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Major SCOTUS Victory for Native American Rights

Kolby KickingWoman ICT
“We won on every single issue and [the petitioners' law firm] is not taking home anything. They're not winning on a 10th amendment issue. They're not winning on Indian as a race-based classification. They're not winning on anything."

This Week in People’s History, May 30 . . .

Portside
In a non-union textile mill, a union organizer leads workers in a protest. Union organizer fired for insubordination. In 1779, no peace for Native Americans. Sojourner Truth takes her new name. Child labor on the rise. "No nukes" on Long Island. Boston says NO! to slave-catchers. Anti-slavery novel is a best-seller.

The Other Border Crisis: Mining

Miriam Davidson The Progressive
El Jefe, one of at least seven jaguars documented north of the border since 1996, became a powerful symbol for environmentalists, Native tribes, and others who vehemently oppose both mining and border wall construction in remote areas.

‘Trail of Broken Treaties’: How the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation Came To Be

Matt Gade Rapid City Journal
50 ago the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee with the goal of changing the way the Oglala Sioux governed themselves. AIM also sought to raise the profile of Native Americans -- Wounded Knee was the scene of one of the nation’s worst massacres of Sioux children, women and men near the end of the 19th Century.

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Unemployment Data on Native Americans Shows a Stark Picture

Robert Maxim, Randall Akee, and Gabriel R. Sanchez Brookings
Drawing of a sign saying Native American Heritage month Nearly two years into the recovery, Native American workers are contending with a labor market that would be considered catastrophic if it was reflective of the full economy.
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