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Guest Opinion. On November 19, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that, as a result of the government shutdown, it would not release its October jobs report—the first time in the report’s 77-year history that it would not be published. As a result, businesses, state and local governments, and the Federal Reserve (which will decide this month whether to adjust interest rates) are now left without a clear view of the nation’s economic situation.
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Opinion. During last year’s Idaho election, a Republican state senator lost his composure when a candidate forum turned to the topic of racism.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. The first Thanksgiving I remember, I was in the second grade. I didn’t know my teacher had asked my dad to come talk to the class. When he walked in, I was embarrassed to see him there. He said that white people came and didn’t know how to survive on this land, so we helped them out, then celebrated with a meal. It was a story I’d heard in school before, but not at home.
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- By Tommy Orange
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Guest Opinion. Traditional American Thanksgiving acknowledges a feast shared between Pilgrims and Indigenous Native people. We know our people assisted with the early immigration process of those people arriving from Europe because they were pitiful, hungry and starving. We were kind and loving people who helped them. However, once they got a foothold, they tried to completely extinguish us, stole our lands and now we are supposed to be thankful. This runs similar to the “Redskin” mascot Issue or the “Columbus Day” celebration of genocide. Today, we are supposed to celebrate Thanksgiving, which is part of the “Broken Circle” corporate holidays.
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Opinion. As Congress weighed releasing the Epstein files last week, the Trump administration quietly announced plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education — shifting programs that serve Native students to other agencies without consulting a single tribe.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. During Native American Heritage Month, and just ahead of Thanksgiving, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced on Nov. 18 that “the Trump administration is taking bold action to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states.” On the surface, this may have some appeal, especially given that the U.S. education system was originally designed to allow local control. But in the not-so-distant past, “local control” meant a lack of opportunity—and, often, outright discrimination—against people of color like me. I was a public-school failure who dropped out at 15. With 12 graduate-level letters behind my name—and another three for my GED—I’m proof our people can accomplish anything when afforded educational opportunity.
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- By Aaron Payment, Ed.D.
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Guest Opinion. If you live within the Cherokee Nation and see a rural transit vehicle, Cherokee Nation along with some great partners helped make it possible. It is a great investment.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Guest Opinion. As the vestigial frost from a northern-plains winter gave way to a new spring, a father and his family were forcibly removed from their home. While it may be assumed this removal was for something resembling property foreclosure, it was not. Rather, it was one of many forced removals and relocations of Native Americans by the U.S. that utilized cruel displacement from known and familiar lifeways, killing many through sickness and exertion.
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- By Kitcki Carroll
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Opinion. Ken Burns, the award-winning filmmaker whose work has defined how Americans understand the Civil War, baseball, jazz, and the Vietnam War, is back this week on PBS with a new six-part documentary, The American Revolution.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. This time of year, poultry gets a lot of attention, particularly turkeys. So I’ve been thinking about how we might do better than industrial farming, which is not only cruel but also creates conditions that make an outbreak of deadly disease inevitable, as demonstrated by recent avian flu outbreaks and the massive culling of birds.
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- By Professor Victoria Sutton