Ahmunnisoowin - Intuition

I am very saddened by this recent story. I posted about this story in a the previous entry on this blog. Please read Jessica Yee's story, "Denied Kindergarten for Being Native," on Shameless.

Also on Shameless I highly recommend Jessica's story about how prisons for Native Americans are the new residential schools.

More Native News...

The introduction of the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2008 was applauded today by Amnesty International. This is a groundbreaking attempt to tackle the complex laws and injustice that basically perpetuate and allow violent crime against Native American and Alaskan Native peoples.

The Amnesty International (AI) report exposed the disproportionately high levels of rape and sexual violence that Native American and Alaska Native women suffer -- 2.5 times higher that for non-native women in the United States, according to Justice Department statistics -- and the complex maze of tribal, state and federal jurisdictions that often allows perpetrators to rape impunity.

An increase in breast cancer among Alaskan Native women seems to be slowing according research.

A great story in the Edmonton Sun on how the media rarely or if ever gives fair treatment of the murders and deaths of Native women. Especially since most of the women who have been murdered in Edmonton, Alberta are poor and marginalized Native women.

A roundtable in India has emphasized and encouraged the mainstreaming of an Indigenous Women's Movement.

The International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers went to the Vatican to pray and were nearly kicked out! How crazy!?

Read about Carmen Rosa, the champion Indigenous wrestling cholita from Bolivia.

Martha Berryhill celebrated her 108th birthday! She a part of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and is one of the tribes last original allottees. She is also one of the oldest people in the state of Oklahoma!

The WEWIN Conference to empower women is coming up soon on July 29-31. This conference will be taking place at the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians' Grand Casino Hinckley in Minnesota.