Albert Bender
LATEST ARTICLES BY Albert Bender
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Environment
Keystone XL pipeline means “death” for Native Americans
July 8, 2013The KXL project, if approved, would stretch 1,179 miles to transport tar sands oil, the dirtiest in the industry, from Canada through the U.S. Northern Plains to refineries in Texas.
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Opinion
South Dakota commits shocking genocide against Native Americans
June 3, 2013Without consent or authority, South Dakota officials remove American Indian children from their families and place them in the foster care system, in violation of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
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U.S.
Rare disease suddenly arises on Navajo Reservation
March 6, 2013A rare disorder, characterized by some authorities as genetic, has abruptly surfaced on the sprawling Navajo Reservation in the Southwest.
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World
Idle No More: Native movement sweeps Canada and U.S.
January 25, 2013Native communities from coast to coast in the U.S. have embraced this upheaval.
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Opinion
The passing of Russell Means was a loss for the world
December 11, 2012Indian rights activist Russell Means passed on after a magnificent life of struggle to better the lives of American Indians.
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Opinion
U.S. gun culture diagnosed as a social disease
September 25, 2012In the wake of the two mass shootings this summer, some American physicians consider this country's gun violence a social disease.
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Opinion
America’s campaign against obesity is mostly off course
August 10, 2012The news is filled with images of grossly overweight citizens. But, is this all the fault of an overindulgent citizenry? Of course not!
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Opinion
Native American joblessness is slow genocide
July 24, 2012Small 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!
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