For those of you not familiar with Leonard Peltier, he is a “political” prisoner related to events on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975 where two FBI agents were shot and killed. Amnesty International placed his case under the “Unfair Trials” category of its Annual Report: USA 2010 (https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/annual-report-usa-2010/4/). More info on Leonard Peltier can be found…
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — For one tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the government shutdown comes with a price tag: about $100,000, every day, of federal money that does not arrive to keep health clinics staffed, food pantry shelves full and employees paid. To read more on how the shutdown impacts the Tribes…
Historic Day: Two American Indian Women Become Members of Congress
The Lummi Tribe is hoping 2019 will be the year an orca named Tokitae is freed from captivity. Named ‘Lolita’ by Miami’s Seaquarium, the animal has lived and performed in a man-made tank since 1970. The tribe and a host of animal rights groups are putting pressure on the Seaquarium to return her to her…
A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity: The Fight To Bring Lolita Home by Sandra Pollard. http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/life/efforts-to-bring-orca-tokitae-home-chronicled-in-new-book/
