I’m a relative first. When they call me home, I’m home. I want to stop burying my relatives! How do we get to live? The answer shouldn’t be so hard to find. But for us rez kids, it’s elusive. I don’t just study death as a Native demographer. I live it. My research is rage!
James Cameron called the Lakota nation a “hopeless” and “dead end society”
Besides that statement being a blatant lie he was actually talking about his films post ‘97. All hopeless dead ends and now he’s dying at the final dead end
#OTD SITTING BULL WAS KILLED TODAY
in 1890.
The USA Mindset then was:
“Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone."
~US Govt
The Govt did everything they could to bring the Buffaloes and the American Indians to extinction.
#FreeLeonardPeltier
#Dakota38+2 = “On Dec 26th in 1862 at 10 am, the largest mass execution by the U.S. Government (of Dakota men) was held in Mankato. Every year men and women of the Dakota nation ride on horseback 330 miles, from the western part of South Dakota to Mankato, MN” #FreeLeonardPeltier