Native history shows that the right to vote can actually be a defeat instead of a victory. This election year is also the centennial of the Indian Citizenship Act, which made #Indigenous people US citizens (sometimes against their wills), with theoretical voting rights. #USPol #Election2024
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The Native vote dilemma - High Country News
Every election year, Indigenous people grapple with whether and how to engage in electoral politics.
BREAKING: President Biden plans to apologize tomorrow for the federal Indian boarding school system #Indigenous #USPol #News
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President Biden to apologize for federal Indian boarding schools - High Country News
A federal report had called for a reckoning for a century and half of removing Native children from their families. The U.S. government hopes to as...
Reporting on Indigenous issues can be uniquely challenging because western journalism puts a premium on transparency --- but sometimes I see and hear things the public is not supposed to know. Here's a behind the scenes look at the green colonialism reporting I've been doing with HCN and ProPublica. #Indigenous #Journalism #GreenColonialism #AmWriting
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How do you describe a sacred site without describing it? - High Country News
Western journalism puts Indigenous reporters in a tricky position where values don’t always align.