From Indian Country Today: Anthropology has from the beginning been influenced and dominated by European males. They set the criteria of hierarchically ordered level descriptions, giving themselves the power to dictate the boundaries of group membership by defining race in terms of biology. As a consequence, the last Indian dies…
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Russell Means was an early leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and led its armed occupation of the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee, a 71-day siege that included several gunbattles with federal officers. (Jim Mone / AP) From LAT: Russell Means, who gained international notoriety as one of…
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From NPR: In the late 1960s, Native Americans fed up with what they saw as years of mistreatment by the federal government formed an organization known as the American Indian Movement. Founded in Minnesota, the group followed in the footsteps of the civil rights movement and took up protests across…
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From ICTMN: Miranda Washinawatok, Menominee, and her family have been in the public eye since the 12-year-old was punished back on January 19 for using her Native American language in class. The family has received apology letters from the teacher who reprimanded Miranda, the assistant coach who benched her from…
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From IndianNewsToday: In an effort to further preserve the Cherokee language, the Cherokee Nation Foundation has created a reading center featuring audio books, purchased digital textbooks and will publish an ethnobotany book—all in Cherokee. Cherokee elder Wynema Smith wrote and can be heard narrating the first books being used for…
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