Posts tagged National Congress of American Indians
Tribal Leaders, Legislators Condemn Inslee’s Surprise Veto of Tribal Human Rights Provisions in Climate Commitment Act

After using and exploiting Tribal Nation’s political capital to pass his climate bill, Jay Inslee made the cowardly decision on the day of the bill’s signing to ambush Tribal leaders by suddenly vetoing all Tribal consultation requirements and all protections for Native American sacred sites and burial grounds that his office and the State Legislature had negotiated as a condition of the bill’s passage.

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National Congress of American Indians Calls on Insurance Companies to Adopt Free, Prior and Informed Consent Policies

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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A Handy Guide For White People To Not Do Racist Stuff in 2020

Whatever way you’re trying to justify history or culture or whatever, just don’t. The Cleveland Indians celebrating “Chief Wahoo” with a big grin is pretty gross. Do you remember the old Braves logo? The one with the dude screaming with a mohawk? Not a good look, folks. The Atlanta Honkies or the Washington Missionaries (Not the religious people.) doesn’t exactly sound awesome, it sounds predatory.

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