Native Americans

Today in labor history: Homestead Act signed, for good and bad

May 20, 2013 By Special to People’s World

President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. It was a freedom opportunity for many, but also resulted in massive displacement of Native Americans.

Just outside of Vegas, coal plant gambles with lives

March 21, 2013 By Blake Skylar

For years, the NV Energy-owned Reid Gardner coal plant just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada has been poisoning the Moapa tribe of Paiute Native Americans.

Rare disease suddenly arises on Navajo Reservation

March 6, 2013 By Albert Bender

A rare disorder, characterized by some authorities as genetic, has abruptly surfaced on the sprawling Navajo Reservation in the Southwest.

Idle No More: Native movement sweeps Canada and U.S.

January 25, 2013 By Albert Bender

Native communities from coast to coast in the U.S. have embraced this upheaval.

Native American joblessness is slow genocide

July 24, 2012 By Albert Bender

Small wonder that U.S. Native peoples are beset with a blistering, hideous panoply of social and health ills hardly seen elsewhere in this world. Unemployment kills!