Hey man, he was busy ensuring the people of Flint, Michigan died of lead poisoning. A man has to have priorities. Read more

Maybe because the GOP doesn’t care about Native women? Maybe that? Read more

So how hard exactly would it be to get somebody with honest tribal credentials to help us out at the DOI? I mean, at this point, why doesn’t this obvious step just happen? Read more

The sad fact is that as we Natives (finally) become more visible, we are going to encounter more and more of the sort of ignorance and subconscious fear that was spewed forth in this trash of an article. Read more

I would say that “the concept of being Native, of belonging to a tribe that claims you and supports you and bleeds your blood” is foreign to most Americans, including me. In fact, I can’t fathom it at all. That alone is enough to convince me we need more native writers being published and read.   Read more

It’s a British publication. If you have any understanding of the last five hundred years of history you’d know exactly how many shits the British give about indigenous populations. Read more

I work for NYS Office of Mental health in one of their outpatient mental health programs servicing individuals over the age of 18, and here’s a bit of a reality: Read more

Does she really need some fractional DNA of indigenous people to give a shit about them? She could have been a champion for their causes without any of this.
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That was only 2 months ago? Read more

That life expectancy stat is a feature not a bug.  Make no fucking mistake. Read more

In my early days as a social worker I spent a year working at the IHS doing Medicare outreach. The place was critically understaffed even then (this was during the Clinton years) and I am not at all surprised that nothing has changed. Read more

Thanks for this, Nick. It’s important for non-Natives to see that the genocidal practices of the US government continue in the 21st century. Not only does underfunding the IHS cost Native lives on a daily basis, but it furthers assimilation by driving people off the reservations in search of better health care, if… Read more

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I went down the rabbit hole reading state, federal and Indian law cases when the Supreme Court was deciding a case involving the ICWA a few years ago. I should have expected that link following the mention of the Goldwater institute to take me to their page, yet I somehow didn’t!  It’s such a complicated area of law… Read more

I don’t see how this could possibly lead to the elimination of Roe v. Wade. Read more

THEN BREAK THE FUCKING RULES. Don’t do what the historical commission says if you don’t agree with it. Of course, you don’t want controversy and it’s not a hill you want to die on so you don’t get credit for what you’d “prefer.” Read more

This being NC, I think they know full well that, had the UNC board fought the law, the legislature would have responded with something rational and reasonable like dissolving the university and replacing the board with the current leadership of the KKK.  Read more

Wait wait wait. Can we just focus on the fact that someone from apartheid South Africa is on their fucking board????? And he was the only person saying “you know what, this statue represents slavery and slavery was bad”  Read more

Under-funded public schools and wage slavery for the poor; low taxes, private schools, and unbridled power for the elite? Welcome to America in 2018!
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Why is it that the only unions that the MAGA moron crowd doesn’t lament are police Unions?