1. Hey @FoxNews, your recent complaints about the LGBTQ+ flag and how the American flag is the 'only approved flag' in America overlooked the fact that American Indian tribes are sovereign nations within the United States. It's important
2. to recognize that American Indian tribes are distinct Nations with their own governments, laws, cultures, and histories. As a news outlet, it's crucial to accurately report.
3. You are so Patriotic 🙄 So proud of the Constitution. But what about Article VI, Clause 2? The part that says: Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land?
4. What about the 368 treaties that were broken with the Indigenous people of Turtle Island? Oh and-
Maybe take a moment to thank the the Iroquois Confederacy for that Constitution… And for the concept of democracy.
5. And you go on and on about “illegals and anti-immigration…” that takes a lot of nerve while you stand on #StolenLand. When we get the #Landback - NO GREEN CARD FOR YOU!
6. Or maybe @FoxNews could take a moment and actually do something good by bringing awareness to the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (#MMIW)?
7. According to the CDC), homicide is the third leading cause of death among American Indian and Alaska Native women aged 10-24 and the fifth leading cause of death for those aged 25-34.
8. Close to 6,000 reported #MMIW but these statistics ARE underestimated- not the true number of cases as many go unreported or are misclassified and not investigated. #Colonialism, #SystemicRacism
For those of you who don’t know, geneocide is defined as: rticle II of the Convention clearly defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e)
In using the English language, we are referred to in the constitution and treaties as “Indian” which came from the Spanish word “Indios”; which was derived from the Latin words In (with) Dio (God).
In America, which has always had trouble with telling the correct history,we are
called “Indian” because Christopher Columbus allegedly was searching for a route to the country which is called India today.
However, in that time period, India was referred to as Hindustan.
American was later called “America” because of a well known trader who established
a lot of trade points.
“Native American” is a term that has recently evolved and been used by a lot of Indigenous people in lieu of American Indian.
However, the word “Native” means you were born there not necessarily where your DNA comes from. In essence, anyone born in an