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Opinion. In late October 2023, after the Road to Healing tour's stop at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage, around 500 Alaska Natives gathered to witness the raising of a healing totem pole, created to honor those who attended Indian boarding schools.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion.Language connects us to our ancestors, our identity and our place in the world. For Cherokee Nation, preserving and revitalizing our unique language is a sacred duty. With every word of Cherokee spoken or written, we reclaim another piece of what it means to be Cherokee.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Guest Opinion. President Biden earlier this month announced he would turn the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School into the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument. But it will be the incoming Trump Administration that oversees this new national monument’s creation and management. This is disconcerting because, in 2017, one of the first steps taken by the first Trump Administration was to shrink two national monuments, one of which—Bears Ears National Monument in Utah—was the first national monument created through the work of an inter-tribal coalition of Native nations.
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- By Robert Maxim
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Guest. Opinion. For many decades, the United States attempted to destroy the proud culture of Native American nations. One of the darkest aspects of this campaign played out at Native American boarding schools throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Thousands of Native children suffered abuse, neglect and cultural erasure in these institutions nationwide. Many never returned home, and some remain missing to this day.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Guest Opinion. For nearly 140 years, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has been petitioning the United States government for full and unconditional recognition as a Federally recognized Indian tribe. An injustice the Lumbee people do not want to see carried on any longer. The time is now to bring the Lumbee into the full guarantees of government-to-government relations promised by the United States Constitution. The Lumbee Fairness Act will modify the Lumbee Act, passed in 1956 during the era of “Indian Termination”, and place our Tribe on equal footing with other federally recognized tribes and end our status as second-class Native people.
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- By John L. Lowery
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Opinion. During the opening general session of the annual National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) in late October, NCAI President Mark Macarro, chairman of the Pechanga Band of Indians, shared the story of being among several prominent Native Americans invited to fly on Air Force One with President Joe Biden as he traveled to Phoenix to issue an apology for the U.S. government’s role in federal Indian boarding schools in late October.
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- By Levi Rickert
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In winning the popular vote and crushing the electoral college, Donald Trump won Indian Country.
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- By Jeffrey L. Grubbe, former chairman, Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
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Guest Opinion. Each holiday season as Cherokees gather with family and friends for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other observances, there is one enduring theme: Cherokees giving generously to others. This season, consider supporting the Cherokee Nation At-Large Mutual Assistance Inc (CNALMA) by sending a donation.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Between 2000 and 2013, the consumption of ultra-processed products grew by more than 25% and fast food consumption grew almost 40% in Latin America. More than a decade on, from this rapid change in the region’s foodscape, we are seeing the alarming impact this has had on the health and well-being of the region. Indigenous communities have been particularly hard hit as their traditional food systems have been overshadowed by relentless marketing for processed foods and government-led policies and programs that popularize these foods in everyday life.
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- By Myrna Cunningham
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Guest Opinion. As Indian Country looks toward the arrival of a second Trump administration, it is critical to reflect on what this leadership might mean for tribal nations. Drawing on the policies and actions of the first Trump administration, Native communities may find both opportunities and significant challenges ahead. The landscape of federal-tribal relations under this administration is likely to be complex, necessitating vigilance and strategic advocacy to ensure tribal sovereignty and priorities are upheld.
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- By Kevin Allis & Lycia Ortega