• The 22-year-old Disha is charged with contributing to the 'toolkit' prepared by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg for mobilizing support for the ongoing agitation of the landowners (farmers) of Punjab. (countercurrents.org)
  • Billy Frank Jr. (1931-2014) was an environmental activist and former chair of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. (wa.gov)
  • His lifelong dedication to protecting endangered salmon and restoring justice for the Nisqually Tribe helped shape Washington's environmental laws and expand treaty rights for Native Americans nationwide. (wa.gov)
  • American Environmental Health Studies Project, Inc. (cdc.gov)
  • The celebration of Columbus Day has long been a raw issue for Native Americans, who point to the explorer's violence toward indigenous people upon arrival in the New World. (startribune.com)
  • Cano added that the initiative was merely a first step toward ensuring more Native Americans own homes, practice urban agriculture and succeed in academics. (startribune.com)
  • The history of Native Americans after the arrival of the pilgrims in 1620 is one of disenfranchisement, genocide, and forced migration. (lu.se)
  • In 2009, the United States Federal Government issued an "acknowledgement and apology," acknowledging a "long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies" in its dealings with Native Americans (Congress.gov). (lu.se)
  • The publication of a text so carefully constructed with legally non-binding terms and saturated with use of the passive voice was, to many Native Americans, unsurprising in the context of dealings between Native American tribes and the Federal Government. (lu.se)
  • Membership is free to all American Indians, Alaska Natives, First Nations (Indigenous People of Canada), and Native Hawaiians living in and around the greater Boston area. (wikipedia.org)
  • While the US has no specific law against the Indian caste system, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has filed the lawsuit against Cisco using a section of America's historic Civil Rights Act which bars race-based discrimination . (riazhaq.com)
  • LOS ANGELES-Mi Vida Boutique and the Southern California Chapter of the National Writers Union UAW Local 1981 hosted an evening of activist culture in the largely Latinx area of Highland Park, north of downtown Los Angeles. (peoplesworld.org)
  • The bird dance is a Native American tradition of the California Quechan Indian Tribe. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Founding members of the BIC included writer Mildred Noble, American Indian psychologist Carolyn Attneave, Canadian activist Anna Mae Aquash and the artist Philip Young, both of whom were of the Micmac nation. (wikipedia.org)
  • At this point, there's no reason other than vindictive revenge for him to be in prison," says writer and activist Nick Estes, co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group The Red Nation. (democracynow.org)
  • Prasher's profile on X describes him as a political strategist, an activist and a writer. (tribuneindia.com)
  • Teresa del Carmen Gonzalez, a writer, former UTLA (teachers union) member, student activist and defender of the rights of minority children in the Los Angeles public schools, was the mistress of ceremonies. (peoplesworld.org)
  • The activist writer series is meant to bring cultural activists together to promote art, voter registration and voter turnout in 2020 in order to defeat the anti-people, anti-union and warmongering U.S. president and his administration. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Subhankar Banerjee is an Indian-born American photographer, writer, and activist, and the founder of ClimateStoryTellers.org. (ias.edu)
  • Columbus Day brings up bad childhood memories for Sandi Mason, an American Indian woman who recalls classmates calling her Pocahontas and squaw at her Minneapolis school. (startribune.com)
  • After her welcome she offered a presentation on Emma Tenayuca (1916-99), an activist woman who at a very young age organized factory workers in pecan shelling and cigar making. (peoplesworld.org)
  • The North American Indian Center of Boston, Inc. (NAICOB) is a nonprofit organization located in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston, which provides assistance to American Indians, Native Canadians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other indigenous peoples of North America. (wikipedia.org)
  • The organization was reorganized as a nonprofit corporation in 1991 and provides services to the Native American population (about 6,000) in and around the greater Boston area. (wikipedia.org)
  • Over two-thirds of low caste Indian-Americans are discriminated against by upper caste Indian-Americans in Silicon Valley, according to a report by Equality Labs, an organization of Dalits in America. (riazhaq.com)
