Private memorial service held
CNN’s Catherine E. Shoichet, Michael Pearson, Frank Pallotta and Emanuella Grinberg contributed to this report
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2. Mayan Hieroglyphics Found in Guatemala
3. Liquid Gold Delivered From a Treasure Chest on Wheels
4. American Indian mother of two dies in police custody after her repeated pleas for help ignored
5. Native American civil rights activist found dead in Mississippi jail cell
6. Kimberly Stewart Wears Native American Headdress on New Reality Show
7. Question for Christians: Will Saying Sorry Be Enough?
8. Gov. Inslee Continues to Impress With Native Appointments
Seth Brickey, at 20, is quickly making a name for himself in state politics.
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Diet soda, while lower in calories than regular soda, is not a healthy choice.
Via Associated Press
Cecil the lion, a beloved fixture in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, was
gunned down by an American trophy hunter on July 6.
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A shot of the work in progress at Church and King streets in Toronto.
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Joshua Tousey/American Indian Chamber of Commerce
Ray Halbritter, CEO of the Oneida Indian Nation, receives a thank you gift
after speaking at EXPO ’15 in Rancho Mirage, Calif., from Tracy Stanhoff,
president of the American Indian Chamber of Commerce California.
My Poem of the Day
(08/09/24)
Good-Bye Geri
Good-Bye Geri
I will miss you
My heart will hold a space for you
You go with him now
As he holds the gates open
Awaiting your arrival
Your job here is done
You’ve been an amazing mother
To your children
And to others that were not your own
You suffered deeply ailing from disease
No more agony
No more torment
Peace has now found you
And will deliver you unto the lord
All of us here will remember
All you’ve done
All you’ve been through
All you’ve meant to so many
Your only job now is to find
never-ending peace
Worry not for us
As we know with you watching down on us
All will be right with the world
We may have lost you here
But god has gained another Angel
Spread your wings and fly about the heavens
With eternal love and admiration
Your friend
Felina
Good-Bye Geri
Copyright 2014
Felina Silver Robinson
1. Some Questions Regarding the UN High-Level Plenary Meeting
2. An Unstoppable Attitude, Sgt. Kisha Makerney Thrives, Despite Loss of Her Leg
Kisha and her brother, SPC Tommy Makerney at Camp Copper, Iraq in 2008.
3. Warriors of Today and Yesterday: Veterans Uncover Our Shared Past
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District
A VCP technician examines prehistoric pottery sherds.
4. Quaker Indian Affairs Call for Redskins to Change Name
5. Letter to Snyder Says Stop Saying People of Color Aren’t Part of Campaign Against Redskins
6. Flags Fly at Half-Staff on Navajo Nation in Honor of Code Talker
7. Bizarre News About the Bee Czar
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8. Tester Criticizes Indian Health Service Leadership, Calls for Staffing Changes
“I am disturbed by the number of Area Director positions that are now filled with ‘acting’
Directors.”
9. Tribal Contracts Must Be Honored—Permanently
10. Make Billy Mills Proud, Put This Lakota Runner on Runner’s World Cover
11. Indians Reclaim Wall Street: A Native’s Guide to Investment
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12. Watch Stupid in Action in DC: Right Hearing; Wrong Continent!
13. Blueprint for Reform: Interior Announces $2.5M for Tribal Control of BIE Schools
Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy
Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius join students for lunch during a visit at Lowry Elementary School
in Denver, Colorado on September 17, 2012. Duncan and Sebelius visited the school
to tout the school’s approach to wellness and to highlight the importance of healthy
eating and maintaining an active lifestyle.
14. CBS NFL Host James Brown Says ‘No’ to Redskins, Cites Civil Rights Movement
CBS
James Brown is taking a stand against the Redskins name.
15. Message From an Elder: Watch ‘The Legacy of Saginaw Grant’
Saginaw Grant was 52 when he first appeared on screen in a credited role.
