The Anglo-American settlers’ violent break from Britain, from 1775 to 1783, paralleled a decade of their search and destroy annihilation of Delaware, Cherokee, Muskogee, Seneca, Mohawk, Shawnee, Miami and other nations’ villages and fields, slaughtering the residents without distinction of age or gender and overrunning the boundaries of the 13 colonies into unceded Native American territories.
Author: Teresa Walrod
Calls of Justice for Aboriginal Women Echo Down Canada’s Highway of Tears
From the New York Times:
Dozens of Canadian women and girls, most of them indigenous, have disappeared or been murdered near Highway 16, a remote ribbon of asphalt that bisects British Columbia and snakes past thick forests, logging towns and impoverished Indian reserves on its way to the Pacific Ocean. So many women and girls have vanished or turned up dead along one stretch of the road that residents call it the Highway of Tears.
More HERE.
How the Seminole Tribe came to rock the Hard Rock empire
Founded in 1971 as memorabilia-filled cafe hangouts for cool-seeking baby boomers, Orlando-based Hard Rock International was purchased by the tribe in 2007 from British gaming and leisure company Rank Group Plc. For the Seminoles, the nearly $1 billion investment — one of the largest purchases ever by an American Indian tribe — was a play at going global.
Read more: HERE
Seminoles try to stop publication of gambling-trial document
The Seminole Tribe of Florida, owner of Florida’s largest casinos, is trying to get a federal judge to block the publication of information related to a trial that could upend their businesses and to seal a key deposition until it can be redacted.
Here.
Militants bulldoze through Native American archeological site, share video rifling through artifacts
4,000 artifacts stored at Oregon refuge held by armed group
From the AP:
“Thousands of archaeological artifacts — and maps detailing where more can be found — are kept inside the national wildlife refuge buildings currently being held by an armed group of protestors angry over federal land policy.”
Article is HERE.
‘Y’all Qaeda’ Militia Musters at Oregon Bird Sanctuary on Land Claimed by the Paiutes
By Steve Russell on The Rag Blog:
“When I was an active trial court judge in Texas, I had a lot of contact with the posse comitatus, understood as a self-directed band of gun-toters rather than the common law “hue and cry” raised by a law enforcement officer to pursue a felon. They also call themselves “militia,” pointing at the Second Amendment for authority and conveniently overlooking the words “well-regulated” that modify “militia” in that document.”
HERE.
Navajo Blame EPA Inaction for Suicides
From The Daily Beast:
“For most Americans, the third week of December is about wrapping up Christmas shopping and prepping for a whirlwind of family gatherings. But for the leaders of the Navajo Nation, it’s about something much heavier: suicide prevention.”
Article is HERE.
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