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  • Governor Newsom proclaims Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024

    10/14/2024 12:46:06 PM PDT · by Redmen4ever · 31 replies
    Office of the Governor of California ^ | 10/14/2024 | Gavin Newsom
    While the second Monday in October has historically been celebrated as Columbus Day and is still federally recognized as such, many have pushed for moving away from the holiday to acknowledge the atrocities Columbus committed against the Indigenous People of the hemisphere.
  • Pentagon Looks to Rescind 20 Medal of Honor Awards Given to Soldiers in the 1890s

    07/25/2024 3:28:46 PM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 100 replies
    GP ^ | 07/25/24 | Anthony Scott
    Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered the Department of Defense to review the Medal of Honor awarded to 20 soldiers for their actions in the Wounded Knee Massacre that took place in 1890.Austin wrote in a memo, “The [special review panel] may consider the context of the overall engagement as appropriate, including as necessary to understand each [Wounded Knee Creek Medal of Honor] recipient’s individual actions.”In a separate statement, a senior defense official shared, “It’s never too late to do what’s right.”The official added, “And that’s what is intended by the review that the secretary directed, which is...
  • California to return historic amount of land to Native tribe

    06/19/2024 7:57:30 PM PDT · by thecodont · 57 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | June 19, 2024 | By Madilynne Medina, News Reporter
    The Shasta Indian Nation will be returned 2,820 acres of ancestral land in northwestern California, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday. The land return is the largest in California history and comes as a reconciliation effort to apologize to Native communities for historical injustices, the release said. Newsom's office said he discussed the land return with the Shasta Indian Nation earlier this month after visiting the Klamath River dam removal project, which is on ancestral lands near the California-Oregon border. The project is the largest dam removal and river restoration in the country intended to restore land and more than 300...
  • US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region’s Native tribes

    06/18/2024 6:44:04 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 39 replies
    KION ^ | June 18, 2024 | Ratha Grimes
    The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged, for the first time, the harmful role it has played over the past century in building and operating dams in the Pacific Northwest — dams that devastated Native American tribes by inundating their villages and decimating salmon runs while bringing electricity, irrigation and jobs to nearby communities.
  • Kristi Noem banned from all South Dakota tribal nations

    05/24/2024 7:08:35 PM PDT · by mbrfl · 49 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | May 23, 2024 | Annabella Rosciglione
    Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) has been banned from all nine of South Dakota’s tribal nations. On Tuesday, the final tribe that had not yet banned her, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, voted in favor of banning Noem from its reservation. Flandreau President Tony Reider called an emergency meeting in response to some of the governor’s comments. “President Reider informed the governor that a ban from our territories is imminent and requested that the Governor refrain from making future blanket statements that offend the tribes within the boundaries of the State of South Dakota, some of which depend on state services...
  • Biden administration bans drilling in nearly half of Alaska petroleum reserve in sweeping win for climate advocates

    04/19/2024 4:46:11 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 27 replies
    CNN ^ | April 19, 2024 | By Ella Nilsen
    CNN — In a sweeping win for climate and environmental advocates, the Biden administration on Friday finalized a rule to ban fossil fuel drilling on nearly half of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, alongside other major conservation actions. The Interior Department will block oil drilling on over 13 million acres in the Western Arctic, including about 40% of the land of the NPR-A – a remote area that is home to protected animal species including polar bears and caribou. The reserve is more than 23 million acres of public land and an underground emergency oil supply for the US...
  • Sacramento has approved a plan to give low-income Black and Native American families $725 a month, no strings attached

    03/19/2024 7:07:27 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 67 replies
    Business Insider via MSN ^ | 03 18 2024 | Kenneth Niemeyer
    Sacramento County is joining a growing list of places around the United States offering no-strings-attached payments to its lowest-income residents. The Sacramento Board of Supervisors approved the basic-income pilot program last week. It's set to offer $725 a month to low-income Black and Native American families. The county is funding the program through a partnership with United Way. Sacramento County has partnered with United Way for other basic-income programs in the past. About 100 families received $300 monthly from the county in its first program, which began in June 2021 and lasted through May 2023. United Way is still tracking...
  • My Ancestors Were Enslaved—But Their Freedom Came at a Price for Others

