Native Americans – Page 46

The forgotten rebellion of the Black Seminole Nation

February 11, 2014 By Andrea Perkins

Many Native American Nations formed partnerships and deep relationships with African slaves. Both groups fought for freedom and the right to exist in peace, away from the colonizing forces.

Feb. 14 marches for missing Native women unite action with compassion

February 10, 2014 By Andrea Perkins

In March 2010, the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) created a database of information they gathered covering 582 cases of missing and murder native women and girls.

Keystone XL pipeline and the jobs controversy

February 7, 2014 By Blake Skylar

XL backers' arguments that the project is a jobs provider are being disputed. Many, including some labor activists, feel that the pipeline issue does not need to be divisive, and that they share the same underlying...

Carter Camp, warrior for Native rights, dies at 72

January 22, 2014 By Albert Bender

After decades of struggle, Camp died Dec. 27, 2013 on tribal land in White Eagle, Okla. He was 72.

Today in labor history: FDR establishes Thanksgiving holiday

November 26, 2013 By Special to People’s World

President George Washington became the first president to proclaim a Thanksgiving holiday, when, at the request of Congress, he proclaimed November 26 as a day of national thanksgiving for the U.S. Constitution.