• 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)
  • Russell Means was an early leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and led its armed occupation of the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee, a 71-day siege that included several gunbattles with federal officers. (latimes.com)
  • In joining the fledgling American Indian Movement in 1969, Means later wrote, he had found a new purpose in life and vowed to "get in the white man's face until he gave me and my people our just due. (latimes.com)
  • In joining the American Indian Movement at age 30, Means later wrote in his autobiography, he had found "a way to be a real Indian. (latimes.com)
  • American Indian Movement (AIM) activists ready themselves for a purification ceremony at the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre during an occupation protests on March 3, 1973. (artnet.com)
  • The fact that people testified created a lot of fear and mistrust amongst activists, and further drove people out of the movement. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Victoria Straughn of Concerned Citizens for Justice held the view that we should "not throw the baby out with the bath water" and that "voting is one tool in our tool belt," while Corine Fairbanks of the American Indian Movement of Ohio felt that the entire American system of voting was stacked against Native and environmental concerns. (onearthpeace.org)
  • the Central American solidarity movement. (fifthestate.org)
  • In 1968, at the age of 29, Means joined the American Indian Movement and quickly rose to prominence. (indianz.com)
  • O n Feb. 27, 1973, about 250 Sioux Indians, led by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), converged on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, launching the famous 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee. (journeyofhealing.net)
  • On August 29, 1970 , members of the United Native Americans, with support from the American Indian Movement, occupied Mount Rushmore to reclaim the land that had been promised to the Oceti Sakowin (The Great Sioux Nation) in the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie in perpetuity. (journeyofhealing.net)
  • A speech by American Indian Movement activist Dennis Banks on the first anniversary of the Wounded Knee occupation, February 27, 1974. (dp.la)
  • The Occupy movement has changed the American political landscape. (newpol.org)
  • We are at the opening of a new mass movement and a radicalization that presage an era of coming social upheaval and class conflict that require the left to both analyze these developments and to develop a strategy to intervene. (newpol.org)
  • State and local governments responded to the movement with police repression resulting in the arrest of 3,000 activists in a dozen cities in the first weeks. (newpol.org)
  • We are witnessing the birth of the first major mass movement on the left in the United States since the decline of the leftist upsurge of the 1960s and early 1970s. (newpol.org)
  • While the new movement has not yet reached the proportions of the upheaval of forty years ago, when at times there were millions in the streets and hundreds of thousands of workers on strike, still it is clear that Occupy represents both a mass movement and a new radicalization. (newpol.org)
  • While some of the young people have been inspired by the occupation of Tahrir Square and by the indignados of Spain, this is an essentially American movement about American issues. (newpol.org)
  • The traditional Oglalas, desperate, living in terror, their children and elders bracing every minute for drive-by shootings and death, asked the newly-formed American Indian Movement for help. (dickshovel.com)
  • The main targets of their aggressive attacks were the Black Panthers and the American Indian Movement, both tagged as Commie groups. (dickshovel.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • As we unravel this mystery, the show examines what it means to be an Indigenous woman in America. (americanindianadoptees.com)
  • PORCUPINE - The family of Russell Means announced early Monday, Oct. 22, that the longtime indigenous rights activist had passed away. (indianz.com)
  • BOSTON - June 29, 2023, Indigenous activists in Boston reaffirm their commitment to overcome historic barriers to higher education for students in light of today's ruling delivered by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) that guts Affirmative Action in college admissions at institutions of higher education across the country. (greylockglass.com)
  • The Indigenous activists demand the passage of two bills in the state legislature specifically addressing Native issues in public education. (greylockglass.com)
  • In Massachusetts, HD.2237/SD.387, "An Act Relative to Celebrating and Teaching Native American Culture & History," addresses the lack of Indigenous curriculum in Massachusetts public schools. (greylockglass.com)
