Dakota 38 documentary:
youtu.be/1pX6FBSUyQI?...

In 2008, Jim Miller, a Dakota veteran, was called to start a yearly winter horse ride from current reservations back to Minnesota as an act of healing and remembrance.

There are ways to create healing by remembering the past, acting in the present, and creating a better future.

Museums are great places for learning but they should have artifacts allowed by the communities from which they came and curated with the knowledge of the descendants.

But most museums and or delayed, put up excuses, questioned tribal origin or flat out refused to return these items and ancestors despite the law.

As our ancestors and artifacts are returned, ceremony is held to allow for proper closure.

The results were the same. Artifacts and our ancestors were removed to museums and storage and labs without the consultation or approval of Tribes

NAGPRA came about to rectify this - to require repatriation of these artifacts and our ancestors.

Let's not let them take us backwards to authoritarian rule.
Let's not rest on our laurels and go back to that time. Let's create a system that includes all who are willing to give their time and energy to a better, more inclusive society

make them dependent on the US government.
They almost went extinct, but tribes have been bringing them back and into sustainable relationship.
For more on the history, refer to Ken Burns documentary series called American Buffalo.
For a tribal perspective, refer to open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...

cited in Supreme Court cases as recently as 2005 and even more recently in lower courts (facts via Rebecca Nagle).

Some state they are an ally and supporter, but the fact that we can seriously entertain this colonial and unfair doctrine shows we are either ignorant or unwilling to make change.

One of the most insidious ones is the Doctrine of Discovery initiated by the Pope in 1455. While one might argue that that decree was a sign of its times and from long ago, the way the legal system works, it is considered current and valid precedent

systemic problem has been active for years. Despite that these cases often get much less attention than similar cases of other women.

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impacts of the dehumanization of Natives in media, poverty, to name a few - Native women are abducted and murdered at a proportionally way high rate than their population.

Depicted by the red hand print over the mouth or a hanging red dress, a movement to call attention to this

They will use various framing and excuses, but be clear this is the same old playbook to try to get what they want from us by attacking our children.

caused sickness that spanned generations from which many families are still healing.

More recently, big money went after ICWA in the courts more than once to attack tribal sovereignty through our children.

being poor because of government policy related to reservations or removal to cities, to try to assimilate them, for the land on which their family lived.

This removal from community - the very community on which culture, family and identity are based -

These teachings are just as important today as we struggle with sustainability and our interconnectedness than ever.

What do you give to the very animals, crops and trees that give you life? What do you contribute to your community to improve it? When have you stopped expressing gratitude for what you have been given and do you take instead of being given to?