https://kpax.com/news/crime-and-courts/ ... can-cases/
Federal court hears suit claiming FBI conducted unfair investigations in Native American cases
https://www.indianz.com/News/2018/12/11 ... ope-to.asp
Native Americans hope to protect ancestral sites threatened by multibillion-dollar copper mine
https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday ... 6etH8G08w/
Many of us remember the decades of cancer deaths and cover-ups the Navajo Nation endured during the Cold War uranium boom. The risks today are different, but the story is the same: big mining interests want to cash in on minerals under some ground they don’t own, and the rest of us are going to pay the price.
https://troubledwater.news21.com/native ... ore-money/
Native American tribes fight for clean water and more money
https://psmag.com/social-justice/shrink ... us-freedom
How Shrinking Bears Ears Is an Attack on Native Americans' Religious Freedom
Many native peoples have land-based religions, and the Trump administration's moves to open sacred areas to resource exploitation threatens the free practice of their faith.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way ... ian-tribes
U.S. Government To Pay $492 Million To 17 American Indian Tribes
https://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/20 ... americans/
How Federally Funded Health Care is Failing Native Americans
The Indian Health Service’s severe underfunding and pervasive problems represent a broken system that is failing the Native American population and that symbolizes our country’s continued mistreatment of Native Americans as a whole. American citizens are suffering. They are indeed the very same population from whom colonists once stole land and abused until eventually promising “affordable” healthcare as compensation. Legislatures have neglected to face the problems within the Indian Health Service program that plague Native Americans around the country.
https://www.medicaldaily.com/native-ame ... ble-372442
Healthcare On Native American Reservations Is 'Horrifying:' In The US, Who You Are Affects How You're Treated
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/arti ... le-doctor/
Wall Street Journal reporters Christopher Weaver, Dan Frosch and Gabe Johnson spent more than two years investigating the Indian Health Service, the federal agency that provides health care for Native Americans. In collaboration with FRONTLINE, they found that the agency employed a number of problem doctors, including Dr. Stanley Patrick Weber, a pedophile who — despite the suspicions of co-workers up and down the chain of command — continued treating children for more than two decades.
https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday ... QAj9RgnfQ/
United Nations Human Rights Committee questions the United States on civil and political rights
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj ... e-legal-p/
Native American Attorneys Systematically Excluded in the Legal Profession
https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.20/tribal ... ate-groups
Because “hate” is hard to define, anti-American Indian groups have gone mostly unnoticed in a culture built around subtle, consistent aggressions against Indigenous peoples. McAdam and others say this helps normalize their message in political discourse and opens easy lines of attack that are coded in legalese and rely on stereotypes. But ultimately, it damages the human rights of Indigenous peoples: their lands, histories and bodies. “It’s something we face every day,” Pease-Lopez says. “You almost have to have an outsider come in to say, ‘This isn’t normal.’ ”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/ ... ee79936f55
The Catholic Church’s shameful history of Native American abuses
https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/re ... -religions
During the same era, Congress funded the creation of the Indian boarding school system, which forced children to attend Christian church services and severely punished the practice of traditional religions.
http://pluralism.org/religions/native-a ... americans/
Often the violation of religious freedom was far more subtle. At each reservation, authorities distributed treaty payments—in the form of food, clothing, livestock, and farming capital—at their own discretion. They developed a system of rewards and punishments in which Native people, sometimes starving from lack of resources, were forced to give up the public display of their traditions simply to survive. Public expressions of ritual and belief had to go underground, even in cases where treaty agreements stipulated the freedom to practice traditional religious ways.
http://www.huycares.org/blog/huy-oppose ... -book-ban/
Used book programs provide a cheap and effective means for prisoners to receive education. The current ban, which prevents acceptance into prison facilities of used books from any non-profit vendors, will limit the volume and variety of books available to prisoners. Removing access to books will only further disadvantage Native American prisoners, in violation of their constitutional and human rights.
https://psmag.com/social-justice/a-bord ... ommunities
How a Border Wall Would Separate Indigenous Communities
Tens of thousands of people belonging to U.S. Native tribes live in the Mexican states and routinely cross the border to participate in cultural events.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opin ... -americans
Without warning, our pow-wow was raided by an undercover federal agent. He stopped our ceremony and violated our sacred circle. Children were crying and running to hide. He confiscated my feathers, which had been handed down over generations, and threatened me with criminal prosecution, fines, and imprisonment.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... ch/504944/
Native Americans who were part of a little-known Mormon program from 1947 to the mid-1990s share much of the same story. Year after year, missionaries or other members of the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints approached these families and invited their children into Mormon foster homes. As part of the Mormon Indian Student Placement Program, Native American children would live with Mormon families during the school year, an experience designed to “provide educational, spiritual, social, and cultural opportunities in non-Indian community life,” according to the Church. Typically, the Mormon foster families were white and financially stable. Native American children who weren’t already Mormon were baptized. And some of them now claim they were sexually abused.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/justice/ ... an-history
Editor’s note: It may seem like papal statements from 500 years ago are ancient history. But Native American activists and scholars insist that Catholicism's past continues to affect the present. Papal bulls from the 1400s condoned the conquest of the Americas and other lands inhabited by indigenous people. The papal documents led to an international norm called the Doctrine of Discovery, which dehumanized non-Christians and legitimized their suppression by nations around the world, including by the United States. Now Native Americans say the church helped commit genocide and refuses to come to terms with it
https://www.cracked.com/article_24500_5 ... erica.html
Basically, any non-Native can walk onto a reservation, commit a crime of their choosing, walk out, and indigenous authorities are powerless to do anything. Don't believe us? Watch the Chief Justice of the Cherokee Supreme Court tell Samantha Bee that he can do 100 percent of nothing if she were to walk onto Cherokee land and punch his mother in the face. That's because, when the perpetrator is non-Native and the victim is indigenous, only a federal officer can make an arrest, and since federal officers don't care to pass through tribal land except to lose their paycheck at a craps table, those perpetrators are basically immune, on account of there being no one around with the authority to arrest them.