#native american indian reservation

[writebethward]

Minority Report Reveals Federal Indian Policies soaked in Critical Race Theory.

https://24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/509532/minority-report-reveals-federal-indian-policies-soaked-in-critical-race-theory

Is current federal Indian policy, soaked in CRT, responsible for the growing abuse, addiction and suicide rampant among tribal youth on so many reservations?

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Minority Report Reveals Federal Indian Policies soaked in Critical Race Theory.

[mannyblacque]

Reservation Dogs 3.03 "Deer Lady"

This episode was a real gut punch.

[xblackreader]

I FULLY AND WHOLEHEARTEDLY RECOMMEND THIS SHOW ON HULU AND FX

Reservation Dogs

If you’re looking for a new show to binge, please do. this show deserves all the attention and glory.

[thehealingsystem]

being biracial between white and poc will always be so alienating for me I don't relate to anyone. I don't quite fit in with whites but I don't quite fit in with people of color. been more white passing than the rest of my family doesn't help

[ironysgrace]

The school was only open for FIVE YEARS and housed 150 stolen children

I can’t even wrap my head around that

Like imagine 12 of your classmates dying in high school ???

[todaysdocument]

Sixteen-year-old Ruth Bluebird wrote to the Commissioner of Pensions on February 1, 1928, to try to speed along the approval for her father, former Oglala Lakota Indian Scout Jefferson Blue Bird (aka Zintka Tola). 

His pension was approved six weeks later. 

Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs

Series: Case Files of Indian Wars Pension Applications

Transcription: 

Kyle S.D.,

Feb 1st, 1928.

Winfield Scott.

Commissioner of Pensions.

Washington D.C.

Dear Sir: -

I know that you are more than busy but I here-by with a request of favor which I hope you will be able to grant it.

I note that you have stated the claim will be considered when reached in its order. But we are in utmost need of money and we can not ["ob" crossed out] very well

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obtain our needs.

My father is not able to work and my mother is in her dying bed. We just don't know when we're going to get our next meal. My father has been sick every since I can remember and you shall see his examnation papers sooner or later.

I am sixteen years old and I am attending school but I quite and taking care of my father and mother.

So I hope you will have the [letter crossed out] goodness to eccept my request and forward my father's

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[circled] O.K.

#3

[underlined] I.S.O. 16648

pension to him.

[underlined in red] Jefferson Bluebird

later [underlined in red] Co. D. Ind. Scts U.SA

I.S.O.

no. [underlined in red] 16648

Thank you in advance.

Very Respectfully,

I am Ruth Bluebird

[tomorrowusa]

And now Republican Gov. Kristi Noem is banned from ALL tribal land in her own state.

The last holdout, the Flandreau Santee Sioux, have joined the other eight South Dakota tribes in banning Gov. Noem from their tribal lands.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now banned from all tribal lands in her home state

All of South Dakota’s nine indigenous tribes have voted to ban Gov. Kristi Noem from their lands. On Tuesday, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe executive council ruled in favor of barring the Republican governor from its reservation. In response to a request for comment on Wednesday, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe sent a readout of its president’s interactions with Noem ahead of the vote. Flandreau President Tony Reider called an emergency meeting last weekend in response to Noem’s comments, according to the readout. The meeting was “contentious at times, as some members vocalized their opposition.” After that Reider set up a meeting with the governor’s office, which took place on Monday. That conversation was “respectful and productive.” “President Reider informed the governor that a ban from our territories is imminent and requested that the Governor refrain from making future blanket statements that offend the tribes within the boundaries of the State of South Dakota, some of which depend on state services for the needs of their people. It was recommended that the Governor clarify her statements and issue an apology to all tribal nations for the misunderstanding,” the readout said. “Until such a time, the Executive Council and the people of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe stand with our fellow nations.” That vote bookended a ripple effect of tribes with reservations that stretch into South Dakota moving to prevent Noem from setting foot on their land, spurred by comments she made earlier this year. During a town hall, she argued that tribal leaders were profiting off of drug cartels in the state and prioritizing those cartels over parenting children on their reservations. Noem has since doubled down on saying Mexican drug cartels were rampant on Native American reservations in South Dakota. Those comments sparked a domino effect of tribes denouncing Noem and voting to bar the governor from their lands. According to The Argus Leader of South Dakota, leaders of the Flandreau Santee Sioux had been receiving pressure from local citizens to do something in response to Noem’s comments.

This is not an insignificant amount of territory. It takes up almost a quarter of the state's total land area.

You can make out seven of the reservations on this map.

Actually one, the Lower Brule Sioux reservation, can be seen but isn't labeled. It's next to the Crow Creek Sioux reservation on the Missouri River. The Flandreau Santee Sioux reservation is less than 3 square miles in size. It's in the extreme east-central part of the state near I-29.

The tiny (population: 14,000) state capital Pierre (they pronounce it "peer") is in the middle of the state just below the red inscription South Dakota on the map above. Noem has to drive around the Lower Brule Sioux and Crow Creek Sioux reservations to the southeast of Pierre if she wants to get to the southeastern part of the state.

