Lakota student Steven Wilson, 20, is opening day 2 of the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum with the National Anthem in Lakota. Tune in! #NativeForum #NativeVote #NativeVote2020 https://t.co/kzKyuZncS2
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"Right now, we don't have a president": Vice Chairman Orville Cayou of the Omaha Tribe says in reference to the current occupant of the White House at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"It's very important that we all vote. We need to vote, people...We can't sit back anymore," Vice Chairman Orville Cayou of the Omaha Tribe says at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Randy DeCora, Winnebago, shares a story from the late Native rights activist Frank LaMere, who lost a brother in Vietnam. "My brother didn't get to vote," LaMere would say. "Exercise that." Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. #NativeVote #NativeForum #NativeVote2020
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"We're making an impact," Kevin Allis of the National Congress of American Indians @NCAI1944 says at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. "Our participation in the 2020 vote is going to matter." #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"We spoke to millions yesterday," Judith LeBlanc, Caddo, of the Native Organizers Alliance @NativeOrganizer, says at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. "We spoke from many nations, in one voice." #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"I was bestowed an honor today," Julian Bear Runner, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, says as he introduces Democratic presidential candidate @JoeSestak Joe Sestak, a fellow veteran, at Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. #NativeVote #NativeVote2020 #NativeForum
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote https://t.co/4gnr9CtGwz
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Kevin Abourezk @Kevin_Abourezk and Leo Yankton are live at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. Tune in!https://t.co/SeIwsAev0T #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Why is veteran Joe Sestak @JoeSestak running for president of the United States? "There’s a lack of accountability ... to the Native American community,” he says at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. #NativeVote #NativeVote2020 #NativeForum
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"80 percent of all sex crimes on a reservation are committed by non-Native American men. It’s wrong," Joe Sestak @JoeSestak says in calling for tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote #NativeForum
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"This data must be mandated," veteran Joe Sestak @JoeSestak says at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in calling on authorities to do more to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women. #MMIW #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"The suicide rate is up 139 percent for Native women
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and 71 percent for Native men since 1999," Chairman Lester Thompson of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe says at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. #NativeVote2020 #Native2020 #NativeForum
"We have to declare suicide as a public health issue,” veteran Joe Sestak @JoeSestak says at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in response to a tribal leader's question about high suicide rates among Native people. #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Veteran Joe Sestak @JoeSestak encourages forward funding or advance appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote #NativeForum
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"What qualifications would you ask for the judges that hear these cases?" Vice Chair Orville Cayou of Omaha Tribe asks at Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum, citing judge who struck down Indian Child Welfare Act. #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote #DefendICWA
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Veteran Joe Sestak @JoeSestak says he would choose judges who are "empathetic" to Native issues in response to question about the Indian Child Welfare Act. #DefendICWA Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote #NativeForum
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Alex Wesaw, council member from Pokagon Band of Potawatomi @Pokegnek, draws applause at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum when he calls on veteran Joe Sestak @JoeSestak to take his campaign to Indian Country. #NativeVote #NativeVote2020 #NativeForum
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Joe Sestak @JoeSestak on tribal sovereignty at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote #NativeForum https://t.co/4U5Js5Y5PS
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
At the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum, veteran Joe Sestak @JoeSestak calls for the revival of the annual White House summit with tribal leaders. The last one took place in 2016. Tribal leaders have called for its return. #NativeForum #NativeVote #NativeVote2020
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"The money has to be accountable but it also has to be there,” veteran Joe Sestak @JoeSestak says as he wraps up at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote #NativeForum
