Albert Bender
LATEST ARTICLES BY Albert Bender
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Supreme Court anti-Native decision sets stage for Tribal-State conflict
September 6, 2022The Court stated in its inflammatory decision that Indian Country is part of state territory. This is incredibly shocking and betrays an apparent complete ignorance of Federal Indian law.
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Rogue Supreme Court’s latest Indian law decision a huge step back in time
July 6, 2022This decision, like so many recent rulings, shows the Supreme Court is out of sync with public opinion and is an outlier in U.S. society.
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Indian boarding schools report details horror of Indigenous dispossession and genocide in U.S.
July 1, 2022U.S. government admits responsibility for 150-plus years of atrocities committed against Indigenous children.
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Politicians who do nothing to stop mass shootings are themselves monsters
June 2, 2022The U.S. government is in a state of “moral paralysis” on the recurrence of mass shootings.
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‘Recovering Ancient Spiro’: Remembering one of Native America’s most forgotten but important sites
April 12, 2022Spiro is considered by many scholars to have been at one time the single most powerful political and cultural entity in North America.
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Indigenous community confronts development to prevent erasure of Nashville’s ancient history
March 9, 2022With every shovel full of dirt excavated, pieces of Native history are undoubtedly being erased.
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The LandBack movement is decolonizing Indigenous land across the Americas
January 21, 2022The basic LandBack issue is simple: “Give us the land back.” For many Indigenous peoples, getting the land back is first one of economics, as the stronger an Indigenous nation is economically, the stronger it is...
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Clyde Bellecourt, Indigenous rights warrior, journeys to Spirit World at 85
January 19, 2022At an early age, he was imbued with a sense of rage at the historic mistreatment of Native Americans. In 1968, he was one of the co-founders of the American Indian Movement.
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