— BY, EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | EJI On January 3, 1895, 19 leaders from the Hopi tribe were imprisoned on Alcatraz Island, a prison in the San Francisco Bay, on charges of sedition for opposing the U.S. government’s program of forced education and assimilation. In the late 1800s, the U.S. government sought to “Americanize” […]
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Goodbye, Columbus Day. CPS ends the holiday in favor of Indigenous Peoples Day — and parade organizers call it ‘a slap in the face.’ | Chicago Tribune
Columbus Day will no longer be observed in Chicago Public Schools — and the group behind the city’s annual Columbus Day parade is already pushing to reverse that decision. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “This is a slap in the face of the more than 500,000 Italian Americans in Chicago, and the 135 million Italian Americans worldwide,” said […]
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A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters | Time
Marie Sanchez, chief tribal judge on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, arrived in Geneva in 1977 with a clear message to deliver to the United Nations Convention on Indigenous Rights. American Indian women, she argued, we’re targets of the “modern form” of genocide—sterilization. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Over the six-year period that had followed the passage of the […]
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A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters | Time
Marie Sanchez, chief tribal judge on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, arrived in Geneva in 1977 with a clear message to deliver to the United Nations Convention on Indigenous Rights. American Indian women, she argued, were targets of the “modern form” of genocide—sterilization. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Over the six-year period that had followed the passage of the […]
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Inside One Woman’s 7 Year Journey to Photograph Every Native American Tribe | Elle
Matika Wilbur aims to shift public perception of Native America with her Kickstarter-funded Project 562.
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The black Americans suing to reclaim their Native American identity | The Guardian
Their ancestors were black slaves owned by Native Americans. Now they’re suing the Creek nation to fully restore their citizenship
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What Makes Someone Native American? | The Washington Post
In March 2012, Heather McMillan Nakai wrote a letter to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs asking the agency to verify that she was Indian. She was seeking a job at the Indian Health Service and wanted to apply with “Indian preference.” Nakai knew this might be difficult: As far as she was aware, no […]
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These High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go? | The New York Times
Carol Pogash, The New York Times One of the 13 murals that make up “The Life of Washington,” at George Washington High School in San Francisco. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times, Featured Image [dropcap]SAN[/dropcap] FRANCISCO — In one of the murals, George Washington points westward over the dead body of a Native American. Another […]
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ACONAV shines spotlight on Native American fashion | AZ Big Media
The name ACONAV represents the cultures of Loren and his wife Valentina. Loren is from the Acoma Pueblo and Valentina is from the Navajo (Diné).
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Indian Tribes Dig In to Gain Their Share of Sports Betting | The New York Times
State officials from California to Connecticut spent last week maneuvering for control of the tens of billions of dollars in projected revenue from sports betting, and joining them was another group of powerful, and familiar, gambling operators aiming to claim their piece of the action: American Indian tribes.
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