"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."
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.
"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