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Native America Calling
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"This is national native news. I'm Antonia Gonzalez. Alaska congresswoman Mary peltola and other House Democrats say they're worried the U.S. Supreme Court is about to weaken the Indian child welfare act to the detriment of native children and their tribes. Peltola, the first Alaska native person elected to Congress, previously worked as a tribal court judge, where child custody cases were a mainstay. At a congressional roundtable Tuesday, peltola stressed the importance of keeping children with their families or placing them within their tribe. I think for every single human group, ever in existence, children are precious, children are our future. And certainly for natives, it is no different. The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on a challenge to ICWA brought by the state of Texas and a group of non native adoptive parents. They say the Indian child welfare act makes unconstitutional distinctions based on race, supporters of iq wasse, it's based on tribal affiliation, Congress passed the law to reverse the wholesale alienation of children from their tribes. New York University law professor Maggie Blackhawk says the trend reached terrifying levels by the 1950s and 60s. State government separated over 100,000 of the estimated 400,000 native children from their parents and placed those children in homes with no political culture, cultural or linguistic connection to their nations. The case is called brocken versus Holland, the justices heard arguments in November, a ruling is expected by the end of June. For nearly two decades, a North Dakota county elected local commissioners in a way that did not comply with a consent decree concerning Native American interests, advocates say a settlement has been reached to ensure a fair system is reestablished. Mike moen reports. The Native American rights fund recently announced the pending agreement with Benson county, in 2000 a court order, spurred by a Department of Justice filing, said the county's choice of an at large election process diminished the political power of natives in the area. But in 2004 the county went back to that process. Michael Carter says recent census figures show Nate is deserved greater representation. The county had a majority Native American population. However, there was only one Native American serving on the board. The group, which represented the spirit Lake tribe, contends the county's actions violated the federal Voting Rights Act. The Benson county states attorney calls the settlement a good result, he notes that in 2004, the commission responded to a shift in native population numbers, and didn't think the original decree was permanent. And a phased in structure, the new agreement gives native voters an opportunity to elect three candidates of their choice to the Benson county board of commissioners. Carter says cases like this one stemmed from a project narf launched in 2020 to work with tribes around the country on redistricting efforts at the importance of fair political maps. These are ongoing issues that require the local voters to stay engaged and stay informed about what county and local officials are doing. The organization is involved in a pair of other legal cases concerning redistricting in North Dakota and its impact on Native American voters. Those lawsuits are related to legislative seats, Carter says one they filed the schedule to go to trial in June. That was Mike mohen. This week, Orlando teller, a member of the Navajo Nation was sworn in as the first ever assistant secretary for Indian affairs at the U.S. Department of Transportation. The new position was established under the infrastructure law, creating the office of tribal affairs to serve under the U.S. transportation secretary. Navajo leaders were among those to join teller in Washington D.C. for the swearing in ceremony. I'm Antonia Gonzalez.
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"Most Americans feel Cinco de Mayo with margaritas, tacos, and mariachi bands, but most Mexicans aren't celebrating today. I personally do not celebrate Cinco de Mayo either because I did not grow up celebrating Cinco de Mayo. That's Emily key, head of education at the national museum of the American Latino. There are several myths surrounding Cinco de Mayo like it has nothing to do with Mexican independence and said it marks a turning point battle against the large French army at the village of puebla. Cinco de Mayo has sort of become a data raise awareness of victory of indigenous and mestizo people over European colonists. Gigi Barnett, WTO P news. Meantime, may 5th is also a day to raise awareness of missing and murdered indigenous people. On an upcoming episode of the podcast colors, a dialog on race in America, with WTO JJ green. John echohawk, executive director of the Native American rights fund, says there are more missing and murdered indigenous people than any other demographic group in our country. There are necessarily something that's been going on for a while as a result of a bad U.S. Supreme Court case back in 1978, but said that our tribal governments had no criminal jurisdiction over non Indians on our lands. And so over the years, this basically become a non Indian. So they're kind of always coming on our land and doing whatever they want to, to our people, and they are rarely prosecuted by the federal government or the state government. You can hear this entire conversation on the new episode of
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"At 5 52. The Cinco de Mayo celebrations here in the U.S. have long eclipsed those in Mexico, but for the small number of Mexicans who mark the occasion, they aren't celebrating. It's more of a remembrance day. It's not the celebration that you see here in the streets of the U.S.. That's how many Mexican sea Cinco de Mayo, Emily key, head of education at the national museum of the American Latino here in D.C., says, think Memorial Day, not 4th of July. That's one of the myths to the spell. It is actually not Mexico's Independence Day You have to go way back to 1862. It marks a turning point in Mexico successful battle of puebla against a much larger French army. Now may 5th is a symbol of pride for many Mexican Americans. It's more of a day of connection and reclaiming your identity. Gigi Barnett, WTO news. Meantime, may 5th is also missing and murdered indigenous peoples awareness day. An old law from the 1970s prevents Native American tribes from having criminal jurisdiction on their lands in kidnapping and murder cases involving non Indian suspects. John echohawk