Find links & put on blog what is the current state of affairs w/native Americans in the U.S
1 or 2 links are older links. However, most of these links are of this month.
- http://www.firstnations.org/philanthropicservices?utm_campaign=2464&utm_term=native%20americans%20today&utm_medium=google&utm_source=trada&utm_nooverride=1&utm_content=47302711769
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A lawsuit from two tribes and three parents accusing South Dakota of routinely violating the federal law governing foster care and adoptions for American Indian children can proceed as a class-action case, a judge ruled. The case is part of an ongoing dispute about Native American children in foster care in South Dakota.
It alleges the state is violating the Indian Child Welfare Act by holding improper hearings after children are removed from homes. It says the hearings are sometimes as short as 60 seconds and do not give parents the opportunity to introduce evidence showing their ability to care for the child or to question the state.
As football fans prepare for Super Bowl Sunday, an American Indian rights group released a video Monday aimed at reigniting debate over use of the name Redskins for the NFL team in Washington, D.C.
The National Congress of American Indians, a Washington-based group, produced a video titled Proud to be, in which it shows footage of various Native American cultures across the country.
“Proud, forgotten, Indian,” the narrator says in the beginning of the video as images of young and older Indian people appear.
“Native Americans call
themselves many things. The one thing, they don’t … ” the narrator says
toward the end of the two-minute video as a clip of a Washington
Redskins helmet appears next to a football.
The group for years has
protested the use by professional sports teams of Native American logos
or names that it considers racist, according to the National Congress of
American Indians. The group has recently targeted the NFL team because
some say the term “Redskins” is derogatory toward American Indians.
The federal government doled out $2.2 million in federal grants to 135 different tribal nations in order to preserve almost 200,000 acres of land in the U.S., the federal government announced on Thursday.
Though the federal government’s efforts to protect federal
lands may be applauded by many, tribal leaders say that their land is in
danger, especially as the oil industry seeks to expand drilling
throughout the country.
Under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, which Congress amended in 1992 to include annual appropriations,
tribes can apply for a grant to fund projects such as nominations to
the National Register of Historic Places, preservation education,
architectural planning, community preservation plans and
bricks-and-mortar repair to buildings.
