Posting History for First People Power
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| 75 years ago this month, the Navajo Code Talkers came into being. Few of these warriors still live When people die, the Navajo say they “walk on.” And so it was Dec. 14 for Teddy Draper Sr. of Chinle, Arizona. He was 96. He was also one of the 421 Navajo warriors who were recruited by the U.S. Marines in 1942 to create a code to give... |
Meteor Blades | 12/30/2017 | 56 | 179 | - | - |
| Need help writing grants for OneSpirit 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... |
kentyler | 01/22/2018 | 21 | 15 | - | - |
| Civil Rights comes to Monument Avenue - in your face KKK I’m sure everyone remembers the racist riots in Charlottesville last fall and the pro confederate demonstration in Richmond.
One of first things Elizabeth Guzman, the first Latina elected to the VA Assembly did when she was in office was to... |
ZenTrainer | 02/01/2018 | 51 | 60 | - | - |
| My 17 year old daughter registered to vote this week. 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... |
Bethesda 1971 | 02/09/2018 | 24 | 16 | - | - |
| Indians 101: Indian Removal 200 Years Ago (1818) During the first part of the nineteenth century, the American government policy was to remove Indians from east of the Mississippi River and to “give” them reservations in Indian Territory. The ... |
Ojibwa | 02/28/2018 | 19 | 29 | - | - |
| Tribal Youth Health Policy Fellowship, Deadline: April 6, 2018 - National Indian Health Board 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... |
mettle fatigue | 03/12/2018 | 12 | 13 | - | - |
| Congress Has Never Heard a Voice Like Mine Over 10,000 people have been elected to Congress, but never a Native American woman. Congress has never heard a voice like mine.
This year, I aim to change that. I’m running for Congress in New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District. If I win, New... |
Deb Haaland | 03/15/2018 | 13 | 49 | - | - |
| Andrew Jackson Didn’t Sign "Indian Immigration" Act I Told Okla. Admin. Rules Committee Chair 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" -... |
Winter Rabbit | 04/12/2018 | 10 | 21 | - | - |
| Here's a FREE offer I hope lots of Kossacks say "Yes" to -- it's a good way to help elect Democrats! How this project began
Ever since the 2016 Election catastrophe, I’ve heard folks offer this sage piece of advice: You can’t do everything — choose something you’re passionate about and focus on that.
I’m passionate about a grassroots,... |
Rob in Vermont | 04/29/2018 | 133 | 104 | - | - |
| Help David Hogg reach this goal: Voter Registration Drives at all 26,000 US high schools by May 29 On Saturday, David Hogg of MSD High School tweeted:
I will be retweeting this everyday until May 29. We have over 100 schools sign up just on the first day this was posted. There’s about 26,000 high schools across America. Is yours... |
Bethesda 1971 | 05/07/2018 | 22 | 42 | - | - |
| Petition: Green the Rez — Support Energy Sovereignty For Standing Rock! 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... |
Lakota Peoples Law Project | 05/08/2018 | 16 | 40 | - | - |
| The Newe Tongva Nation sues for federal recognition 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... |
emiliotongva | 05/28/2018 | 21 | 51 | - | - |
| Need help silencing the voices and visions in my head Tonight, as I listened to the cries of the children at the United States border, their cries for “Papa, Papa”, “Mami”, and pleas to go to an aunt’s house, I heard the ghosts of children being separated from their parents at the concentration camps in... |
amhipps | 06/19/2018 | 13 | 11 | - | - |
| It's Legal to Rape Native American Women in America 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... |
Winter Rabbit | 09/23/2018 | 24 | 44 | - | - |
| Winnemem Wintu Fight for Restoration of Winter Chinook Salmon to McCloud River above Shasta Dam In the short time that I was waiting at Discovery Park, located at the junction between the American and Sacramento rivers, for participants in the Winnemem Wintu’s Run4Salmon to board the boat making the journey from Sacramento to Colusa on the... |
Dan Bacher | 10/01/2018 | 4 | 21 | - | - |
| Detroit now celebrates Indigenous Peoples' Day instead of Columbus Day 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... |
Alonso del Arte | 10/15/2018 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| Orutsararmiut Native Council enrolled tribal member Valerie "Nurr'araaluk" Davidson - Alaska Lt.Gov. On October 16, 2018, Valerie Davidson was sworn in as the Lt. Governor of Alaska. Valerie "Nurr'araaluk" Davidson, JD, Yup'ik, is an enrolled Tribal member of the Orutsararmiut Native Council. Ms. Davidson is a long-time advocate for Native health... |
mettle fatigue | 10/18/2018 | 5 | 9 | - | - |
| Massacre for Which Thanksgiving Is Named 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... |
Winter Rabbit | 11/19/2018 | 18 | 30 | - | - |
| MN Lt Gov Peggy Flanagan, Historic First. First Ojibwe Woman to be elected to Executive Office in US I waffled between Anishinaabe, Native or Ojibwe to identify the first. She’s the first Native, an Ojibwe woman, to be elected to Executive office in US history. She mentions Paul Welstone too. I want to share and celebrate this historic day. I’m very... |
RickNelsonmn | 01/07/2019 | 8 | 39 | - | - |
| New Okla. Governor Says Bull Stitt to Separation of Church & State Stitt thinks he's on a mission from God....
