Q: Besides pipelines, what are the major issues of concern for Native activists today? Houska:One of our most pressing concerns is intertwined with the extractive industry: camps pop up to build energy projects, leading to an influx of men into rural areas. Thousands and thousands of Native w...
However, decades of voter suppression meant the fight for the right to vote would continue for decades more and even today, activists continue working to remove barriers when it comes to voting access for Native American communities a century after citizenship was first achi...
Bone Wars: How Activists Are Targeting TeachingNovember 23, 2023 On March 5, 2023, NBC News, in conjunction with ProPublica,1 a nonprofit newsroom that investigates “abuses of power,” published what can only be described as a hit piece against the legendary paleoanthropologist Tim White, now...
By countering the racist fixations that have plagued stories of Native American culture, they hope to reverse the “invisibility” that many feel.
FS — If you could give today’s young activists one word of advice, what would it be? How about five words? Join the revolutionary socialist movement. Features history indigenous struggles people of color Why I Joined women & feminismShare...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 — Native American activism marks victory with Leonard Peltier’s release As the notable 80-year-old American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier is scheduled to walk free from Florida’s Coleman Penitentiary, Native American activists are reflecting on the nearly five-...
In 1967, a group of “Red Power” activists occupied the island of Alcatraz in California. During World War II, the Japanese Army could not break the secret code of the U.S. Military. The code was simply a group of Navajo volunteers speaking their Native American language on their field ...
such as when activists took over Alcatraz Island (1969–1971). While that standoff ended peacefully, others, such as the Wounded Knee incident on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1973, ended in violence. The American Indian Movement (AIM) was a powerful force for activism and resistance....
The American Indian Holocaust, known as the "500 year war" and the "World's Longest Holocaust In The History Of Mankind And Loss Of Human Lives." Genocide and Denying It: Why We Are Not Taught that the Natives of the United States and Canada were Extermi
Define opinionative. opinionative synonyms, opinionative pronunciation, opinionative translation, English dictionary definition of opinionative. adj. 1. Of, based on, or of the nature of an opinion. 2. Opinionated. o·pin′ion·a′tive·ly adv. American