Native Americans

As a Native-American, I have mixed feelings about Thanksgiving »

By Mary Annette Pember, November 25, 2009

This Thanksgiving, as an Ojibwe woman, I will grieve for what Europeans did to native peoples here. But I will also give thanks for life.read more

Obama’s green plan must include Native Americans »

By Winona LaDuke, January 31, 2009

A green jobs economy and a new, forward-thinking energy and climate policy will transform tribal and other rural economies and provide the basis for a robust and sustainable recovery.read more

Thanksgiving without the history, please. »

By Mark Anthony Rolo, November 26, 2008

As an American Indian, I can’t think of anything more depressing than sitting around the dinner table tracing the legacy of a holiday that began with a questionable decision to save a band of starving pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.read more

Trail of Tears was trail of betrayal »

By Mark Anthony Rolo, May 22, 2008

The Trail of Tears began 170 years ago this week. We should recall it not as an aberration but as a logical outgrowth of an inhumane policy.read more

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