tagged w/ Native Americans
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Proposed rule to remove federal roadblocks to economic development, restore greater control to tribal governmentsProposed rule to remove federal roadblocks to economic development, restore greater... more
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Overview of a three-part investigation
Nearly 700 Native American children in South Dakota are being removed from their homes every year, sometimes in questionable circumstances. An NPR News investigation has found that the state is largely failing to place them according to the law. The vast majority of native kids in foster care in South Dakota are in nonnative homes or group homes, according to an NPR analysis of state records.Overview of a three-part investigation
Nearly 700 Native American children in South... more
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Bear’s Den Rock has captured the attention of travelers in the northern Shenandoah Valley since colonial times and for thousands of years before by the indigenous people who hunted and fished in the region. Now, a local archaeologist believes that the prominent outcrop just south of Virginia’s Route 7 in Clarke County is a part of a larger 12,000 year old celestial calendar used by Native Americans to mark the changing of the seasons.Bear’s Den Rock has captured the attention of travelers in the northern... more
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Could this article in the Oct. 16, 1911 issue of the San Francisco Call be any more demeaning?
It talks about the discovery of Ishi, the last California Native American who hadn’t seen European or American settlers and was found in 1911 near Oroville. Ishi was kept by U.C. Berkeley anthropologists for study in San Francisco and was offered up as a morsel at weekly visits with curious people.Could this article in the Oct. 16, 1911 issue of the San Francisco Call be any more... more
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This weekend, we installed our new officers at my local lodge. It was a good day. The meal afterwards was fantastic. I got to talk to our outgoing Worshipful Master for a bit. He told me that he had been reading my stuff on line and he agreed with a lot of it. He especially liked my piece on tolerance. It was good getting that feedback from someone I respected.This weekend, we installed our new officers at my local lodge. It was a good day. The... more
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By Ed Croft,WWH – It is a good day to die!
Now wait, before you getting all wigged out about me being suicidal please take note. There is actually a positive message in this.
I was going to write this week on the growing protest against Wall Street and the governments alliance to the rich while the poor suffer and the middle class became the new poor. However, with the recent passing of Steve Jobs and the wonderful thought he left us with, I felt that we should talk about our life. Our living. Or in some cases, our lack of living life. Here is what Steve said:By Ed Croft,WWH – It is a good day to die!
Now wait, before you getting all... more
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– A concerned Northwestern tribal member sent me an e-mail some months ago. She suggested that people in her community were mostly trying to survive, but were not living as individuals or as a community. She asked how is it possible to move beyond survival mode and create communities where people are living or flourishing. By living, she probably meant having the time and energy to realize the central values of culture, community, and individual life.– A concerned Northwestern tribal member sent me an e-mail some months ago. She... more
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The fall version of the 2011 Great Mohican Indian Pow-Wow impresses spectators
This weekend saw Native Americans from across the US converge on the normally quite town of Loudonville for the Great Mohican Indian Pow-Wow. The event was put on by and held at the Mohican Campgrounds, along the banks of the Mohican River in Central Ohio.The fall version of the 2011 Great Mohican Indian Pow-Wow impresses spectators
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America’s Native Americans are over-represented in military and post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have hit the Navajo hardAmerica’s Native Americans are over-represented in military and post-9/11 wars... more
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Please take a minute to read my interview with Carmen Moore. She's made a huge impact on Scifi with roles in The Martian Child, Lost in Space, Flash Gordon, Andromeda, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Wolf Lake, and the new Blood and Chrome pilot. She just got a Leo for Best Female Lead in a Dramatic series for her role as Leona Stoney on Blackstone and is perhaps the most high profile First Nations actress in CanadaPlease take a minute to read my interview with Carmen Moore. She's made a huge... more
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- Peaceful protesters defending sacred San Francisco Peaks caused the Forest Service in Albuquerque to shut down, as protesters opposing the tar sands pipeline were arrested in DC- Peaceful protesters defending sacred San Francisco Peaks caused the Forest Service... more
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Peaceful protesters defending sacred San Francisco Peaks caused the Forest Service in Albuquerque to shut down, as protesters opposing the tar sands pipeline were arrested in DCPeaceful protesters defending sacred San Francisco Peaks caused the Forest Service in... more
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Environmental law violations at scores of tribal schools run by Interior Department.
Media avoided this one for a long time.Environmental law violations at scores of tribal schools run by Interior Department.... more
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While the misappropriation of American Indian cultures and imagery by western society has persisted for decades, there’s been a gradual uptick in the misrepresentation of Native peoples in the past several years. “Tribalism,” a mainstream trend largely based on false, stereotypical notions of who indigenous people are, has become a pop culture phenomenon.While the misappropriation of American Indian cultures and imagery by western society... more
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Anti-Catholicism was once so acceptable in America that you could buy candy promoting it.
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For 25 years, Ford Motor Company dumped toxic waste from a nearby factory into New Jersey's Ringwood State Park.
Members of the Ramapough tribe, who've lived on the land for generations, routinely fell ill from various poisons. Their children suffered nosebleeds any time they played outside.
Cancer rates in the area are elevated, and the Bergen Record found arsenic and lead one hundred times above safe levels in the nearby Wanaque Watershed, which supplies water to millions.
But instead of working to clean up the area, the Environmental Protection Agency is actually considering giving the land back to Ford to use it as a toxic waste dump.
There's not much time left to protect the park -- the EPA is announcing its plan in less than two weeks.
Edison Wetlands Association started a petition on Change.org asking the EPA to keep the park public and make Ford clean up the park for the public's use.
Right now, Ford is secretly lobbying both state and federal officials to gain the right to resume toxic dumping in the park. But a national outcry can outdo them.
Please sign Edison Wetlands' petition to stop Ford from polluting before the EPA's deadline in less than two weeks:
http://www.change.org/petitions/save-ringwood-state-park-dont-let-ford-motor-company-use-it-as-a-toxic-landfillFor 25 years, Ford Motor Company dumped toxic waste from a nearby factory into New... more
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Native American land – a total five percent of the land area of the United States – contains an estimated 10 percent of the nation’s energy resources, and yet almost all of the renewable sources of power on these lands are under-utilized, tribes and government officials agree.
http://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/energias/renovables/#slide_8Native American land – a total five percent of the land area of the United... more
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Developed in collaboration with the Akwesasne Mohawk of northern New York, the Campo Kumeyaay Nation of southern California, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe of northern Minnesota and the Lummi Nation of Washington state, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian launches a new educational website, “American Indian Responses to Environmental Challenges,Developed in collaboration with the Akwesasne Mohawk of northern New York, the Campo... more
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