  • What was concealed mischievously from the Indian students was the fact that AID was involved in many subterranean, subversive political activities in India with close links to or connections with violent Communist and nefarious groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization that has been linked to the Jihadi outfit Hezbollah. (boloji.com)
  • The American Public Health Association is a worldwide organization of public health professionals that conduct public health research and establish standards for public health practices. (cdc.gov)
  • The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers, provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. (cdc.gov)
  • The NAICOB began as the Boston Indian Council (BIC) on October 20, 1970, following meetings in 1969. (wikipedia.org)
  • New council member Alondra Cano introduced the change, with support from the Native American Community Development Institute. (startribune.com)
  • The council vote, which fell one day after Mayor Betsy Hodges held her first state of the city address at the Minneapolis American Indian Center, was unanimous. (startribune.com)
  • Contrary to The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) that includes discrimination based on caste, most Indian-Americans argue that race is not caste . (riazhaq.com)
  • Through the use of several analytic methods and postcolonial theories, this thesis will analyse representations of language, place, and identity, and argue that they are constructed in the border between Native American and American consciousness. (lu.se)
  • The event on July 30 drew songwriters, poets, novelists and Native American bird dancers. (peoplesworld.org)
  • American poets. (lu.se)
  • Firstly, Tommy Pico's Nature Poem will be read alongside a selection of Native American poets. (lu.se)
  • Through a comparative analysis, the duality that characterises Pico's verse will be highlighted, and will place him in a tradition of indigenous poets who demonstrate that duality is a defining feature of Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • Long Soldier's work demonstrates the complicated relationship between Native American poets and the English language, utilising linguistic and poetic methods to disrupt the hierarchical power of English in public discourse. (lu.se)
  • However, the diversity of Native American poets is considered in the literature. (lu.se)
  • Gerald Vizenor describes the word Indian as "a colonial enactment, not a loan word, [whose] dominance is sustained by the simulation that has superseded the real tribal names" (11). (lu.se)
  • In 1970, BIC joined with members of the American Indian Movement in what became "Day of Mourning" in Patuxet, in contrast to the colonial holiday of Thanksgiving. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Indian media also drew the attention of its readers to the fact that Disha Ravi had not transgressed any Indian law and that toolkit is merely a document laying down the strategy for any movement and so, preparing a toolkit or circulating it cannot be termed a crime. (countercurrents.org)
  • Are government functionaries really not aware that making a toolkit for any movement and circulating it can never be proved as a criminal act before any Indian court of law? (countercurrents.org)
  • In academic writing about Native American literature, one will find a variety of nomenclature to describe America's indigenous. (lu.se)
  • Police have identified the woman who threw a cup of hot coffee at an Indian-American man wearing a Palestinian scarf, and his 18-month-old son at a playground in New York last week. (tribuneindia.com)
  • Speaking to the New York Daily News last week, Prashar said the woman, who identified herself as an American Jew, charged at them when she saw him wearing a keffiyeh -- a headscarf traditionally worn by Palestinian men. (tribuneindia.com)
  • State Rep. Susan Allen, the first American Indian woman elected to the Legislature, and U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison expressed interest Friday in recognizing another holiday on Columbus Day at the state and federal level. (startribune.com)
  • Inherited Bleeding Disorders in North Indian Children: 14 years' Experience from a Tertiary Care Center. (cdc.gov)
  • According to its website, the organization's mission is as follows: to promote greater self-determination, socio-economic self-sufficiency, spiritual enhancement, intercultural understanding and other forms of empowerment for the North American Indian Community and to assist North American Indians in obtaining an improved quality of life by providing health, job training, education, housing, and other related programs and social services. (wikipedia.org)