As for the two interstates in South Dakota, Noem has no problem on I-90. But the northernmost section of I-29 passes through the Lake Traverse reservation of Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate.

[merskrat]

Fort Belknap Taken Over by Sinaloa Cartel

In a small reservation called Fort Belknap Indian Community in northern Montana, the Sinaloa cartel came from Mexico and began moving drugs via Native owned land. According to the President of this community, Jeffrey Stiffarm, the cartel gets locals addicted to fentanyl, gets them into debt, and forces them to work pushing drugs.

President Stiffarm was in law enforcement for twenty years before becoming the President of his community, and his life has also been touched by tragedy, when his son was found dead under extremely suspicious circumstances, “in a tree.” It was labeled a suicide, as so many Native deaths are. We all saw the same thing happen with the death of Cole Brings Plenty, a Native actor who died under suspicious circumstances, and whose death was also labeled as a suicide.

President Stiffarm has done many TV interviews, as well as testified in DC, in an attempt to bring attention to the cartel taking over Fort Belknap During an interview talked about a double homicide against tribal members that was directly related to the cartel. He said that the hit was directed from a member of the cartel who was in prison. A woman who peddled drugs out of a small shop was involved, bringing the two men to the place where they would be murdered, and one of the men was her first cousin. The community is very small and tight knit, with many people being related. President Stiffarm even had to arrest his own sister during his career in law enforcement. He said, “Here in Fort Belknap it’s not quite as bad, like it is in Rocky Boy.” He sent his chief of police to testify again in his place, but still no help has been sent to rid this reservation of the cartel. The small community doesn’t have a big enough police department to get rid of Sinaloa on their own, and the government has done next to nothing to help, although President Stiffarm reports that he has had more luck with Republican lawmakers than he has with Democrats.

Read the whole article here. There will also be a version of this article in my soon to be released book, Strong Medicine: a Harm Reduction Anthology.

[tilbageidanmark]

Another shameful chapter, part of the centuries long genocide of Native Americans: The mass abductions of generation of Indian children and forced conversion to Christianity.

[timaeuslover001]

So where are all the people that are calling us born and raised Americans colonizers, but not that to the illegal aliens getting shipped here by the thousand over here and getting free food stamp cards, free housing paid for licenses and as well as holding positions like police officers as well and voting rights?

Like Native Americans don’t even have that many perks given to them from the Americans government!!

All they get is tax-free, and that’s only on the reservation that they stay on!

Like what is really going on? See the contradictory behavior that you all exhibit all the time. All these illegal aliens who aren’t the” original Americans” are getting all this perks and benefits and support from the US government and private corporations that Native born people aren’t even getting?

Do y’all still think you all support Native Americans supporting thousands of illegal persons getting shipped over here in absolutely diminishing and demolishing the cities that they are now in. 

[mudwerks]

(via 1st RECORDING OF: Indian Reservation (as ’The Pale Faced Indian’) - Marvin Rainwater (1959)

This one is the most disturbing version of the song - lots of old-hollywood “indian” vocalizations

[vertigoartgore]

Scalped Omnibus Vol.1 HC cover by R. M. Guéra (released in November 2024).

[rhodoforwinter]

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The Dakota Access Pipeline (or DAPL) is a federally commissioned pipeline carrying ~19 million gallons of petroleum oil per day.

DAPL receives the crude oil through the Bakken Oil Field, a major site for hydraulic fracturing—fracking.

The pipeline runs along the Missouri River's watershed, which provides drinking water for millions of people, including members of the Standing Rock Reservation.

Against the fierce protests of Indigenous people, former president Donald Trump signed an executive order that endorsed its construction in 2017. That year, DAPL leaked at least five times.

A review of the pipeline's effects has never been conducted. Sioux activists (of Standing Rock and other Indigenous reservations) have been repeatedly brushed off—or worse. Multiple videos illustrate the police's use of force—rubber bullets, water cannons, and concussion grenades.

The federal government of the United States of America has yet again decided to rear its ugly head and make clear its apathy to the sovereignty and rights of Indigenous people.

Stand with Indigenous people, environmentalists, social advocates of all kinds.

Please.

[flufftopiamailpidgeons]

Is it wrong to be desperate to cling to the colonized version of your culture? Of what little you could reach? Am I a monster for wanting to know what it's like for my great aunt and her children on the Rez because it's the closest thing I feel I'm ever going to get to going home?

I want to go home

[pwrn51]

Native Americans' present situation

  Today’s show is dedicated to the Native Americans who died serving our country, and died trying to protect their land, and their families from the US Government’s prejudices, unjust rules, and regulations! Lisa Skinner went into deep detail about the Native Americans’ present situation in the 21st  century! Lisa discussed  Generational and Historical  Trauma, the conditions on reservations,…

[raffaellamilandri]

What lies behind Pope Francis' apology to Native Americans

by Raffaella Milandri© Recall that between 2021 and 2022, a global media storm hit the Catholic Church regarding the Native people of North America: the discovery of unmarked graves, the terrible Indian residential schools, and finally the apology by Pope Francis. Let us analyse, in brief, the issue. The Indian residential schools The ‘management’ of the conquest of North America and its…