by using a meeting meant to honor Native World War Two veterans as an occasion to […]
Trump Visa Denials target same countries Bush vowed to Overthrow
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s shameful halt to the admission of refugees for 6 months and his 3-month pause in allowing entry to the US from seven countries is being advertised as driven by security concerns. The countries targeted are Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Libya, Sudan, and Yemen. What is […]