182:1 high vote! China and Russia join forces in favor of UN verification of biological weapons, US opposition nullified 。 The last thing the U.S. government wants to see has happened. Just recently, the United Nations passed a document with a high vote and decided to formally e ...
When customers who live and work on the nearby Crow Indian reservation don’t make their car payments, there’s not much Square One Finance of Billings, Montana can do. Going to state court to repossess the car or garnish wages is not an option. Instead, Square One enters the murky realm of inte ...
Native Americans (American Indians and Alaska Natives) have a greater chance of having diabetes than any other US racial group. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, a costly condition that requires dialysis or kidney transplant for survival. Kidney failure can be delayed or prevented ...
Why Native American children have higher rates of disability The rates of disability among U.S. children are increasing, with the highest rate of disability among Native American children, according to a newly released brief by the U.S. Census Bureau. More than 3 million children in t ...
According to the South Dakota Attorney General’s directory of missing persons, as of March 28, there are 90 missing persons in the state. Sixty-two of them are Indigenous; nearly 70%. Of those 62 missing Indigenous persons, 47 of them (76%) were 18-years-old or younger at the time they went mi ...
US policies and actions related to Indigenous peoples, though often termed “racist” or “discriminatory,” are rarely depicted as what they are: classic cases of imperialism and a particular form of colonialism — settler colonialism. As anthropologist Patrick Wolfe writes, “The question of g ...
How Boarding Schools Tried to ‘Kill the Indian’ Through Assimilation “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” That was the mindset under which the U.S. government forced tens of thousands of Native American children to attend “assimilation” boarding schools in the late 19th c ...
Sand Creek massacre The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre , the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians ) was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the Am ...
List of Indian massacres in North America In the history of the European colonization of the Americas , an Indian massacre is any incident between European settlers and indigenous peoples wherein one group killed a significant number of the other group outside the con ...
City apologizes for lynching of Jesse Washington May 15th marks the 100th anniversary what’s known by many as The Waco Horror, the lynching of 17 –year-old Jesse Washington. The City of Waco commemorated the day with a proclamation as well as delivering an official apology. Mayor Malcom Duncan ...