When President Donald Trump announced Monday he would be reducing the sizes of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah, he delivered the following message:
“The families and communities of Utah know and love this land...
The Burns Paiute tribe in Oregon was the latest group to voice their dissent towards the gun-toting protestors who took over several buildings at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge since last Saturday.
The self-styled militiamen, led by Nevada...
Sanity has finally prevailed in the eight-month standoff over the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Army Corps of Engineers has announced that it will not grant an easement that would have allowed the pipeline to skirt...
A web-based app that will teach students in primary school about the implications of discrimination and racism, sponsored by the All Together Now initiative, will use real-life scenarios to showcase active discrimination. The thought process of this...
We are at an interesting time in our history.
We will not soon forget the 2016 election and whatever transpired or will transpire over the next couple of years.
But President Donald Trump's ascendancy is not a...
President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget makes dramatic cuts to what little remains of the social safety net. If the budget is approved, many will suffer. But Native Americans will be among those hit hardest by...
Here’s a revelation for Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Women of color are much more likely to die of breast cancer than white women due to poor medical care, especially black and Indigenous women.
NBC News writes,...
They're coming down...finally.
The statues, that is.
Among same-sex marriage, the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), ethics regulations, and a host of myriad issues, into the category of things the progressive movement is winning we can put the...
Disclaimer: be very careful if you actually try this yourself. We have to be careful when confronting criminals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU9pxchWlYc
Serena Williams may arguably be the most athletic woman on the Planet Earth. Some people call her...
Republican John Sununu threw a particularly low blow at a Donald Trump campaign rally on Friday. He cracked a joke about what he perceives as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's lack of sex appeal.
The 77-year-old former...
Arizona Teabaggers are mad because President Obama foiled their attempts to buy sacred Native American land. Rep. Paul Gosar, along with his accomplices Ann Kirkpatrick, John McCain, and Jeff Flake, tried to sneak an amendment...
Upon assuming her role as the nation's education advocate, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos decided to rescind support requiring the U.S. Education Department to investigate loan servicing companies’ past conduct before the government awards lucrative contracts. Interestingly, these are the...
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It's pretty understandable that Native Americans are not fond of Christopher Columbus. Since Colonial days American children have been taught that Columbus discovered America.
However, Native Americans point out that he could not have discovered it...
Racism is an incredibly volatile subject in the U.S., but not so much because of those speaking out who have lived under its boot heel since the country was torn from the bloody remains of...
Every day we find ourselves confronted with yet another kick in the teeth from a new administration that courts controversy like a nineteenth-century libertine. At this point, it's become clear to pipeline protesters that President...
The audacity of a white woman claiming to be Black. It's almost as if there aren't millions of other white people who do it with the Native American community. I have bitten my tongue with...
After Republican candidate Donald Trump's sexist tweet rants at 3 o'clock this morning about Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado backlashed, Trump justified them by pointing out that at least he's awake, and will be there...
At a White House event meant to honor Navajo "code talkers" who helped the United States win a decisive victory in World War II, President Trump just couldn't resist taking yet another cheap shot at...
I'm guessing that you, along with most of us, learned the story of the first Thanksgiving in school. We were told that the Native Americans (who were called "Indians" in our history books) were essential...
Colonizers organizing against colonization – ironic, right? It’s one of those many things you just can’t make up.
Where do you start with such people? How do you begin to offer them history, context and get...
