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Finding Their Voices

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

heifer.org - By Maggie Carroll - Feb. 26 (Special Report) - as I traveled for hours to a small village so that I could meet with several young girls about their lives and education system, the conversation with my sister suddenly meant so much more. Is education such an ingrained part of everyday life that I was satisfied with “fine” and “usual” as descriptive responses? Do we take school for granted in the Western world? Nearly the entire village greeted us

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What’s behind the explosion of native activism? Young people

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Globe and Mail - By Joe Friesen - Jan. 22 (Special Report) - Erica Lee is a 22-year-old Cree woman raised by a single mother in a rough part of town. She’s the first of her family to finish high school, the first to go to university and, as an organizer of the Idle No More movement, she represents a sea change in Canadian life and politics.

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Portland-area Native Americans take on a diabetes epidemic

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Oregonian - By Bill Graves - Nov. 05 (Special Report) - Native Americans have the highest diabetes rate among all racial and ethnic groups in America and offer a preview of where the rest of the country is headed.

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Tribal Member, Slain Ambassador Stevens Body Arrives Home - Native News Network

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nativenewsnetwork.com - By Levi Rickert - Sep. 26 (News) - 'Chris, along with his family, are Chinook members…'

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Sioux Group Asks Officials to Reopen ’70s Cases

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Timothy Williams - Jun. 15 (Special Report) - Members of the Oglala Sioux tribe say that uncertainties from the 1970s “reign of terror” have left many peoples lives in limbo.

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Tribes, government agree to $1 billion settlement - GreenwichTime

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Shannon Dininny - Apr. 15 (News) - The agreement resolves claims brought by 41 tribes from across the country to reclaim money lost in mismanaged accounts and from royalties for oil, gas, grazing and timber rights on tribal lands.

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India and Pakistan: The world's most dangerous border

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - May. 21 (Opinion) - The late Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, had many virtues as a diplomat, but tact was not among them. His description of his theatre of operations as “AfPak” infuriated the Pakistanis, who wanted the Americans to regard their country as a sophisticated, powerful ally worthy of attention in itself, not just as a suffix to the feuding tribesmen next door. But that was not the only reason the coinage was unwise. It encouraged the understandable American tendency—shaped by the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the war against the Taliban and now the death of Osama bin Laden—to see Pakistan in the context of the fighting on its north-west frontier, and thus to ignore the source of most of the country’s problems, including terrorism: the troubled state of relations to its east.

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Native American Activist, Author Winona LaDuke on "The Militarization of Indian Country" and Obama Admin's "Lip Service" to Indigenous Rights

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Winona LaDuke, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - May. 06 (News Analysis) - Native American activist and writer Winona LaDuke joins us to discuss her new book, "The Militarization of Indian Country." LaDuke covers the legacy of the seizure of Native American lands by the U.S. government -- which became sites for industrial and military use, including army bases, nuclear testing sites, coal and uranium mining -- and how the military-industrial complex is encroaching on Native communities. LaDuke lives and works on the White Earth Nation in northern Minnesota and is Executive Director of the group, Honor The Earth. "Indian country is to not be assaulted by the U.S. military," says LaDuke.

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