Native Youth Ambassadors Carry Their Hope For The Future To The White House

Young people represent 40 percent of tribal citizens in the U.S. MintPress spoke to some of the first-ever White House Youth Ambassadors, a group of 36 young Native Americans chosen based on the active roles they’re taking to serve their communities.

Christine Graef
By Christine Graef
Native Youth Ambassadors

Native Youth Ambassadors with IHS Director Yvette Roubideaux and N7 General Manager Sam McCracken, December, 2014. Photo credit: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians WASHINGTON --- Native youth across the country are actively serving their communities and establishing plans for a bright future. When federal officials tour Indian Country this

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American Indian Tribe Calls Keystone XL Vote An ‘Act Of War’

“Did I declare war on the Keystone XL pipeline? Hell yeah, I did,” said President Cyril Scott of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. “I pledge my life to stop these people from harming our children and grandchildren and way of life. They will not cross our treaty lands. We have so much to lose here.”

Alice Ollstein for Think Progress
By Alice Ollstein for Think Progress
Shane Red Hawk

As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote this week on a bill to force approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which the House of Representatives already passed on Friday, American Indian groups who would be directly impacted by the tar sands project are converging on Washington D.C. to voice their opposition. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe,

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Native American Tribe Adopts Bitcoin As Official Currency

The Oglala Lakota Nation lives in one of the most economically-depressed parts of the U.S., and are hoping MazaCoin will pull the tribe out of poverty.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

In the aftermath of the Mt.Gox debacle, in which approximately $460 million worth of Bitcoins disappeared due to a known and exploited security flaw with the exchange, the cryptocurrency industry is scrambling to find even footing. Reflections on raw inexperience, huge expectations and negligible management skills have driven people from Wall

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