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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... |
Winter Rabbit | 01/27/2019 | 91 | 70 | - | - |
| Defamation Lawsuit Against WaPo Inverts Native Struggles to Dangerously Attack the First Amendment Friends: By now, you’re most likely aware of the ridiculous $250M defamation lawsuit filed against The Washington Post on behalf of Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann’s family in the wake of his confrontation with Omaha elder Nathan... |
Chase Iron Eyes | 02/23/2019 | 23 | 56 | - | - |
| Happy 94th Birthday Dr. Reid! Updated!! 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... |
ZenTrainer | 03/18/2019 | 79 | 81 | - | - |
| 8,000 Native Americans in South Dakota (Pine Ridge) have lost access to food and medicine A friend asked me to help spread the word about this disaster, which is being ignored by the MSM. Please consider helping if you can. Thank you!
For more information, and/or to make a donation please go here:
www.oglalalakotanation.info/... |
Older and Wiser Now | 04/01/2019 | 107 | 382 | - | - |
| Help Needed! Still Without Federal Aid After Massive Flooding, Pine Ridge Braces for Another Storm 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... |
Chase Iron Eyes | 04/10/2019 | 51 | 203 | - | - |
| From Pine Ridge to Puerto Rico: Our Letter of Solidarity As president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, I write today with a message of solidarity—and also to thank those of you who have supported my people through an extremely difficult time these past weeks. I know that many of you shared the post from my public... |
Julian Bear Runner | 05/01/2019 | 19 | 93 | - | - |
| RWB ~ Running while Black 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... |
ZenTrainer | 05/23/2019 | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Why Rescind Wounded Knee Medals of Dishonor, When Jackson Can Honor Those Soldiers as "Heroic?" Why rescind “the Congressional Medal of Honor for the slaughter of defenseless Indians at Wounded Knee” when condoning genocide works so well?
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RAPID CITY – A gentleman named John L. Jackson has plans to open a Medal of Honor... |
Winter Rabbit | 05/25/2019 | 30 | 17 | - | - |
| Indigenous Peoples Day, Monday Oct. 14, you can watch online free a 2018 Emmy-winner: DAWNLAND 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)... |
e2247 | 10/12/2019 | 8 | 10 | - | - |
| Petition: Greta Thunberg Visits Lakota Country and Joins Our Call to Stop Keystone XL What an important time it is for us in Lakota Country. A few weeks ago, we had the honor of hosting Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg at the Pine Ridge and Standing Rock reservations. Greta came at the invitation of my daughter, Tokata, who... |
Chase Iron Eyes | 10/22/2019 | 16 | 58 | - | - |
| Special Election Alert: Send a “Big Voice” to Washington 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... |
TriciaforWI | 11/14/2019 | 13 | 22 | - | - |
| We must fight the attempted erasure of Native American Heritage Month. Here's why. by Jade Begay The majority of Americans know little to nothing about Native Americans. The lived experience of the Native and Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island (also known as the United States) has long borne out that truth, and research from the... |
Prism Guest Writer | 11/26/2019 | 15 | 107 | - | - |
| WI-07: Special Election May 12th could block Trump from backing-in to 4 more years 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... |
lufthase | 01/06/2020 | 77 | 127 | - | - |
| Yurok Vice-Chair to Testify Before Congressional Committee Tomorrow Yurok Tribe press release: The Yurok Tribe is honored to announce that Vice-Chairman Frankie Myers will be providing testimony before the US House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife (WOW) at a legislative... |
Dan Bacher | 01/13/2020 | 4 | 18 | - | - |
| Update: Navajos, Apaches Working to Deny Trump Arizona’s 11 Electoral Votes 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.... |
EricAZ | 01/23/2020 | 161 | 473 | - | - |