“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.” Chief Sitting Bull, 1877 The sacred lands of the Lakota are up for sale – again. A grassroots effort led by the Oceti Sakowin, or Great Sioux Nation, is underway to get them back. (more…)
To mark Columbus Day In 2004, the Medieval and Renaissance Center in UCLA published the final volume of a compendium of Columbus-era documents. Its general editor, Geoffrey Symcox, leaves little room for ambivalence when he says, “This is not your grandfather’s Columbus…. While giving the brilliant mariner his due, the collection portrays Columbus as an […]
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The government of South Dakota controversially places Native American children into non-Native American foster homes. On June 4, 2013, a draft complaint was delivered to United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights officials Giorgia Passarelli and Rekia Soumana in New York City regarding the removal of thousands of Native American children from […]
Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who has been imprisoned for 37 years, still awaits justice. “I think I can explain beyond serious doubt, that Leonard Peltier has committed no crime whatsoever,” said former US Attourney General Ramsey Clark. “But that if he had been guilty of firing a gun that killed an FBI Agent, it […]