cultural resources

Full List of Banned Books and Other Details re: TUSD

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Here.

And here.

Tucson Schools Ban Shakespeare and “Rethinking Columbus”

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Here are the details from Salon.

Our prior post on Arizona’s war on TUSD’s ethnic studies programs is here.

Fighting Sioux Proponents Barred from Collecting Signatures at Engelstad

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Here is the opinion.

News coverage via Pechanga.

NYTs: Uneasy Neighbors in a Gothic Southern Tale

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here. There’s a Cherokee angle of sorts in all this.

Ninth Circuit Oral Argument Audio and Video in Karuk Tribe v. USFS (En Banc)

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Here is the video, and here is the audio.

Here are the materials.

Ninth Circuit Oral Argument Audio in Save the Peaks Coalition v. USFS

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Here.

WaPo Article on Ongoing Legal Dispute over Washington Redskins Name and Logo

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Here.

Navajo Nation Sues Federal Government over Remains Taken from Canyon de Chelly Decades Ago

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Here is the complaint in Navajo Nation v. United States Department of Interior (D. Ariz.):

2011-12-19 Complaint

And three news articles covering the suit — here, here, and here.

Hawaii Supreme Court Affirms State Law Prosecution for Trafficking in American Indian Artifacts

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Here is the opinion in State v. Taylor. Also, a concurring and dissenting opinion. And the COA opinion.

 

Occupy Oakland’s Teepee

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Here.

Huh?

ETA–a post by Tequila Sovereign, who has been writing about the Occupy Oakland movement since it started.