{"id":38416,"date":"2024-07-15T20:39:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T00:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=38416"},"modified":"2024-07-16T10:13:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T14:13:25","slug":"a-fake-holiday-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-derided-indigenous-peoples-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/07\/15\/a-fake-holiday-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-derided-indigenous-peoples-day\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A fake holiday&#8217;: Trump&#8217;s running mate J.D. Vance derided Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day"},"content":{"rendered":" <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/jdvance-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-attachment-id=\"38442\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/07\/15\/a-fake-holiday-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-derided-indigenous-peoples-day\/jdvance-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/16\/JDVance-1-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark IV&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1618682623&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;130&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"J.D. Vance\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;J.D. Vance&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;J.D. Vance is seen in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 2021. Photo: &lt;a href=https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gageskidmore\/51128072367\/&gt;Gage Skidmore&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/16\/JDVance-1-scaled.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/16\/JDVance-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"J.D. Vance\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38442\" \/><\/a> \r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">\r\nJ.D. Vance is seen in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 2021. Photo: <a href=https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gageskidmore\/51128072367\/>Gage Skidmore<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Trump selects Republican who called Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day &#8216;fake&#8217; as running mate<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Monday, July 15, 2024<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Acee Agoyo<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nA Republican politician who derided <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indigenous_Peoples%27_Day_(United_States)\">Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day<\/a> as &#8220;fake&#8221; is Donald Trump&#8217;s running mate.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nIn a social media post on October 11, 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._D._Vance\">James David  &#8220;J.D.&#8221; Vance<\/a> chastised Democrat Joe Biden for being the <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/10\/08\/president-biden-issues-first-ever-proclamation-for-indigenous-peoples-day\/\">first president of the United State to recognize Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day<\/a>. At the time, the politician was seeking the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio.\r\n<P><\/p>\r\n\u201c&#8217;Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day&#8217; is a fake holiday created to sow division. Of course Joe Biden is the first president to pay it any attention,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JDVance1\/status\/1447574137766092803\">Vance wrote<\/a> in the post.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIndigenous Peoples\u2019 Day\u201d is a fake holiday created to sow division. Of course Joe Biden is the first president to pay it any attention. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zyP18KJmy5\">https:\/\/t.co\/zyP18KJmy5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance1\/status\/1447574137766092803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nBut Vance, who rose to fame as the best-selling author of a memoir about his upbringing in Ohio, wasn&#8217;t done denouncing the official acknowledgment of Indigenous peoples. He  praised <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2017\/10\/09\/the-conversation-how-christopher-columbu.asp>Christopher Columbus<\/a>, characterizing the European explorer who paved the way for the genocide of Native peoples in present-day North, Central and South America as somehow superior because he got lost while trying to get to an entirely different place.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n&#8220;A half a millennium ago Columbus used technology developed in Europe to sail across a giant ocean and discover a new continent. Today we celebrate that daring and ingenuity. Happy Columbus Day!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JDVance1\/status\/1447574557775237128\">Vance added<\/a> in another social media post.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A half a millennium ago Columbus used technology developed in Europe to sail across a giant ocean and discover a new continent. Today we celebrate that daring and ingenuity. Happy Columbus Day!<\/p>&mdash; J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance1\/status\/1447574557775237128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nVance  eventually won election to the Senate in 2022. In disavowing  Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day,  he found himself on common ground with Trump, who has been taking shots at American Indians and Alaska Natives for decades, often relying on racist stereotypes and offensive depictions of Native peoples.\r\n<P><\/p>\r\nAnd after   Biden recognized Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day four years ago, Trump lashed out at the Democratic president, expressing a viewpoint very similar to that of Vance, who was announced as the Republican vice presidential nominee on the opening day of the <a href=https:\/\/gopconvention2024.com\/>Republican National Convention<\/a> on Monday.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;So he wants to change it to Indigenous Peoples Day. Not as long as I\u2019m president, let me just tell you that, okay?&#8221; Trump said of Biden back in <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/10\/19\/president-trump-disavows-indigenous-peoples-day\/>October 2020<\/a>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_indianz-com\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/10\/19\/president-trump-disavows-indigenous-peoples-day\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/30\/donaldtrump-1.jpg\" alt=\"President Trump disavows Indigenous Peoples Day\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/10\/19\/president-trump-disavows-indigenous-peoples-day\/\">\n\t\t\tPresident Trump disavows Indigenous Peoples Day\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/10\/19\/president-trump-disavows-indigenous-peoples-day\/\">\n\t\t\t<p>President Donald Trump disavowed Indigenous Peoples Day during a campaign rally in Michigan.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"Indianz.Com\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\tIndianz.Com\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nDemocrats were quick to denounce Vance&#8217;s selection as Trump&#8217;s running mate. In a <a href=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N-GAc5d9GiY>press call<\/a> on Monday afternoon, the party said the Republican presidential ticket was the &#8220;most extreme and out of touch&#8221; in American history.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n&#8220;Trump&#8217;s VP pick is great news for the wealthiest Americans and lousy news for everyone else,&#8221; said <a href=https:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/>Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a> (D-Massachusetts), who has been frequently targeted by Trump, including for her <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2019\/05\/08\/a-racial-slur-president-trump-blamed-for.asp>support for Indian Country<\/a>.