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My baby sister Tiara. She’s growing up so fast. She’s in college now, and she isn’t asking me to tie her tiny shoes anymore :(
She’s so beautiful. ^_^
i will reblog this for ever and ever.
I’m dying! 😂
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LMAO! Reblogging again because relevant
(Source: meme-meme, via itslaladamnit)
Occupation of Wounded Knee by the American Indian Movement (AIM), 1973, as profiled in Ramparts Magazine
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Circle of Nations Indigenous Association Hosts 29th Annual Pow Wow in Minnesota
The Circle of Nations Indigenous Association (CNIA) will hold the 29th Annual CNIA Powwow on Saturday, April 6, in the Physical Education Center at the University of Minnesota, Morris in Morris, Minnesota. This one-day cultural celebration is the commencing event of the annual World Touch Cultural Heritage Week. In 2012, the CNIA pow wow featured more than 250 American Indian dancers and singers—the largest in Morris’s history. This intertribal event is free and open to the public. The CNIA Powwow serves as an opportunity for students to develop leadership skills, promote cultural awareness, and network with potential American Indian students. It also introduces the campus and surrounding community to a contemporary-style pow wow and celebrates the social and cultural ties American Indian students have with Native communities in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Marissa Atoruk ~ Kiana
Tribe: Kiana Village/AK native art, native american jewelry, native american rings, turquoise crafts, student loans, debt financing, native american astrology, native horoscopes, student debt, Indian Genealogy Records, family tree, native heritage, native jobs, native study, native students, native american university, grant, native ancestry, dna test College: University of Alaska-Fairbanks Position: G Class: JR Home town: Kiana, AK High school: Kiana HS Career: 2011-12 as a junior: Walked on to the program this year…Appeared in four games off the bench…Scored five points and dished out two assists in 13 minutes vs. Lenior-Rhyne (11/26/11)…Tallied four rebounds vs. Alaska Anchorage (12/3/11).
Orie Brown ~ Oglala
Tribe: Oglala Sioux native art, native american jewelry, native american rings, turquoise crafts, student loans, debt financing, native american astrology, native horoscopes, student debt, Indian Genealogy Records, family tree, native heritage, native jobs, native study, native students, native american university, grant, native ancestry, dna test College: Minnesota West Position: G Class: Sophomore Home town: Pine Ridge, S.D High school: Pine Ridge HS Career: 2011-12 Minnesota College Athletic Conference Player of the Week Hit game winning three pointer in a 68-66 win over Northland on Dec. 2nd Averaged 20 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2.5 steals during 2011-12 season. Averaged 3 three-pointers per game.
Neighbors Dispute Police Account of Shooting of Native Man in Seattle
He says that by the time police arrived in response to the 911 call, his son had calmed down, and that he and Jack were in their front yard. Northwind says he told the police that his son had a knife and a piece of iron. “He’s calmed down now, you don’t have to kill him,” he says he told them. “Don’t kill him, please!”
He says the lead officer pushed him aside and said, “He’s heavily armed.”
“I said, ‘Hey don’t kill my son!’ I was in front of them and Jack was [about five feet behind me]. At that time Jack turned around and ran straight back to the house and, in unison these guys moved … and I’d say there were about 15 cops on the curb … They all had shotguns and pistols drawn…[Jack] got to the porch and he turned around and two guys got him in the chest with the Tasers and he just ripped them out and took off again…he had thin, thin, really thin jacket and a real thin, super thin t-shirt, I saw [the Tasers] stick to his [chest] and he went like that”—indicating grabbing both Tasers and pulling them out—“and he just tore them away, and uh, you know that’s at least 50 thousand [volts]! [One policeman] said, ‘He just shook it off like somebody just slapped him!’”
At this point, Northwind’s telling of what happened that night diverges radically from the police account. The police report says Keewatinawin ran and one of the officers pursuing him fell at his feet, and appeared to be vulnerable to an attack. Northwind says this is not true. “When Jack ran over here, he slipped—there was no cop that slipped, I swear to God there was no cop, no! Jack was on the ground… and he got up. He was on one leg, he was getting up with his hands, and he went like this”—he throws his arms in the air—”and when he did that, they opened fire on him!
“They said he had something in his hand. There was nothing in his hand, nothing, not a damn thing.
“That last shot, my knees buckled on me and I said, “They killed my son!”
Northwind says a police officer ran up to him and said, “What are you doing over here?” Northwind says he told the policeman, “That’s my son you just murdered.”
Northwind claims that officers then put two guns to his head to keep him from running to his son.
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/04/03/neighbors-dispute-police-account-shooting-native-man-seattle-148519
