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Has North Dakota Law Made It Harder for Native Americans to Vote?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Oct 15, 2018 Back in 2018, critics of a series of voter ID restrictions provided ample evidence that the laws ...
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Did Sen. Elizabeth Warren Describe Her Race as 'American Indian' on Her 1986 Texas Bar Card?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Feb 6, 2019 In early 2019 the Massachusetts Democrat attempted to distance herself from her past pronounceme ...
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Did the Trump Administration Take Land from the Tribe That Welcomed the Pilgrims?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Nov 28, 2018 The Department of the Interior reversed an Obama-era decision to put Mashpee Wampanoag land in f ...
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Did Donald Trump Appoint the First Native American to Lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Sep 18, 2018 In August 2018, the U.S. Senate confirmed Tara Sweeney's appointment as Assistant Secretary for ...
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Did Russia Erect a Monument to Native Americans in Front of the United States Embassy in Moscow?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Mar 27, 2018 There was a well-publicized petition to construct such a monument, but it has not been realized ...
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Did Abraham Lincoln Order the Execution of 38 Dakota Fighters?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Mar 14, 2018 After a violent Native American uprising in 1862, President Lincoln signed off on 39 executions ...
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Trump Wants to Deport American Indians to India?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Mar 6, 2017 Reports that President Trump said he was going to deport Native Americans back to India are fake ...
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'This Is Our Ghost Dance.' Standing Rock Sioux Will Continue Their Dakota Access Pipeline Battle

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Dec 21, 2016 Despite a freezing winter, hundreds of activists and Native Americans hunker down in a sustained ...
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Did Native American Scouts’ Long Hair Provide “Almost Supernatural” Tracking Abilities During the Vietnam War?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Dec 6, 2016 Native American trackers were supposedly recruited by the U.S. military for service during the V ...
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Army Corps Backs Away From Plan to Shut Down Standing Rock Camp

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Nov 28, 2016 The Army Corps had initially set a 5 December 2016 deadline to move protesters off their current ...
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Arrest Warrant Issued for Green Party Candidate Jill Stein

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Sep 7, 2016 Stein and her running mate have been charged in North Dakota with misdemeanor trespassing and mi ...
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Native American Student Punished for Refusing to Say Pledge of Allegiance

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Aug 30, 2016 Leilani Thomas said her teacher docked her grades because she refuses to participate in the dail ...
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North Dakota Gives the Green Light to Shoot Indigenous Tribes on Sight

Written by:
Dan Evon
Aug 28, 2016 North Dakota's governor declared a state of emergency over ongoing protests of the Dakota Access ...
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President Obama to Reduce the Size of Navajo Reservation

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Dan Evon
Mar 22, 2016 A letter stating that President Obama is planning to cut the size of the Navajo Reservation by 4 ...
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Natives of Nativia

Written by:
Dan Evon
Sep 8, 2015
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Did John Wayne Say Native Americans 'Selfishly' Tried to Keep Their Land?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
May 2, 2015 The popular actor supposedly maintained that the taking of land from Native Americans was justif ...
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Walking Eagle

Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Aug 16, 2004 A joke about Native Americans derisively tags a pandering U.S. politician with the name Walking ...
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Did Native Americans Give NASA a Message to Take to the Moon?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Jan 12, 2003 The story of how a joke becomes a legend.
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