  • Schoolchildren rarely learn about the Native American history of the region nor about the contemporary Indigenous peoples who live here, including the Aquinnah Wampanoag, Mashpee Wampanoag, and other bands of the Wampanoag, Nipmuc and Massachusett as well as Native people in Massachusetts enrolled in tribal nations throughout the US and Canada. (greylockglass.com)
  • Indians on the Move is a needed contribution to the fields of Indigenous studies, mobility studies, and urban history. (uncpress.org)
  • Others have sounded similar historical echoes in relation to the practice of removing Indigenous children from their homes to be forced into assimilating "Indian schools," a policy that persisted as recently as the 1970s . (ibw21.org)
  • In 1970, he was among a group of American Indian activists who occupied Mount Rushmore, where he infamously urinated on the top of the stone head of George Washington - an act he later said symbolized "how most Indians feel about the faces chiseled out of our holy land. (latimes.com)
  • During that same year, Means led a protest and a takeover of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, again seeking attention for issues facing Indian country. (indianz.com)
  • In 1970, Activists Occupy Mount Rushmore. (journeyofhealing.net)
  • The NAICOB began as the Boston Indian Council (BIC) on October 20, 1970, following meetings in 1969. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1970, he was named AIM's first national director, overseeing the growth of an organization that brought national attention to Native American issues for the first time since the pre-reservation era. (indianz.com)
  • In 1970, Means, along with other AIM members, burst into the consciousness of mainstream America when they conducted their first major protest in Plymouth, Mass., seizing a replica of the original Mayflower in protest of the mistreatment of Native Americans throughout history. (indianz.com)
  • We write to request that you grant clemency to Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier by commuting the remainder of his sentence. (senate.gov)
  • Russell Means, who gained international notoriety as one of the leaders of the 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 and continued to be an outspoken champion of American Indian rights after launching a career as an actor in films and television in the 1990s, has died. (latimes.com)
  • But the controversial and flamboyant activist with the trademark long braids gained his greatest notoriety at the trading post hamlet of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation. (latimes.com)
  • The occupation of Wounded Knee by more than 200 AIM-led activists began in late February 1973 in the wake of a failed attempt to impeach tribal president Richard Wilson, whose Oglala critics accused him of corruption and abuse of power and said his private militia suppressed political opponents. (latimes.com)
  • Although previous takeovers were somewhat effective in getting mainstream America to begin to look toward Indian country, it wasn't until early 1973 that AIM kicked down the door of mainstream America when they took over the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre by force. (indianz.com)
  • Journey of Healing is for white people in North America to understand and begin to heal the racism we carry. (journeyofhealing.net)
  • "Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America" hosted by attorney-activist Jeffery Robinson. (firstparish.org)
  • provided empirical evidence linking legacy of slavery and societal racism to Black/African American health. (cdc.gov)
  • He was neither a National Socialist scholar, nor can he be solely understood as an Indian anticolonial nationalist. (bvsalud.org)
  • WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, renewed efforts to urge President Joe Biden to commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of murder in 1977 following a controversial investigation and trial, which many civil rights leaders and legal experts have called unjust, including the U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the case. (senate.gov)
  • Pierite cited a 2018 resolution by the National Congress of American Indians in stating that, "Native students experience lower rates of completion at postsecondary degree programs, where 41% of first-time, full time Native students who enrolled in a four-year public institution in 2008 completed a Bachelor's degree by 2014 compared to 60% in the general population and 70% of white students. (greylockglass.com)
  • As Meilus understands, the Native American materials arrived at the museum through Frank Root, who the Associated Press described as "a traveling shoe salesman who collected the items on his journeys during the 19th century, and once had a road show that rivaled P.T. Barnum's extravaganzas. (artnet.com)
  • Indian Wars, United States of America, 19th century. (artnet.com)
  • That November, he joined fellow AIM members and other Native Americans in taking over a replica of the Mayflower in Plymouth, Mass. And in 1972 he participated in the seven-day occupation and trashing of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C. (latimes.com)
