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Indian Country 52
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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 – Medical Racism
Articles “Indigenous women living with HIV experience everyday incidents of racism that impede their access to care disproportionately…
Indian Country 52 #24 – Test Tube Culture
Articles “A suspected Indian status scam that told a man he shared genetic ancestry with a dog should…
Indian Country 52 #23 – Child Removal
Article “Enslaved mothers and fathers lived with the constant fear that they or their children might be sold…
Indian Country 52 #22 – Pipeline Owners
Article “In case anyone wondered, this is how the world ends: with the cutest, progressivest, boybandiest leader in…
Indian Country 52 #21 – Donald Jackson
Articles “I don’t know whose “ancestors” Donald Trump was referring to when he said that they “tamed a…
Indian Country 52 #20 – California Genocide
Articles “California’s history is marked by horrific and systemic violence against Native Americans. On this edition of Your…
Indian Country 52 #19 – Lab Rats
Article “A class action lawsuit has been filed in a Canadian court on behalf of the thousands of…
Indian Country 52 #18 – Racial Profiling
Articles “A mother on a Colorado college tour called the police on two Native American students in the…
Indian Country 52 #17 – Hate Crimes
Articles “An entry from late last May, though, was of another order: a news account of a killing…
Indian Country 52 #16 – Return to Standing Rock
Articles ““I think the biggest misconception is that it was a protest and that the Water Protectors were…
Indian Country 52 #15 – Opioids (Slacker Pharma)
Articles “One of the country’s largest American Indian tribes is the latest to sue pharmaceutical companies and drug…
Indian Country 52 #14 – Manifested Identity
Article “Maybe it’s being a familiar kind of stranger that’s made me so painfully aware lately of what…
Indian Country 52 #13 – Take Responsibility
Articles “Pope Francis will not apologize to survivors of Canada’s Indian residential schools for the role the Roman…
Indian Country 52 # 12 – Frontier Oil Sands Mine
Article “Dene elder Roy Ladouceur’s voice grows quiet as his eyes settle on a cellphone photo of a…
Indian Country 52 #11 – Warrior Up (Peltier)
Article “It’s time to “warrior up,” stop polluting the planet and give water the same rights and protections…
Indian Country 52 #10 – Team Indigenous
Article “Some of the women have blue hair, others, purple, some long and plaited, others short and shaved…