- Mar 2023
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www.filmsforaction.org www.filmsforaction.org
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Europe invented the practice of turning words around on themselves. You need only look to the treaties between American Indian peoples and various European governments to know that this is true. Draw your strength from who you are.
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- I doubt that European culture invented institutional deception but through colonialism, they were certainly leading practitioners of it
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- Aug 2022
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www.hollywoodreporter.com www.hollywoodreporter.com
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A month before the ceremony, the activist organization American Indian Movement had occupied the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee to protest the sustained mistreatment of Native Americans, a standoff that at the time of Littlefeather’s televised appearance at the Oscars was under a U.S. Department of Justice-imposed media blackout.)
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- Aug 2021
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www.cdc.gov www.cdc.gov
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Bixler, D. (2020). SARS-CoV-2–Associated Deaths Among Persons Aged 21 Years — United States, February 12–July 31, 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 69. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6937e4
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- Jul 2020
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news.bme.com news.bme.com
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Going back a few generations, apparently what Stalking Cat is doing was a "fairly common thing" in the Huron (may've misspelled that) tribe, according to a professor of Native American Studies.
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- May 2019
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tritoned.ucsd.edu tritoned.ucsd.edu
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In short, the Indians ask for assis-tance, technical and financial, for the time needed, however long that may be, to regain in the America of the space age some measure of the adjust-ment they enjoyed as the original possessors of their native land.
The wording here is not entirely clear to me... what is "Some measure of the adjustment they enjoyed?"
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We insist again that this is not special pleading. We ask only that the United States be true to its own traditions and set an example to the world in fair dealing.
Here is the problem! "We ask" Instead of "We demand"
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Consider whether the following excerpts from the Declaration of Indian Purpose should be read as blatantly milquetoast or latently radical and how the authors attempted to transform Indian politics into a Cold War imperative.
This document is a criticism of the Declaration of Indian Purpose, and seeks to re-analyse and re-examine how Indian Interests and rhetorical/political strategies have evolved in the past 20 years.
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Challenges came from conservatives who feared its critical edge would be seen as un-American and ardent nationalists who believed that it did not go far enough in demanding sovereignty.
Calling out the opposition and it's motivation. Explaining where the challenges for Native Americans are coming from, and posturing politically.
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Declaration of Indian Purpose’
Framing this 1961 document in relation to the previous 1944, canonizing these with a shared Native American History within an explicitly recognized narrative. This is the framework that the author chooses to present this message.
https://americanindianmovementehs.weebly.com/ "The Declaration of Indian Purpose is a book concerning the founding of the National Congress of American Indians in 1944. - 64 Indian tribes met in Chicago to emphasize "the right to choose their own way of life" and "the responsibility of preserving their precious heritage."
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- Apr 2018
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drive.google.com drive.google.com
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Here, Marjorie is likely referring to a Navajo rug. She mentions explicitly using these rugs as gifts frequently, as in her May 12, June 6, and June 19, 1924 letters.
In each case, she alludes to these rugs only briefly, possibly suggesting how obvious to her their potential as souvenirs and "unique" decor was.
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