Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Native American'
Sexual Violence Is Tearing Native American Communities Apart
by Lauren Wolfe and Lauren Chief Elk, Guardian, UK - One in three Native American women report they have been raped. More needs to be done to bring perpetrators to justice....
In the Shadow of Wounded Knee
by Alexandra Fuller, National Geographic, USA - After 150 years of broken promises, the Oglala Lakota people of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota are nurturing their tribal customs, language, and beliefs. A rare, intimate portrait shows their resilience...
Same-Sex Marriage Brings Healing to Me—and My Tribe
by Madeline Ostrander, Yes!, USA - Heather Purser set out to win gay marriage rights within the Suquamish Tribe and found herself on a personal journey toward self-acceptance....
Navajo Community Banks on Proposed Solar Array
by Susan Montoya Bryan, Native American Times, USA - With tens of millions of acres held in trust for tribes, experts say Indian Country has the potential to supply more than four times the nation’s electricity needs with solar. Wind...
Re-Matriation of the Truth
by Frieda Werden, WINGS, Canada - Dr. Barbara Alice Mann is a well known scholar of native American culture and a member of the Bear Clan Seneca. She describes the basis and origin of the "matri-sophic" gift-economy, consensus-driven culture of...
Henry Red Cloud: Solar Warrior for Native America
by Talli Nauman, Yes!, USA - “Our ancestors made a treaty with the U.S. government,” Red Cloud recounts. But they also made “a pact with the Creator for seven generations”—hearkening to a well-known prophecy that they would suffer if they...
Elouise Cobell's Accounting Coup
by Julia Whitty, Mother Jones, USA - A profile of the late Blackfeet woman who successfully sued the federal government for billions on behalf of ripped-off Native Americans....
Rethinking Green Jobs on the Rez
by Kari Lydersen, Working In These Times, USA - Native American lands in the west – from the Dakotas to Arizona – are sometimes referred to as the Saudi Arabia of solar and wind potential. Some Native American groups have...
Should the U.S. Apologize?
by Mordecia Specktor, The Circle, USA - American Indian proponents of the apology bill point out that the deep anger still felt by American Indians over their historical mistreatment at the hands of government officials – forced removals, massacres, broken...
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