Michigan Executive Office of the Governor sent this bulletin at 12/06/2022 04:04 PM EST FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 6, 2022 Contact: Press@Michigan.gov Gov. Whitmer Attends State-Tribal Summit in Sault Ste. Marie, Appoints First Tribal Citizen Ever to Michigan Court of Appeals Governor meets leaders from every tribe to continue collaboration on shared priorities, makes historic appointment to second-highest court in Michigan LANSING, Mich. – Today, Governor […]…
Tag: First People
collage — modern bison
A few weeks ago, while learning more about First Peoples and the American Bison that I had an idea. In my collage cutout box with people are a million images of models with picture perfect hair, all made up, invariably gorgeous, all selling something. I started to think this is what the Indigenous tribes were…
Court of Federal Claims Dismisses Bad Men Clause Suit over Sexual Abuse Perpetrated by Stanley Weber — Turtle Talk
This is one of those cases where you wish you were in a nightmare and could wake up from it. It is about a known pedophile that abused and exploited children at a health clinic for over 20 years. The pedophile was eventually charged and convicted for some of the abuses years later and now…
dVerse and earthweal OLW 107– Sparrowlet Form — Lakota Lament
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, the winding streams with tangled growth, as ‘wild’. Only to the white man was nature a ‘wilderness’ and only to him was it ‘infested’ with ‘wild’ animals and ‘savage’ people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded…
Actions Related to Indian Boarding Schools — Turtle Talk
Yesterday’s National Day of Remembrance for U.S. Indian Boarding Schools came with two developments. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Sharice Davids, and Rep. Tom Cole reintroduced a bipartisan bill to establish a Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies. The bill text is available here. In addition, Interior issued a press release announcing that […]…
United Nations committee asks U.S. to investigate possible Line 3 treaty violations — Rise Up Times
This would be precedent setting. We need that kind of precedent. In Michigan, we are fighting Line 5 running under the Great Lakes right now. “If the violations are verified by the United Nations, the letter says it would be a breach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,…
“How Native students fought back against abuse and assimilation at US boarding schools” [from The Conversation] — Turtle Talk
“How Native students fought back against abuse and assimilation at US boarding schools” [from The Conversation] — Turtle Talk
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