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Indian Country 52 is a weekly series of artworks by Ihanktonwan Dakota artist David Bernie that promotes issues and stories in Native American and First Nations communities.
Indian Country 52 #25 – Squaw and Chief
Articles “The depths to which the New Yorker might sink when it comes to appeasing celebrities who want…
Indian Country 52 #24 – Kennewick Man
Articles “On Thursday, Danish scientists published an analysis of DNA obtained from the skeleton. Kennewick Man’s genome clearly…
Indian Country 52 #23 – Mass Extinction
Articles “This was the conclusion of an ONIC report to mark the launch of its campaign to raise…
Indian Country 52 #22 – Wandering
Article “OUTSIDE the Oglala Lakota tribe’s child protection service office, staff members updated a police officer on the…
Indian Country 52 #21 – Shell No (Drilling)
Article “Hundreds of activists decked out in neoprene wetsuits and life jackets took to the waters of Elliott…
Indian Country 52 #20 – Original Terrorist
Articles “In addition to Washington, the Clintons and Obama—Huckabee also pledged to protect Americans citizens from the world’s…
Indian Country 52 #19 – 10,000 Caucasians (Racist)
Articles “Four words derailed the career of Maj. Gen. Michael A. Keltz: “Drunker than 10,000 Indians.” A spokeswoman…
Indian Country 52 #18 – Removal
Article “For more than a century, Native American children were taken from their families and communities in systematic…
Indian Country 52 #17 – Ca$ino (Greed)
Article “Calvin Phelps, a white cigarette manufacturer from North Carolina, seems an unlikely candidate for membership in a…
Indian Country 52 #16 – Lost in Transmission
Article “There are many difficult issues facing the Oglala Lakota people of Pine Ridge. Stories about alcohol and…
Indian Country 52 #15 – Incarceration
Article “The U.S. Sentencing Commission is considering concrete “methods to improve” policies that result in harsher punishments for…
Indian Country 52 #14 – Redman Commodification
Article “The American Indian College Fund (the College Fund) announced that The Walt Disney Company has committed $250,000…
Indian Country 52 #13 – Lab Rats
Articles “Almost 800 people have filed a $1 billion (£676 million) suit against the Johns Hopkins Hospital System…
Indian Country 52 #12 – Dehumanization
Articles “Last week, a jury of nine men and two women in Edmonton found Bradley Barton not guilty…
Indian Country 52 #11 – Lifestyle Choices
Articles ““What we can’t do is endlessly subsidise lifestyle choices if those lifestyle choices are not conducive to…
Indian Country 52 #10 – Penalty
Articles “Three and a half weeks after he allegedly threw beer and racial slurs at Native American children…