Native Americans
This collection contains interviews, commentary and stories about Native American resistance against Euro-American settler colonialism. Specific topics addressed include the 1973 Occupation of Wounded Knee, health and medical conditions on reservations, environmental and ecological challenges facing Native communities and the voices of Native leaders.
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![Oglala Lakotas and AIM protest Atlanta Braves](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Oglala Lakotas are protesting outside the Atlanta Braves stadium in Atlanta, GA. Speakers include Aaron Two Elk, the SE Regional Coordinator for the International Indian Treaty Council and the American Indian Movement (AIM), Bill Crossman of the Against Racism in Sports Events (ARISE) Coalition, Rose Johnson of the Center for Democratic Renewal, and others. The group is demanding that Ted Turner and Jane Fonda change the name of the Braves baseball team. They are opposed to any use of Native Americans as team mascots and find the behavior of the Braves’ fans degrading and perpetuating of negative stereo types.
![Ward Churchill](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Ward Churchill Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado speaks at the anarchist book fair. Churchill discusses the controversy swirling around him, and promotes his book On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality. Churchill compares Americans to Nazi's. He also discusses Iraqi victims of the war, right-wing conservative government control, and U.S. government perpetrated genocide.
![Alice Stewart](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
About the environmental impacts of uranium exposure, mining and nuclear power plants on Native American reservations. Stewart speaks about how hunting, fishing, and agriculture have been destroyed. The Colville Tribe can't survive under the US government because of differences in values and power.
![Tina Fry](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Speaks about her personal experiences with traumatic health problems during childbirth, forced sterilization and experimental drugs in her Native American community. Also about a lack of doctors, poor access to care, and medical malpractice.
![Jackie Huber](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
About the range of medical care problems occurring on Native American reservations ranging from miscarriages to high infant mortality rates due to contaminated water. Also government's unresponsiveness and lack of studies and funding that women on the reservation have been working towards.
5 Documents Found