President Obama delivers remarks at the Cannon Ball Flag Day Celebration at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you, Obama!THE PRESIDENT: I love you back!
~snip~
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love Michelle, too!
THE PRESIDENT: Of course you love Michelle. Who doesn’t love Michelle?
Full transcript below …
Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania (c. 1900)
The plight of Native American and First Nations children in the United States and Canada as stolen generations cannot simply be brushed off as “ancient” history.
Many readers here are aware of the history of Native American boarding schools, like Carlisle, depicted above, and the Canadian Indian residential school system, thanks to the ongoing efforts of editors and writers for Native American Netroots, founded by navajo, both on their site and here at Daily Kos. They have also provided critical coverage of the current South Dakota kidnapping of Indian children-placing them white foster care, in pieces written by Meteor Blades, and Aji.
Unfortunately, too many of our fellow citizens remain in complete ignorance.
This is the last part in a series of posts examining how to create super-packed districts of one race. The other posts in this series pack Asians, blacks, Hispanics, and whites.
Packing Native Americans
Alone out of all the ethnicities examined, there are not enough Native Americans in the United States to form a majority Native American congressional district. Indeed, Native Americans compose a mere 0.9% of America’s total population.
More below.