Indians 101

American Indian Youth Suffering Due to Sequestration

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Ojibwa for Native American Netroots
May 3, 2013 - 9:40am
American Indian Youth Suffering Due to Sequestration
While people in Congress are concerned about the impact of the sequester on people who fly in airplanes and who visit the White House, they have no concern for Indian young people who have never flown in an airplane and who will never visit the White House because they are trapped in the cycle of poverty.

Attorneys Claim Judge Was Wrong to Deny Indian Election Offices

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Ojibwa for Native American Netroots
March 29, 2013 - 9:30am
Attorneys Claim Judge Was Wrong to Deny Indian Election Offices
Civil rights attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department contend a federal judge wrongly denied a request to establish satellite election offices for American Indians on three Montana reservations.

Brief History of the English and Indian Populations in ME

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Ojibwa for Native American Netroots
November 30, 2012 - 2:00pm
In 1606, guided by the Discovery Doctrine which declared that Christian nations had the right to conquer and rule all non-Christian nations, England gave a Royal Charter to the Virginia Company to develop a market in the New World for English commerce and for "Propagating of Christian Religion to such people, as yet live in darkness." The charter characterized Indians as living "in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God."

Traditional Whaling Continues Along the US Pacific Coast

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Ojibwa for Native American Netroots
November 30, 2012 - 11:30am
The area along the Pacific Coast north of California and between the Cascade Mountains and the ocean is the home to many Indian nations who traditionally based their economy on the use of sea coast and river ecological resources. This is an area which stretches from the Tlingit homelands in Alaska to the Tolowa homelands in northern California.