executive director of the Native American rights fund says this day was designed to pressure Congress to change that law. The number of missing and murdered indigenous people on our lands is greater than any other group in the country because so we don't have this protection. And so every May 5 now, we always have this awareness day and we're seeking to have Congress change the law so that our tribal governments have criminal jurisdiction. You can check out the entire conversation on episode one 51 of the podcast colors, a dialog on race in America with WTO's JJ green, one week from today, and check out current episodes of colors anywhere. You get your podcasts. All right, an update now from a story that's been all over social media, the pictures have been for the past couple of days. The past is gone, but some folks at a central New Jersey town are still noodling over the mystery of how hundreds of pounds of pasta was dumped near a stream. Old bridge mayor Owen Henry says the spaghetti noodles and the macaroni were cleaned up last week by public works crews. The 15 wheelbarrow loads of pasta caught national attention after the picks were posted on social media. Mayor Henry says the pasta did not cause any environmental damage or health issues and he considers the matter closed, but I'm telling that to social media and who knows who actually dumped it there. I've heard the suspect description looks a lot like chef boyardee. Oh
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"Margaritas, tacos, and mariachi bands, but most Mexicans aren't celebrating today. I personally do not celebrate Cinco de Mayo either because I did not grow up celebrating Cinco de Mayo. That's Emily key, head of education at the national museum of the American Latino. There are several myths surrounding Cinco de Mayo like it has nothing to do with Mexican independence and said it marks a turning point battle against the large French army at the village of puebla. So you've got a Mayo has sort of become a data raise awareness of victory of indigenous and mestizo people over European colonists. Gigi Barnett, WTO P news. Only time may 5th is also a day to raise awareness of missing and murdered indigenous people on an upcoming episode of the podcast colors, a dialog on race in America with WTO's JJ green. John echo hawk, executive director of the Native American rights fund Says there are more missing and murdered indigenous people than any other demographic group in our country. And this is something that's been going on for a while as a result of a bad U.S. Supreme Court case back in 1978, but said that our tribal governments had no primary jurisdiction over non Indians on our lands. And so over the years, it's become known to non Indians. So they're kind of always coming on our land and doing whatever they want to, you know, to our people and they are rarely prosecuted by the federal government or the state government. Now you can hear this entire conversation on the new episode of the podcast colors with WTO piece JJ green one week from today. You can listen to many other episodes of colors anywhere. You get your podcasts. Heads up if you
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"Warns the pandemic is not over. With thousands of people still dying from the virus each week. The markets have been up and up nicely today after a strong jobs report with less than a half an hour before the closing bell, but the stock market and state of the U.S. economy could take a big hit if President Biden and congressional Republicans are not able to resolve an impasse over the debt ceiling. Let's get more on that now from WTO's Mitchell Miller. Today on the hill. The democratic chair of the Senate budget committee Sheldon whitehouse says Republican efforts to link the debt ceiling to major spending cuts could needlessly put jobs in the economy at risk, crashing the global economy if we don't get what we want isn't policy making. It's hostage taking and it's extremism. But the ranking Republican on the Senate budget committee, senator chuck grassley, says the president has contributed to the problem along with Democrats. Their reckless and irresponsible strategy of delay has failed. But the delay in discussions will soon end with a highly anticipated meeting on the issue at The White House next week, involving the president and House speaker Kevin McCarthy. On Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller, WTO. Meantime, the president says he'll have a message for congressional leaders when they hold that White House meeting next Tuesday. The president says he believes both parties can have divergent views on taxes and spending. But he insists that the debt limit and the federal budget be discussed on two separate tracks. Let's have the normal arguments, but that's what we have a budget process. To debate and open so you all can see it. He describes Republican proposed budget cuts as draconian and warns of significant job losses if the nation defaults on its debt for the first time. Steven portnoy CBS News, The White House. Three 34 now in some sad news to pass along this afternoon, a Stafford county toddler, who went missing yesterday afternoon, has died. The sheriff's office says they got a call for a missing three year old just after four 30 p.m., deputies went into search mode, and they eventually found the girl in some water, half a mile from her home. That was around 7 last night. Sheriff's office says the deputy who found the girl performed CPR until medics got there. She's taken to a hospital where she later died. Sheriff's office in Stafford county says they are still in the early stages of their investigation, but this does appear to be an accident. As CVS Pharmacy in northwest D.C. has again had its shelves emptied by a group of shoplifters. Earlier, this week we told you a group of about a half dozen shoplifters filled bags, shopping carts and crates full of household items from a CVS on Connecticut avenue and one in Spring Valley. Thursday, D.C. police say the CVS on Connecticut was again hit and that the getaway car was similar to the stolen Kia with D.C. plates that was used in the first two crimes, asked if they're planning on posting security guards, a corporate spokeswoman said CVS is working with D.C. police and the safety of their colleagues and customers is their top priority. Neil Logan stained. Three 35 today is Cinco de Mayo and some people are celebrating with a margarita or four. However, may 5th on a more serious note is also missing and murdered indigenous peoples awareness day. An old law from the 1970s prevents Native American tribes from having criminal jurisdiction on their lands in kidnapping and murder cases involving non Indian suspects. John echohawk, executive director of the Native American rights fund says this day was designed to pressure Congress to change that law. The number of missing and murdered indigenous people on our lands is greater than any other group in the country, because we don't have this protection. And so every May 5 now, we always have this awareness day and we're seeking to have Congress change the law so that our tribal governments have criminal jurisdiction. Don't miss the entire conversation on episode one 51 of JJ's podcast colors a dialog on race in America. That's one week from today. You can find current episodes rather of colors anywhere. You get your podcasts. Coming up after traffic and weather and money news? How much of a pay bump would a new job get you? I'm Jeff cable. And then does artificial intelligence creep you out? There's an effort to build trustworthy AI in our region. I'm Kate Ryan. Three 36. We're
