Tag: Native Americans
Native American patients are sent to collections for debts the government...
Native communities are twice as likely to have medical debt in collections, agency finds.
The Unfulfilled promises of the Fort Laramie Treaty: A deep dive...
Uncovering historical injustices—the ongoing struggle of the Sioux Nation against treaty violations.
Supreme Court upholds Indian Child Welfare Act
The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which maintains Indigenous children under state care stay within their tribe rather than being placed outside their community.
Solving the climate crisis requires traditional ecological knowledge
Native study of the natural world is exceptionally deep and nuanced at understanding and protecting ecosystems.
‘Reckoning’ with the economic marginalization of Native Americans
Efforts to narrow the racial wealth divide must address the disparities that are at the heart of our nation's founding and still run through its veins in the 21st century.
How the Native American population in the US increased 87% says...
Another way to describe this recent adoption of Native American identity is what I call “racial shifting.”
Clueless Santorum perpetrates ‘second genocide’ of Native Americans
Thus do racists defend “manifest destiny,” the delusion that God endorsed genocide, the greatest single theft of land, freedom and property in history.
Pro-fossil fuel senators grill Deb Haaland as she bids to become...
Congressmember Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Interior Department, could become the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary if she is confirmed.
‘Indian Country’ is excited about the first Native American secretary of...
Indian Country finally has a seat at the table.
Native Americans on police response to Capitol insurrection
“No way would Black or Brown people be treated that way had they attacked a symbol of our democracy.”
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‘No nonprofit is safe’: Trump escalates federal crackdown on civil society organizations
From Ivy League universities to climate and justice nonprofits, the Trump administration is deploying tax threats, federal takeovers, and embedded agents to suppress ideological dissent and dismantle nonprofit independence.
Sick and unsafe: Trump attacks on workers’ rights is an attack on public health
This power shift hasn't just changed paychecks—it has fundamentally altered the physical and mental health landscape for millions of Americans.
Facing Trump’s America
As we experience Donald Trump’s twenty-first-century version of White nationalism, how we dealt with that difficult past should help us remember that we lived through terrible times by confronting them and that we can do so again.
‘Zero care left’: UN says Israel has destroyed Gaza’s last hospital amid mass graves...
Mass graves, targeted killings of medics, and relentless hospital bombings mark the collapse of Gaza’s health system under Israeli siege, UN and forensic reports confirm.
Trump fast-tracks Great Lakes oil tunnel, triggering outcry over water and climate risks
Environmental groups and tribal nations warn the Line 5 tunnel project could endanger drinking water for 40 million people after Trump administration classifies it as an emergency.