Title: Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Affirms Native American Rights in Oklahoma - The New York Times
Headings: Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Affirms Native American Rights in Oklahoma
Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Affirms Native American Rights in Oklahoma
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Content: This is amazing. It’s never too late to make things right.” The ruling comes at an extraordinary time for Native Americans. They are being ravaged by the coronavirus both in the soaring numbers of cases and deaths and the economic distress caused by closed casinos. But at the same moment, the nationwide movement to confront systemic racism has infused new energy and attention to generations-long fights by tribal nations and Indigenous activists over land, treaty rights and discrimination. In the past few weeks, tribal activists garnered international attention after they blocked the roads outside Mount Rushmore to condemn President Trump’s visit to what they called stolen lands. They won a fight to shut down an oil pipeline that crossed sacred ground in North Dakota. In the face of growing pressure from corporate sponsors, the Washington Redskins of the N.F.L. recently promised to re-evaluate their team name, which activists have denounced for years as racist. On social media, people celebrated Thursday’s decision with the declaration Native Lives Matter. “This brings these issues into public consciousness a little bit more,” said John Echohawk, executive director of the Native American Rights Fund, a nonprofit organization that has spent five decades fighting for issues like tribal sovereignty and recognition. “