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"Two 23. So what exactly is Cinco de Mayo? What's today to Mark Mexico's independence or is it something else? Some answers from WTO's Gigi Barnett. Most Americans fill Cinco de Mayo with margaritas tacos and mariachi bands, but most Mexicans aren't celebrating today. I personally do not celebrate Cinco de Mayo either because I did not grow up celebrating Cinco de Mayo. That's Emily key, head of education at the national museum of the American Latino. There are several myths surrounding Cinco de Mayo like it has nothing to do with Mexican independence and said it marks a turning point battle against the large French army at the village of puebla. Cinco de Mayo has sort of become a data raise awareness of victory of indigenous and mestizo people over European colonists. Gigi Barnett, WTO P news. Meantime, may 5th is also a day to raise awareness of missing and murdered indigenous peoples on episode 151 of the podcast colors, a dialog on race in America with JJ green, John echo hawk, executive director of the Native American rights fund, says there are more missing and murdered indigenous people than any other demographic group in the country. This is something that's been going on for a while as a result of a bad U.S. Supreme Court case back in 1978, but said that our tribal governments had no primal jurisdiction over non Indians on our lands. And so over the years, it's basically become an army. So they're kind of always coming on our land and doing whatever they want to, you know, to our people. And they are rarely prosecuted by the federal government or the state government. You can hear this entire conversation on episode 151 of the podcast colors with WTO's JJ green one week from today. You can find current episodes of colors anywhere that you get your podcasts. Sports at 25 and 55 powered by Red River, technology decisions aren't black and white. Think red. Two 25 George Wallace is here with a pitcher of margaritas blessy, George. And with some commanders news. No, let's go to the first part. Let's do the first better. Yeah, the commanders Brandon releasing center chase rouille today. It'll be a post June 1st designation, so that means they'll save around $8.3 million. He was entering his third seasons of the four year $40 million daily sign back in 2021, starting 63 games in 7 years in Washington, but only ten the past two because of injuries, team also drafted a center and signed Nick Gates this off season, so chase rouge, leaving Washington Nationals have left Washington, but not that way, they're heading to Arizona to face the Diamondbacks this weekend after a third straight series win David Martinez squad took three or four from the country. We did a pretty good team with a pretty good lineup. That feels good. It's awesome for these guys to have that feeling because we're so young. And it's great to see those guys smiling and having fun. So we had a lot of road trip. Go back and try to do it again tomorrow and 8 in Arizona. This weekend, just say a gray will pitch the opener of this evening for the nationals Orioles, visit NL east leading Atlanta, birds of 21 and ten braves, 22 and ten NBA tonight, 6 or Celtics shifting to Philly, that series is tied up at one Denver, heads to Phoenix up to last night later was the warriors all over the Lakers to even that series at one. Let me go get the nachos two to bring in with it. Yes. They're in the micro. George Wallace. Thanks, George, coming up after traffic and weather the head of the CDC calling it quits. We'll tell you why Rochelle Walensky says she is leaving the agency. Two 26. Do you have a
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"Have long eclipsed those in Mexico. But for the small number of Mexicans who do mark the occasion, they aren't celebrating. It's more of a remembrance day. It's not the celebration that you see here in the streets of the U.S.. That's how many Mexican sea Cinco de Mayo, Emily key, head of education at the national museum of the American Latino here in D.C., says think Memorial Day, not 4th of July. That's one of the myths to the spell. It is actually not Mexico's Independence Day. You have to go way back to 1862. It marks a turning point in Mexico's successful battle of puebla against a much larger French army. Now may 5th is a symbol of pride for many Mexican Americans. It's more of a day of connection and reclaiming your identity. Gigi Barnett news. Meantime, the 5th of May is also missing and murdered indigenous peoples awareness day. An old law from the 1970s prevents Native American tribes from having criminal jurisdiction on their lands in kidnapping and murder cases, involving non Indian suspects. John echohawk, executive director of the Native American rights fund, says this day was designed to pressure Congress to change that law. The number of missing and murdered indigenous people on our lands is greater than any other group in the country because so we don't have this protection. And so every May 5 now, we always have this awareness day and we're seeking to have Congress change the law so that our tribal governments have criminal jurisdiction. You can hear the entire conversation on episode one 51 of the
Native America Calling
