Sam Steffen

Sam Steffen | Carroll University History Grad 🎓
Connecting the dots between history, geography, and pop culture. 🌍
Lover of podcasts, reading, and deep-dive c

[Sam Steffen @Steffen12Sam]

@Necromancer54 @GovPressOffice pilgrims came illegally and bred like rabbits

[Proud Native Americans @proud_native_am]

If you support Native American people’s, history & culture Say.. “Yes".❤️

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 NEW: 97 pardoned Jan. 6 rioters have already been returned to prison for new crimes.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly. The white people spewing the most anti-immigrant hatred and vitriol are DESCENDANTS of immigrants themselves.

Hey whitey, why don’t YOU get the fuck out of MY country.

[Sam Steffen @Steffen12Sam]

@CatronDan @WordWanderer @31Kelleher @Gianl1974 yes she did

[Waukesha Freeman @WaukeshaFreeman]

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[Sam Steffen @Steffen12Sam]

@CatronDan @WordWanderer @31Kelleher @Gianl1974 she had a knife

[Sam Steffen @Steffen12Sam]

@thatonegirlM @PatriotWildMan1 @zach_rehl babbit was a thug

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Russia has never attacked the EU.

Not once.

Since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, we had peace.

Russia sold us cheap gas, traded honestly, and stayed a calm neighbor. No threats. No invasions.

Then Washington’s neocons and London smelled blood. They tried to loot Russia in the chaotic 90s with shock therapy and oligarchs.

When that failed, they turned Ukraine a non-NATO, non-EU country into their proxy battlefield to bleed Russia dry.

Ordinary Ukrainians? Just collateral. Their lives destroyed for American hegemony, more NATO bases, more expensive US LNG for us, and keeping Europe weak and dependent.

Europe was a quiet neighborhood. Russia was the big reliable house next door offering fuel and food.

Than the overseas bully says: “Use the neighbor kid’s yard as a battlefield to smash the strong house. Don’t care about the kid we’ll wave flags.”

Our spineless EU leaders opened the gates, cheered, and cut our own electricity to “punish” Russia.

Now the kid’s yard is ruined, the strong house got tougher, and our neighborhood is paying insane bills.

This isn’t defense. It’s suicide for empire dollars.

Russia didn’t march west!

NATO marched east.

We’re sacrificing Ukrainian lives to keep America on top.

Europe First.

Real energy. Real borders. Real sovereignty.

Stop letting foreign neocons play with our continent.

Russia isn’t the enemy but blind obedience to Washington is.

[Sam Steffen @Steffen12Sam]

@FinnMertz1 statue why?

[Sam Steffen @Steffen12Sam]

@Charlie1691 listen the crowd is warning her

[Wisconsin State Journal @WiStateJournal]

As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, we're recognizing Wisconsinites who have made unique contributions to the nation. https://t.co/dHym1waWwu

[Sam Steffen @Steffen12Sam]

@Charlie1691 orders to stand back

[Sam Steffen @Steffen12Sam]

@Charlie1691 she didnt comply

[BunchaBaloney @BaloneyBuncha]

@_nativeamerica A. The 'indigenous' people came over from the Asian continent. They just got here a lot earlier.
B. It is only 'your land' if you can defend your land. You fought, you lost, & what was once yours is now ours. That's how wars go.
C. Thousands of years & still only bows & arrows.

[Sam Steffen @Steffen12Sam]

@GWolf1490 @Maga4liberty @FFT1776 babbit didnt comply. she warned

[Caring Guy💙🇺🇸🌈✌🏻 @caringguy1957]

Memorial Day is for honoring Americans who died in service to this country. It is not for honoring domestic terrorists. In agreement.

Ashli Babbitt did not die in service to the country. She died on January 6 while participating in an attack on the U.S. Capitol and trying to breach a restricted area as elected officials were being evacuated.

Her prior military service does not magically convert criminal political violence into military sacrifice.

Veterans Day honors veterans. Memorial Day honors those who died in service. January 6 was not service. It was an attack on the country she once swore an oath to defend.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Jan. 6 rioter Daniel Ball was rearrested for illegal gun possession.

Trump gave him a full pardon despite previous felony convictions for domestic violence.

[Native American @_nativeamerica]

YES OR NO: SHOULD PEOPLE STOP CALLING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES “IMMIGRANTS” ON THEIR OWN LAND?

Before the ships arrived…
before the borders…
before the colonies…
before the United States even existed…

Native American nations were already here.

Thousands of years of history.
Thousands of communities.
Languages.
Trade routes.
Governments.
Ceremonies.
Cultures connected deeply to the land long before maps were drawn by European powers.

That’s why images like this spark such intense conversations online.

Because the phrase “illegal immigrants” completely changes when history enters the room.

For many Indigenous people, this isn’t about hate toward ordinary families searching for survival.
It’s about historical truth.

The first peoples of this land did not cross an ocean to claim it.
They did not arrive with foreign flags and declare millions of acres “discovered.”
They were already home.

And yet, for generations, Native Americans were often pushed out of their own territories, forced onto reservations, denied citizenship, punished for speaking their languages, and pressured to abandon their traditions.

Some children were even taken from their families and sent to boarding schools where their culture was treated like something shameful.

That history still lives in memory today.

And maybe that’s why so many Native voices online are saying:
“Learn the full story before judging ours.”

The image is provocative.
But it forces people to ask uncomfortable questions.

Who gets called “civilized” in history books?
Who gets called “savages”?
Who writes the narrative?
Who benefits from forgetting?

Many Americans grow up learning about Pilgrims and colonies…
but far fewer learn about the hundreds of Indigenous nations that already existed across North America.

Entire societies with laws, diplomacy, agriculture, astronomy, architecture, and spiritual traditions were here long before the founding of America.

That truth matters.

Not to divide people.
But to understand the real history of the land beneath our feet.

Because acknowledging Indigenous history does not erase anyone else’s story.
It simply means Native voices deserve to be part of the conversation too.

And maybe the reason posts like this go viral is because people are tired of sanitized history.

People want honesty.
Even when it’s uncomfortable.

The conversation is bigger than politics.

It’s about memory.
Identity.
Land.
And whether Indigenous peoples are finally being heard after centuries of being talked over.

So here’s the question again:

SHOULD PEOPLE STOP CALLING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES “IMMIGRANTS” ON THEIR OWN LAND?

YES or NO?