In 2013, while pursuing my degree in Indigenous Law, I was asked by Navajo Nation Justice and Professor Raymond Austin to preside over a peacemaking session. I did. It was instructive. This is the prayer I wrote and delivered to start the session. I cannot take all of the credit, I arranged the thoughts, but …
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LIFE DURING THE AGE OF CONTAGION — APRIL AND THE LINK TO MASS MURDER
April 6, 2020 Published in InsideSources The month of April will be the among the most challenging months in American history. The physical, mental and emotional well-being of the nation is at hope’s edge, as our nation comes to grips with a global pandemic and dire economic consequences. For many mass shooting survivors and their …
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AFTER 15 YEARS, RED LAKE SHOOTING SURVIVORS ARE STILL SUFFERING
The Cedar Creek Singers perform in Duluth at a memorial for the victims of the Red Lake school shooting. Photo: Duluth News Tribune, 2005 by James D. Diamond While the world struggles to deal with a very real public health crisis, community cohesiveness, kindness, and empathy are at a premium. There is a complexity to …
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JAMES DIAMOND’S INTERVIEW ON ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA
From Arizona Public Media: January of 2020 marks the ninth anniversary of the mass shooting in Tucson that killed six people and injured thirteen, including then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Emma Gibson, the tribal affairs reporter at AZPM, spoke with lawyer, professor and author James D. Diamond about his book After the Blood Bath: Is Healing Possible …
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CAN HATE BEGET HEALING? LOOKING BACK AT 2019 AND RAMPAGE SHOOTINGS
In 2019, many lives were lost at the hands of mass shooters. These tragedies occur so frequently they have become the new normal. Nobody is surprised anymore. But, as 2019 came to a close, at least one small step was taken to address mass and school shootings—revisiting federal funding for the study of causes of …
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20 FACTS ABOUT MASS SHOOTINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW
1. NASA Astronaut Mark Kelly saw mistaken TV news reporting that his wife, Gabby Giffords was killed in a mass shooting before he jumped on an airplane from Houston, TX to Tucson, Arizona. 2. Liviu Librescu lived through a Nazi concentration camp in Romania only to be killed by the school shooter at Virginia Tech. …
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“WHERE ANGELS PLAY:” EMILIE’S SHADY SPOT
They would be 13 or 14 years old now, and in the eighth grade. Maybe they’d be learning in school about American history and slavery and reading the novel Lord of the Flies. But those 20 innocent schoolchildren never made it out of first grade. It’s been nearly seven years since the 2012 massacre at …
WILL CALIFORNIA EXECUTE A NATIVE AMERICAN FEMALE MASS SHOOTER?
Cherie Lash Rhodes murdered four people and critically injured two others in a 2014 shooting spree in the tribal headquarters of the Cedarville Rancheria, a small American Indian tribe in Northern California. It all happened during a meeting at the Alturas headquarters where tribal leaders were discussing the banishment of Rhoades. Rhodes was tried in …
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CHANGE IS COMING FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS
Sexual and domestic violence in Indian Country continues to be a crisis, with grave law enforcement challenges. There is progress, however. I recently published an article in the A.B.A. Criminal Justice magazine about the changes made in federal law to help Indian tribes address the problem. Here is the section of the article detailing the …
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