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We know that when these man camps or temporary establishments are created, that there is an increase in violence and particularly sexual violence against our Native women.

Angel Charley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Tribal courts will now be able to exercise jurisdiction over non-Native perpetrators of sexual assault and sex trafficking, and we're providing more support for legal services and for law enforcement to get the training they need to help handle the trauma survivors are experiencing.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A ship in the Black Sea with the Kalibr land attack cruise missile could reach Berlin, if they viewed one of the European capitals as being a weakness in NATO, they could do that sort of escalation, non-nuclear, but they could strike outside the immediate theater of conflict and start hitting native targets.

Steven Horrell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To paraphrase from Michael's work -- Native people have been relegated to the sidekick, shaman, overly sexualized or super tracker characters, we are rarely the main character or the hero.

Arigon Starr

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To get what? Get Ukraine? It is impossible, this is not to be changed by missiles, bombs, tanks, any strikes. We are in our native land. And for the war against us there will be an International Tribunal for them.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The world has seen that Ukrainians are powerful, Ukrainians are courageous, they're on their native land, and they're never going to give it up to anyone. They will never betray it.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Oregon native was a groundbreaking talent and lifelong friend and longtime client, whose kindness and generosity was equaled by The Oregon native influence and admiration to generations of actors and improvisational comedy throughout the world.

Robbie Kass.Hesseman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The non-invasive nature of this approach makes it particularly valuable for observing vulnerable or endangered species as well as those in hard-to-reach environments, such as caves and burrows. They do not have to be visible for us to know they are in the area if we can pick up traces of their DNA, literally out of thin air, air sampling could revolutionise terrestrial biomonitoring and provide new opportunities to track the composition of animal communities as well as detect invasion of non-native species.

Elizabeth Clare

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm very honored that people would do this, because it hasn't always been possible as Native Americans for people to look at us and say,' We want to help Amanda Lee,' it was quite the opposite for a long, long, long, long time.

Ken Workman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Elizabeth Warren is a thug and a liar. She got into college lying about her ethnicity and continued to lie, she tried to use Native Americans to get to where she is. This thug wants to add 4 seats to the U.S. Supreme Court and 4 seats to the U.S. Senate: Enough seats until they control everything. That’s totalitarianism.

Scott Applewhite -RRB- Levin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As a language teacher, it’s always interesting to see that some of these terms are usually new colloquialisms, or are rooted or borrowed from another language, as a non-native speaker, I must confess it’s fun to see English speakers stumbling a bit for a change.

Esteban Touma

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is our first language, this is our native language, we're using our native language on the field.

Keith Adams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We Native people have no reason to celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims.

Kisha James

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sometimes, I think that non-Native people picture us as being stuck, historically. They think of us as being stuck in the past, but while we talk about our history -- because if we don't, it would be completely erased -- we're active in our resistance and in what's happening now.

Mahtowin Munro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think that they wanted a token Native, and I think that they were expecting him to sing the praises of the Pilgrims -- to thank them for bringing' civilization' to these shores, they said that he couldn't give that speech because it was too inflammatory and that they'd write him a new one. But he refused to have words put in his mouth.

Kisha James

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Just as Native American activists have demanded the removal ofChristopher Columbus statuesand pushed to transform the Columbus holiday into an acknowledgment of hisbrutality toward Indigenous people, Native American activists have long objected to the popular portrayal of Thanksgiving.

Washington Post

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The road to get to this point, has never been just about my race, ethnicity, culture or any of the immutable or unchangeable demographics. The main ingredients are critically more powerful than that.I was born and raised on military bases across the US and even Stuttgart, Germany. I am the daughter of an amazing officer’s wife and kindergarten teacher and social worker whose family was a mix of Haitian and Native American. And I’m the daughter of a military combat pilot who came from the sticks of east Texas.My parents taught me that our skin color and hair texture will always identify us to people who choose only to see that. But, we must work hard to ensure our success reflects our individual gifts, diversity of thought and experience.

Harris Faulkner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Meanwhile, the name' Atlanta Braves,' the tomahawk adorning the team's uniform, and the' tomahawk chop' that the team exhorts its fans to perform at home games are meant to depict and caricature not just one tribal community but all Native people, and that is certainly how baseball fans and Native people everywhere interpret them, in our discussions with the Atlanta Braves, we have repeatedly and unequivocally made our position clear -- Native people are not mascots, and degrading rituals like the' tomahawk chop' that dehumanize and harm us have no place in American society.

American Indians President Fawn Sharp

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Palm trees do not sequester carbon at the same rate as our native canopy trees and do not provide shade, cool down streets and sidewalks to help counter the urban heat island effect that canopy trees do.

Penni Redford

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The behavior demonstrated by this Southern California teacher is incredibly harmful to Native youth. We must set a higher standard of training for educators to prevent racism and discrimination from occurring in the classroom -- especially by faculty.

Echo Hawk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If the state of Oregon wants to target adversely impacted businesses, then fine, but help Hispanic businesses, Asian American businesses, Native American businesses and White businesses that have been adversely affected, not just Blacks', that’s unconstitutional.

Edward Blum

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The inclusion of ethnic studies in the high school curriculum is long overdue, students cannot have a full understanding of the history of our state and nation without the inclusion of the contributions and struggles of Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans.

Jose Medina

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The largest park within the Pinellas County Park System, Fort De Soto park consists of 1,136 acres made up of five interconnected islands (keys), these keys are home to beach plants, mangroves, wetlands, palm hammocks, hardwoods and scores of native plants.Each of these species plays a vital role in the preservation and protection of the natural environment.

Pinellas County website

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When then-Gov. Evans made that proclamation, he said that John Hickenlooper can hunt Native people, just as if John Hickenlooper could hunt a buffalo, an antelope, an elk, a deer. It was open season, and we do appreciate what Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has acknowledged. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis wants to try to make a wrong right. And that's what we're here for today and that's what we look forward to, is that we would like to see all those wrongs that were done all those years ago come back to right.

Reggie Wassana

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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