16. Project Runway Picked 15 Designers; TWO of Them Are Native [20 Pictures]
source: mylifetime.com
Before they were on TV: Kini Zamora, Native Hawaiian, and Korina Emmerich,
Puyallup, shown here wearing (respectively) Hawaiian regalia and jingle dress, are
contestants on ‘Project Runway.’
via Global Times
The mysterious 150,000-year-old pipe-like structures baffling scientists in
western China have been dubbed the Alien Ruins are as lucrative to the tourist
trade as they are mysterious in origin.
…a forum for the discussion of political, social and economic issues affecting
the indigenous peoples of the United States, including their lack of political
representation, economic deprivation, health care issues, and the on-going
struggle for preservation of identity and cultural history
1. Fracking: Are We Crying Wolf at the Wrong Wolf?
2. Oneida Nation, NCAI and UCC React to ‘Redskins’ FedEx Field Section Named After Segregationist
3. Marshall R. Gover: NMAI’s Meet Native America Series
Courtesy Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
Marshall R. Gover, president of the Pawnee Business Council.
4. Scuffle Over Native Warbonnet Leads to Unreasonable Detainment at Giants Game
Courtesy Kimball Bighorse
A Giants fan wears a warbonnet backwards as he is confronted by April Negrette
about why the bonnet should not be worn on Native American Heritage Night at AT&T
Park in San Francisco on June 24, 2014
5. Video: Announcing EPA’s Climate Justice in Action Series
Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy announces the advent of a new blog.
6. $154.8M Awarded to Cherokee Nation, 32 states & Puerto Rico for Job Training
7. Major Victory: Canadian Supreme Court Hands Tsilhqot’in Aboriginal Title
8. Russell Means Widow Files Lawsuit Claiming Negligence by His Doctors
9. Leonardo DiCaprio Film Seeks Native American Actors in Santa Fe
Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
Leonardo DiCaprio seen onstage at 2014 Santa Barbara International Film Festival –
Cinema Vanguard Award ceremony on Thursday, Feb, 6, 2014 in Santa Barbara, Calif.
(Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
10. See Chris Wondolowski’s First Steps on the Field in Brazil at the FIFA World Cup
11. 5 Sioux Tribes Applied to Fund Their Own Foster Care Programs
Youtube: Bring the Lakota Children Home – Chase Iron Eyes
12. Former White Earth Chairman Darrell ‘Chip’ Wadena Walks On
Richard Sennott/Star Tribune
Darrell “Chip” Wadena, former White Earth tribal chairman, walked on June 24.
13. Remembering Michael Jackson and the Racial Mashup of ‘Black or White’
source: chantalrondeau.com
Sage Galesi poses with Michael Jackson in 1991, during a break from filming his ‘Black or White’ video.
14. AMERIND Risk Offers Tips for Hurricane Season and Preparedness
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15. And the ESPY Goes to … Lyle Thompson? Onondaga Lacrosse Star Nominated!
1. American Heritage Powwow Draws Diverse Crowd in Downtown San Diego
Diego James Robles
Monica Jacome, Kumeyaay, 18, plays with her brother Dakota during a break in the action, during the American Indian Heritage Pow Wow.
2. Toward a Future of Colonial Freedom
3. Vern Traversie and His Two and a Half Year Wait for Answers
Vern Traversie still waiting of answers
4. Images of Indigenous Pride From the ‘Proud2BIndigenous’ Trend
5. 11 Places to Search for Native American Ancestors
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
This image from the Library of Congress shows two men seated at tables taking the Census at Standing Rock Agency in South Dakota. It was taken between 1880 and 1900.
6. Is Casey Kasem Being Hidden on an Indian Reservation in Washington?
AP Photo/Eric Jamison, File
Casey Kasem poses for photographers after receiving the Radio Icon award during The 2003 Radio Music Awards in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Eric Jamison, File)
7. It’s All Over: Melting of Western Antarctic Ice Sheet Unstoppable, NASA Says
NASA/GSFC/SVS
Just this one relatively small portion of the Antarctic ice sheet could raise sea levels by four feet if it melted, NASA scientists say. And it is, inexorably and unstoppably, melting, they have determined.
