Poverty's Poster Child

This sprawling Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is a Connecticut-sized zone of prairie and poverty, where the have-nots are defined less by the money they lack than by suffocating hopelessness. In the national number line of inequality, people here represent the “other 1 pe …

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Ashley Callingbull Is Vying For Miss World Canada

Ashley Callingbull will be vying for the Miss World Canada this Sunday, May 13th. Ashley is a member of the Cree Nation in Canada.  

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American Indian Hate Crime-Vern Traversie - YouTube

I wasn't sure what category to put this under because there isn't a Crime category.  I was on Facebook this morning and read about Vernon and found myself crying watching this video with his account of what happened to him.  As I watched I found myself thinking about w …

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US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations | World news | guardian.co.uk

A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination. Close to a million people live on the US' …

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Lightning Medicine Cloud, Sacred White Buffalo, Killed and Skinned - .$5,000 Reward Offered

A Sacred White Buffalo and it's mother have been killed and skinned. Lightning Medicine Cloud was found dead. There is a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those that committed the crime. It is a sad sign in this country when something like this happens. Co …

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UN expert urges US to take more robust measures to tackle indigenous issues

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Round Valley Indian Tribes Receive $8.5M in Remumeration From the United States - ICTMN.com

The Round Valley Indian Tribes will receive $8.5 million in remumeration for the United States government. This is part of a larger settlement of $1 billion dollars to 41 tribes for American Indian money that was ''lost'' by the U.S. Government. This follows other settlemen …

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170 Unsolved Murders in three years - Twice as high as the national murder rate.

There was a news headline that ran for a week about the unheard of fact that there were "still" 22 unsolved murders since the Rodney King incident of 20 years ago.  Many people expressed their outrage at the shoddy police work in solving those cases. So, now we have 57 unso …

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