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"Do these readings in native communities? Like, for instance, bitter tears listeners, how do they usually react? What do they say after hearing a poem like this? They often tell their own stories. Like this morning was visiting with the class that you and D about and out of the 6 students, there was three of them that were native students. And I asked them about their reaction to just what you said because I would talk to them about my book stringing groceries. And although it was usually their young students, I was using their grandfathers and grandmothers that went to boarding schools. And when they tell the stories that they've heard, they just weep. So there's still what's called intergenerational trauma, we're in historical trauma, we're in unresolved grieving. So many bodies for survivors haven't told their stories. When students said that, her grandfather absolutely refuses to talk about what happened to him at peer Indian learning center in South Dakota. And I told her, my experience has been that when men won't talk about their bonus experiences, they were most likely molested. Either by, well, the women, the nuns, the people that worked in the dorms are priests, and even older boys, but the statistic I heard was when all the boys are molested and then they enter and became perpetrators. Denise, I know you're also a founder of the national boarding school healing coalition. We do have to take a short break, but when we come back, I want to ask you about that. And what the purpose of the coalition is and some of the work you do. So we'll be right back, please. Stay with us, folks. Support for this program provided by vision maker media, who envisions a world changed and healed by understanding native stories and the public conversations they generate. Nurturing the next generation of storytellers with courage. Generosity, creativity, respect and commitment. 45 plus years of native stories and indigenous knowledge through film and media can be found at vision maker media dot org, whose slogan is together we are vision makers. Your listening to native America calling still time to join our conversation with Denise Lajoie dear if you have a comment or question, please give us a call, phone lines are open right now. One 809 9 6 two 8 four 8. That's also one 809 9 native. Denise, the native boarding school healing coalition. Tell us more about it and just how is awareness changed about boarding schools for the general public over the last couple of decades. Yes, it started at an organizational meeting held by the Native American rights fund in boulder Colorado in 2011, we had they had gathered the call together anybody that was working anywhere organizations working with boarding schools. And then we formed the national Native American born in school healing coalition are nabbed for short. And of course, healing within is in the title. So our main goals at that time and was to bring awareness of boarding schools to national level and to work through Congress to have them organized a commission to go throughout the United States and take border school survivors testimonies and talk about what healing means. I was 2011. It wasn't until and they worked until two years ago when the news of cam loops hit national and international news about the news of the unmarked graves there. So our relatives across the medicine line was telling news organizations where you better look to the self to our neighbors in the U.S. because the same thing happened there. So now this was in place and then the secretary Deb haaland was in place at the department of interior and then my book stringing rosaries. So I started getting calls from Al Jazeera from China, New Zealand, Australia from all over ABC nightline, CNN, and doing over 50 interviews in the last two years. So and then, of course, nabs also got tremendous amount of attention finally finally after working for over a decade, it took what happened in Kamloops to bring national attention to what the work was being done by nabs. I was a former president and then board member, but I'm off the board, but I'm in touch with them. And the incredible remarkable work they are now doing with what they're working in conjunction and cooperation with Deb haaland. So now there is actually an act going through Congress as we speak the boarding school, at truth in truth and healing commission. There's going to be a commission forum passes through whatever it needs to do through Congress. And hopefully funding will be available for just what we had wanted to do in ten 11 years ago to send a commission throughout the United States the question will be made up of boarding school survivors and intergenerational such as myself that didn't go to boarding school, but suffer from the effects of my parents having attended boarding school. And mostly look at what healing would look like. And hopefully monies would flow into communities and so on to work with healing programs specific to boarding school healing, so it was what a long journey, but it took the finding of what happened at Kamloops and what you just mentioned at the top of the hour with finding more unmarked graves. Secretary Deb haaland had researchers look for I've developed a list of boarding schools along with nabs and other researchers and so she has, they have another list that hasn't been made public yet, but she also said that there's 54 or maybe more grave sites that she knows at boarding schools. And like tomorrow, I just read about the cemetery. They also have unmarked graves there. For taught, we are going to be doing ground penetrating radar at fort elders pointing out to where they believe they said they saw kids being buried there so that will probably happen sometime this spring. So yeah, either one marked graves in the United States absolutely. So it's going to be tough as those start being made public. She didn't want to make them public because she doesn't want people going and docking or whatever at these grave sites. So I don't know though the entire list of schools that have graveyards. I didn't look for that as part of my research and writing the book. I never thought to ask or look for schools or look for information or in the historical records if they had a cemetery or not. But it appears quite a few schools to have cemeteries. Denise, you have one more poem to read for us today and it's about your mom's experience at boarding school. Can you read it for us? Yeah, this is a longer poem. It's called at boarding school. At boarding school, mom learned to net, I'd hold a skein of yarn in my arms, sway back and forth, plus she wrapped it into a ball at boarding school mom learned to embroider. It's in towels held names one for each day of the week. I used when washing and drying dishes each night. I born in school mom learned to darn socks on quiet winter nights sitting by a lamp, head bowed over a lightbulb with my white cotton sock stretched over it carefully weaving frayed edges together. At boarding school one learned to watch clothes worked in the school's laundry, blew in the whites, ran clothes through the mangle, careful not to catch an arm, hang on clotheslines, at boarding school, mom learned to sow made all my clothes even when I complained that kids made fun of me, my homemade skirts, dresses, parents, and darned socks saying we were poor, she stole aprons over the head bibs, wrap around waist everyday calico ones, ghazi,
