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Federal Indian Boarding School System Intentionally Sought to Destroy Native Families

By Native News Online on May 23, 2022   Featured, General News  

Federal Indian Boarding School System Intentionally Sought to Destroy Native Families

The 106-page Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report released on May 11 provides a glimpse into the deliberate intention of the federal government to disrupt the Native American family structure through assimilation. The report says the government’s plan involved the permanent breaking of family ties. A section of the report, Section 7: Federal Indian Boarding School […]

Biden’s Free Home COVID Tests Out of Reach for Many Native Americans

By Cecily Hilleary | VOA News on Jan 29, 2022   Featured, Health, National, National/World  

Biden’s Free Home COVID Tests Out of Reach for Many Native Americans

WASHINGTON — A U.S. government initiative to ship half a billion free COVID-19 tests to Americans will struggle to reach one of the communities that has been hardest hit by the pandemic — Native Americans living on rural reservations. The administration launched a website — COVIDTests.gov — on January 19, which links to an online U.S. […]

January 14th, 1869

By Alaska Native News on Jan 14, 2022   Featured, This Day in Alaskan History  

January 14th, 1869

 

December 19th, 1903

By Alaska Native News on Dec 19, 2021   Featured, This Day in Alaskan History  

December 19th, 1903

 

The First Thanksgiving: A Temporary Peace between Puritans and Tribes

By Cecily Hilleary | VOA News on Nov 25, 2021   Holidays  

The First Thanksgiving: A Temporary Peace between Puritans and Tribes

WASHINGTON – In the fall of 1621, English settlers at Plymouth marked their first harvest and began stockpiling food for the winter: cod, bass and other fish, venison, wild turkey and duck that could dried or salted to supplement plentiful Indian corn. Tisquantum, commonly known as Squanto, was a member of the Patuxet band of the […]

October 4th, 1911

By Alaska Native News on Oct 4, 2021   Featured, This Day in Alaskan History  

October 4th, 1911

 

Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence and MMIW

By Liz Hill | Stronghearts on May 3, 2021   Featured, General News  

Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence and MMIW

Centuries of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Native American cultures, languages, lands and lives were all systematically and forcibly taken through colonization. Our ancestors endured genocide and assimilation for more than five centuries. Today, there is ample evidence that genocide still occurs through the inhumane conditions on reservations, the jurisdictional issues that prevent the prosecution […]

New Data from FDA Means Full Speed Ahead with Johnson & Johnson Vaccine in Alaska Natives and American Indians

By Bruce L Davidson MD MPH on Mar 20, 2021   Featured, Op/Ed and the Editor  

New Data from FDA Means Full Speed Ahead with Johnson & Johnson Vaccine in Alaska Natives and American Indians

Bruce L. Davidson MD, MPH co-led development of the NIH oral rotavirus vaccine, is Past President of the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association, and is a public health and pulmonary physician in the Seattle area. On Friday March 19, 2021, FDA released new data with a breakdown of location for the 18 American Indians/Alaska Natives in […]

Sex Traffickers Target Native American Children in South Dakota

By Cecily Hilleary | VOA News on Mar 20, 2021   Featured, National, National/World  

Sex Traffickers Target Native American Children in South Dakota

WASHINGTON – Note: This report contains language or content that some may find disturbing or offensive.     “I was very young when I was introduced to a pedophile,” said Lisa, 41, a survivor of sex trafficking who asked that her real name not be used. Raised on an Indian reservation in South Dakota, she cites a family history of sexual abuse.    “My mother was sent […]

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