Indian group objects to Texas Buffalo Soldier specialty license plate saying “we’re forced to relive an American holocaust” and “there are similarities between the all-black cavalry & the Confederacy.

First the controversy about Confederate license plates in Texas was quickly quelled after black leaders cried foul and now we have the president of the American Indian Genocide Museum objecting to the Buffalo Soldier specialty license plate being proposed. There is a great deal of irony in both instances because black leaders opposed the Confederate license plates on the basis of the racial injustice and degradation of blacks at the hands of whites in the South and the Buffalo Soldiers, an all-black cavalry, who helped to fight Native Americans in the Indians Wars from 1867-1888.

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Calling all young two-spirit to represent in the We R Native. Who are You? contest sponsored by Project Red Talon, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board - open to American Indian and Alaska Native youth 13-21 years old. A link to a flier about the contest is below.

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Send us a photograph, video, paragraph, drawing, song, or text message that expresses who you are. Tell us about your life, your Nation, your family, your community, your values, your interests and hobbies, or whatever else defines you.

Winning entries will receive: $75 (1st place), $50 (2nd place), $25 (3rd place), and will be showcased on We R Native’s website – coming in early 2012!

The contest is open to American Indian and Alaska Native youth 13-21 years old. Send entries to: native@npaihb.org Entries are due by Dec 18, 2011.

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News update posted Nov. 10, 2011
by Kate Sosin, Windy City Times
2011-11-16
http://www.windycitytimes.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=34727

The U.S. Conference on AIDS, held this year in Chicago for the first time, opened with a welcoming plenary breakfast that featured major names in HIV/AIDS prevention.
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the Department of Health and Human Services headlined the morning.

But the moment that left many talking later in the day was a protest that interrupted the introduction of Sebelius. As Sebelius was announced with much fanfare, a large group of protesters with posters marched out and stole the microphone.

The group, protesting on behalf of Asian Pacific Islanders, demanded that their voices be heard in HIV prevention. They came bearing signs that read “Our Lives Matter.”

“We cannot to wait,” said Sharon Day of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force. “We, the first Americans, can no longer be the last in line for funding.”
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