Native Americans, who weren’t considered United States citizens until 1924, weren’t able to vote until then. They can now. I have a grandparent who was 2/3, and that was told to me by a real geneticists on the phone. My grandparent’s ancestors couldn’t vote. I think about that. While I joined the Metis Nation of the US, I have a cousin who is Cheyenne. I watched with anger and concern as history repeated over the years, repeated by men wanting to destroy my cousin’s culture. Men who didn’t want my cousin to vote.
Now, the same fundamentalist religion tries to assimilate him and his people to “Christianity” (not real Christians in my opinion):
Apostolic Reformation Slithers to Canada to Commit More Cultural Genocide Against Indigenous People
The same ignorant politicians believe in Manifest Destiny:
Tr*mp's Genocide Denial: "Our Ancestors Tamed a Continent"
They have no respect for spirituality, not even their own:
Tr*mp Would Never Smoke the Peace Pipe "with the leaders" - Made Sacrilegious Statement
They’re racist:
Why "Pocahontas" Is Offensive, So Shut Up Eric Tr*mp - The Turd Doesn't Fall Far From the Pig
Don’t want to change:
Tr*ump “Now they’re even trying to destroy statues of Christopher Columbus” Down w/"Heritage" Update
And they’ll keep raping the earth mother, until they’re stopped:
Tr*ump Bragged He Had "the guts to approve that final leg" of the DAPL - "I just closed my eyes"
Nothing changes until people change things with action. How much has really changed in the last centennial or so ?
Sitting Bull went on to describe the condition of the Indians. They had none of the things that white men had. If they were to become like white men they must have tools, livestock, and wagons, “because that is the way white people make a living.”
Instead of accepting Sitting Bull’s apology graciously and listening to what he had to say, the commissioners immediately launched another attack. Senator John Logan scolded him for breaking up the previous council and then for accusing the committee members of being drunk. “I want to say further that you are not a great chief of this country,” Logan continued, “that you have no following, no power, no control, and no right to any control. You are on an Indian reservation merely at the sufferance of the government. You are fed by the government, clothed by the government, your children are educated by the government, and all you have and are today is because of the government. If it were not for the government you would be freezing and starving today in the mountains. I merely say these things to you to notify you that you cannot insult the people of the United States of America or its committees…The government feeds and clothes your children now, and desires to teach you to become farmers, and to civilize you, and to make you as white men.”11
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Brown. 425 - 426
How much has really changed in the last centennial or so ?
Republicans wanted to suppress the Native American vote. It's working
Control of the Senate in the 2018 midterms may hang on the fate of Heidi Heitkamp, the right-leaning Democrat from North Dakota. But her victory will be nearly impossible without the votes of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other Native communities across the heavily Republican state. Now, those communities are facing an insidious new threat: voter ID laws designed to strip American Indians of the right to vote.
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These ID requirements present a significant barrier to Native Americans, whose communities have triple the unemployment and poverty rates of the rest of the state and who often lack transportation to travel long distances to obtain a driver’s license or state ID.
What is the difference between that time before Wounded Knee and now? Not much in terms of how the Dominant Culture treats Native Americans, except that now – Native Americans not all Native Americans have the right to vote. Still, they want to “make you as white men.”