Albert Bender

Albert Bender is a Cherokee activist, historian, political columnist, and freelance reporter. 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.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Albert Bender

Opinion

Suicide sweeping Indian Country is genocide
May 18, 2015 By Albert Bender
There must be an end to this poverty and racist-spawned crisis.
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U.S.

South Dakota American Indians win in landmark child welfare case
April 14, 2015 By Albert Bender
Many here say the federal government should, as it did in the South in the1950's, send in the federal troops. Let it be Indian troops.
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Opinion

S. Dakota authorities pull a fast one on hockey game attack
March 2, 2015 By Albert Bender
On Jan. 24, while on what was supposed to be a fun-filled field trip, 57 Lakota American Indian school children, ages 9-13, were verbally and physically assaulted.
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Opinion

Buffalo Tiger, Miccosukee Indian rights warrior passes on
February 12, 2015 By Albert Bender
As a Native leader, his advocacy contributed to hallmarks not just for his own tribe but for others throughout the wide expanse of Indian Country.
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U.S.

Native children assaulted by a group of South Dakota hockey fans
February 4, 2015 By Albert Bender
"The actions of the men in the VIP suite was despicable, humiliating and devastating to these children's well-being and safety."
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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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