  • Members of the NWU and others in the audience of over 25 commented on the rich and varied display of talent in what was the first of a series proposed by union member, playwright and community activist David Trujillo. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Effectiveness of a comprehensive educational programme for Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) to identify individuals in the Udupi district with bleeding disorders: A community-based survey. (cdc.gov)
  • This anti-national group has spread its tentacles far and wide and has directly entangled itself with many anti-Indian forces, some of which are connected to Pakistan and also to terrorist groups like the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). (boloji.com)
  • In October 2016, two colleagues informed John Doe, a principal engineer at Cisco, that his supervisor, Sundar Iyer, had told them that he (Doe) was from the "Scheduled Castes" and had made it to the Indian Institute of Technology via affirmative action. (riazhaq.com)
  • Vast majority of Indian-Americans in Silicon Valley support India's Islamophobic Prime MInister Narendra Modi. (riazhaq.com)
  • Recalling another moment, while a freshman at UCLA at the beginning of the semester, and rising again over timidity, he chose to respond to an older college Chicanx activist, Jaime Soliz, who was barking over the noise of campus life for college students to get in a van and go support the students in East Los Angeles in the now historic and famous High School Walkouts . (peoplesworld.org)
  • Any enlightened citizen committed to the cause of national unity, national security and territorial integrity of India has to only carefully go through an explosive book titled ' NGOs, ACTIVISTS AND FOREIGN FUNDS, ANTI-NATION INDUSTRY ' edited by Radha Rajan and Krishen Kak, two bold and fearless journalists. (boloji.com)
  • The Indian middle-class does not mind its children joining movements on such issues. (countercurrents.org)
  • Calls are growing for President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, the 77-year-old imprisoned Native American activist who has spent 46 years behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit. (democracynow.org)
  • Treaty violation, however, does not nullify their legality, and Native American tribes to this day still live under the laws and restrictions that have controlled their sovereignty for hundreds of years. (lu.se)
  • American Society of Hematology. (cdc.gov)
  • The American Thoracic Society helps prevent and fight respiratory disease through research, education, patient care, and advocacy. (cdc.gov)
  • During this period the Native American population in Boston and other cities was growing rapidly, and urban centers like the BIC arose to provide health care and other services. (wikipedia.org)
  • About 7,600 residents of Minneapolis - or 2 percent of the population - are American Indian, according to the 2010 census. (startribune.com)
  • The Indian media criticized the Narendra Modi Government for unnecessarily persecuting and harassing a young girl who had nothing to do with politics. (countercurrents.org)
  • American Women of Science. (wikipedia.org)
  • Accompanying Flores were three Native American women in full costume who performed the dance and explained its meaning and use. (peoplesworld.org)
  • This is about the power of the American Indian people and indigenous communities all over the world. (startribune.com)
  • He survived COVID , he's in poor health, and the man deserves to be with his people," says Estes, who calls for a full congressional investigation into the deaths of Indigenous activists on Pine Ridge Reservation, where the shootout that led to Peltier's arrest occurred. (democracynow.org)
  • German prisoners are allegedly killed by American forces near the village of Chenogne, Belgium. (wikipedia.org)
  • His ongoing work, land-as-home, focuses on ecocultural rights issues in the arctic and desert ecoregions of North America and Siberia. (ias.edu)
  • The American Correctional Association develops standards on medical issues, such as TB, in correctional facilities. (cdc.gov)
  • He has also attempted to clarify that Socrates Nachimuthu was not in any way directly involved with the LTTE and that he had only been active in the FEDERATION OF ASSOCIATION OF TAMIL SANGAMS IN NORTH AMERICA (FeTNA). (boloji.com)
  • “Regardless of how you feel about our failed prohibition of marijuana, every American should agree that the U.S. Postal Service should not be censoring what is or is not published in newspapers,†Blumenauer, who has led House efforts to allow medical cannabis access for military veterans, told Marijuana.com via email. (drugwarrant.com)
  • American journal of medical genetics. (cdc.gov)
  • The thump of traditional drumming rang through the halls as hundreds of activists gathered to commemorate the change. (startribune.com)
  • Earlier today, the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced the end of the most recent Ebola outbreak, three months after the first case was reported in North Kivu. (bvsalud.org)