The US government has filed a lawsuit against the South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS) alleging it practised racial discrimination against Native Americans in hiring, the US Department of Justice said in a news release.
Over a dozen Native American tribes are calling for a Wyoming rock formation known as Devil’s Tower to be renamed, as they believe the name implies that Indian rituals performed there for centuries were devil worship.
“All the treaties between US-government and Native Americans, the number of which is up to around 600, have all been broken, and not by our people,” the Cherokee Elder, who is on a visit to the Russian city of Khanty-Mansiysk in western Siberia, told RIA Novosti.