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[chippewa]

Indigeneity, Agenda 47 (Project 2025), and Social Security

Update: I think our best hope is that these plans aren't really implemented. Maybe people will become aware and there will be pushback from other elected officials to stop it. Trump's administration didn't go through with its entire 2016 plan. Maybe we'll dodge a bullet this time too.

This affects all Americans.

If you're in the US, you should be aware that the Trump administration plan includes reducing and/or shutting down Social Security which includes SSDI ("disability") / SSI ("welfare"), Medicare / Medicaid, along with EBT / SNAP ("food stamps").

This could also disband Tribes and take our remaining homelands. This could be the Termination Era coming back.

A lot of people voted for him having no idea that they may have voted to end their own healthcare, financial and food assistance in the coming year.

A lot of vulnerable people are at risk in the next year.

Insulin rationing is already happening to Americans (there's a common lie that "insulin was capped at $35!" when that only applies to seniors on a specific Medicare plan, which may be going away) even with the bare minimum social safety net that is Social Security / Medicare / Medicaid.

People are already going hungry even with SNAP / EBT food cards.

If you know anyone who relies on Social Security, or is "on disability" SSDI, or lives in poverty "on welfare" SSI, or needs Medicare or Medicaid for their healthcare and prescriptions, be very aware that you might see scary things happen in 2025, as part of "Agenda 47" (Project 2025).

The campaign had a fake website with nameless AI-generated "Native people" declaring support for the Project:

Zoom in on the hand and the strange sign meme text:

None of these people have names. They don't exist.

This is a project that may include disbanding our remaining Tribes, taking our remaining land and selling it to the highest international bidder.

They could do the same to all "federal land", like National Parks which Trump began doing in 2016 with Bears Ears National Monument a place that used to be protected, with ancient Native petroglyph rock art that now has ATV trails and RV parking, and is open for uranium mining:

From the fake site with AI generated "Native people" telling you we support this plan:

The "community-based self-reflection on how we identify as Native people of the United States" is a return of the Termination Era, where all Tribes are disbanded and we "become Americans" or cease to exist as Native people. Our nations are older than the US. The Trump administration has no right to force yet another assimilation policy on us.

This is a land grab, a theft of public resources, and will rob from the poorest people in the US including your neighbors.

This will affect everyone, Native or not.

I don't have any solution. This is just a warning.

[chippewa]

Her name wasn't Helen and Native people weren't allowed inside the Many Glacier Hotel.

She was likely Siksika, Kanai, or Pikuni but dressing in traditional clothing was illegal at the time, especially "off the reservation" where she would have needed a pass from the US War Department / Bureau of Indian Affairs.

If she was from across the Montana / Alberta border it was the same in Canada.

From the Library of Congress:

"Photograph is probably a posed publicity photograph for the Great Northern Railway showing a Blackfoot woman, probably not named Helen."

From the LoC cited source (Jeanne Moore Writes):

"Her name wasn't Helen. She wasn't a telephone operator at the Many Glacier Hotel in Montana. There were no Native American telephone operators at this hotel. It is highly unlikely that there were any Native American employees there. The photograph wasn't even taken in 1925; according to historian Ray Djuff, it was taken in 1913.

Hoke Smith was an editor at the Minneapolis Tribune hired by the Great Northern Railway to work in its advertising and publicity department. It was his task to sell the railway to potential travelers, especially by promoting the newly created Glacier National Park (1910). Combining fact with fiction, he wrote stories that were picked up by the newspapers. He created a Blackfeet princess named Dawn Mist. And the public, not aware that Dawn Mist was fiction, believed it.

Several Blackfeet women took on the role of Dawn Mist. We don't know who this woman is posing in what was probably a publicity shot for the Great Northern, but she could be one of the four Blackfeet who portrayed the fictional princess.

Glacier National Park borders the Blackfeet reservation. During the time when Hoke Smith was writing publicity for the Great Northern Railway, Blackfeet were hired by the hotel to perform for the visitors. They drummed and danced. They spoke about their culture. The hotel insisted that they spoke their native language and used sign language; it insisted that they wore authentic regalia. In a harsh world where Native Americans were forbidden to speak their languages and practice their cultural ways, this helped the Blackfeet hang onto their heritage. And in that world where employment for people of color was difficult to come by, the income they made performing during the summer helped them through the winter.

But it wasn't all a "bed of roses" so to speak.

The Blackfeet performed outside and were not allowed in the hotel. So, it is impossible that there was ever a Native American telephone operator wearing Native dress in the hotel.

The stories that Hoke Smith fed to the public were fiction and to this day, remnants of that fictionalization are still passed on as fact. The fictionalization is passed on in the photograph of "Helen of Many Glacier Hotel," which is in the Library of Congress. If you search the internet, there are photographs of "Princess Dawn Mist;" in one of them, she's standing with "Abraham Lincoln" in front of a teepee. The Library of Congress holds a photograph of Princess Dawn Mist with President Calvin Coolidge.

Real history is so much more than the fictional accounts, but we must search for it.

