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6 Thanksgiving Myths and the Wampanoag Side of the Story

Vincent Schilling Indian Country Today
The Thanksgiving Day Celebration originated From a Massacre - Let's Hear the Wampanoag side of the story. Here are some of the most common misconceptions about the November holiday.(from Indian Country Today, original published 2017.)

Tidbits – Oct. 17 – Reader Comments: Swing State Confidential; Ta-Nehisi Coates-Letter From Israel; Palestine–the Last Year; While You Were So Worried Socialism Would Take Your Freedoms; CIA Says No Evidence Iran Has Decided To Build a Nuclear Weapon

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Reader Comments: Swing State Confidential; Ta-Nehisi Coates - A Letter from Israel; Palestine-The Last Year; While You Were So Worried Socialism Would Take Your Freedoms...; CIA Says No Evidence Iran Has Decided To Build a Nuclear Weapon; more...

Indian Fighting Today: Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher

Winona LaDuke High Plains Reader
There’s a long list of law firms who specialize in modern day Indian fighting. It’s usually to do with tribal jurisdiction over water, land, or children, all pretty basic for the survival of a people.

The Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Aviva Chomsky TomDispatch
On the 30th anniversary of the UN declaration of Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we need to get beyond stereotypes, from Colombia to the United States to Gaza

Parole Commission: It’s Long Past the Time to FREE Leonard Peltier

Levi Rickert Native News Online
"We are hoping and praying that the parole commission will grant Leonard parole so that he can go back to his people on the Turtle Mountain Reservation to be with his loved ones to serve to be with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren."

A Legacy of Plunder

Francisco Cantú The New York Review
In its reexamination of entrenched narratives about the expropriation of Native land, Michael Witgen’s work is changing how Native people are situated in the arc of North American history.

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How German Atheists Made America Great Again

S. C. Gwynne New York Times
What was the Civil War about? In a word, slavery. The driving force in American politics in the decades after the American Revolution was the rise of an arrogant, ruthless, parasitic oligarchy in the South, built on God-ordained economic inequality.
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