Top 5 Ways Senators Used Indian Affairs Hearing to Push Their Pet Projects

Rob Capriccioso
May 17, 2013
Even a person only casually acquainted with Native Americans who viewed the May 15 hearing of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in which U.S...
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VAWA Tribal Provision Continues Caste System in Indian Country

Senator Maria Cantwell, the chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, stated in regard to tribal provisions in VAWA, “If you think you are rooting out crime in America and you are letting a sieve happen in Indian country you are not rooting out crime....

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February 26, 2013
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Native Vote Packs a Punch—Again

Who would think that a group that makes up about one percent of the overall population could carry such a wallop? From 2000, when we defeated infamous “Indian fighter” U.S....

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Montana Tribes Demand Equal Access to Early Voting

Stephanie Woodard
October 10, 2012
On October 10, members of three Montana tribes— Northern Cheyenne , Crow and Gros Ventre and Assiniboine—filed a voting-rights lawsuit in federal court in Billings...

Elections 2012: Making a difference: Recalling Slade Gorton

Mark Trahant
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It’s easy to say, Native American voters make a difference. But is it true? What’s the track record of successes and failures?...

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Top 5 Ways Senators Used Indian Affairs Hearing to Push Their Pet Projects

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