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Fourth of July
Most Natives do not celebrate the 4th of July. It was not a day of “independence” to us, but a day when America claimed everything that was ours.
Donald Trump and his suck-up daughter Kristi Noem will use the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore to publicize their political ambitions. When it was suggested to Noem that there may be protests by Natives during Trump’s visit she haughtily replied, “Not on my watch.”
Keep in mind this is the same Governor who authorized a study of the hydroxychloroquine medicine by subjecting 2,000 of her constituents to testing of the drug because Daddy Trump said he was taking the drug and it works against Covid-19 virus. The Food and Drug Administration just released its own study saying not only does it NOT work, it can cause serious health problems.
What is even more startling about this blatant act of political support to Trump by Noem was the fact that a respected medical organization, Sanford Health, allowed itself to lead this farce. How much were they paid to sell their souls to the 2 devils?
But the most blatant act of ignorance occurred when Noem sought the help of Trump and this State’s Republican Senators in an effort to remove checkpoints on the Indian reservations set up by tribes trying to stop and prevent the spread of a deadly pandemic. It is obvious that she and her cohorts had absolutely no knowledge of tribal history and how pandemics of TB, small pox, and other diseases had decimated the Indian nations over the years.
And it is obvious that not one of them has ever read the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868.
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