Etiqueta: Native
The Native American court that settles cases outside the justice system
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Robert Jones was on edge, a Native American teen in a reservation border town courtroom. He faced felony assault charges in Rapid City, South Dakota, home to a criminal justice system stubbornly plagued by racial disp...
The rightwing supreme court has another target: Native American rights
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En 1886, the supreme court in United States v Kagama described states as the “deadliest enemies” of Native nations. The case concerned criminal jurisdiction on Indian reservations, but it also recognized the role stat...
The rightwing supreme court has another target: Native American rights
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En 1886, the supreme court in United States v Kagama described states as the “deadliest enemies” of Native nations. The case concerned criminal jurisdiction on Indian reservations, but it also recognized the role stat...
Native American elders recall abuse at US government boarding schools
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Native American tribal elders who were once students at government-backed Indian boarding schools testified Saturday in Oklahoma about the hardships they endured, including beatings, whippings, sexual assaults, forced...
Biden names first Native American as US treasurer, with signature on money
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Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his intention to appoint Marilynn Malerba, lifetime chief of the Mohegan Indian Tribe, as US treasurer, marking the first time a Native American’s signature will appear on US currency. T ...
Biden names first Native American as US treasurer, with signature on money
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Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his intention to appoint Marilynn Malerba, lifetime chief of the Mohegan Indian Tribe, as US treasurer, marking the first time a Native American’s signature will appear on US currency. T ...
A bison range homecoming: Native tribes reclaim a Montana nature preserve
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The sound of drumming filled the rolling hills of the National Bison Range. Members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes (CSKT) and neighbors gathered under a large tent to sing and dance in celebration of a...
El mapa del Congreso de Arizona rediseñado agota el poder de voto de los nativos americanos
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Para los nativos americanos en Arizona, el mapa de la Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU. recientemente redistribuido significará una pérdida de poder político una vez protegido por la Ley de Derechos Electorales de 1965, dejando las áreas tribales sólidamente demócratas del estado con....
‘We’re still here’: past and present collide at a Native American boarding school
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With other students’ eyes on her, Wicahpi Medicine’s heart raced, but as she started dancing, she felt proud to embody her Lakota heritage. The beads on her jingle dress swished and her long braids bounced as she move...
Reseña de War Pony: conmovedora historia de amor y dinero en una reserva de nativos americanos
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Riley Keough es una actriz que establece sus credenciales cinematográficas con este excelente primer largometraje., codirigido con Gina Gammell. Es una película ambientada en y alrededor de la reserva de nativos americanos de Pine Ridge en South...
Indigenous and Alaska Native women could face escalated violence if Roe is repealed
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The repeal of federally protected abortion rights would result in an increase in violence experienced by Indigenous women, girls and all those who birth, predicted the director of one of the leading research institute...
‘Jurisdictional maze’ hinders investigation of sexual violence against Native women, informe dice
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Amnesty International has called on the US government to fully restore tribal jurisdiction over crimes on Native lands in the face of staggeringly high rates of sexual violence against Native women, according to a rep...
Chef Crystal Wahpepah on the power of Indigenous cuisine: ‘Native foods are overlooked’
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Out on the sunny patio at Wahpepah’s Kitchen, sizzling plates of bison and deer make their way down a table filled with Native American educators from across the country. The game meat joins other indigenous dishes on...
US identifies more than 50 Native American boarding school burial sites
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A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for more than a century sought to assimilate indigenous children into white society has identified more than 400 such schools that were suppor...
A Native American faces teargas, baton charges and rubber bullets – Camille Seaman’s best photograph
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En los Estados Unidos, there have been hundreds of treaties made with Native peoples and not one – not a single one – has ever been upheld. Reservations were created, and it was said: “This land will be yours for time ...
Trojan trout: could turning an invasive fish into a ‘super-male’ save a native species?
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On a golden morning in early October, two graduate students from New Mexico State University plunge into the icy current of Leandro Creek. The small waterway flows through the 550,000 acre Vermejo park ranch, a reserv...