A federal judge is once again ordering Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to release the full amount of stimulus funding Congress set aside for Native American tribes. A Tuesday decision from U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta was particularly critical of Mnuchin’s decision to hold … [Read more...] about Judge orders Mnuchin to give Native American tribes full stimulus funding
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Irish dig deep to support virus-hit native Americans, repaying 150-year-old debt
Donations to native American tribes who have been badly hit by the coronavirus crisis are flooding in from Ireland as they repay a debt dating back to the 19th-century potato famine. At least 41 people have fallen victim to Covid-19 in the Navajo nation, with the spike in … [Read more...] about Irish dig deep to support virus-hit native Americans, repaying 150-year-old debt
America’s shift from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day…
...from Axios.... "It's about celebrating people instead of thinking about somebody who actually caused genocide on a population or tried to cause the genocide of an entire population," Baley Champagne, tribal citizen of the United Houma Nation, toldNPR. "While … [Read more...] about America’s shift from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day…
Elizabeth Warren to Native Americans: “I am sorry”….
As she rises in the polling she and her handlers KNOW that Donald Trump IS going to KEEP on her case about this.... 2020 contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told a forum of Native American voters in Iowa Monday that she's "sorry" for harm she's caused the … [Read more...] about Elizabeth Warren to Native Americans: “I am sorry”….
Reparations Have Been Paid Before in America…
Some in Congress want to discuss this... Senate majority leader McConnell does NOT.... Ever since a Union Army general announced in Galveston, Tex., that “all slaves are free” on June 19, 1865 — a day now commemorated as Juneteenth — the question of how to compensate the … [Read more...] about Reparations Have Been Paid Before in America…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren includes Native Americans in talk about reparations …..
There has been on and off mentions about the subject in connection with Black Americans by Democrats..... Warren bring up Native Americans seems tone a negative for her.... Reparation's for Blacks will earn no Democrat any votes from the American Right.... The subject … [Read more...] about Sen. Elizabeth Warren includes Native Americans in talk about reparations …..