  • The event led to one of the more notorious displays of social resistance by AIM, when Means led a group of protesters in yet another occupation, this time at the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C. The group destroyed confidential records and caused more than $2 million in damage to the building, an event that Means detailed vividly in his autobiography, "Where White Men Fear to Tread. (indianz.com)
  • On Nov. 3, 1972, protesters from the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) offices in Washington, D.C. for six days. (journeyofhealing.net)
  • In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. (uncpress.org)
  • A onetime con artist, dance-school instructor and computer programmer, Means was executive director of the government-funded Cleveland American Indian Center when he met Dennis Banks and other AIM founders in 1969. (latimes.com)
  • Dennis Banks speaks against the government and on the need to take a stand at University of Minnesota rally," Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/9940423d6c6ae02027e047d097e45951. (dp.la)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. saw something essential about our nation: Imperial expansion west over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution's relationship to slavery. (thenation.com)
  • It should be noted that SCOTUS sidestepped the issue of equal protection in its recent decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act," said Jean-Luc Pierite, president of North American Indian Center of Boston. (greylockglass.com)
  • Episodes of NewsNight Minnesota (Twin Cities Public Television, Saint Paul, Minnesota) in the AAPB collection that were broadcast between 1994 and 1999 also feature coverage of several issues important to Native American communities, including legal cases surrounding the Indian Child Welfare Act and fishing rights for tribes residing in Wisconsin and Minnesota . (americanarchive.org)
  • On Nov. 20, 1969, a fleet of wooden sailboats holding 90 Native Americans landed on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. (journeyofhealing.net)
  • An Oglala Sioux born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Means in his activist prime was called strident, defiant, volatile, arrogant and aggressive. (latimes.com)
  • A crowd of Indian Americans and US-based civil rights organisations and activists assembled a rally at Times Square to protest the celebrations. (madam360.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Native American tribes in Massachusetts http://www.naicob.org/ Stickgold, Emma (2008-01-27). (wikipedia.org)
  • The nation's most visible American Indian activist, Means was a passionate militant leader who helped thrust the historic and ongoing plight of Native Americans into the national spotlight. (latimes.com)
  • The Founders Museum, a local collection of antiquities established by the residents of the town of Barre, in central Massachusetts, in 1885-and left largely unchanged since then-has returned a cache of 150 Native American objects to their rightful owners, the Lakota and Sioux tribes. (artnet.com)
  • Meilus renewed her efforts to repatriate the materials starting this January, based on the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which does not technically apply to the private museum. (artnet.com)
  • Meilus estimated, however, that these 150 pieces are only a quarter of their Native American holdings, drawn from more than 60 tribes. (artnet.com)
  • Our collection is one of the most pristine collections of Native American artifacts in the country," she said. (artnet.com)
  • Means' experience at the occupation left a lasting impression on him that would lead him down a path eventually resulting in him becoming one of the most influential and well-known Native Americans in modern history. (indianz.com)
  • O verview of Native American activism since the late 1960s, including protests at Mt. Rushmore, Alcatraz, Standing Rock, and more. (journeyofhealing.net)
  • In delivering the dissent, Justice Sotomayor, herself a beneficiary of affirmative action, said of the argument by Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., "One of SFFA's top percentage plans would even 'nearly erase the Native American incoming class' at UNC. (greylockglass.com)
  • Mahtowin Munro, co-leader of United American Indians of New England, said that "Only about 19% of Native students attend college, compared to about 40% of white students. (greylockglass.com)
  • In addition, HD.932/ SD.1826, "An Act providing for the creation of a permanent commission relative to the education of American Indian and Alaska Native residents of the Commonwealth," proposes the establishment of a permanent commission to improve educational outcomes and opportunities for American Indian and Alaska Native students. (greylockglass.com)
  • The Shawnee , or Shawano , are a people native to North America. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • In their collective refusal to accept marginality and destitution on reservations, Native Americans used the urban relocation program to take greater control of their socioeconomic circumstances. (uncpress.org)
