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Know who you're talking to before you respond. I've been trolled for this picture for almost 5 years now and have never backed down from its message. My point is that we deserve the respect of being identified by our Native Nations, not as a colonial monolith but go off.

Natives infiltrating high level positions in a foreign government built upon our continued oppression and the blood of our ancestors is a big deal. And asking that a Native be referred to by their Native Nation *is* honoring the ancestors who fought do those names survived.

"the funding would help CSIS engage with Canadians in their communities" oh, ok, cool, sounds good man. I love when CSIS engages with my community.

Her grandmother was taken from her family at eight. Today, her granddaughter is the first Native American woman elected governor in US history. In the early 20th century, an eight-year-old Native American girl named Helen was taken from her village in New Mexico by a Catholic priest. She was put on a train and sent to St. Catherine's Indian School in Santa Fe, more than 100 miles from home. For five years, she lived away from her family. Her father once travelled three days by horse and wagon to visit her. Helen's granddaughter is Deb Haaland. On November 3, 2026, Haaland was elected governor of New Mexico, becoming the first Native American woman ever elected governor of a US state. But her journey to this moment was anything but straightforward. A member of the Laguna Pueblo, Haaland raised her daughter as a single mother. She experienced homelessness, relied on food stamps and made money selling homemade salsa. She earned her law degree at 45. In 2018, she became one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress. In 2021, she became the first Native American to serve as a US Cabinet secretary, taking charge of the Department of the Interior. The historical irony was extraordinary. She now headed the very department responsible for overseeing much of the federal government's disastrous policies toward Indigenous peoples. Rather than sweeping that history under the carpet, Haaland ordered an investigation into America's Indian boarding schools. The investigation identified 417 schools and documented the deaths of at least 973 Indigenous children. The real number was almost certainly higher. She also travelled to Indigenous communities to listen to survivors describe what had happened to them. And now, at 65, she has won another election and broken another barrier. The institutions that once tried to destroy Indigenous cultures had failed to destroy them. At her election victory celebration, Haaland spoke about the road near her grandmother's childhood home. "And just off this road, my grandmother was taken away to boarding school. Yet we are still here."

This land is thousands of years older than the 250 year old settler state. Celebrating a token Native who has agreed to be the smiling face of her people’s genociders isn't progress. It’s deeply offensive.

Peggy Flanagan (White Earth Ojibwe) makes history as the first Native woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate!!!

we don’t coexist, we live in modern society while you live on welfare in beatsmywife reservation

considering how much money you fuckers eat up in tax dollars all the "settlers" have to do is take away your money

Quebec is a nation.

The mungicaker descendants of colonizers forgot where the worlds corn & tomatoes originated from. They raped & pillaged for centuries then they spit hate speech on their victims with impunity like lsraeIis.

Nation of settlers, not immigrants.