Native Americans
Nashville’s Indigenous community honors AIM warrior Dennis Banks
November 17, 2017An assembly of Native people and others honored the great warrior for Indigenous rights, Dennis Banks, with a celebration of his life entitled the “Longest Walk” in Nashville.
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Native American activist Dennis Banks dies at age 80
November 2, 2017“I want to be remembered as somebody who stood up when it was time to stand up. Nothing more."
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Indigenous rights and environmental rights overlap in Tar Creek, Oklahoma
November 2, 2017“Our existence is the resistance,” says Jim Wikel of the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe.
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Nashville celebrated its first Indigenous People’s Day this year
October 17, 2017The city joins a host of other municipalities across the nation that have passed similar recognitions recently.
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It’s time to retire Columbus Day for good
October 6, 2017Let us forget the monster who started it all, and throw Columbus in the dust heap of history where he belongs.
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