  • The dynamic histories of everyday people at the heart of this book shed new light on the adaptability of mobile Native American communities. (uncpress.org)
  • Miller's work is a model study on how to do research and write Native American history and is essential reading on twentieth-century Native America. (uncpress.org)
  • It tells the bigger story of Native Americans responding to VRP in ways that continue to strengthen their communities. (uncpress.org)
  • In urban migration, Miller finds a creative process whereby Native people brought tribal and non-Indian spaces into dialogue with one another, and he suggests that this process forms a key source of Native resilience in contemporary America. (uncpress.org)
  • Miller does not retell the history of the Voluntary Relocation Program, but rather expands it outward and inward to account for Native American agency as an important and driving force under settler colonialism. (uncpress.org)
  • The Cherokee Nation established the first Native newspaper, The Cherokee Phoenix , in 1828, which featured Cherokee perspectives on removal legislation and other events that led to the 1830 Indian Removal Act. (americanarchive.org)
  • The online newspaper Indian Country Today currently is the largest provider of Native news. (americanarchive.org)
  • The program represents an important milestone in Native-created media, as it marked the first time that Native Americans across the country could hear programming that reflected important issues and events within their communities. (americanarchive.org)
  • Former host Gary Fife (Muscogee and Cherokee) states that the show provides "real stories of Native America" because "the old beads-and-feathers story [presented in white media] just isn't enough anymore. (americanarchive.org)
  • 59 KBC also produces Native America Calling , a popular news program out of Alaska that brings listeners together "in a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific to Native communities. (americanarchive.org)
  • Harlan McKosato (Sac and Fox Nation, 1966-2020), host of Native America Calling, in Looking Toward Home (Chino & Krusic, 2003), cpb-aacip_508-z60bv7bt9b . (americanarchive.org)
  • Some non-Native news outlets in areas with substantial Native American populations also have moved towards including a Native perspective in their coverage. (americanarchive.org)
  • Below is a list of programs by Native and non-Native public broadcasting outlets that feature stories on issues affecting Native American communities throughout the United States. (americanarchive.org)
  • The gaming industry in Minnesota has been called "the new buffalo" by Native Americans in the state. (americanarchive.org)
  • The popularity of the state's blossoming casinos is enormous and raises many questions about the prosperity of Minnesota's Native American community. (americanarchive.org)
  • This program examines the impact of casinos on Native American reservations in Minnesota. (americanarchive.org)
  • This program reports on casino gambling in Wisconsin and legal cases surrounding the violation of Native American religion in prisons. (americanarchive.org)
  • We commend the steps that your administration has taken to right past wrongs of our government's treatment of Native Americans, particularly through Secretary Haaland's leadership and her Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. (senate.gov)
  • The shortfall was largest among non-Hispanic Black or African American (Black) (77.9%) and non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN) (74.5%) persons, followed by non-Hispanic White (White) (66.6%) and Hispanic or Latino (Hispanic) (63.0%) persons, and was lowest among non-Hispanic Asian (Asian) (38.5%) and non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (NH/OPI) (43.7%) persons. (cdc.gov)
  • The armed standoff on the Pine Ridge Reservation - which lasted 71 days - between AIM members and law enforcement drew national news coverage, and gave the organization a forum to speak from that was directly broadcast into the living rooms of everyday Americans. (indianz.com)
  • In April, New York Activist Tony Herbert sarcastically referenced the Black Lives Matter organization in a video about 17-year-old Ta'Jae Warner, who was beaten to death in New York by "people that look just like her. (futuretopic.com)
  • And when I entered graduate school in History at the University of Michigan, I became a proud union activist in the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO). (thesocietypages.org)
  • A co-founder of the organization Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, based in the Flatbush neighborhood of south Brooklyn, home to a large West Indian immigrant population, Raoul's long career as an activist and organizer began when she answered a call from the Department of Justice seeking Kreyòl translators to help conduct asylum interviews for Haitian migrants passing through Guantánamo in early 1992. (ibw21.org)
