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Over the years, when discussing Indigenous history and many of the injustices perpetrated upon the Native peoples who populate what is now Hawai’i, Alaska and the
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August 14, 2012 // 0 Comments
These are excerpts from e-mails Russell Pearce sent from 2006 to 2011. The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona acquired about 10,000 pages of e-mails from legislative
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August 13, 2012 // 0 Comments
We need to stop thinking about being “Indian” as being a matter of race or culture (both of which are just part of our reality) and think about being Indian in terms of
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August 13, 2012 // 0 Comments
Borrowing the words of the legendary baseball player Lou Gehrig I am the luckiest man in the world. At eighty I will begin another semester at the end of the month. Again I
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August 10, 2012 // 0 Comments
Is the deadly shooting at a Sikh temple indicative of a deeper problem in America? One that goes beyond white power
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August 10, 2012 // 0 Comments
Following many protests and support from grassroots activists to protect the privacy of their Coming of Age ceremony, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe was allowed to hold its
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August 9, 2012 // 0 Comments
*Mexikaresistance.com Note: It is my contention that, in addition to the reasons given below, MALDEF, NCLR and LULAC fail so miserably because they espouse a philosophy of
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August 9, 2012 // 0 Comments
The latest bad news about Indian reservations is getting worse; but there is a silver lining. U.S. Attorney Ken Gonzales says violence on Indian reservations is “a kind of
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August 8, 2012 // 1 Comment
After the January 2012 dismantling of Tucson’s Mexican American Studies (MAS) department by TUSD’s governing board, my colleague Norma Gonzalez at MAS-TUSD was forced to
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August 7, 2012 // 0 Comments
Men in Mexican military camps are forcing indigenous women into prostitution, according to a report emanating from the most recent session of the United Nations Committee on
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August 6, 2012 // 0 Comments