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/www.vance.senate.gov\/about\/>Vance took office<\/a> in January 2023, at the start of 118th Congress. Since his arrival on Capitol Hill, he hasn&#8217;t taken much of a stand on Indian issues, a not uncommon occurrence for a first-term lawmaker, especially one from a state where no federally recognized tribes are based or have trust lands.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here\u2019s the deal about J.D. Vance. He talks a big game about working people. But now, he and Trump want to raise taxes on middle-class families while pushing more tax cuts for the rich.<br><br>Well, I don\u2019t intend to let them. And if you\u2019re with me, pitch in: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ALkc9uHFh9\">https:\/\/t.co\/ALkc9uHFh9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1812932096996090120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nBut the <a href=https:\/\/www.vance.senate.gov\/press-releases\/senator-vance-to-introduce-legislation-to-establish-english-as-the-official-language-of-the-united-states\/>first bill he introduced as a member of the Senate<\/a> would   establish  English as the &#8220;official language&#8221; of the U.S. despite the existence of Native languages spoken among 500-plus sovereign tribal nations. While <a href=https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/senate-bill\/1109>S.1109<\/a>, the English Language Unity Act, states that the measure can&#8217;t be used to &#8220;limit the preservation or use of Native Alaskan or Native American languages&#8221; it in fact would impose new English language requirements on  immigrants &#8212; including those who speak Indigenous languages  &#8212; when they become citizens.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nVance also wants to override tribal sovereignty without consent with\r\n<a href=https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/senate-bill\/2738>S.2738<\/a>, the Freedom to Breathe Act. The bill bars tribes, whose peoples have been disproportionately impacted  by the COVID-19 pandemic, from enacting their own mask mandate laws  in  schools and in public transit on their lands.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nAnd with <a href=https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/senate-bill\/2357>S.2357<\/a>, the <a href=https:\/\/www.vance.senate.gov\/press-releases\/senator-vance-introduces-legislation-to-ban-gender-reassignment-procedures-on-minors\/>Protect Children\u2019s Innocence Act<\/a>, Vance is trying to stop all health care facilities in Indian Country from providing gender affirming  treatment and services to young people. No differentiation is made even when a tribe or tribal organization provides such services at facilities that do not receive federal funds.\r\n<P><\/p>\r\n&#8220;At the end of the day, we always knew Trump would pick someone just as committed to taking away reproductive freedom,&#8221; Mini Timmaraju, the president of    <a href=https:\/\/reproductivefreedomforall.org>Reproductive Freedom for All<\/a>, said on the Biden campaign call on Monday afternoon.\r\n<P><\/p>\r\n&#8220;But now that it&#8217;s official, it couldn&#8217;t be more clear: Donald Trump and J.D. Vance would further roll back our rights to make our own health care decisions,&#8221; said Timmaraju, underscoring a message similar to the one that  <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/06\/25\/we-were-birthed-from-the-earth-two-spirit-activist-stands-up-for-native-reproductive-rights\/>Two Spirit activist Candi Brings Plenty<\/a> shared in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in the nation&#8217;s capital last month.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_indianz-com\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/06\/25\/we-were-birthed-from-the-earth-two-spirit-activist-stands-up-for-native-reproductive-rights\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/30\/candibringsplenty-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018We were birthed from the Earth\u2019: Two Spirit activist stands up for Native reproductive rights\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/06\/25\/we-were-birthed-from-the-earth-two-spirit-activist-stands-up-for-native-reproductive-rights\/\">\n\t\t\t\u2018We were birthed from the Earth\u2019: Two Spirit activist stands up for Native reproductive rights\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/06\/25\/we-were-birthed-from-the-earth-two-spirit-activist-stands-up-for-native-reproductive-rights\/\">\n\t\t\t<p>A chaotic and heated scene played out in the nation\u2019s capital as a Native activist advocated for tribal sovereignty on the steps of the highest court in the land.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"Indianz.Com\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\tIndianz.Com\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThe Republican National Convention is taking place this week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Although the  state is home to 111 federally recognized tribes, there are no Native events on the <a href=https:\/\/gopconvention2024.com\/master-calendar\/>official master calendar<\/a>. The <a href=https:\/\/gopconvention2024.com\/blog\/2024-gop-convention-program-for-monday-july-14\/>schedule for the opening day<\/a> does not list any Native speakers or presenters. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nLikewise, the <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/16\/GOP-platform-2024.pdf>2024 Republican party platform<\/a> is silent when it comes to tribal nations, American Indians and Alaska Natives. The U.S. government owes a trust  responsibility to tribes and their citizens, as laid out by the U.S. Constitutions,  treaties, agreements, federal laws, court decisions and other official actions.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nTrump arrived in Milwaukee on Sunday, a day after an attempted assassination  at one of his campaign events in Pennsylvania. The <a href=https:\/\/www.secretservice.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/2024\/07\/statement-us-secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle>U.S. Secret Service  killed the alleged shooter<\/a>, who was able to strike the Republican presidential nominee in the ear. An attendee was also killed, and two other attendees were critically injured, <a href=https:\/\/www.secretservice.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/2024\/07\/secret-service-statements-regarding-violence-july-13-2024-trump-campaign>according to the law enforcement agency<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Republican politician who derided Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day as \u201cfake\u201d is Donald Trump\u2019s running mate.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,19,20,13,1,14],"tags":[3586,3786,5,94,439,56,419,176,697,603,5092,5094,53,175,138,5097,55,1734,1045,61,85,596,5093,5095,5096,220,675,154,408,44,102],"class_list":["post-38416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-environment","category-health","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-118th","tag-3786","tag-coronavirus","tag-democrats","tag-dnc","tag-elections","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-genocide","tag-immigration","tag-indigenous-peoples-day","tag-jd-vance","tag-jerome-david-vance","tag-joe-biden","tag-languages","tag-meetings","tag-mini-timmaraju","tag-native-vote","tag-ohio","tag-pennsylvania","tag-racism","tag-republicans","tag-rnc","tag-s-1109","tag-s-2357","tag-s-2738","tag-sovereignty","tag-stereotypes","tag-treaties","tag-wisconsin","tag-women","tag-youth","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/16\/JDVance-1-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-9ZC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38416"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38443,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38416\/revisions\/38443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}