    02/17/2024 3:28:19 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 12 replies
    Time ^ | 4/14/21 | Alaina E. Roberts
    Like most African Americans, I come from a family with a history that includes generations of enslavement. But unlike most, the men and women who held my ancestors in bondage were not white, they were Native American—people who were themselves oppressed by the process that led to my family’s freedom.
  • Alaskan Native Americans unleash on Biden admin's climate agenda: 'Communities and culture are at risk'

    12/02/2023 7:48:17 PM PST · by grundle · 35 replies
    Fox News via Yahoo ^ | December 1, 2023 | Thomas Catenacci
    The Biden administration is facing heavy criticism from Native Alaskans over its crackdown on oil and gas drilling in Alaska, activity which generates tax revenue vital for key state and local programs. Native Alaskan leaders have particularly taken issue with the Department of the Interior's (DOI) recent actions blocking future oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve (NPR), an area in North Slope Borough, Alaska, specifically set aside by Congress for resource development, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and in federal offshore waters off the state's coast. "My community unapologetically supports the leasing program," Charles Lampe,...
  • Native American Group Sues NFL Team Owner Over Redskins Name Change

    11/30/2023 4:35:55 AM PST · by george76 · 20 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 11/22/2023 | Juliette Fairley
    Lawsuit highlights dispute over Washington team's identity and the ramifications of cancel culture.. A lawsuit advocating for restoring the name Redskins to the National Football League (NFL)’s Washington team alleges that a rival Native American organization improperly prompted the change to the team now called the Commanders. The Native American Guardian Association (NAGA) filed its complaint in the U.S. District Court of North Dakota against the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and Josh Harris, who acquired the team in July for $6.05 billion. “NAGA’s members were huge Redskin fans precisely because they were the Redskins,” the complaint states. “It...
  • ‘Woke’ billionaire who trashed the Founding Fathers has profited off Natives, oil

    07/30/2022 9:00:41 AM PDT · by Angelino97 · 21 replies
    New York Post ^ | July 30, 2022 | Dana Kennedy
    Since 2013, Rubenstein, 72, who co-founded the private equity giant the Carlyle Group, has given millions to entities that repair and upgrade historical monuments and landmarks like the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument as well as Monticello and Montpelier, the homes of US presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. But some say the restoration at the presidential homes has recast the presidents as sinister racists while downplaying their accomplishments... But a quick dive into Rubenstein’s backstory shows he’s not so pure himself. He made his initial fortune in the 1980s by exploiting a tax loophole in Alaska allowing him...
  • Native American tribe is set to start hunting WHALES off Washington coast as federal agency prepares to issue new permit to let them slaughter the sea mammals

    11/19/2023 5:14:11 AM PST · by knighthawk · 73 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | November 19 20023 | ALEX HAMMER
    A Native American tribe in Washington state has been allowed to once again hunt gray whales - following a decades-long effort to resume the ancient practice. The tradition has existed for more than 2,000 years, though the last time the tribe was able to hunt a member of the species was in 1999. That hunt was allowed after a more than 70 year-stop during a rebound in the gray whale population, and saw Makah whalers successfully hunt a gray whale in the waters off the Olympic Peninsula.
  • Angry Indians: Yet another instance of Native Americans having it up to here with the left: It's their land. Why shouldn't they be able to develop it as they see fit?

    08/31/2023 8:02:38 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 33 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 08/31/2023 | Monica Showalter
    The left has romanticized and claimed guardianship over Native American peoples for years. Anecdotally, most of us who know Native Americans know they can't stand it. But now we are seeing a lot of instances of Native Americans pushing back at their cloying 'guardians' on the left who are starting to get overbearing. Here's their latest outrage, according to Ethan Brown, writing at RealClearEnergy:On June 2, the U.S. Department of the Interior blocked oil and gas leasing for the next twenty years within a ten-mile radius of Chaco Canyon — the site of a Puebloan civilization in now-northern New Mexico...
  • Wealthiest Tribe of Appalachia - Cherokee 🇺🇸

    08/14/2023 7:01:45 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 28 replies
    oday we travel to Cherokee in North Carolina to witness a tribe that's doing extremely well financially. Kids graduate high school with hundreds of thousands of dollars set aside in an account, higher education and health care are paid for by the tribe, and their land is some of the most beautiful in America. Join me for this eye-opening experience!
  • Native American group threatens boycott 'similar to Anheuser Busch' if Commanders ignore name petition

