Tag: nativi americani
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Secret medical experiments on Native people in Canada: a lawsuit to prove it still happens today
Is history repeating itself? A class-action lawsuit, certified in early February 2024 by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Canada, revives the painful history of a government conducting medical experiments on indigenous peoples and the persistent discrimination they continue to face in the country’s health care system. But let us take a step back together.
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The ‘Manifest Destiny’ of the United States, Native Americans and the Rest of the World
In the 19th century, the concept of ‘Manifest Destiny’ came to the fore in the United States, a sort of belief in the natural superiority of what was then called the ‘Anglo-Saxon race’: to expand was considered a mission, to spread their form of freedom and democracy. For the proponents of Manifest Destiny, expansion was…
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How do Native Americans see the situation in Gaza: a parallel path?
After all, if the Dem candidate supports Israel – while lamenting the high number of Palestinian victims in her recent statements – her party has given space to Native American exponents among the political figures. On the other hand, a possible – and certainly not to be ruled out – election of Trump to the…
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Native American voting discrimination in US elections
It is since 1965, with the Voting Rights Act signed by US President Lyndon Johnson, that Native Americans have been granted the full right to vote. But it has never been easy for them to vote. Today, Native people say they still face barriers to casting their vote. Let us see why.
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The paradox of Puerto Rico: American citizens but without the right to vote
Puerto Rico is an ‘unincorporated’ US territory: subject to a colonialist and imperialist legacy, it is not part of any state and is not itself a state – along with the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the US Virgin Islands
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Native Americans and firewater (and Tim Sheehy’s statements)
A statement, made public in early September, by Republican candidate Tim Sheehy of Montana, wealthy owner of a firefighting aircraft and helicopter company, has stirred up a furore by talking, in a racist and insulting manner, about the famous ‘firewater’. Sheehy told his audience during fundraisers for his campaign: ‘All the Indians out there are…
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Alarm over Canadian police violence towards Native people: nine dead in the last month alone
Despite representing only 5% of the Canadian population, 30% of the country’s prisoners are indigenous. In the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta – regions where the indigenous population is larger – this number rises to 54%. According to a 2017 CTV News analysis, an indigenous person in Canada is more than 10 times more…
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Canada tried – and still insists – on erasing Native rights
In the United States and neighbouring Canada – a younger government as a constitution and autonomous from England only since 1931 – the Natives have been subjected to an incredible and shameful (if one were able to feel shame) assault on their human rights: it is shocking that their culture and identity had to be…
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Biden apologises to Native Americans: the (negative) comments and the background
We can believe that the announcement of Biden’s apology on 25 October, posted on the White House website on 24 October, was the result of a ‘timely’ decision. The reasons? It is easy to imagine them. During his term in office, Biden has never visited an Indian reservation. Here he is, ten days before the…
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Biden chiede scusa ai Nativi Americani: i commenti (negativi) e i retroscena
“Non avrei mai immaginato in un milione di anni che una cosa del genere potesse accadere”, ha dichiarato commossa al Time il Segretario degli Interni statunitense Deb Haaland, membro della tribù Pueblo. E se lo dice lei, possiamo credere che l’annuncio delle scuse di Biden fatte il 25 ottobre, pubblicato sul sito della Casa Bianca…
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