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By Kara Briggs By 1948, Mary G. Ross was on the ground floor of what would become the space race. In 1952 Lockheed asked her to be one of 40 engineers in what became known as the Lockheed Skunk Works, a super-secret think tank led by legendary aeronautics engineer Clarence “Kelly” Johnson. It was the [...]
The U.S. government has settled a long-running lawsuit over royalties owed to American Indians. The Interior Department will distribute $1.4 billion to more than 300,000 tribe members to compensate them for historical accounting claims, and to resolve future claims. The department also will spend $2 billion to buy back and consolidate tribal land lost by [...]
Inspired by the actions of the Episcopal Church, a Quaker group has disavowed the Christian Doctrine of Discovery and voiced its support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends issued a Minute–analogous to a resolution–at its September meeting. [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected without comment an appeal by a group of native american activists that claims that the Washington Redskins’ team name is “offensive, disparaging, and demeaning and perpetrates a centuries-old stereotype,” USA Today reported this morning. The team started using the Redskins name in 1933; and the trademark was first issued in [...]
Well the Obama Administration has made an offer which looks positioned to settle Infamous Cobell Lawsuit. More Info (HERE). Of the most important information to me are the proposed changes in the Trust Administration processes. The paternal government policy which simply says we must care for you because you can not care for yourself. How [...]
AMY GOODMAN: Shortly before President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize today, a coalition of North American indigenous groups marched to the US embassy here in Copenhagen, calling on Obama to stop what they described as the war on native peoples and lands waged by the US energy industry. Speakers at the protest included Faith [...]
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