    08/10/2023 3:50:24 PM PDT · by TBP · 60 replies
    WJLA-TV Channel 7 ^ | August 7th 2023 | JACKSON WALKER
    WASHINGTON (TND) — In a letter to the Washington Commanders Monday, the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) demanded a meeting with the team’s new ownership to discuss a controversial name change. The letter is the latest step in the organization’s “Reclaim the Name” campaign, which seeks to bring back the team’s previously retired “Redskins” monicker. A petition supporting the effort boasts over 60,000 signatures as of Monday night, a figure which matches the seating capacity of the Commanders’ FedEx Field. NAGA’s President of Global Impact Campaigns, Healy Baumgardner, told The National Desk Monday that the organization has repeatedly ignored such...
  • Guess What Group Is Threatening Boycott if the Washington Commanders Don't Restore the Name 'Redskins'

    08/10/2023 7:52:10 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 30 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 08/10/2023 | Robert Spencer
    Look, Fat, here’s the deal, as Old Joe Biden would say: the left has won the culture wars. But that was just the first round. The second round isn’t going so well for the fascist forces of hatred and division masked as equity and inclusion. Patriots continue to pour Bud Light down the drain for trying to force the trans madness upon its unwilling customer base, and now the nickname wars, which Leftists had every reason to believe were won and settled once and for all, have taken an unexpected turn: a Native American group wants that football team in...
  • Hunter Biden told Devon Archer they would get 'last laugh' after conviction was thrown out: 'MBleepers's'

    07/30/2023 7:27:44 PM PDT · by CFW · 35 replies
    Fox News ^ | 7/30/23 | Cameron Cawthorne
    <p>Hunter Biden told his longtime friend and business partner, Devon Archer, that they would get the "last laugh" after Archer said a judge threw out his conviction, according to 2018 text messages reviewed by Fox News Digital.</p><p>Archer, who is set to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Monday and is reportedly preparing to tell lawmakers about President Biden's interactions with dozens of Hunter's business associates while he was vice president, informed Hunter Biden in a November 2018 text message that the "judge threw out my conviction today."</p>
  • The War on Native American Names and Mascots: Removing Indian names and mascots is a war on Western culture that celebrates masculine virtues

    07/10/2023 7:24:41 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 36 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 07/10/2023 | Robert Weissberg
    America’s never-ending quest for inclusion has now turned its attention to supposedly offensive school nicknames and mascots. Native American names are a particular target of this ire—Braves, Warriors, Chiefs together with individual tribes such as the Seminoles or Illini. The latest installment of this “anti-hate” push has occurred in New York State where these purportedly offensive names, logos, and mascots were banned in public schools as of April of 2023, or schools will lose state funding. As of March 2022, 133 New York schools had such Indian names and New York is hardly alone in exorcising allegedly hateful stereotypes. According...
  • Native American groups join the call for reparations and target colleges who took land from tribes and only exist 'because of everything that was taken'

    07/10/2023 2:40:23 AM PDT · by Libloather · 58 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 7/10/23 | James Gordon
    Native American groups are now joining the call for reparations centuries after hundreds of tribes had land taken from them by 'land-grab universities and colleges.' An estimated 10.7 million acres of land was taken from 250 tribes following the signing of the Morrill Act by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862. This law converted tribal lands into initial sites for land-grant higher education institutions in many states. Institutions such as the University of Minnesota, which received 94,440 acres of land, and Cornell University in New York that received more than 987,000 acres are being targeted. Cornell, in total, received land in...
  • Indigenous Chief Wants To Take Back Ben & Jerry's HQ in Vermont that was Built on 'Stolen' Land

    07/08/2023 10:18:52 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 55 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 07/08/2023 | ALEKS PHILLIPS
    An Indigenous tribe descended from the Native American nation that originally controlled the land in Vermont the Ben & Jerry's headquarters is located on would be interested in taking it back, its chief has said, after the company publicly called for "stolen" lands to be returned.Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation—one of four descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont—told Newsweek it was "always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands," but that the company had yet to approach them.It comes after the ice cream company was questioned as to when...