There are children in concentration camps in the United States right now. On the news they call them “migrant children” (not children fleeing for their lives or seeking asylum or in desperate need of aid — just “migrant children”). Talking heads are debating the use of the term “concentration camp.” “Sure these kids are being […]
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First Contact: Steven Paul Judd’s Moving Pictures
When Kiowa-Choctaw artist Steven Paul Judd was a child, growing up on Indian reservations in Oklahoma and Mississippi, he contracted polio and had to go to the hospital. There, by his own account, he “saw TV for the first time.” It made a big impression. As luck would have it, the TV movie that was […]
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Updated: Feds Investigate Loleta Elementary
The federal government is launching an investigation into allegations that the Loleta Elementary School District has discriminated against Native American students. The Americans Civil Liberties Union of Northern California received a letter this week from the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights informing it that the office has officially launched an investigation […]