Opinions
10/11/16
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If history has shown us one thing, it is that this system fears a culture that honors the earth as sacred simply because they will not participate in its destruction and they will die to protect it; this system will kill whole races of peoples to... Misty Perkins
10/10/16
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It has taken years for women to walk from the extreme violence they are being abused with from their husbands, boyfriends, and even their family members. The list of violence that women have had to live through is long, a few examples sexual... Carly McIntosh
10/9/16
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In the criminal justice system, we speak of “charging for the use of the courtroom,” or “charging rent” for short. If that does not get your attention, it should, because you pay taxes to keep courtrooms and judges available if you need them. You... Steve Russell
10/8/16
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For the past several years, I have been observing many people from San Carlos and Globe succumbing to the devastating illness of cancers and like problems. Even though cancer is only one disease there is a myriad of illnesses that we have in... Michael Paul Hill
10/7/16
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Last weekend, I attended the 2016 Native American Journalists Association Conference in New Orleans. It promised to be a thrilling, new adventure for me: my first NAJA Conference and first time to The Big Easy. Gumbo, jazz and beignets aside, I was... Lynn Armitage
10/6/16
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For me, it's not so much that wolves should remain on the Endangered Species List for biological reasons, although that argument is valid, but certainly they should remain on the ESL until democracy and transparency exist in both state and federal... Melissa Smith
10/5/16
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Some days I leave my classroom unsure that what I have taught has any real effect on my students, but then there are days like today. Today, we revisited the era of the Indian Removal Act and specifically the impact that President Andrew Jackson and... Toni Tsatoke
10/4/16
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This is an epic moment and the path forward is clear. I am writing to share our Standing Rock campaign work with you, protecting Mother Earth from the Dakota Access pipeline, and to ask you to join us over the months ahead. Now is the time.
For... Winona LaDuke
10/3/16
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We are able to think back to a time when our ancestors were living entirely free from and independent of ideas developed across the Atlantic Ocean in a place called Christendom. We know that our Native ancestors were in no way subject to Christian... Steven Newcomb
10/2/16
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“Breaking News. Colin Kaepernick joins Native American protest in North Dakota to force media to cover actual news.” That internet meme thanks to FreeThoughtProject.com shows us how corporate media works. Big Media is divisive, because it’s... Alex Jacobs
10/1/16
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The American Indian world will never be the same. For centuries the First Americans were expediently removed from the landscape by federal government notions such as Eminent Domain, then further, their homeland was diminished by the Allotment Act.... Dave Archambault Sr.
9/30/16
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This week, I hosted my eighth and final White House Tribal Nations Conference as President, a tradition we started in 2009 to create a platform for people across many tribes to be heard. It was a remarkable testament to how far we’ve come.
It was... President Barack Obama
9/30/16
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In an impressive fossil fuels travel day, I left the Standing Rock reservation and flew to Italy for the International Slow Food gathering known as Terra Madre. A world congress of harvesters, farmers, chefs and political leaders, this is basically... Winona LaDuke
9/29/16
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By now, most of us who have been following the standoff at Standing Rock know that a federal judge denied the application for a temporary injunction to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. And that only minutes after delivering the... Dina Gilio-Whitaker