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Forest County Potawatomi chairman opens day two of the RNC focused on crime
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — The public safety theme on the second evening at the Republican National Convention included a message from Forest County Potawatomi Chairman James Crawford.His introductory remarks had a land acknowledgement tone for the host city, despite it not being explicit on the evening speech program.“It was once home to several Potawatomi villages, including a village close to where we sit today,” Crawford told Republican delegates. “Our ancestors occupied these lands for hundreds of years, fishing area rivers and lakes, hunting the land, tapping maple tree groves for sugar and harvesting crops and fields each fall.”
TRANSCRIPT: James Crawford, Chairman of Forest County Potawatomi Community, at Republican Convention
This story is part of a collaboration between Koahnic Broadcasting, ICTNews.org and States Newsroom covering the Republican National Convention in 2024 with a focus on Native America. It was originally published on Source New Mexico under a Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
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