n 2004 Native Vote was spearheaded by the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI). This was a groundbreaking non-partisan campaign to register and turn out a record number of American Indian and Alaskan Native voters. The culmination of the Native Vote efforts in 2004 and 2006 was a resounding success for tribal governments nationwide. It [...]
Anatomy of a Mine: UP wilderness on trial Written by Lawrence Consentino -"Wednesday, 21 May 2008 On the morning of April 28, a roomful of lawyers in the basement of Lansing’s vast Constitution Hall blinked at slides of a snow-covered cabin next to a woodland stream and beaver pond." Click here to read the entire [...]
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A study of the impact of a California proposal that outlawed affirmative action indicates that programs, especially education programs to help both women and minorities, could be hurt dramatically in Michigan if the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative is passed, the Center for Education of Women at the University of Michigan argued. The center issued the [...]
The Detroit News' Mike Wilkinson writes "On the wooden shelves of a University of Michigan laboratory, thousands of relics -- ceramic bowls, copper beads and stone and bone tools -- await the careful eyes of researchers". Read the remainder of the Detroit News article here