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For real. What kind of moron worries about what Russia thinks? Oh, right.

I consider this news-worthy, but the timing feels very suspicious. I'm actually kind of surprised because there are numerous mentions of Democrats (particularly Obama) doing lots of things for the tribes. Given how much the current US regime attempts to control dissemination of objective facts, this feels like it carries a sinister subtext.

I will likely sound like a conspiracy theorist, but this announcement hits me like "We are stating facts about some good things we (The U.S. as a whole) have done so we (Republicans in power) can argue we are not racist when we begin oppressing you for no reason like our other perceived enemies."

As complicated as Indigenous history is in the US, I think this is a pretty clean, concise, and easy to understand primer.

Disclaimer: I based the quality of this content on its face. While I don't know anything about Crash Course, at a glance they seemed reputable enough, so I posted it.

I posted this, but it's obvious bullshit. It's the DoE defending the usual racist excuse of "if Natives didn't have denigrating mascots, nobody would remember them." Dumb as fuck, but thought I'd post it anyway.

Whoah! That's a heck of a reference. I forgot that movie existed!

Thanks for sharing! I had read a little bit about the difficulties in attempting to retain the traditional language, so I wondered if there were other struggles similar to we're facing here in the US. I know how you feel about the cultural food thing. I was lucky enough to be around traditional food and I'll admit it's a little emotionally hard to see people holding up frybread as the default example of what they think of "Native American" food, especially given its history.

To be frank, it's clear he hates non-whites enough that he'll definitely do it. He has no problems denigrating anything else we have, so I don't see why this would be an exception.

This immediately makes me think of the Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland, which I'm guessing is a partial inspiration for the show.