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Happy #NativeAmericanHeritageDay. As Freedmen of the Five Slaveholding Tribes, we have a unique and powerful lineage. Many of our ancestors were forcibly brought to this land from the African continent and forced to labor for their Indigenous slaveowners.
Our ancestors became important translators, political activists, politicians, teachers, historians, and stewards of our cultural traditions. Today their legacies live in all of us.
Despite the free labor, cultural reproduction, and contributions of our ancestors in their respective tribal communities for centuries, as their descendants we are disenfranchised and excluded from our respective Nations. Stand in solidarity with us: chng.it/8ND2Lx9C
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You probably don't know this, but today (Friday, Nov. 29) is the 'official' #NativeAmericanHeritageDay. The fact that our country has insists on honoring Native peoples on #BlackFriday, which in 2019 is also the anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre (1864)...

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is a testimony to the multi-generational & communal manifestation of white America's perpetration induced traumatic stress (PITS). If there is ever a day in the list of civic religious holidays where Americans are most certain to be distracted/sedated, Black Friday is it.
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For this reason, I have attemptied to interject into the consumeristic feeding frenzy of our nation a small dose of #UnsettlingTruths.

I love the cover of our new book. Not only does it incorporate the design of an actual Navajo rug, but I had the honor of meeting
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