If You Knew the Conditions examines the inadequacies of the healthcare provided to American Indians by the Indian Medical Service. DeJong argues that, while Congress and the Indian Service had a responsibility to provide meaningful and relevant medical services to American Indians, indifference to American Indian conceptions of wellbeing limited the effectiveness of Indian medical services.
By Mordecai Specktor It’s murder in Minneapolis I stopped by the Pow Wow Grounds coffee shop on Sunday afternoon, January 25. It was the day after Border Patrol agents gunned down Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse at the VA hospital in Minneapolis. Pretti was pumped full of US government bullets on Nicollet Avenue just […]
By Mordecai Specktor Manufacturing crimes, again “A federal grand jury today returned a six-count indictment against four members of a far-left, anti-capitalist, and anti-government group that allegedly plotted to set off bombs in Southern California on New Year’s Eve, charging them with additional, terrorism-related felonies,” boasted a Dec. 23 press release from the United States […]
By Mordecai Specktor Leonard Peltier in Minneapolis It was a surrealistic experience to enter the Minneapolis American Indian Center on Nov. 8 and see Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement (AIM) activist who served nearly 50 years in federal prison until his release in February, greeting friends and posing for pictures in a reception room […]
