by NUNAverse | Jun 23, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and powerful Indian Country activist Suzan Shown Harjo has tested positive twice for COVID-19 over the last two months. Harjo says she has been asymptomatic, and insists she feels fine. An Indian Health Service hospital serving...
by NUNAverse | Jun 22, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
This past Friday was Juneteenth, the 155th celebration of the day when the last enslaved people in the United States were freed in Galveston, Texas in 1865. On the celebrated holiday, several articles were published in the changing media landscape looking at racial...
by NUNAverse | Jun 19, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
On this day in 1865, two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with the news that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were now free. Juneteenth is the...
by NUNAverse | Jun 18, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
Alaska’s congressional delegation is asking federal regulators to investigate whether several banks have unlawfully discriminated against Alaska Natives by refusing to fund Arctic oil and gas projects. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, with Representative Don...
by NUNAverse | Jun 17, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
Police in Albuquerque were being criticized Tuesday for not stepping in sooner as a protest over a statue of a Spanish conquistador erupted in violence, leaving one man hospitalized with gunshot wounds. The city of Detroit has removed a bust of explorer Christopher...
by NUNAverse | Jun 16, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
Indian Country Today reports on a study published last week in The Race, Ethnicity and Education Journal on June 8 published the study by Laurel R. Davis-Delano, PhD, of Springfield College; Joseph P. Gone, Aaniiih-Gros Ventre, PhD, Harvard University; and Stephanie...