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Kevin Abourezk @Kevin_Abourezk and Leo Yankton are live at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. Tune in to the historic event! https://t.co/TXuXEZw0cF #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Kevin Abourezk @Kevin_Abourezk and Leo Yankton are live at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. Tune in to the historic event! https://t.co/TXuXEZw0cF #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Next up at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum is Mark Charles, a citizen of the Navajo Nation. He's running for president as an independent in order to "build a nation where ‘We the People’ Truly Means: #AllthePeople" #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Mark Charles has contributed columns to https://t.co/0yYFAWzrcJ, where he talks about a wide range of Indian issues, particularly reconciliation. It's connected to his vision for America. Watch: https://t.co/sQY8g8vOSW #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote #NativeForum
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Chairman Frank White of the Winnebago Tribe is introducing Navajo citizen Mark Charles @wirelesshogan at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote #NativeForum
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Navajo citizen Mark Charles @wirelesshogan is introducing himself in the Dine language at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. He's explaining his maternal and paternal clans. #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote #NativeLanguages
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"I feel so at home," Navajo citizen Mark Charles @wirelesshogan says of being among fellow tribal peoples at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Kevin Abourezk @Kevin_Abourezk and Leo Yankton are live at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. Tune in to the historic event in Sioux City, Iowa, in the homelands of several tribes. https://t.co/IxVJ58i8dB #NativeForum #NativeVote #NativeVote2020
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Mark Charles @wirelesshogan at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. #NativeForum #NativeVote #NativeVote2020 #NativeFood https://t.co/CY4E8QaS9n
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"You can't discover lands that are already inhabited," Navajo citizen Mark Charles @wirelesshogan says at Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum, calling attention to the colonizing, racist and paternalistic Doctrine of Discovery. #NativeVote #NativeVote2020 #NativeForum
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"The Constitution is doing exactly what it’s designed to do:
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it's protecting the interests of White land-owning men," Navajo citizen Mark Charles @wirelesshogan says at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. #NativeVote #NativeVote2020 #NativeForum
"There has never been closure to Wounded Knee. They gave 20 Medals of Honor to soldiers...They murdered women and children," Marcella LeBeau, 99-year-old World War II veteran from Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe says at Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. #RemoveTheStain
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"Absolutely," Navajo citizen Mark Charles @wirelesshogan says of the Remove the Stain Act, a bipartisan bill to rescind the Medals of Honor for 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre. Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. #RemoveTheStain #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
The Remove the Stain Act (H.R.3467) is a bipartisan bill to rescind the Medals of Honor for those who participated in the 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee. #RemoveTheStain #Genocide #Massacres #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
To read the Remove the Stain Act go to https://t.co/bPpOyh114y #NativeForum #NativeVote #NativeVote2020 #RemoveTheStain #Genocide #Massacres
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
To read the Remove the Stain Act go to https://t.co/bPpOyh114y #NativeForum #NativeVote #NativeVote2020 #RemoveTheStain #Genocide #Massacres
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
To learn more about the Remove the Stain Act check our our recap from the Little BigHorn Day event in the nation's capital: https://t.co/75nSvAJphA #NativeForum #NativeVote #NativeVote2020 #RemoveTheStain #Genocide #Massacres
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
The 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre Descendants Society went to Washington DC on June 25 -- the 143rd anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a day of triumph for the Lakota people -- to call for passage of the Remove the Stain Act. #RemoveTheStain https://t.co/ENKhLb7vbB
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Navajo citizen Mark Charles @wirelesshogan at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. #RemoveTheStain #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote #NativeForum #Genocide #Massacres #NoMedalsForMurderers https://t.co/VOADxGyuO8
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"We don't need new laws, we need a new basis for our laws,” Navajo citizen Mark Charles @wirelesshogan says of the need to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. #MMIW #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
"I am absolutely convinced of the value of immersive education," Navajo citizen Mark Charles @wirelesshogan says of the need to include Native languages and culture into schools. Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Kevin Abourezk @Kevin_Abourezk and Leo Yankton are wrapping up the morning broadcast from the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. Watch the webcast and the replay: https://t.co/IxVJ58i8dB #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
Big applause for Navajo citizen Mark Charles @wirelesshogan as he wraps up at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote https://t.co/l9yKYnCi8w
— indianz.com (@indianz) August 20, 2019
