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Tribes, long shut out from their own health data, fight for access and sovereignty
Tribes, long shut out from their own health data, fight for access and sovereignty
When Stephanie Russo Carroll, a citizen of the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah in Alaska, set out to earn her doctorate in tribal health 15 years ago, she focused her research on tribal cultural and health programs within six tribes. She needed vital statistics data, such as birth and death rates, for each of them. But […]
·azmirror.com·
Tribes, long shut out from their own health data, fight for access and sovereignty
Native American Veterans: Acknowledging Their Service, Recognizing Their Needs, and Learning from Their Tribal Restorative Tradition
Native American Veterans: Acknowledging Their Service, Recognizing Their Needs, and Learning from Their Tribal Restorative Tradition
pspanNative Americans (American Indians and Alaska Natives) have a long tradition of service in the U.S. military, dating back to the Revolutionary War. In
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Native American Veterans: Acknowledging Their Service, Recognizing Their Needs, and Learning from Their Tribal Restorative Tradition
Native America Calling: Tribes in the arid southwest face water management uncertainty
Native America Calling: Tribes in the arid southwest face water management uncertainty
Tribes that rely on the Colorado River — and the complex set of rules that govern it — are worried as the Donald Trump administration takes actions affecting their access to water.
·indianz.com·
Native America Calling: Tribes in the arid southwest face water management uncertainty
Grijalva Urges Biden Administration to Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Company Backed by Chinese Government, Requests Committee Hearing - Raúl Grijalva
Grijalva Urges Biden Administration to Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Company Backed by Chinese Government, Requests Committee Hearing - Raúl Grijalva
Washington, D.C. – House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urging him to withhold publication of a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on proposed copper mining operations in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest. These mining operations threaten to violate religious freedoms […]
·grijalva.house.gov·
Grijalva Urges Biden Administration to Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Company Backed by Chinese Government, Requests Committee Hearing - Raúl Grijalva
Outgoing Interior Secretary Deb Haaland hands off closer ties with Indian Country
Outgoing Interior Secretary Deb Haaland hands off closer ties with Indian Country
Deb Haaland, the country's first indigenous cabinet secretary, used her term at the Interior Department to make what activists say is irreversible impact in recognizing the painful history of the government's treatment Native Americans
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Outgoing Interior Secretary Deb Haaland hands off closer ties with Indian Country
Indigenous memory, urban reality : stories of American Indian relocation and reclamation - Michelle R. Jacobs
Indigenous memory, urban reality : stories of American Indian relocation and reclamation - Michelle R. Jacobs
Drawing on ethnographic research, this book explores different experiences of urban Native identity across two pan-Indian communities in NE Ohio. In addition to elucidating how false memories of Indian-ness invisibilize and overwrite the stories and identities of urban Indigenous people, this research reveals the significance of continuous relations with tribal nations to the persistence of Indigenous peoples and perspectives in twenty-first century US society.
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Indigenous memory, urban reality : stories of American Indian relocation and reclamation - Michelle R. Jacobs