All My Relations Podcast
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"Never not been native. And the way that that manifests in her showing up in the world is huge. It's huge. And it's like, I have, you know, little jokes about how the first she loves communicating an emojis. She texts me an emojis on my husband's phone. And before she could spell, she would text a little emoji of a little girl, heart, and an emoji of an adult woman. And she was always more brown than me. She's like you're still figuring it out, mom. But like, I know. I know that I'm Brown. I know that I'm native. So in my own identity confusion, I still have come to a place where I understand that I want my children to grow up in a native family. And I feel like that's kind of, you know, not that I feel like I should be sitting at the Supreme Court. Arguing, but I do feel like that's really the thing. It's like, look, I am I am an example of assimilationist policies. I am a perfect example of it. I was white. I thought. And did not understand the value of what I did not have. I did not have a comprehension of what was missing. And had said to one of our producers on the film at one point, that I felt like my native friends looked at me like a three legged dog sometimes and I was like, but why does it matter? Like, I know how to get around. I'm getting around fine. I might be missing this native identity element, but I'm functioning fine. And the more I have learned, the more I have realized, what that limb is. And that it's really not just a limb. It's like a heartbeat. So I feel very strongly that while I don't begrudge my adoption, I don't begrudge the way my parents raised me. I do feel deeply that the circle has the circle of my children knowing their ancestral land. Learning what we can teach them and recognizing that it's not going to stop with them. I'm enrolled, but because of blood quantum, my children will both descendants. And when I came home with my card, when I finally enrolled and I showed my enrollment card to my kids, she got so excited and my son gave me this huge hug and they were like, you did it, mama, you finally did it. And then she was like, when do I get mine? And I was like, baby, I'm so sorry. You're a descendant. You're not going to you're not going to enroll because we have a maybe the rules will change. Maybe the tribal change their minds and what she says. Because she's a child of a doula and she knows things. And she was like, so you're telling me, okay, so I just have to go get some sperm from a lumpy man. And I was like a whole episode about that. What? I can help her find something. She was like, if I get some sperm from alami man, then my kids can be mummy, and I was like, yeah. Yeah, and my son was like, I'll have some sperm, and I was like, okay. Not you, not you, buddy. But this, you know, my children understand. More than I do. And they're still not going to have as much. As they could have, but that's why I think that ICWA is important. I think native children should be raised in native families. A 100% because of so many reasons. So many reasons. Well, let's just talk about before we wrap up, let's just talk a little bit about how people can be in support of ICWA and what they can do right now in their own lives to advocate in meaningful ways. And yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, despite the fact that the Supreme Court Justices are off in their wood paneled offices noodling around about our futures. And typing and I don't know like sipping their coffee and just I don't know what they do. I don't know, I don't know what they're doing. That's what they're doing. And they're robes, you know? Like wrinkly robes. No. You're just spending your time ironing their roads. Yeah, that's all they're doing. So what can we do? We can do. We can do is there's this protect iqua campaign that is kind of a joint effort of the national Indian child welfare association along with the Native American rights fund and I think I believe illuminative maybe is also involved, but you can sign a petition there to continue to support and show your support of the law that the law of the land should remain the law of the land. So I encourage you to go to protect ICWA on Instagram. And I think you can also Google it. They have a website, I believe. So that's one way. You can reach out to your in the worst case scenario that ICWA is overturned. There is still states rights to go back to states rights and you can go to your California state or Washington state or whatever state you might be in and demand that there's still continued support for the state ICWA. Now Montana where we live actually does not have a state ICWA. And it should. Because we have a very high native population and I just have to say shame on senator Danes are Republican senator who is on the Senate committee of Indian affairs and did not sign on to the amicus brief in support of the law, so I think that's a big that's a big alarm bell to our native communities for our next election to see really where he lies as far as native issues. So I'm just going to go public with that about my feelings about senator Daniels in New Mexico and Utah, Utah just passed yesterday or two days ago have sample laws of how a state can make a state level ICWA. So there's models for other states to follow. If they want to make sure that at the state level, this remains the law of the land, New Mexico and Utah and I don't know if there are other states who have done that as well. So there's still hope for protecting native children in adoption, even if the Supreme Court overturns the Indian child welfare act. And I'm going to be hopeful. Yeah, I mean, listening to the oral arguments, I feel like, I don't know. It's a real talk of real time. Unfortunately. Yeah. And it feels like my gut is saying, my hope is that it's not going to be fully overturned but I think they're going to poke some holes in it. And that'll be a bummer. Yeah. And with that, I'm going to say thank you so much for being a guest on all my relations podcast. We're really happy to have you here. We'll continue to follow your work and support your documentary. Which you can watch on PBS right now on America reframed. So I encourage all of you to watch daughter of a lost bird. So join us in thanking our amazing guest Kendra and Brooke. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm lumped.
