Absurdity of blood quantum thread—the Kiowa Tribe bases citizenship on direct lineal descent from an original Kiowa forced to take a land allotment in 1901. I am descended of several, including these two. I even met that little boy. Yet the tribe also sets a 1/4 blood quantum... Those 2 were "full blood" Kiowa. That little boy grew up and chose to marry my great grandma who was Skidi Pawnee—not Kiowa. Their daughter was 1/2 Kiowa. She chose to marry my grandpa who was Kitkahaki—not Kiowa. Their son was 1/4 Kiowa. He married my mom who is Ponca—not Kiowa

Waiting like a kid on Christmas for word on my petition in the Court of Criminal Appeals to writ a city court who made up a false claim to prosecute Native Americans in violation of SCOTUS and state law. I believe this is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on an Oklahoma court. Of course they did it at the expense of Native Americans to steal revenue from tribes (court fines). It truly shocked me how much state law they defied to do it. Even sold out Oklahoma statutory criminal appeals to the federal courts controlled by Mr. Federal Overreach Biden too!

I’m a Native attorney fighting for Native rights trying to appeal a city court’s basis for ignoring landmark SCOTUS McGirt ruling by prosecuting Natives. By state law, a clerk has a legal duty to certify court records. This woman refused and called security on me for asking why🇺🇸 I was stunned when she said she would not make me a certified copy of that record—a Motion to Stay Pending Appeal. I represent this man!! I need a certified copy of that for my file, appeals court and my client so I turned on my camera in a hall open to public. She got a cop.

So a case was wrongly decided giving Tulsa the ability to prosecute Native Americans in federal court. I discovered the correct answer. I told the attorney who lost and the tribes. They all filed briefs in the 10th Circuit and not one used the correct argument I gave them. Argh!! And here it is:

So stupid!!

https://twitter.com/brettachapman/status/1546272932808331265

Grieving great grandfather asks police in Uvalde why they didn’t do anything to help his great granddaughter who was murdered. A random White man tells him to stop living in the past. So on brand. All those people alongside the police chastising him with “sir, this isn’t the right way” are just as pathetic. Who are they to tell him how to express himself? He should have hit that White man who told him to stop living in the past right between the eyes. I would have.

This is such a joke. “Native Americans in the Atlanta region approve the tomahawk chop? Hello—the Whites removed all the Natives from the Atlanta region to Oklahoma on something called the Trail of Tears! Ask Natives in Oklahoma. We all hate it and know it is racist. #WorldSeries

https://twitter.com/OrtizKicks/status/1453128607887466507

Here’s a graphic to prove my point about the Trail of Tears. There are zero Native American nations in Georgia because the Whites forcibly removed the state’s 2 Indigenous nations—the Cherokee Nation and the Creek Nation. Where’d they go? Oklahoma. Where are they today? Oklahoma

I wrote Harvard a letter demanding they return my Ponca ancestor Standing Bear’s tomahawk. No answer. Today, my story airs on Boston NPR’s All Things Considered and I just got confirmation a resolution for repatriation will be introduced in Nebraska Legislature. They will hear me And I want to give credit to Sen. Tom Brewer of the Nebraska Legislature with whom I am working on the resolution. He is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the first Native American ever elected to the state legislature in Nebraska. Very grateful and appreciative!

When everyone rushed to declare Santorum’s white supremacy and racism, I declared a failure to link his comments to the real injustice—the ongoing dispossession of Native American land. His “wilderness” myth of American exceptionalism defends the state by whitewashing land theft!

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1389395080688152576

Instead, all those denouncing him focused on Native American “contributions to America” like an Iroquois influence on the Constitution or corn. The only “contribution” that matters is every last acre of land as the injustice of land dispossession that began then never stopped!

One of the most common arguments I see in this DC statehood deal is “reuniting the Dakotas.” When Dakota Territory (ND and SD) was formed in 1861, West Virginia was just Virginia. Today WV has fewer people than Idaho and Nebraska. Why does nobody call for reuniting the Virginias? The only reason I can think of is because Virginia is a pretty competitive state; one that Democrats absolutely cannot afford to lose and that adding WV to it would make it even more competitive?

Today is the 130th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre. If anyone has heard of one massacre of Native Americans, its this because it happened last. Though last, it was not the worst nor was it rare. Read this thread for just a small selection of similar massacres few know of In 1863, American soldiers in Lincoln's Union Army brutally murdered over 400 Shoshone men, women, and children during the Civil War at the Bear River Massacre—the single greatest loss of Native American lives in U.S. history

Today rapid testing devices and supplies for a testing capability of 9000 are slated to go out to Native American health facilities. Testing expected tomorrow. This thread is about an unexpected move by the administration for Natives and a narrative that was needlessly buried 1/ On April 2, Dr. Birx announced that the Trump administration was giving Native American health services priority access to the new 15-minute Abbott rapid coronavirus tests that received FDA approval just days earlier. A positive Politico article follows.

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