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“The Creek Nation, relying upon this openly racist Dawes rolls, decided to segregate, strip and steal the heritage, culture and citizenship of those so-called Creek freedmen and their descendants,” said attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons. The federal lawsuit asks the U.S. Department of the Interior be barred from granting benefits to the tribe until the freedmen are […]
Eureka’s return is believed to be the first time a local government has returned land to a tribe in the U.S. Eureka City Council member Kim Bergel described the return as “the right thing to do.” Eureka’s actions are significant politically, spiritually, and also economically. https://talkpoverty.org/2019/10/30/california-land-back-indigenous/ San Francisco Bay Area, CA Needs this for us […]
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/us/cherokee-nation-ruling-freedmen-citizenship-trnd/index.html
California Schools, parks, libraries and museums across the state may choose to start publicly recognizing that they sit on what was once tribal land, if a new bill proposed by Assemblyman James Ramos, D-Highland, passes. https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2020/03/06/bill-seeks-recognize-california-tribal-land-occupied-schools-libraries/4977096002/
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf speaks during a press conference at The Paloma at Oakland Hills on Monday, November 16, 2020 in Oakland, CA. Schaaf announced Wednesday that, with funding from the state, Oakland purchased 17 homes that will eventually house more than 100 unsheltered people. More than 100 unhoused people in Oakland will begin moving […]
For many of the people of North America the indigenous people had suffered a lot of losses. But the main thing that most people overlooking is what was mainly taken from us. What was tooken from us was our homes not money. What was tooken from us was hunting grounds and lakes rivers streams hot […]