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Trump appears to mock Elizabeth Warren with genocide joke and people are livid

sudshr47 February 10, 2019

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It’s rare to see President Trump reference American history, but when he does, it’s normally either (1) wrong or (2) evil. 

Consider his tweet on Saturday, which mocked Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren using a racist slur and then seemingly referenced the Trail of Tears, the 19th century Native American genocide.

“Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore? See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!” Read more…

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Teens in MAGA hats sparked outrage after crashing the Indigenous Peoples March

sudshr47 January 19, 2019

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A group of young Donald Trump supporters has come under fire after ambushing and taunting a group of Native Americans at the Indigenous Peoples March on Friday.

On Jan. 18, Washington, D.C. hosted both the Indigenous Peoples March and the anti-abortion March For Life. It was apparently a group from the latter gathering that set off the appalling scene, based on evidence in videos captured at the time.

Footage shows dozens of teenage boys — proudly decked out in Make America Great Again apparel — closely surrounding and mocking a Native American protester. The protester, an older man, is singing the “AIM Song,” an intertribal song of honor associated with the American Indian Movement. Read more…

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Reclaiming our Mohawk heritage, one app-supplied word at a time

sudshr47 November 15, 2018

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Welcome to Small Humans, an ongoing series at Mashable that looks at how to take care of – and deal with – the kids in your life. Because Dr. Spock is nice and all, but it’s 2018 and we have the entire internet to contend with.

Some nights when I put my four-year-old daughter to bed, after we’ve read through her latest favourite library books, she asks me to teach her some Mohawk words. 

Mohawk is the language of my mother, and besides the numbers one through 10 and various farm animals, my children don’t hear any of these words spoken in our house, or their grandparents’ house. So on those nights, I open the Speak Mohawk app on my iPhone.  Read more…

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This map shows you which Indigenous lands you’re living on

sudshr47 October 8, 2018

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This Columbus day, celebrate the person who really discovered America — aka, pretty much everyone except Christopher Columbus.

By now, it’s well known that Indigenous people populated America well before Columbus arrived, and he wasn’t even the first European to land here. 

So instead of throwing up a dumb Columbus meme on Facebook, use your free time to see what Indigenous groups lived in your area using the Native Land map. 

The map is available online and via the Native Land app (for both iOS and Android). Just type in your address, and you’ll be able to see what indigenous group(s) once lived there or nearby. It’s even possible members of that community still live in that area, though of course many native people were displaced, thanks to, uh, centuries of shitty federal policy. Read more…

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This woman could become the first Native American governor in US history

sudshr47 May 16, 2018

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The list of Native American governors in American history is depressingly short. It’s zero, to be exact.

That’s why Idaho Democrat Paulette Jordan‘s Tuesday primary win for governor was so significant. If Jordan wins the general election, she’s poised to become the first Native American governor in American history, and the first female governor in Idaho history.

It’s a historical achievement, if a painfully overdue one.

Jordan, a member of the Coeur d’Alene tribe, defeated moderate Democrat A.J. Balukoff in Tuesday’s primary. She has served two terms in the Idaho state legislature, where she emerged as one of the state’s leading young liberal voices. Read more…

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Trump’s called Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’ at least 26 times—and it’s not OK

sudshr47 November 28, 2017

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Since Aug. 2014, Donald Trump has referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” at least 26 times. 

He mostly slings the slur on Twitter, but he’s also repeated it during rallies, interviews, and at meetings with fellow government officials — all attempts to discredit the senator by painting her with an offensive nickname that propagates one of Trump’s pet conspiracy theories.

His most recent use of the term was particularly tone deaf: he slid a non sequitur reference to “Pocahontas” in while speaking with Navajo code talkers at the White House on Tuesday — people the president was supposed to be honoring, but ended up deriding. Read more…

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The Navajo code talkers that helped the U.S. win WWII

sudshr47 November 28, 2017

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Navajo code talkers Cpl. Henry Bake, Jr. and PFC George H. Kirk transmit messages during combat on Bougainville.

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Shortly after the entry of the United States into World War II, Philip Johnston approached the Marine Corps with a proposal that could help tip the scales in the Pacific Theater.

Johnston was the child of missionaries, and had grown up on a Navajo reservation. He was one of just a handful of outsiders who could speak the Navajo language fluently.

He proposed developing a code based on this language, one that could be transmitted and decrypted quickly and orally on the battlefield — and that would be virtually impossible for the Japanese to crack. Read more…

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