s.e. smith, Care2: Earlier this month, Denver police shot and killed Paul Castaway, a Lakota Sioux man living with mental illness. His case illustrates two issues that are flying under the radar: that more than half of fatal shootings involve mentally ill people, and that Native Americans are statistically more at risk of dying in police shootings than other racial groups.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32120-police-shoot-and-kill-mentally-ill-native-american-man



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Britney Schultz, Truthout: Native children in the US are being removed from their homes and tribes to be placed with white foster families or into institutions that are often havens of neglect and abuse, which sometimes have political conflicts of interest.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31802-indigenous-children-face-extreme-rates-of-removal-and-state-violence

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/stories/14629/



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Emerson Urry, EnviroNews: The Lower Brule Lakota Sioux Tribe of South Dakota invoked a clause from the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, wherein the US government agreed to "proceed at once to cause the offender to be arrested and punished according to the laws of the United States." The accused "offender" in this case: foreign tar sands pipeline company TransCanada.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30696-lakota-sioux-tribe-invokes-bad-men-treaty-clause-over-keystone-pipeline



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*We live in a prisoner of war camp, that s why they call it a reservation*.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32849.htm



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Jason Coppola, Truthout: A suicide state of emergency has been declared on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Lakota Nation is coming together to deal with historical trauma, and find strength and hope for their youth.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30375-suicide-on-the-great-sioux-nation



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