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Losing My Memory

  • Posted on August 5, 2020August 5, 2020
  • by nativesinamerica

By Kirsten Red Shirt-Shaw Two years in 24 hours gone . That’s what happened to me last weekend. My phone shut off and wasn’t able to turn back on Saturday morning after I unplugged it when waking up. Stuck on…

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Neal Ambrose-Smith: An Artist

  • Posted on March 6, 2019July 10, 2019
  • by nativesinamerica

By A.J. Leonard Whilst walking on the Denver International Airport main terminal terrazzo floor, commuters might initially confuse the massive terrazzo design in blue, green, and orange as an enormous Southwestern Navajo rug. These travelers would be wrong, however, because…

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A New Chapter

  • Posted on September 13, 2018May 9, 2019
  • by nativesinamerica

By Kirsten Red Shirt-Shaw Today marks a new chapter in my life.  I feel like I have marked way too many at this point.  Although for some odd reason this one seems slightly comforting.  When I was originally applying for college I was…

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It’s Not the Same, as Notre Dame

  • Posted on May 22, 2018May 23, 2018
  • by nativesinamerica

By Justin Susan I never knew much about the big controversial debate over the Washington Redskin’s name. As I grew older, I started to hear different point of views from all sorts of people. I listened to ideologies from Redskin…

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Massacres of November

  • Posted on April 5, 2018April 5, 2018
  • by nativesinamerica

By Kaden Walksnice It’s 4:30am November 25th 2015 and I’m awake trying to hustle around before I get on the road to Eads, Colorado at 6:30am because the weather report says we will be driving through a blizzard in northern…

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Intersectionality of Native Identity and Systemic Oppression

  • Posted on April 17, 2017April 5, 2018
  • by Celeste Kimimila Terry

“Indeed, today it is popular to be an Indian. Within a decade it may be a necessity.” Vine Deloria Jr., Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact Vine was onto something when he wrote this…

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Challenge What You Learn, Challenge What You Teach

  • Posted on October 10, 2016April 5, 2018
  • by nativesinamerica

By Talon Ducheneaux I remember being in third grade at a Nebraska school where I was probably one of two children of color, let alone children who were Native. I hated school at that point. I was bullied and outcasted…

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Why We Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day: From Natives In America

  • Posted on October 10, 2016April 5, 2018
  • by nativesinamerica

Some thoughts on today from our incredible team: “There’s a lot of pain that’s comes along with a holiday celebrating the genocide of my people, but there’s also a lot of power. There’s a pride and a power that comes…

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Standing with Standing Rock Filled My Heart

  • Posted on September 20, 2016April 5, 2018
  • by nativesinamerica

Rosalia Badhorse All my life, there has always been a small hole in my heart. This hole is a sense of emptiness I have felt in the realization that I am not the same kind of Indian my ancestors were;…

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Back To School

  • Posted on September 7, 2016April 5, 2018
  • by nativesinamerica

By Kirsten Shaw Starting your first day of school can be nerve racking. Figuring out where your classes are. Worrying about where to sit for lunch, who to sit next to. The feeling that everyone is looking at you. This…

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