I began my journey to find out who Helen was by contacting the Glacier Park Foundation. Carol Dahle forwarded my email to the board members. Ray Djuff, has researched Waterton and Glacier parks, contacted me with a wealth of information. I am indebted to him. He has several books on Amazon." - Jeanne Moore Writes

Female Indian telephone switchboard operator ⁣ “Helen of Many Glacier Hotel"⁣ 26 June 1925⁣ ⁣ Source: Library of Congress⁣ ⁣

[chippewa]

The lie that "64% of Native Americans voted for Trump"

229 people self-identified as Native on NBC exit polls in a few cities, 146 voted for Trump. That's the "64%".

NBC did not include areas with large Native populations:

Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota

Menominee County, Wisconsin (more on this below)

Sioux County, North Dakota (Standing Rock Reservation)

Natives are always left out of exit polls because NBC / ABC etc. aren't having employees drive 500+ miles to reservations where large populations of Indigenous people live.

Some states have zero federally recognized tribes. Some states have zero reservations. Indiana recognizes no tribes and has no tribal land. NBC only went to 10 states and only select cities.

Not all Natives live on reservations, not all Natives are federally enrolled, but the exit polls did not include any tribal land where our largest populations live, and 146 people talking to NBC is not "the Native vote".

The exit polls used for the "64%" number was anyone self-identifying however they want in a few cities in only 10 states.

146 of 229 people.

Kevin who self-identifies as Native, from Cleveland Ohio, a state that recognizes zero tribes, does not represent "the Native vote".

None of the major news sources (NBC, Fox, ABC, MSNBC, CNN etc.) seem interested in learning how to actually include Native populations for any purpose, including during a presidential election, much less figuring out how to interpret those numbers if they bothered to collect them. For example:

Menominee Indian Reservation had 280 votes for Donald Trump, 1057 for Kamala Harris.

655 non-natives live on the Menominee Indian Reservation because during the Termination Era the US sold thousands of acres of the tribe's land to rich settlers.

Instead of learning how to include Natives and how to handle the data, they asked random people in cities (again in only 10 states) how they identify, and 146 people was announced as "64% of Native Americans voted for Trump."

Polling in the Dark: A Call for Accurate Native Voter Representation:

Understanding how critical it is to sample the right communities in order to fully capture the scope of Native voices, the Research for Indigenous Social Action and Equity (RISE) team was immediately concerned with the veracity of this claim and the broader impacts it could have on our communities. After further analyzing the various methodologies provided by NEP members and communicating directly with Edison Research, we believe that the sampling methodology used to capture the political perspectives of Native communities was flawed in the following ways: • Zero of the 306 election day and early voting polling places included in the exit poll were on tribal land; • The Native voter sample size of approximately 229 individuals is too small to confidently assess the broad voting pattern of the Native population across the United States; • Urban and suburban voices were over indexed, with 80% of respondents reporting one of the two as their area type and just 19% reporting their area as rural; • The South was over indexed in the sample, with 35% of respondents reporting it as their region, compared to 21% reporting the East, 22% the Midwest, and 23% the West. Without a deep understanding of how to address the unique challenges of accurately polling Native American communities, future research will only continue to misrepresent Indigenous voices in this country.

146 people.

[chippewa]

Kamala Harris is an enemy of Indigenous sovereignty.

Kamala Harris sent 15 (that we know of, likely more) objection letters fighting tribes' efforts to build water treatment plants and housing on tribal land.

American Indian tribes are being told California Gov. Jerry Brown will monitor what has been a series of letters from Attorney General (AG) Kamala Harris objecting to federal land/trust applications for housing, water treatment plants and other largely non-casino purposes.

Brown and outgoing senior aide Jacob Appelsmith both told tribes they were unaware Harris’ office had sent at least 15 land/trust objection letters to the BIA since Brown took office in 2010.

This may at least partially explain why Brown has worked cooperatively with Indian tribes on tribal-state compacts and other matters while the AG’s office has been rejecting land/trust applications on legal grounds that leave Indian law scholars shaking their heads in dismay.

https://www.indianz.com/News/2014/02/24/dave-palermo-california-ag-bat.asp

[chippewa]

More reports about this:

Sacred Native American burial sites are being blown up for Trump’s border wall, lawmaker says - Washington Post

Tohono O'odham leader says border-wall blasting is typical of feds’ neglect of tribes - Tuscon / Arizona Daily Star

[chippewa]

She is an actual officer and is probably on duty while being that unstable. People asked a PD in the wrong state about her because it had the same county name.

And she was never concerned about the safety of her food. Her meltdown was strictly because her McMuffin was late.

She said she called in her order ahead of time and planned to pick it up. It would have been made without her seeing it and she would have been fine with that. After her order was late she flipped out and didn’t want it.

She’s also exaggerating. She says they told her to pull ahead, and she then “waited and waited and waited and then I pulled ahead”. She’s nonsensically inserting even more waiting into her story.

She’s going to get some McDonald’s employees in trouble because she had to wait 6 minutes.

fuckin karen cop crying about her being scared that mcdonalds employees were poisoning her fucking mcmuffin because they took too long making it during breakfast rush hour give me a fuckin break