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ColorLines magazine
April 27, 2018
American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Madonna Thunder Hawk is committed to the liberation of Indigenous people, especially through the ... Thunder Hawk raised a new generation of Native American activist youth through the We Will Remember Survival School, which counted Gilbert among its pupils.
SFGate
April 27, 2018
American Indian activists and others are involved in a similar battle in West Berkeley, where plans for the development of a parking lot would require unearthing a portion of the site of a former tribal shellmound. Representatives of three autonomous Ohlone family bands — Confederated Villages of Lisjan,Ãâà...
MLive.com
April 26, 2018
It was a victory for activists who brought renewed vigor to an effort to recognize the controversial fountain's impact on indigenous people. Though public debate has persisted since the monument was established, City Commissioners agreed that the figures of a Native American in headdress head-to-headÃâà...
ELLE.com
April 26, 2018
Haaland, who traveled to Standing Rock to protest with activists there, has focused on medical care and the environment, two issues that matter not just to indigenous people, ... She cites her mentor, LaDonna Harris, a Comanche Native American and activist, who taught her to embrace all of her identities.
The Intercept
April 25, 2018
By the 1970s, the bureau also took aim at growing and militant indigenous rights activism, and in particular, at the American Indian Movement. The surveillance of the ... The former FBI director also maintained the bureau's practice of surveilling black and Native American activists. As a Black Lives MatterÃâà...
Governing
April 3, 2018
This time, it's tribal activists taking charge, and it's the West and California in particular leading the way. The state is home to the largest Native American population in the country and more than 100 federally recognized tribes. In February, San Francisco officials said they planned to remove a prominentÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
April 2, 2018
She is one of the unknown number of missing or murdered Native American women who disappear each year. A new Washington law that takes effect in ... She was eventually returned home thanks to friends and family with connections to the American Indian Movement. In some cases, law enforcementÃâà...
Billings Gazette
April 2, 2018
It's been 40 years since the original Longest Walk, when Native American activists marched from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.. The crowds were smaller and the ... The walks were organized by Dennis Banks, a co-founder of the American Indian Movement who died in 2017. The group was prominentÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 1, 2018
Over the decades, this quiet coastal hamlet has earned a reputation as one of the most liberal places in the nation. Arcata was the first U.S. city to ban the sale of genetically modified foods, the first to elect a majority Green Party city council and one of the first to tacitly allow marijuana farming before pot wasÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 18, 2018
When Marlon Brando sent Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather to the Oscars in his stead in 1973, it made a tangible difference to how Native Americans were viewed in an industry with a collective memory of 'Cowboys and Indians' that it had - at that point - been slow to shake off (Littlefeather wasÃâà...
WRIC
March 9, 2018
RICHMOND – Dozens of local activists and community members gathered Thursday for the 109th International Women's Day rally and march to ... “If all women and femmes went on strike, the world would fall apart,” said Vanessa Bolin, a Native American activist who served as a medic at North and SouthÃâà...
Bustle
March 8, 2018
In this op-ed, activist Christine Nobiss, Plains Cree/Salteaux, explains how the fight for environmental sovereignty is directly linked with the growing issue ... A National Institute of Justice study reported that 56 percent of Native American and Alaskan Native women have experienced sexual violence, and 90Ãâà...
New York Times
March 8, 2018
San Francisco will take down a controversial statue depicting a submissive Native American man after an outcry sparked by a deadly rally last summer ... In the early 1990s, when the city announced a plan to move the Pioneer Monument to its current location, Native American activists urged the city to leaveÃâà...
Hyperallergic
March 7, 2018
Spearheading the protests were members of the local Native American community, who said the statue “promotes a white supremacist ideology that is connected to the mass genocide of indigenous people.” Their calls renewed two earlier efforts by Native activists to remove the statue. In 1991, in responseÃâà...
ABC News
February 28, 2018
He may be the first American Indian presenter at the Oscars, Studi said, a possibility echoed by Sonny Skyhawk, an actor and longtime activist. Academy librarians were unable to confirm that because presenters aren't tracked. But the academy acknowledged that a scant number of Native Americans haveÃâà...
LA Magazine
February 27, 2018
Leonard Peltier looms large. The 73-year-old Native American activist has been in federal prison since 1977, when he was convicted—many believe wrongly so—of murdering two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Peltier has maintained his innocence throughout his imprisonment,Ãâà...
UC Berkeley
February 21, 2018
The producer and director of an acclaimed new documentary about a Native American activist who spent 30 years fighting the federal government — and winning — will be speaking on campus tomorrow evening (Feb. 22). The documentary, 100 Years: One Woman's Fight for Justice, tells the story ofÃâà...
The Intercept
February 16, 2018
Elizabeth Warren used her recent address at the National Congress of American Indians to address long-standing criticisms of her claims of Native American heritage. “You won't find my family members on any rolls, and I'm not enrolled in a tribe,” she said, conceding that there are no tribal records of herÃâà...
Harvard Crimson
February 8, 2018
Harvard's first-ever tenured professor in Native American studies, History professor Philip J. Deloria, began teaching last month, after years of activists ... Deloria's appointment is the culmination of an effort by the Harvard University Native American Program that has been going on “since the mid-2000s,”Ãâà...
Smile Politely
December 31, 1999
UIUC is both examining the ancient American Indian past and continues to grapple with the legacy of Chief Illiniwek, evidenced by UIUC Chancellor's “Critical Conversations” about the Chief. I spoke with Ancient Cahokia Future Visions Conference presenter Marisa Cummings (Miakonda) to discuss herÃâà...
Corvallis Gazette Times
December 31, 1999
A group of Native American activists protest for stronger protection of wolves at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife building in Adair Village on ... “We're asking that the wolf be protected under the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978,” said Woksape, whose ancestry includes Lakota andÃâà...
Iowa State University News Service
December 31, 1999
LaDuke has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues, including the 2017 book “The Winona LaDuke Chronicles: Stories from the Front ... This lecture is co-sponsored by the American Indian studies program, Ames Public Library Friends Foundation, Carrie Chapman Catt Center forÃâà...
