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Tag Archives: reservation
The movie Wind River and white saviors: A review of reviews
Wind River, a 2017 crime thriller set in the winter wilderness of the Wind River Indian Reservation, focuses on the on-going epidemic of assaulted and missing Native women and girls. Examples of the problem are not hard to find. The … Continue reading
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Tagged film, ICTMN, jeremy renner, movie, reservation, review, white savior, wind river
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Alcohol, suicide, and resistance at Pine Ridge featured in new videos
Following the struggles of Lakota teenager George Dull Knife for four years, a new documentary examines recent protests of American Indian Movement (AIM) activists to shut down the four bars in Whiteclay, Nebraska. This town of fourteen people existed solely to sell … Continue reading
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Tagged aim, alcohol, america reframed, american indian movement, beer, Dull Knife, indian, lakota, liquid genocide, on a knife edge, pbs, Pine ridge, reservation, suicide, the guardian, whiteclay
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A Dead Hawk-Owl, Native Americans, and Bird Conservation
On December 30, 2015, Dan Waggoner, a bird-watcher, discovered a Northern Hawk-Owl near Brewster, Washington, on the Colville Reservation. A charismatic bird, and very rare south of Canada, the news spread on social media, resulting in a steady flow of … Continue reading
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Tagged brewster, colville, condor, ebird, etiquette, first nations, hawk-owl, hooper bay, indians, kokechik, MBTA, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, native americans, reservation, restoration, seabird youth network, Yurok
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More Range Wars and White Privilege
I woke up this morning to the news that heavily-armed white ranchers (some call them “yeehawdists”) had taken over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon. This is one of the premier wildlife refuges in the West; I had visited … Continue reading
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Tagged ammon, Bundy, Burns, cliven, Dann, indians, Malheur, Native American history, Oregon, Paiute, range war, refuge, reservation, Wadatika, white privilege
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