8. Tribe’s Marina Offers Docks to Cruising Yachters, Waterfront Homes to Seasonal Residents
Courtesy Mosquito Creek Marina
Spirit Trail Ocean Homes at Mosquito Creek
9. History Will Always Treat Well the Life of Billy Frank Jr
AP Photo
10. Pascua Yaqui Tribal Councilman Flores Receives Prestigious EDDE Award
11. Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Mourns Loss of Congressman James Oberstar
AP Photo/The Duluth News-Tribune, Steve Kuchera
Backed by supporters, Congressman Jim Oberstar talks about his election defeat in his offices at the Gerald Heaney Federal Building in Duluth, Minnesota on Wednesday, November 3, 2010. Oberstar passed away May 3, 2014.
12. NABI Partners With Basketball Hall of Fame
NABIFoundation.org
13. Super Dumb at UND: It’s Hard to Shake the Racism You’ve Enabled For So Long
Photos of students wearing ‘Siouxper Drunk’ t-shirts were posted to social media.
14. Is the Assembly of First Nations With Its National Chief Part of the Problem or Solution?
via The Tyee
Atleo and Harper: National chief’s resignation sparks questions about who speaks for First Nations across Canada.
15. Story Before Bedtime: The Invisible Warrior
16. Native american stories and legends 1 of 2
17. Native american stories and legends 2 of 2
18. ASMR Bedtime Story
18.
1. The Fire That Was Billy Frank Jr.; Indian Country’s Greatest Defender
Richard Walker
2. The Road to Happiness Starts With Better Roads
3. Actress Shailene Woodley Eats Clay—And It’s Not That Weird
AP Image
Shailene Woodley is an avid hunter-gatherer and also extols the benefits of eating clay.
4. Billy Frank Jr. Has Gone Home Too Soon
AP Photo
5. Services Planned for Billy Frank Jr.
6. Youth to Take Outdoor Graffiti Art Classes Through CRYP
sprayfinger.com
Students of Spray Finger, a.k.a. Peyton Scott Russell, in Puerto Vallarta Mexico, 2013.
7. Thunder Chef Cook-Off Pits Native Chefs, Raises Money
Courtesy Freddie Bitsoie
Ka’ainoa Ravey, Ahmed Obo, Freddie Bitsoie at the first Thunder Chef Native cook off competition
8. Native Chef Rich Francis Makes Final of ‘Top Chef Canada’
foodnetwork.ca
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Jeff McIntosh/THE CANADIAN PRESS
A pipeline leak that sent oil into an Alberta, Canada river in 2012.
10. Climate Disruptions Hitting More and More Tribal Nations
Associated Press
Kivalina, Alaska is one of several Native villages that are compromised by rising waters.
11. Meet the Masters: A Taste of Who’s Haute in Native Cuisine, Part 1
Native Foodways
Diné chef Bertina Cadman
12. Northern Arapaho Friends Bring MMA To Their Community
Courtesy Mike Yellowplume
Mike Yellowplume, 34, and Nick Brown, 35, own Built For Battle a company that trains MMA fighters
13. Amid Furor, Auction House Stops Sale of Bloody Native Child’s Tunic
source: Waddington’s, via theglobeandmail.com
Lot 22 – ‘Northern Plains Indian Child’s Tunic, early 19th century fringed and with beaded collar, showing signs of central bullet trauma.’
14. Vegan and Vegetarian diet and Native Americans
15. “Healthy Breakfasts Snack Ideas” “Breakfast Food Fried Bread Snacks” “Egg Dips Dishes”
16. COLORES | In Between The Lines: Native American Poetry | New Mexico PBS
17. “Bad Indians” by Ryan Red Corn
18. Shadow Over Sisterland John Trudell
Thanks to my daughter (Alicia Silver Mucha) for suggesting this great piece.
I love it.
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3. John Trudell: We are power
4. -John Trudell-“These Memories”-StarAncestors
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White House
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Richard Walker
Billy Frank Jr. speaks at the celebration of the beginning of dam removal on the Elwha River, September 2011.
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Associated Press
Carey Price is a goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens
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philamplify.org
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Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press
The dried-out bed of Lake Mendocino, California, in February 2014. The state is gripped in its worst drought in recorded history, and a new study has found that climate change is to blame.
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