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Red Roundup, 6/02/08
Submitted by Troy Doney on Mon, 2008-06-02 10:57.News that didn't make it to Redlines today!
Obama, Clinton woo American Indian voters The purification ceremony isn't an everyday ritual of U.S. presidential politics.
Racism against Native Americans in northern Michigan debated in Sundance Channel reality TV series Nimrod Nation
Submitted by Greg Peterson on Thu, 2007-12-13 21:04.The Great White North: National documentary shines light on racism against Native Americans in northern Michigan
Nimrod Nation on Sundance Channel highlights Upper Peninsula quirkiness of rural life, passion for high school basketball, hunting and fishing
Turtle Island Project Native American Roundtable strongly opposes racist location names in Minnesota and across nation
Submitted by Greg Peterson on Sat, 2007-09-22 07:57.Turtle Island Project first Native American Roundtable came out strongly against racist location names in Minnesota and across the nation
Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer, director of the Rum River Name Change Organization Inc. in Wahkon, Minnesota, if fighting the distorted name of the Rum River - one of numerous places in the U.S. whose original American Indian names were perverted by racist whites.
Dahlheimer helped introduce a bill to change 14 derogatory geographic place names that are offensive to American Indians
Submitted by Greg Peterson on Sat, 2007-09-22 07:51.
Turtle Island Project first Native American Roundtable came out strongly against racist location names in Minnesota and across the nation
Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer, director of the Rum River Name Change Organization Inc. in Wahkon, Minnesota, if fighting the distorted name of the Rum River - one of numerous places in the U.S. whose original American Indian names were perverted by racist whites.
Dahlheimer helped introduce a bill to change 14 derogatory geographic place names that are offensive to American Indians
Submitted by Greg Peterson on Sat, 2007-09-22 07:44.
Turtle Island Project first Native American Roundtable came out strongly against racist location names in Minnesota and across the nation
Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer, director of the Rum River Name Change Organization Inc. in Wahkon, Minnesota, if fighting the distorted name of the Rum River - one of numerous places in the U.S. whose original American Indian names were perverted by racist whites.
Dahlheimer helped introduce a bill to change 14 derogatory geographic place names that are offensive to American Indians
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