News & Current Events
In a dirt parking lot near Many Farms, Arizona, a Navajo farmer sold me a mutton burrito. He hasn’t used his tractor in two years, he told me, and is cooking instead of
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July 1, 2012 // 1 Comment
Silvia’s family thought they were protecting her when they sent her away to the United States at the end of her sixth-grade year. She had just given birth to a
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July 1, 2012 // 0 Comments
Mexico City, June 7 (IANS/EFE) Mexican authorities have preserved an archaeological area with several Maya buildings more than 1,500 years old that were buried under a
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June 29, 2012 // 0 Comments
Archaeologists in Guatemala on Thursday (June 28) announce they discovered the second-known reference to the ‘end date’ of the Mayan calendar at newly-uncovered
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June 29, 2012 // 0 Comments
Hundreds of Indigenous Peoples from the Xingu River Basin have occupied a Belo Monte Dam construction site on Pimental Island in the Xingu River in Pará,
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June 29, 2012 // 0 Comments
Did you hear the one about the Anglican minister who said atheists have no reason for grief? I wish I was joking. I’m not. In a widely disseminated and discussed
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June 29, 2012 // 0 Comments
It’s been two months since the U.S. Senate voted 68 – 31 to approve a reauthorization of the Violence against Women Act (VAWA) that included major tribal court
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June 28, 2012 // 0 Comments
If Gov. Jan Brewer and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio are cheering and excited about the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on Arizona’s SB 1070, then you know
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June 28, 2012 // 0 Comments
American Indian tribes from across the United States have joined together to announce the formation of the Native American Financial Services Association. The new group has
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June 28, 2012 // 0 Comments
Can a Bible be a “threat to national security”? For years, the government has employed the risk of “national security” excuse to infringe on a wide
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June 28, 2012 // 0 Comments