by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 6, 2025 | birthright citizneship, Relocation program
A woman with strong ties to Pine Ridge told me this week that young people from that reservation have been detained by ICE. And I know that the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) sent out word to tribal people across the country to carry enrollment cards and other...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 19, 2023 | Allotment Act, American Indian Religious Freedom Act, BIA, Indian assimilation, Indian boarding schools, Indian Child Welfare Act, Indian Freedom of Religion Act, Indian history, Indian religious freedom act, Indian wars, land ownership, National Geographic, Neil Gorsuch, Relocation program, Removal Act of 1830
Last week the Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act. “The bottom line is that we reject all of petitioners’ challenges to the statute, some on the merits and others for lack of standing,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the conservative Trump...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 21, 2020 | assimilation, GI Bill, Ibram X. Kendi, Jim Crow, racism, Relocation program, segregation, Termination act, white superiority
Ibram X. Kendi’s book, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, is an exhaustive catalog of religious, social, and economic attitudes and policies that began with the importation of African slaves and continue to this day. The...