Yes, this. My uncle is this guy. Goddamn, I love him but he’s an asshole (in so many ways.)

Thanks for the info, I simply didn’t know that the new camps were also being removed.

Damn, uncle.

One of my Native cousins voted for Trump. He thought Hillary would be worse....

This is not surprising to many of us in Indian Country. We knew this was coming when Trump was elected. We are expecting more encoachments on our rights and violations of our treaties. Trump honors nothing but himself.

Two things worth noting. One, this quote from the WaPo. “The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe had already passed a tribal resolution asking protesters to leave and requesting federal aid in closing the camp.”

Venus is very happy, and I’m happy, too, because  she’ll be playing her sister in the final.

California doesn’t need the government’s money, the government needs California’s money.

In case anyone doesn’t know, a big part of the reason why Obama has granted so much more clemency than previous presidents is because he is effectively making the Fair Sentencing Act retroactive. The Fair Sentencing Act reduced the crack/cocaine sentencing disparity that had been widely criticized as racially biased.…

Oh, well, shit, I guess you’re entitled to their stuff, then. No murder or terror involved in the expansion of the U.S., after all.

Spare us that white man’s burden crap. White people didn’t give us their wealth and technology like some benevolent father figure. They exploited our land and labor to benefit themselves. We only gained access to it after we fought their exploitation and colonialism. And that’s what this observatory fight is about.…

It’s always worth mentioning in stories like this that Hawai’i was an independent kingdom, recognized as a sovereign nation, until white businessmen organized a coup d’etat in the 1880s, forcing the monarchy to sign away its political power at gunpoint (for this reason the Constitution of 1883 is referred to as the…

“I don’t believe in it, so screw that noise, it’s all garbage,” said the same people who gasp and flail about Anti-Semitism, Neo-Nazis, etc., (how angry were you at Mel Gibson a while back?) and claim that they are “so worried” about Trump becoming some Fascist dictator and taking away their rights.

For sure, I live in an area where ownership of stories, crests, names, dances, etc are prized possessions and wouldn’t dream of using one of them without it’s owners express permission. This obviously varies from nation to nation and culture to culture, but it still seems like it really wouldn’t be hard for a writer…

As long as white people a) need to blame non-whites for everything b) are freaking out over their impending loss of majority status and c) think of being “on top” in this country as their right, while allowing schools to miseducate children by not teaching critical thinking as well as basic science, a change in…

Yeah, it’s not like there aren’t hundreds of rich mythologies available to draw on if you want to do some First Nations stuff.

I think they missed an opportunity with Diane, who is a character modeled off of little girls who have a lot in common with Hillary Clinton. Watching empowered, brilliant, bossy, serious little girls realize that maybe no one will take her seriously when she grows up has been one of the more heartbreaking aspects of…