  • The medal honors an individual or organization whose work has deepened the nation's understanding of the human experience, broadened citizens' engagement with history and literature or helped preserve and expand Americans' access to cultural resources. (indiajournal.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)
  • Since then, he has worked in advocacy roles and on political campaigns here in Austin, throughout Texas, and across the country including Beto O'Rourke and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). A local activist and volunteer, he has worked with the Texas Homeless Network, Austin Latino Coalition, and No On Prop B. He also serves on the advisory committee for the Travis County Democratic Party. (americankahani.com)
  • Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt. (senate.gov)
  • The publication dates for most of its more modern literature by U.S. authors peter out by the early 1960s (Ray Bradbury's 1963 novel Something Wicked This Way Comes , for instance) with only a small handful of more recent novels, such as the self-published, remarkably poorly written 2019 accelerationist novel Harassment Architecture by Mike Ma. (truthout.org)
  • In 1964, Means began to become more politically involved when he participated with his father and the group Indians of All Tribes in the occupation of Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay. (indianz.com)
  • His brother, Tecumseh , was a great orator and visionary and dreamed of a great Indian country of allied tribes ranging from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Their language became a lingua franca among numerous tribes, which along with their experience helped make them leaders in initiating and sustaining pan-Indian resistance to European and Euro-American expansion. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Oglala Lakota Russell Charles Means, longtime activist, actor, author, community organizer and sometimes musician, made his journey to the spirit world early on the morning of Oct. 22 at his home near Porcupine on the Pine Ridge Reservation. (indianz.com)
  • And, as an historian, I have studied past movements where this tyranny reared its ugly head, including the very founding of the United States of America, in which "democracy" was a process of genocide and exclusion. (fifthestate.org)
  • These groups have given India's military a bloody nose in Kashmir in the 21 years since the start of the armed struggle by Kashmiris against Indian occupation. (ahmedquraishi.com)
  • Having established that what they understand as American literary culture is innately and almost exclusively derived from Europe, the next thing their list does is reassert the narratives of invasion, resistance and expansion that have fueled the far right imagination for decades. (truthout.org)
  • Among the first cadre of African American people recruited to the USPHS Commissioned Corps in the 1960s. (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)
  • Four panelists, leaders in the Cincinnati activist community, were invited to speak. (onearthpeace.org)
  • We write this letter in a time of deep, continued emergency - an open letter to our community, fellow dominant-caste Indian Americans of Hindu descent. (browngirlmagazine.com)
  • As India Today reports, the portrait of Lord Ram and the magnificent Ram Temple to be constructed in Ayodhya dazzled across a giant billboard at the iconic Times Square in New York City, where members of the Indian community assembled in large numbers to commemorate the 'Bhoomi Poojan' performed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (madam360.com)
  • Neighbors , a series for KDLG (Dillingham, Alaska), "features conversations and reports on local public affairs issues, especially those affecting the American Indian community. (americanarchive.org)
  • In fact, throughout the novel, the real villains are less the migrants than the media, political and religious elites, as well as the hedonistic activists who advocate for the nameless, faceless, brown-skinned horde. (truthout.org)
  • A handful of young people started Occupy Wall Street in mid-September, as a protest against the banks and corporations that have grown rich while most Americans have grown poorer. (newpol.org)
  • The Occupy Wall Street Declaration published on September 30 is a remarkable catalog of the grievances of the American people, touching on every issue from the economic crisis to the wars abroad, to the looming environmental catastrophe. (newpol.org)
  • Recognized among TIME Magazine's 16 people fighting for a more equal America, Simran Jeet Singh is Senior Adviser for Equity and Inclusion at YSC Consulting and a Visiting Professor at Union Seminary. (google.com)
  • An Indian writer drawing inspiration from English history and English money says, ' Foolish people went mad simply at the rumour that cartridges were greased with cows' and pigs' fat. (transformative-applications.net)
  • Activists are compelled to answer every question (which often-times include personal questions about their friends, lovers, and other associations) and they are not allowed legal representation to be present at the hearing. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • American citizens in the colonies of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have no representation in the federal government and are unable to vote in national elections. (onearthpeace.org)
