For the past 81 years, Americans have celebrated Columbus Day on the second Monday of October. That won’t change this year, however a developing number of cities are seeking to abolish the conventional holiday and supplant it with a day that acknowledges and celebrates the millions of individuals who were at that point living here when Christopher Columbus arrived. This year, the recast holiday known as Indigenous Peoples Day will occur in no less than nine cities across the US, incorporating into N.M., Anadarko, Albuquerque, Okla., Portland, St. Paul, Minn., Ore. and Olympia, as per the Press news. Last year,…
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, and according to Indian Health Services, American Indians and Alaska Natives are particularly vulnerable. Some Indigenous youth don't benefit from western style therapy.
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision came down Friday overturning Roe v. Wade, Oklahoma’s attorney general announced it had triggered a state law banning the practice in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma and neighboring Texas already have some of the strictest abortion bans on the books. For Indigenous women, there were already barriers before Roe v. Wade was overturned.