Native America Calling
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"This is national native news. I'm Antonio Gonzalez. Organization supporting Native Americans right to vote are working to educate people about the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Katie thorson reports, abortion access, voting districts, and voting rights are likely to come before the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the coming years. And while those issues impact everyone, they're more likely to disproportionately affect Native American communities, says Native American rights fund staff attorney Allison nest would. But she stresses that doesn't mean that all native people feel the same way about each issue. But it means that they should have the same voice that other Americans or other wisconsinites have in selecting who makes the decision on those issues. To that end, the Native American rights fund and the Wisconsin native vote program are working to educate Native Americans on the Supreme Court. What's at stake and making sure they know they're voting rights. Ness wood is focused on educating people on the judicial system itself, like the oath Wisconsin judges take to administer justice with respect to persons, or essentially the concept of justice is blind. And this is a great concept, but it's not always in line with how communities experience the court system. And so a couple of examples of that evidence shows that even among people who commit crimes of similar severity, people of color are receiving longer sentences more jail time than white folks. Wisconsin native vote manager D suite wants to make sure Native Americans have all the information they need to make an educated vote. She says things like minimal or lack of broadband connectivity and rural reservations can be another barrier for Native Americans to exercise their right to vote. I'm not saying that they're left out of modern day society and the technology, they just don't have the kind of broadband or the kind of technology to support that. The Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice election is April 4th. I'm Katie thorson reporting. The U.S. interior department recently unveiled plans to bolster the number of wild bison herds across their native grasslands. Aaron Bolton has more. U.S. interior secretary Deb haaland announced the formation of a federal working group that will outline how the federal government can help tribes and conservation groups bolster herd numbers and gain training to manage herds. Holland also announced a $25 million investment to establish new herds, fund tribal bison transfers and co management of herds with tribes. The department currently manages 11,000 bison on public lands across 12 states, four national native news, Aaron Bolton. Tribal college and university students from across the country are preparing to take home awards after three days of competing in more than 20 events, including archery speech, chess, and hand games, more than 1000 people gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico this week for the 2023 American Indian higher education consortium conference. Student Joanna Cooley from Saginaw chippewa tribal college in Michigan spend time Monday presenting her scientific poster before judges students and other ahec attendees. Cooley says her poster describes how to decolonize diets and teach people how to preserve food from their gardens. So along with the gardening, we're also doing food preservation workshops and classes. We have a full state of the art mobile food preservation kitchen that will be on site this spring. So that community members and students can harvest their vegetables and go straight into the classroom and learn how to preserve them themselves. Cooley worked on her poster for about four to 6 weeks, awards will be given out Tuesday night. There are more than 30 tribal colleges and universities across the country. I'm Antonia Gonzalez.
Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
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"Or at least if you if you wanna keep 'em grants set aside that's fine you know. As far out of the conversation you still have tons of loan programs through the federal government right for a hate the term minorities. Well that are aimed at at you. Know helping the aggrieved. This judge. greece back is A bush appointee so okay so So really i mean if it if it were me in you know i could see counter lawsuits coming from you know communities of color in the farming communities just as easily as you know these these folks have brought forward you know their problem and easily be taken to the supreme court then if suddenly all suddenly all loan programs that are subdivided groups of people are now going to be under scrutiny. Nba called unconstitutional. I just wanna say good morning to everyone in child but yeah you know they say i'm not i'm sorry i just don't see flying a no me either me either but moving on moving. It's all i had to say from our next article up says. Excuse me again. On the subject law class action settlement brings fifty nine million dollars to the descendants of the pembina band of chippewa indians. And this is Released through native news online written by andrew kennard. Your article here goes on to say out of washington fifty nine million Settlement in the peletier videos holland a class action lawsuit alleging trust fund mismanagement and failure to account By the department of the interior will go to four tribes located in the mid west and northwest united states and more than thirty nine thousand beneficiaries on june tenth. United states depar- District court for the district of columbia finalized the settlement which was reached in the court of federal claims with chippewa cree tribe of the rocky boy's reservation of montana and turtle mountain band of chippewa indians of north dakota the little shell tribe of chippewa indians of montana and the white earth band of chippewa indians of minnesota the interior department announced the tribes were represented by the native american rights fund according to the website designated for the lawsuit absolutely nar go north they always kick ass and take names. Love it Quote it took them way too long and it's way too little said gerald grey chairman of the little shell tribe of chippewa indians. The lawsuit has its roots in land ceded by the pembina band of chippewa indians to the united states government in unfair treaties throughout the nineteenth century on october set a second eighteen sixty three the red lake and pembina seated about seven point five million acres of land in the red river region of north dakota and minnesota to the federal government according to a nineteen seventy-one report from the committee on interior and insular affairs and nineteen eighty to report from the senate committee a committee on indian affairs in nineteen o five the pam vinas seated roughly ten million acres of land west of the red river area to the government for price of ten cents an acre as part of what is known as the.
