Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tom B.K. Goldtooth (born 1953) [1] is a Native American environmental, climate, and economic justice activist, speaker, film producer, and Indigenous rights leader. [2] He is active at local, national, and international levels as an advocate for building healthy and sustainable Indigenous communities based upon the foundation of Indigenous traditional knowledge. [3]
Navajo Women by Andy Tsihnahjinnie. Oil on fiberboard, 1934. An important small business group on the Navajo Nation is handmade arts and crafts industry. A survey conducted by the Arizona Hospitality Research & Resource Center reported that the Navajo nation made $20,428,039 from the art and crafts trade in 2011. [126]
The Ojibwe of Minnesota have built two schools, the Choctaw of Oklahoma have built a new hospital, and the Pueblo of New Mexico have rebuilt their water system, all using casino profits. Other tribes fund child and elder care programs, health services, fire and police protection, and housing development with gambling earnings.
Jill Biden spent the first day of a trip to the Navajo Nation listening to female tribal leaders whom she referred to as her “sister warriors," on the needs and priorities of the country's ...
The largest Indian reservation in the United States, the Navajo nation, approved a sales tax on junk-food sold within the reservation. The piece of legislation approved increased by 2% the sales tax on food with little to no nutritional value. [49] The tax was placed until the year 2020, by the-Navajo nation council.
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have been stopped and questioned or detained as part of federal immigration enforcement operations, Navajo Nation officials told CNN.
Iroquois women were also responsible for nominating and regulating male sachems (chiefs) to ensure that they adequately fulfilled responsibilities to the nation. [26] Further, political power was shared among all members of the respective Nation, with women holding voting power alongside men.
Surprised, to say the least, when he first heard a developer was mining bitcoin on Navajo land, Slater told Yahoo Finance the opportunity could be an economic boon for the nation, if the revenues ...