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The American Indian Reporter leaders actively seek to strengthen tribal voices and assist the next generation of Native American writers, leaders, photographers, social media correspondents and indigenous rights activists through bona fide publishing opportunities in professional print media and Web publishing. If you have a news tip, a story idea, public notice or opinion letter to publish - if you want to get involved with our tribal publications or just want to leave us a comment - please contact our publisher directly: Ernie C. Salgado Jr. (Soboba tribal member). |
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Castro-Huerta decision 'flips federal indian law on its head'
Mary Kathryn Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is an attorney whose work focuses on the restoration of tribal sovereignty and the inherent right of Indian Nations to protect their women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault.... "The court had an opportunity in Castro-Huerta to right a wrong." As a child, my grandmother taught me to revere the United States Supreme Court. Her eyes would beam with pride as she pointed to the photos of my grandfathers that hung on her wall and explained that in 1832, the executive and legislative branches of the United States government sought to extinguish us. But, the judicial branch recognized our right to exist. In Worcester v. Georgia, a case that my great-great-great grandfather John Ridge worked on alongside Cherokee Nation Chief John Ross, the United States Supreme Court declared that Georgia could not exercise criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians located within Cherokee Nation’s borders. The Supreme Court’s declaration of tribal sovereignty threatened nothing less than President Andrew Jackson’s 1830 Indian Removal Act and his plan for genocidal forced removal. And it affirmed our inherent right to exist.... |
US Supreme Court Upheld Tribal Sovereignty INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY Edited by Ernie C. Salgado Jr The Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision Wednesday morning, allowing Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, located near El Paso, Texas, to offer electronic bingo at its gaming facility. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for the court and was joined by fellow conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the three liberal justices to form the majority opinion. “In this case, Texas contends that Congress expressly "In the end, however, we find no evidence Congress endowed state law with anything like the power Texas claims,” Gorsuch wrote.... |
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CALIF Tribes Establish New Executive Council Uniting Southern, Central, Northern Indian Reservations by Ernie C. Salgado Jr., Publisher SACRAMENTO, CA - On Tuesday, April 9, 2019, the Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association, Central California Tribal Chairpersons' Association and the Northern California Tribal Chairpersons' Association joined forces to formally establish the California Tribal Chairpersons' Association (CTCA), a state-wide organization established to collectively address critical issues facing Tribes in California ... READ THE FULL HISTORIC CALIFORNIA TRIBAL CHAIRPERSONS' ASSOCIATION STORY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: The CTCA Board of Directors consist of one representative from each of the member tribes. The six-member Executive Council is composed of two representatives from the three geographical areas identified as Southern, Central, Northern. SIX-MEMBER COUNCIL:
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| INDIAN CITIZEN ACT June 2, 1924 |
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On this date in 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Indian Citizen Act granting full US citizenship to America's indigenous peoples. The American Indian people were granted American citizenship on June 2, 1924 as opposed to July 9, 1868 with the adoption of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution simply because it specifically excluded them, plain and simply. The reason for the exclusion was that the federal government did not have full jurisdiction over Native American tribes, which govern themselves and make treaties with the United States. The U.S. Government was still in the process of forcing the American Indian people to adopt the European culture through the education process which began with day schools on tribal lands, and continued with the establishment of Indian Reservation and the infamous boarding schools where the inhumanity that took place within these “Indoctrination Centers” have been covered up for over 15 years. “Kill the Indian, save the man” was the motto of the day.... |
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