  • The celebration was organized by American Indian Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a culmination of Hindu organisations in the US. (madam360.com)
  • "There is no doubt that Ram is a revered figure in Hinduism, and respect for all religions is part of our commitment to pluralism," said Jawad Mohammed, General Secretary of the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC). (madam360.com)
  • I saw immediately that "Minnesota Nice" did not produce equal educational, housing or occupational outcomes for Black Minnesotans or for American Indians. (thesocietypages.org)
  • BLMC's official stance is against voting as a method for change and in favor of mass movements instead. (onearthpeace.org)
  • The first thing their list attempts to do is establish just what constitutes "American literature. (truthout.org)
  • Their understanding of modern American literature leaves no room for a Toni Morrison or a Leslie Marmon Silko, and their classics certainly have no place for a Frederick Douglass or a W.E.B. DuBois. (truthout.org)
  • Our nation was born in genocide, when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. (thenation.com)
  • The center networks with tribal councils in other parts of Massachusetts as well as other East Coast states. (wikipedia.org)
  • There have been numerous tribal newspapers, including the Navajo Times and the now out-of-print Carolina Indian Voice . (americanarchive.org)
  • Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange, one of the organizations that formed the Direct Action Network, finally clarifies her position (along with a welcome apology for statements she made regarding calling the police on black bloc activists). (fifthestate.org)
  • The Occupy activists have shown little interest in liberal organizations, the Democratic Party, political candidates, or liberal nostrums. (newpol.org)
  • Simran Jeet Singh joins Jerry on Episode 120 to share his story of being an Indian American of Sikh faith, his journey through academics into activism, and the legacy he wants to leave for future generations. (google.com)
  • Known as the National Day of Mourning, this annual event was sparked by Commonwealth of Massachusetts officials censoring a speech to be given by Frank James (Wamsutta), an Aquinnah Wampanoag, at the 350th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims. (journeyofhealing.net)
  • Today Tecumseh is revered as one of the greatest Indian warriors and political leaders, and a national hero in Canada. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Despite his employment in different educational institutions, his publications, and his political and academic networks, he remained a second row intellectual and political activist. (bvsalud.org)
  • The senseless death of George Floyd, an African American man, at the hands of a police officer has triggered a week of protest and outrage in cities across the country. (cambridgecollege.edu)
  • No longer were the issues facing Indian country something that could be swept under the rug - they were now a national problem that needed to be addressed. (indianz.com)
  • As an "ongoing initiative," The 1619 Project "aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative. (thenation.com)
  • She did not go to the grand jury hearing (which is itself a violation of the law), but instead she held a news conference exposing the governments abuse of the legal system to harass activists. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • The international dimension of the planning and preparations for the attacks is vast and full of leads that have been deliberately suppressed by the Indian and US governments. (ahmedquraishi.com)
  • By carefully recounting life stories of some of those who migrated, the author suggests that there was another side to the story of American Indian urbanization. (uncpress.org)
  • WASHINGTON - Pulitzer Prize winning Indian-American author is one of the 10 distinguished recipients of the 2014 National Humanities Medal, to be prsented by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony on September 10. (indiajournal.com)
  • Like many other Algonquians, the Shawnee generally joined forces with the French against the British during the conflicts of the French and Indian Wars . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The break-ins at the North American A.L.F. Supporters Group in Canada, and the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade's (CAFT) headquarters in Memphis were obviously politically motivated as the thieves stole information and equipment crucial to their operations, while leaving other expensive goods behind. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • For the next 19 months, the group occupied the island, hoping to reclaim the rock "in the name of all American Indians. (journeyofhealing.net)
