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I have set about writing one or more grants to get more internet access for the Pine Ridge reservation. They only have connections now at the schools. But I know very little about writing grants…. is there anyone here who could school me. I working...

She’ll be 18 in August, so she’ll get to vote in what will be a “Wave” election if  we work hard enough this year. The only way to guarantee a wave is through massive voter registration. The polls now, e.g., the generic ballot, are based on past...

The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) invites applications for the 2018 Tribal Youth Health Policy Fellowship seating the second cohort of Fellows. The cohort will consist of 12 Native youth from around the country to engage throughout the year in...

  That’s what I told the Oklahoma Administrative Rules Committee Chair as to why funding is needed for teaching Native American history this morning. I elaborate on events surrounding that occurrence in Okla Legislature "beholden to powerful lobbies" -...

In 2016, the world stood in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the Dakota Access pipeline. Now, as oil flows under Lake Oahe, tribal members still suffer from a lack of sovereignty over their own energy future. The tribe...

The Gabrielino were Shoshonean People who shared common linguistic features to as “Uto-Aztecan” (or Shoshone). The Gabrielino migrated from the regions of Nevada and Utah. After founding the Mission San Gabriel in 1771, these American Indians would be...

   Rape. Murder. Injustice. Those evils created the necessity for the American Indian Movement, as in the case of "the serial killings of American Indian women in Minneapolis” in 1987. 1987 AIM PATROL: Minneapolis AIM Patrol comes full circle in...

Here’s a bit of Detroit news I missed last week: Detroit now observes Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the second Monday of October, instead of Columbus Day, which is still a federal holiday. Last Monday was the first observance. I wish I had known about...

The timeline along with basic knowledge of the Pilgrims’ and Puritans’ religious beliefs exposes the fact that historically speaking, Thanksgiving was literally about gratitude for genocide. Furthermore, low population counts of the Pequot in more...

Stitt thinks he's on a mission from God....  ffrf.org/... Multiple concerned Oklahomans alerted the Freedom From Religion Foundation that the day after his inauguration, Stitt and his wife attended an Inaugural prayer service at the First...

You can see from his bio that it’s Dr. Reid’s 94th birthday today. 90for90, the voter advocacy group, was started to honor him on his 90th birthday. The intent was to register 90 new voters in each precinct in Virginia. They didn’t actually meet...

Here at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, we are bracing for the second unusually powerful storm in less than a month. As Winter Storm Wesley bears down, promising more severe weather for our Oglala Sioux Tribe homeland, the reservation still...

reposted from DownWithTyranny! Isn’t easy. There is colour in politics —  green and white. Green is the colour of money and white is the colour of skin; the preferred skin colour of the recipients of the green. The people giving the money like to...

An activity in observance of our next Greater United States' national holiday, Indigenous Peoples Day Oct. 14 @ 3pm EDT/noon PDT, is watching a Free online screening of the 2018 Emmy-winner documentary feature-length film "Dawnland" (86 minutes)...

If you can’t wait until November 3, 2020 to have your voice heard in Washington, listen up. There’s a special election for Congress in the pivotal battleground state of Wisconsin in only a few months. The battle has just begun. My opponent is already...

Imagine a scenario where no candidate gets the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. Obviously, that would mean something has gone terribly wrong, but it’s possible as the map above shows. Even without a perfect 269-269 tie, faithless...

Navajo and Apache Tribal members are using new technology to systematically canvass their Reservations -- which are the size of West Virginia and Connecticut – to turn out the voters needed to defeat Trump and elect Mark Kelly to the U.S. Senate....