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“On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise.”Playwrights, novelists, and screenwriters spend entire careers without penning an opening line of such weight and power. Yet this sentence isn’t the epigraph for a new book, nor the first screen for a new HBO miniseries — it’s the start of one of the most well-reasoned and poignant Supreme Court rulings in recent memory.On the last day of announced decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020, as most of the political world waited for rulings on President Trump’s tax returns, history was made elsewhere. In a 5-4...

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com In the classic American TV series, the Lone Ranger's faithful Indian sidekick Tonto respectfully refers to his partner as "kemosabe," but a human-rights tribunal in Canada handling a work-place grievance contends it's a racist term and wants a ruling from the country's Supreme Court. Jay Silverheels starred as Tonto with Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger in the classic TV series. The request centers on a grievance to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission by Dorothy Kateri Moore, a Mi'kmaq woman who complained her boss at a sports store in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Trevor Miller, "poisoned" the work environment...

Highest court asked to rule on old Lone Ranger term Last Updated Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:07:01 EST HALIFAX - The Supreme Court of Canada is being asked to hear arguments on whether the word "kemosabe" is racist to native people. The request comes from the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, which is dealing with a grievance dating back to 1999. ''We think it's time to … have some ground rules so people know what's permissible and what isn't.' – human rights lawyer Dorothy Kateri Moore, a Mi'kmaq woman working at a sports store in Sydney, N.S., had complained that...