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First Lady Jill Biden gifted a blanket by the Navajo Nation.
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Lakota Man
@LakotaMan1
First Lady Jill Biden gifted a blanket by the Navajo Nation. The highest honor an Indigenous community can ever bestow—to a non-Native ally
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The Navajoes have been noted weavers since forever. They really put their heart and their culture into them.
Quite the honor.
Native American leaders ask Trump to apologize for 'shameful' Wounded Knee remarks
President Donald Trump made the remarks while criticizing Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
ByRoey Hadar
January 14, 2019, 5:56 PM
• 5 min read
Native American leaders are calling on President Donald Trump to apologize for comments he made on Twitter invoking the Wounded Knee Massacre and the Battle of Little Bighorn that he made while attacking Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday.
Trump made fun of an Instagram video Warren released on New Year's Eve in which she drank a beer on camera. He tweeted, “If Elizabeth Warren, often referred to by me as Pocahontas, did this commercial from Bighorn or Wounded Knee instead of her kitchen, with her husband dressed in full Indian garb, it would have been a smash!”
The National Congress of American Indians condemned the remarks, saying the memory of the two events, in which hundreds of Native Americans were killed by U.S. Army soldiers, should not be used as a “rhetorical punch line.”
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms the casual and callous use of these events as part of a political attack. Hundreds of Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people lost their lives at the hands of the invading U.S. Army during these events, and their memories should not be desecrated as a rhetorical punch line,” Jefferson Keel, the NCAI’s president, said in a statement released Monday.
More:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/native-american-leaders-trump-apologize-shameful-wounded-knee/story?id=60374772
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You undoubtedly noted he chose the spot right under the portrait of Andrew Jackson as the place for his official photos to commemorate the meeting with the Native American veterans, so crudely arranged.
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The Trail of Tears — The Indian Removals
Not everyone was included in the new Jacksonian Democracy. There was no initiative from Jacksonian Democrats to include women in political life or to combat slavery. But, it was the NATIVE AMERICAN who suffered most from Andrew Jackson's vision of America. Jackson, both as a military leader and as President, pursued a policy of removing INDIAN TRIBES from their ANCESTRAL LANDS. This relocation would make room for SETTLERS and often for SPECULATORS who made large profits from the purchase and sale of land.
According to legend, a Cherokee rose, the state flower of Georgia, grew in every spot a tear fell on the Trail of Tears. Today the flowers grow along many of the trails that the Native Americans took West.
Indian policy caused the President little political trouble because his primary supporters were from the southern and western states and generally favored a plan to remove all the Indian tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River. While Jackson and other politicians put a very positive and favorable spin on Indian removal in their speeches, the removals were in fact often brutal. There was little the Indians could do to defend themselves. In 1832, a group of about a thousand SAC AND FOX INDIANS led by CHIEF BLACK HAWK returned to Illinois, but militia members easily drove them back across the Mississippi. The Seminole resistance in Florida was more formidable, resulting in a war that began under CHIEF OSCEOLA and lasted into the 1840s.
More:
https://www.ushistory.org/us/24f.asp
