Indigenous Prison Inmates Have Not Been Allowed Family Visitation or Group Worship Since March.
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Over the past century, thousands of American Indian and Alaskan natives have been kidnapped and murdered. Oklahoma has the highest rate of missing and murdered indigenous women in America.
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According to the Seattle Indian Health Board, 94% of Native women have been raped, coerced, or assaulted in their lifetime but only 8% of the victims' cases have been convicted.
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At their 77th annual convention, The National Congress of American Indians passed a sweeping resolution calling on the, “U.S. insurance industry to adopt, as part of project and general insurance underwriting policies, a requirement to obtain and document the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent of impacted Tribal Nations.”
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This year has been the year to solely reflect on everything, I’ve been trying my best to understand my place amongst my people while simultaneously teaching myself to deal with what’s to come and I know everyone is feeling it.
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This month should also raise awareness about public health issues and disparities that are occurring in our AIAN communities, not to mention highlight the significance of proper health and safety measures to keep the local communities healthy.
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This morning, two water protectors locked their bodies through the treads of excavators working on a pump station for Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline, as dozens of others rallied in support.
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“The resolution powerfully affirms both sides of the tribal citizenship coin: The Indigenous human and civil right to belong and the inherent Tribal sovereign right to decide who belongs,” said Shannon O’Loughlin, a Choctaw Nation citizen and Director of the Association of American Indians Affairs (AAIA).
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This fall marked the 50th anniversary of an event that sparked the landmark ruling by federal Judge George Boldt in U.S. v. Washington that upheld our treaty-reserved rights to hunt, fish and gather.
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The first Canoe Journeys took place in Seattle on July 21, 1989. Washington was celebrating the 100th anniversary of their statehood but the Tribes said “not today” because we were here first.
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On November 10, the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective, 2KC Media and 7th Defenders shut down an illegal KXL Man Camp for the day to remind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris of their promise to stop the KXL pipeline.
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Not everyone who LOOKS like a 'pure' indigenous person IS one, and many who look physically 'pure' are spiritually corrupt as hell, neither are the obviously genetically mixed ones who CLAIM to be 'pure in heart Indigenous Peoples'
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The California Parole Board along with Governor Gavin Newson have agreed to release the murderer of an indigenous woman.
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I saw a comment that said “we don’t know how good we have it.” And they’re right. We don’t. Our citizens have done amazing things. This country is founded on and has kept (despite sketchy means of achievement) is our cultural identity that you can do anything here. We’ve never seen carpet bombs, our children aren’t living in a modern-day holocaust like Yemen, and our citizens aren’t in breadlines like so many countries worldwide. Instead, we throw away food. And have spent a pandemic making TikTok videos and watching Netflix.
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ative American names are making a comeback with the necessary understanding behind the tradition appearing, too. Tradition will once again be the hallmark of names, and that’s a good thing for all involved.
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SUICIDE is the word and hurts, but it’s only a word as it sits in front of you. What matters is how you convey your thought and feelings about suicide. Without the discussion Suicide will continue to scare us, like a ghost story told by an uncle around the fire. Lets give a chance to our youth to “Hold Fast to Their Dreams”.
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