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We will also be adding guest columns from bloggers in Nativ education and across Indian Country. If you are interested in making your voice heard, please contact Dina Horwedel at 303-430-5350 or dhorwedel@collegefund.org to learn more about contributing to this forum as a guest blogger.
From Wounded Knee to the civil rights era, American Indians and Alaska Natives are no strangers to either institutional harm or the need to use the system to make their voices heard. On this National Day of Racial Healing, learn from the examples of our elders and ancestors how to stay safe while continually pushing for your rights and self-actualization.
By Joseph M. (Tohono O’odham Nation) As a Native person traveling on my own tribal nation and ancestral lands, I never thought I would be questioned about my citizenship. Our land and our Tribe existed long before borders, checkpoints, or immigration agencies. Yet...
In the past year we have witnessed the erosion of the freedom of speech, profiling of civilians, and the right to peacefully protest. What has happened in Minnesota, including the murder of a protestor and the arrest of four Native Americans, is chilling. Native...
