Save the Date: Who Belongs? From Tribal Kinship to Native Nation Citizenship to Disenrollment
Cherokee Nation Files Suit Against United States
From the Press Release:
The Cherokee Nation filed suit against the federal government today, on claims the United States mismanaged the tribe’s trust fund. The suit asks the U.S. government to provide an accurate accounting of the Cherokee Trust Fund, which includes property, land, funds and other resources the government may have mismanaged over decades.
Press Release is HERE
NYTs: “A Wrenching Choice for Alaska Towns in the Path of Climate Change”
Here. Incredible visuals.
Water Protector Legal Collective Sues Morton Cty. Sheriff Kirchmeier over Police Brutaility/Excessive Force at Standing Rock
Update in Suit against Pipeline Company in Kiowa Country
Here are the materials in Davilla v. Enable Midstream Partners (W.D. Okla.):
14-davilla-motion-to-dismiss-counterclaim
28-davilla-reply-in-support-of-14
31-emp-motion-on-damages-and-rules-of-decision
32-davilla-motion-for-summary-j-on-liability
38-davilla-reply-in-support-of-32
Prior post here.
Army Corps Letter and Press Release, Standing Rock Press Release, Letter to the President from Former Appointees
Here are links to the various documents regarding the Oceti Sakowin camp and the Dakota Access Pipeline:
Letter from Army Corps
Feds Acquire Indiana Land in Trust for Pokagon Band
Here:
DAPL Protest Poetry & Art Sought
Award-winning Standing Rock Sioux poet Tiffany Midge is soliciting poetry and artwork protesting DAPL for publication in broadsides for Broadside Press.
The full call is below:
http://broadsidedpress.org/responses/2016dapl/
Broadsided Special Features: Responses: Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) Protests at Standing Rock, 2016
At Broadsided Press, we believe that art and literature inspire and demonstrate the vitality and depth of our connection with the world. Art operates beyond the news cycle, connects surface information to deeper truths, and honors and what it attends.
We had to speak out—we had to make a space for you to speak out as artists and writers—on the continuing resistance at Standing Rock to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Send us poems, short-shorts, and artwork in response to Standing Rock. Full guidelines for length etc are available on our website.
With the help of guest editor Tiffany Midge, we will bring your work into broadsides for people to consider and share. Each broadside will feature the work of one visual artist and one literary artist, the combinations thereof selected and designed by the editors.
Submissions by those involved with the action (you are free to define what this means) are free.
DEADLINE: January 10, 2017
PUBLICATION: On or around February 1, 2017
Tiffany Midge’s poetry collection The Woman Who Married a Bear (University of New Mexico Press) won the Kenyon Review’s Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry. She is a humor columnist for Indian Country Today and an assistant poetry editor for The Rumpus. Her work is featured in McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Waxwing, Okey-Pankey, and Moss. She is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux (Hunkpapa Lakota). Follow her on Twitter @TiffanyMidge
Peggy Fontenot Challenge to Oklahoma Art Sales Act
Here is the complaint in Fontenot v. Pruitt (W.D. Okla.):
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz: “The Miseducation of Native American Students”
In Education Week, here.
An excerpt:
While distortions and myths of Native American culture plague many schools, textbooks often fail to mention Native history after the 19th century. In a 2015 study, scholars Antonio Castro, Ryan Knowles, Sarah Shear, and Gregory Soden examined the state standards for teaching Native American history and culture in all 50 states and found that 87 percent of references to American Indians are in a pre-1900s context.
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