"An Army major is celebrating one year of having earned approval to wear his hair and tribe-specific regalia items in a way that honors his Native American heritage during appropriate service ceremonies."
@ManyRoads OMG. It makes me feel so good to see my Native brothers and sisters wherever I encounter them. For YEARS, as a child, I read about Native Americans as if they were people of LONG, long ago, dead and vanished, never to return. Now we have a Native woman in charge of our public lands and interior; a Native Hawai'ian representing his people in the Lege. A Native rep. from Kansas. When will we have more representatives from the ORIGINAL inhabitants of this land?
it's not even some grand political strategy. this is simply who they are and what they do. this is all they know of existence. what calls to them. what fills them with purpose and meaning: weak schoolyard bullying
so fucking pathetic:
"Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in #SouthDakota public university employee emails"
did anyone tell these geniuses what "dakota" means?
Similar to #Canada’s #ResidentialSchool system. The last residential school closed in 1996. (Grollier Hall, closed in 1997, wasn't state-run residential school.)
The U.S. Federal Indian boarding school system ran from 1819-1969 & included 408 federal schools.
When racist ignorant folks tell Indigenous & allies to shut up/get over ancient history - I like to remind them that 1996 was 3 years after my high school grad & it's far from ancient history.
"Thursday is graduation day for the first class of the nation’s only tribally affiliated medical school, the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation. Started in 2020, it’s an effort to boost the numbers of both Indigenous physicians and doctors willing to treat patients in rural areas experiencing severe physician shortages."
Thinking about how little outrcry there was when #Noem demonized #NativeAmerican nations to such an extent that she is literally banned from setting foot on their territories, and how much there was when she killed animals. I’ve got nothing against animals (and don’t even eat them), but how can her #Racism get a pass? Thoughts about this? Care about this? Join me as a sustaining donor to #Lakotalaw
The trading posts in #Gallup are impressive. With Zuni Pueblo, the Navajo Nation, and Hopi in close proximity, the density of artistic talent in the immediate area is impressive.