Albert Bender

Albert Bender is a Cherokee activist, historian, political columnist, and freelance reporter for Native and Non-Native publications. He is currently writing a legal treatise on Native American sovereignty and working on a book on the war crimes committed by the U.S. against the Maya people in the Guatemalan civil war He is a consulting attorney on Indigenous sovereignty, land restoration, and Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) issues and a former staff attorney with Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma (LSEO) in Muskogee, Okla.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Albert Bender

U.S.

American Indians oppose glorification of Andrew Jackson
January 26, 2015 By Albert Bender
Native Americans are oppposing the campaign of local historians and an organization to raise the infamous Indian killer, Andrew Jackson to the status of a "great president."
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Opinion

History shows that joblessness among Native Americans can be lowered
September 22, 2014 By Albert Bender
During the 1930s, thousands of Native Americans were employed on reservations under a separate division of the CCC in developing natural resources on reservations across the country.
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Opinion

Black and Brown brought together by Ferguson police killing
September 4, 2014 By Albert Bender
But for the protests, this would not have received news coverage. The brutality is indicative of the treatment of people of color not just in the U.S. but hemisphere-wide.
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Opinion

Guatemalan children at U.S. border there because of U.S. backed genocide
August 19, 2014 By Albert Bender
The arms used in this genocide were supplied to the Guatemalan military by successive U.S. administrations beginning with that of Ronald Reagan.
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Opinion

Deporter in chief: Not the Obama I voted for
July 30, 2014 By Albert Bender
Obama is even to the right of many Republicans in this crisis. Case in point, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey has indicated he supports many of the children being housed in that state.
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Opinion

South Dakota’s genocide against Native Americans continues nonstop
June 9, 2014 By Albert Bender
The genocide being perpetrated by South Dakota against Native Americans continues unabated. This is beyond maddening.
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Opinion

Checks in Native American settlement delayed again
June 2, 2014 By Albert Bender
More than 490,000 Indians are still waiting for settlement monies due them from the federal government. It's a disgrace.
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Environment

The Lakota vow to die rather than let the KXL pipeline pass
May 15, 2014 By Albert Bender
The native nations of the Dakotas have already seen the deadly effects of the "pipelines of death" on the native communities of western Canada.
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