Native America Calling
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"This is native america calling. I'm tara gatewood. Joining new line from my homeland assure would be state and federal elections are months away but officials are busy trying to make changes to how we vote on the next election day over the weekend texas lawmakers tussled over new limitations on voting including a measure to rollback mail in ballots. Arizona passed a new law that purchase voters from a mail in ballot list. If they haven't voted in the past two elections and in montana a new law does away with same day voter registration and limits ballot collection. Proponents of the new laws saying bay combat voter fraud but as with past voter restriction measures opponents say they only hinder voters who are native and other people of color. The also say the damage of disenfranchising voters far outweighs the minor threat of voter fraud. What do you think where do you stand in all this. Do you find it challenging devote and would you like to see states pass more laws that regulate or limit polling places mail in voting and other phone forms of voting. Everyone is welcome to the conversation today. The number to join us is one eight hundred nine nine. Six two eight four eight. That's also one eight hundred nine nine native and today we're going to start off in denver colorado with us today on the line is jacqueline daily own and she is a staff attorney for the native american rights fund and she is a slow pueblo. Our pleasure to have her here with us. Jacqueline welcome to native america calling. Thank you so much for having me in so there is a lot that has been going on in terms of voting and so jacqueline tells a little bit about new laws in montana. The new laws in montana are actually A continuation of a long string of voter suppression. That's been going on in montana for the last few years just last year. North defeated a ballot collection ban The reason that it was defeated was because it was found unconstitutional and it was unconstitutional because it just made it too hard for native. Americans vote in montana Natives only get a few days of on reservation registration and learning opportunities You know otherwise leading services are you know upwards of a hundred miles round trip and so You know ballot collection is used because native americans don't have They don't have residential addresses on the homes and they don't have residential mail delivery so People organizations. Pick up and drop off In order make that process easier For people that are facing unreasonable Barriers to casting their vote and the court found that that collection was an important part of how native americans vote to overcome How difficult it is to vote in their communities and so then this year The legislature again tried to restrict Is trying to restrict ballad collection making it the that get out the vote. Organizations cannot Pick up and drop off mail For a native american voters they also banned same day voter registration which is used disproportionately by native american. Voters who again only have registration opportunities a few days a year on the reservation. So we really think these are designed to make it more difficult for native. Americans vote in what has been the response from tribal leadership that you've.
Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
"native american rights fund" Discussed on Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
"But again we Wasn't anything here before right right. Yeah we were here. We also knew how to grow and takeover ourselves rick just another great example of moving moving moving things forward ricky ricky boy all right. Here's a link where you brother. Thank you Next gutter up just around us out here for this episode Title reads indigenous lawyer name nominated as listener of the department of interior. Here we go. This is by Alina bokova for native news online and the article goes on to say out of washington. The department of the interior announced wednesday. That robert anderson of was from boys fort band of the minnesota chippewa tribe has been formally nominated as solicitor for the department of interior. He has served as interior principal. Deputy solicitor since january tenth of twenty twenty one anderson's nomination has been transmitted by the white house to the united states senate. The interior department said in a statement anderson working as a law professor at the university of washington for twenty years and is an also directed. Its native american law center. He's been The indian nation visiting professor of law at harvard law school for the past twelve years anderson is a co author and editor of the of the leading of federal indian law treaties. Quote cohen's handbook of federal indian law. A know it. Well and co author of a leading textbook on american indian law and anderson has also published many articles in the fields of natural resource law water law and american indian law. Love to have him. There would be awesome bob. Anderson has extensive legal expertise. This is a quote with regards to native american tribes public lands and water all of which will help advance interiors mission to steward america's natural cultural and historic resources and on our nation to nation relationship with tribes in accordance with the spirit and the letter of the law is a thoughtful entrusted senior member of our team at interior with my deep co With my confidence. And i look forward to his confirmation process close quote said interior secretary deb jalan anderson served as the associate solicitor for indian affairs and counselor to the secretary. Under secretary bruce babbitt during the clinton administration. He began his career as a staff attorney for the native american rights fund. Beautiful where he practiced law for twelve years. He also served on the transition agency review teams for president. Elect obama and president-elect biden raised in a small town of ally in northeastern minnesota anderson received his law degree from the university of minnesota. So in other words guys he comes with receipts all right. We couldn't have been a better pick unlike like the picks during the trump administration There you go okay. Thanks for posting. That brother Loved new image too by the way. Oh thank you would water near. Yeah yeah so. He comes with receipts and got. I'd love to sit and talk with them for about an hour on things like oh indigenous rights relevant to maritima as a starting point. That would be great. So i look forward to his confirmation. That would that would be great right. My bag is empty. I don't have any anything to add the. I didn't have any comments on this particular article. Because i think he was the right pick. I agree with that without a doubt that out. Good stuff good stuff for sure yes. My bag is empty as well. You guys and thank you again very much for hanging with us here on this saturday saturday edition as we wrap up episode..
