Waking up to the parallels between the American Indian Boarding School system and the Holocaust
Indigenous Bridges donates surgical masks medical-grade plastic face to the Dine/Navajo Nation
The video depicts Native Americans as cannibals who gawk in awe at the sight of Columbus eating with a knife and fork.
Last month, a group of activists rallied at a Flea Market in Utah to protest what they said was a swastika-decorated blanket on sale.
As we mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I cannot help but reflect on a recent visit to Germany. Among the many lessons brought into stark focus, the trip illuminated the shameful failure of America to confront the ghosts of its past that continue to haunt the marginalized communities on Native American reservations scattered across the country.
Three groups of Jews have found ways to incorporate solidarity with Standing Rock and #NoDAPL into their Jewish spiritual and communal practice.
One day, Jessye Stein, a computer teacher on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, was trying to persuade a student to return to his Lakota language class when the young man suddenly posed an unexpected question. “He asked me where I come from, where my people come from and what my ancestral language is,” she recalled. Stein, 24, told the student she was Jewish and that her ancestors spoke Yiddish. But that just prompted the next, obvious question: “He asked me if I could speak Yiddish,” she recounted. And when she said no, he accused her of being a hypocrite.
Adam Sandler’s career is continuing its downward spiral. Nearly a dozen Native American actors stormed off the set of Sandler’s latest film…
The Anti-Defamation League welcomed the cancellation of the Washington Redskins trademark by the federal patent office.
The Anti-Defamation League signed a letter initiated by Native American groups to NFL players urging them to speak out for changing the name of the Washington Redskins.