HeyJaredNative America: An Indigenous perspective on news & history
Indigenous communities deserve the same standard of journalism as the rest of the country, but rarely receive it from non-Native media outlets. My writing seeks to correct this.
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September Native News Roundup (opens the original)
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Land Back, Language Back, Culture Back!Tribes are fighting to regain what colonization took awayIn Maine, the Penobscot Nation regained 11,297 acres of their ancestral homelands near sacred Mt. Katahdin. The land transfer came from the Trust for Public Land and follows the Penobscot River, where the Penobscot have lived for millennia. When Maine became a state, the tribe lost most of their land, but has fought for generations to gain it
Five Native women to watch this election cycle (opens the original)
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With the midterm election less than 45 days away, the election is dominating the headlines: Will Democrats take back the Senate? What does the wave of progressive candidates who defeated moderates in the primaries mean for the future of the Democratic party? And how will Republican gerrymandering shape the races ahead? Rarely mentioned in these stories, however, are the Native women at the center of many of them. This election cycle, Native women are critical to Democratic hopes to retake the Se
Who Gets to Be Native? Dina Gilio-Whitaker on Ethnic Fraud, Pretendians, and Tribal Sovereignty (opens the original)
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I’ve known Dina Gilio-Whitaker for many years, and I’ve been reading and admiring her work even longer. Her new book, Who Gets to Be an Indian: Ethnic Fraud and Other Difficult Conversations About Native American Identity couldn’t have come at a more important time.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hp5B!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpubl
From the Heart of Our Nations (opens the original)
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Lately, I’ve been having a hard time feeling hopeful about the world. Watching the news, it’s hard not to feel pessimistic about the future. But last Friday, I found a deep well of hope: our next generation.First America, in partnership with Tulsa Artist Fellowship, has released a new book: From The Heart of Our Nations. The book is a collection of futuristic flash fiction from young and emerging Indigenous writers. The stories emerged from a series of workshops led by Kashona Notah, who also ed
July Native News Roundup (opens the original)
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Protecting Voting Rights and DemocracyVoting rights advocates scored three legal victories last month–and those victories matter for Native votes.The Supreme Court upheld mail ballot grace periods in a landmark ruling last month. Republicans had challenged a Mississippi law that allows ballots to be counted if they are postmarked by election day, but received up to five days later. The legal victory for voting advocates pr
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