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"Country and the world. And it poses an existential threat. It will be a focus of President elect Biden in this entire administration. The hearing on Yellen's nomination was one of five confirmation hearings the Senate scheduled for the eve of the inauguration. Capital watches. Consider Yellen's confirmation process likely to move forward rather easily. Ah, full Senate vote on her nomination could come as soon as Thursday reporting for Pacifica Radio News KPFK I'm Christopher Martinez and his confirmation hearing President elect Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Called the pro trump mob attack on the U. S. Capitol. Horrifying Alejandro May or Kiss said authorities still have much to learn about what happened that day and what led to the insurrection. If I should have the honor of being confirmed, I will do everything I can To ensure that the tragic loss of life the assault on law enforcement the desecration of the building that stands as one of the three pillars of our democracy. A terror that you felt your colleagues, staff and everyone present will not happen again. If confirmed, the former federal prosecutor and senior homeland security official under President Barack Obama would be the first Latino and first immigrant to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Senate committees also held hearings today on national intelligence director nominee April Haynes, Secretary of State nominee Anthony Blinken and Defense secretary nominee Lloyd Austin. Senate remains under Republican control until three new Democratic senators are sworn into office. They are California's Alex Padilla is replacing Vice President elect Camel Harris and two Democrats from Georgia. Raphael Warnock and John US off Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell and incoming Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer have been negotiating how to share power in the evenly divided Senate, According to media reports. Senate committees will have an equal number of Democrats and Republicans, although the committee chairs will be Democrats and Legislation will advance to the Senate floor, even on a tie vote in committee. You're listening to the evening news on KPFK in Berkeley, Kpfk Los Angeles. KFC it Fresno Online K P F a dot or This is an hour long newscast. There's each night at six. There's half hour edition on the weekends, all our newscast. Are archived online at kpfk dot org's They're also available as podcasts. I'm mark Miracle. A federal appeals court has thrown out a rule that was one of the Trump administration's most momentous climate rollbacks. U S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia says the administration acted illegally under the Clean Air Act in easing federal regulation of pollution. From power plants. The rulings expected to give the incoming Biden administration a freer hand to regulate emissions from power plants, one of the major sources of climate damaging fossil fuel emissions. The decision came in a court challenge by environmental groups. Some state governments And others, The U. S. Supreme Court today took up a climate case that could affect the ability of cities and the Bay Area to sue oil companies for damages. Baltimore is seeking damages for the effects of climate change. Today's case was about Jurisdiction Baltimore once the lawsuit to be heard in state court, the oil companies prefer federal court where they feel they have a better chance of prevailing. The decision could determine the fate of similar lawsuits filed around the country, including by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco. San Francisco's city attorney, Dennis Herrera, said in a similar case last year that the city had brought its lawsuit in state court because that's where it belongs. Herrera said at the time that San Francisco and Oakland taxpayers are already incurring the costs of dealing with the damage that fossil fuel companies knowingly caused. It is time for these companies to pay their fair share, he said. They should not be able to stick taxpayers with the bill for the damage they knew they were causing, said San Francisco's city attorney. President elect Biden is considering canceling the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline project as early as tomorrow day, one of his term, which could be good news for Native American communities. The Nebraska Living near crowded worker camps during the covert pandemic. Eric Gladys reports. Wesley for along with the Native American Rights Fund, says Indian country is at greater risk of illness and death from covert 19 due to a systemic lack of access to quality health care, which has led to higher incidences of heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Because there's been a surge generational black of adequate healthcare in Indian country, you have very vulnerable populations who have preexisting conditions you have The cold mobility's that make the virus especially deadly, if you catch it, he says. The Rosebud Sioux tribe on Nebraska's northern border has less than five respirators for its 15,000 residents and zero respiratory therapists. Petroleum Equipment and Services Association, told High Country News. It was initially concerned about testing, quarantining and other covert related safety measures for workers. But the group is now confident that most operators have gotten the hang of things for long, his skeptical, pointing to a lawsuit involving Trans Canada now called TC Energy, while the company had announced safety measures, including mask wearing and social distancing. When construction started, Furlong says those protocols went out the window. People were grouped together and not wearing masks. I think of industry was really doing what it could to keep their employees and the people of the communities that they're operating in safe. It wouldn't be bringing in hundreds or thousands of people to live in very close quarters. It's the exact opposite of what should be happening during a pandemic. TC Energy spokesperson responded by email saying that the safety of its crews and the public are core company values for long notes. One challenge protecting tribes from outbreaks. A transient work camps is that official covert case counts are recorded in a worker's home state, Not in the county where they're working. This is Eric Gladys reporting for the Nebraska News connection..