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Native Americans: The Invisible People
Society & Culture  (tags: Native Americans, American Indians, culture, society, Prejudice, humans, americans, ethics )

Kat
- 2 hours ago - battlecreekenquirer.com
Ralph Ellison wrote a novel in 1952 titled "Invisible Man." The book deals with a black man who considers himself socially invisible to white society. Native people are much like that char-acter in Mr. Ellison's book in that they are more times than ...
Legislation Introduced to End Derogatory Mascots
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, Sports, Sports Mascots, Prejudice, culture, society, politics, rights, ethics, government, ethics )

Kat
- 11 hours ago - indiancountrytoday.com
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., introduced legislation before the House of Representatives Nov. 20 that would identify derogatory mascots in schools and create a grant program to assist in changing offensive images. The bill, known as the NATIVE Act...
Scripps Survey Shows Harassment By Debt Collectors Common/A 1977 Federal Law, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Prohibits
Society & Culture  (tags: Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, U.S. Federal Trade Commission )

Kristi
- 19 hours ago - vcstar.com
Forty percent of Americans report that debt collectors have threatened them or their families with violence, otherwise harassed them or called at inappropriate times, according to a Scripps Howard survey.
Shocking: High School Grads Twice As Likely To Be Jobless Than College Grads - and Right-Wingers Are Profiting From Their Pain
Society & Culture  (tags: education, politics, conservatives, jobless, education )

Tierney
- 16 hours ago - alternet.org
The economic meltdown has hit non-college grads much harder than the educated. And conservatives are very good at exploiting their anger and unease.
Who Really Is This Miracle Worker?
Society & Culture  (tags: exorcism, witchcraft, religion, Pastor¬ Michael Osei, children, spiritual powers, miracles, Ebenezer Prayer Ministry )

Kelli
- 4 hours ago - news.myjoyonline.com
He has also exorcised many people and destroyed their witchcraft. They include a 16-year-old girl from Lashibi, in Accra, a 19-year-old girl at Kasoa who had used her witchcraft to kill 150 people, an 11-year-old girl who gave birth to a snake, a 13-year-
Fight Planned Over War Memorial in L.A.
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, ethics, culture, society, politics, rights, sadness )

Kat
- 10 hours ago - latimes.com
Critics file lawsuit, saying the tribute to Medal of Honor recipients does not belong at a downtown park considered to be the city's birthplace. City officials say the suit is meritless.
Feds Acknowledge Withholding Permits for Arizona Resort
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, US Forest Service, US Government, Arizona, safety, culture, society, politics, ethics, rights )

Kat
- 17 hours ago - indiancountrytoday.com
The U.S. Forest Service said Nov. 25 it was withholding snowmaking permits for a northern Arizona ski resort as a way to promote settlement talks in a long-running dispute between American Indian tribes and the resort's owners. The permits were ...
**URGENT**Please Help Crow Creek Sioux Tribe‏
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, culture, society, IRS, activists, ethics, government, rights )

Kat
- 21 hours ago - nativespirits.ning.com
**URGENT**Please Help Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. . We are setting up Tipi's and Having Han Blece'Yapi on the land. http://www.argusleader.com/article/2009 1203/NEWS/912030311/1003/bus... The Internal Revenue Service plans to auction land on one of ...
When Children Are Accused Of Witchcraft ...
Society & Culture  (tags: children, abuse, corruption, crime, culture, death, dishonesty, education, ethics, family, freedoms, government, safety, violence, HumanRights, child rights )

Kelli
- 12 hours ago - leadershipnigeria.com
It is becoming common news that some children who are accused of practicing witchcraft are being abused and molested by their parents and religious leaders on the pretext of exorcising the 'evil' spirit in them. Ruth Choji takes a look at the phenomenon.
Veedersburg Woman Sentenced in Child Molestation Case
Society & Culture  (tags: sexual abuse, children, crime, ethics, babysitter, Samantha Ligh, boyfriend, Stephen E. Quick II, videotape, graphic images, police, HumanRights, arrested, infant, toddler )

Kelli
- 3 days ago - wthr.com
They found a videotape whose graphic images, taken over five months beginning in September 2008, sickened even longtime deputies: A sexual device being used on an infant girl. A young boy engaging in intercourse. A toddler being sodomized.
 
 
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