News From A Colorful Perspective
November is Native American Heritage Month, meant to honor the ancient cultures of native people in the United States as well as bring awareness to the atrocities brought against them by colonists, politicians and soldiers. But last week, President Donald Trump decided to make November “National American History and Founders…
A report by the Community College Equity Assessment Lab at San Diego State University (CCEAL) and the Sacramento Native American Higher Education Collaborative revealed that Native American boys are suspended and expelled at higher rates than students from other demographics in both the Sacramento area and throughout the entire state…
A Black tech company against police brutality, RIGHTTHERE Corporation (RTC), has created an app to help users record and report situations of police brutality. The app, RTC Protech, was launched in 2018 and soon will be available for Apple and Android. Maria Watkins, a Birmingham, Ala., native, founded RTC and…
Elizabeth Peratrovich is set to be the first-ever Alaska Native woman to be featured on U.S. currency. Peratrovich — who was part of the Tlingit Nation — played a key role in getting the earliest U.S. anti-discrimination law passed. The Anti-Discrimination Law of 1945 prevents discrimination on the basis of…
The number of women working in tech positions is growing, according to the 2019 Top Companies for Women Technologists Insights Report by AnitaB.org. AnitaB.org is a nonprofit that works to increase representation of women working in tech, and their annual report serves as a benchmark on how the industry is…
Contractors with white ancestry earned $311,000 two years ago — as a minority-owned company, the Los Angeles Times reports. When the St. Louis, Missouri mayor announced the contract the town made with a Native American-owned company to demolish an old shoe factory, the community welcomed it. The area was still…
Kimberly Teehee has now been appointed as the first delegate from the Cherokee Nation to join the U.S. House of Representatives. Her nomination was approved by the tribe’s council Thursday. The Treaty of New Echota that created the nonvoting position was established in 1835, but until now, the spot has…
Last year, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren came under fire for claiming she was Native American based on family lore and trace amounts of Indigenous DNA an ancestry test detected. This week at a forum in Sioux City, Iowa she apologized for her previous statements and pledged she would…
A report by ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News reveals criminals are being hired as police officers in rural Alaska villages with mainly Indigenous populations. Kyle Hopkins, the Anchorage Daily News reporter who broke the story with ProPublica, described the situation to NPR as part of a “two-tiered justice…
Maine is stepping up to be the first state to ban the use of Native American mascots, names and imagery in public schools. Using mascots and other caricatures of Native American symbols and imagery has long been seen as offensive to cultures that were largely destroyed by white settlers. The…
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