  • Praise came fast, and then the backlash, especially against the claim that the nation's true founding should be dated not to the 1776 American Revolution but to 1619, when the first group of 20 to 30 enslaved Africans arrived in North America and were sold to Jamestown settlers. (thenation.com)
  • But a group of liberal historians reacted harshly as well, among them Princeton's Sean Wilentz, who, along with four other esteemed scholars-James McPherson, Gordon Wood, Victoria Bynum, and James Oakes-sent a letter to the Times demanding a retraction of the claim, made by Hannah-Jones, that "one of the primary" causes of the American Revolution was that colonists "wanted to protect the institution of slavery. (thenation.com)
  • Governors who ruled as a representative of a monarch: The abuses of these local tax collectors sparked outrage among peasants against British, The major immediate cause of the Great Rebellion Mutiny was, A rumor that rifle cartridges were greased with cow fat and pig fat, What group lost power as a result of the great rebellion, following was benefits of British rule in india, initial goal of the Indian Nationals congress. (transformative-applications.net)
  • Unfortunately, government and industry harassment of activists is real, and not the babblings of the overly-paranoid. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • The Indian government has its own suspicions but it too won't probe the Americans too hard on them beyond occasional murmurs. (ahmedquraishi.com)
  • At the time the program ended, many groups--from government leaders to Red Power activists--had already classified it as a failure, and scholars have subsequently positioned the program as evidence of America's enduring settler-colonial project. (uncpress.org)
  • 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)
  • By tradition, each Shawnee division had certain roles it performed on behalf of the entire tribe, although these customs were fading by the time they were recorded in writing by European-Americans and are now poorly understood. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The Urban Indian Experience in America. (wikipedia.org)
  • In her works of fiction, Lahiri has illuminated the Indian-American experience in. (indiajournal.com)
  • Activists have long hoped a respected academic would offer an objective, scientific justification for the defense by whites of their own ethno-racial interests. (amren.com)
  • The Shawnee became known for their widespread settlements and migrations and their frequent long-distance visits to other Indian groups. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • While the U.S. body politic flounders to tease out the exceptional from the troublingly normal in Trump's America, those inclined to even the most critical forms of pre-2016 nostalgia might forget that for countless historically marginalized groups, the United States has long functioned more or less the same way. (ibw21.org)
  • One is the person presented by the Indian police as the lone surviving terrorist. (ahmedquraishi.com)
  • A member of the far-right militia, Boogaloo Bois, walks next to protestors demonstrating outside Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Metro Division 2 just outside of downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 29, 2020. (truthout.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)
  • Encyclopedia of American Indian History. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Haitian internment, which constitutes the first time GTMO was used for the purposes of mass incarceration, provides a disturbingly familiar reminder that while Trump's policies must not be dismissed or normalized, they do not represent a break from history. (ibw21.org)
  • How did Pachacutis three uses of farmland s At the same time, an Indian sepoy killed two British officers at Barrackpore, when he was forced to use greased cartridges. (transformative-applications.net)
  • Washington is making itself party to the case simply because one or two Americans became targets of circumstance. (ahmedquraishi.com)
  • 206 North Washington Street. (cdc.gov)
  • Wood and Oakes, especially, objected to Hannah-Jones's argument that the American Revolution was fought to defend slavery, and Wilentz, in a comment to The Atlantic , took exception to her remark that African Americans fought for their rights "largely alone. (thenation.com)
  • In response an Occupy Oakland meeting of 3,000 called for a general strike, a call that led to mass demonstrations, the closing of the Port of Oakland and of many schools. (newpol.org)
  • On May 4, far right personalities Milo Yiannopoulos and Michelle Malkin published what they call their "America First" reading list as a Google Doc that they then promoted through their social media accounts. (truthout.org)
  • In the late 80's when direct action - both civil disobedience and A.L.F actions - were at their height, the Feds attacked our cause by serving numerous activists with grand jury subpoenas. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • We should not accept that what we have witnessed over the past week is normal for America. (cambridgecollege.edu)