Obama: US must reverse course with IndiansWASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama assured American Indians last Thursday that they have a place in his White House and on his agenda, telling tribal leaders their marginalized community deserves more from its government.
Tribes claim wind farm would destroy sacred ritual MASHPEE, Mass.
(AP) – From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation’s first offshore wind farm would destroy his Indian tribe’s religion.
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Indian political awakening stirs Latin America
JESUS DE MACHACA, Bolivia (AP) – In Ecuador, the Shuar are blocking highways to defend their hunting grounds. In Chile, the Mapuche are occupying ranches to pressure for land, schools and clinics. In Bolivia, a new constitution gives the country’s 36 indigenous peoples the right to self-rule.
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