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Tribally Enrolled: Nanbé Owingeh Founder: American Indians in Children's Literature
Please see "About AICL's Year in Review for 2025." Here's the link:
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“Stevenson..would like to see a “critical evaluation” of the major institutions in Canada that have supported non-Indigenous scholars, writers and thought leaders who have claimed Indigenous identities. She wonders why their stories have been "so compelling and convincing" to these institutions..”
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Indigenous scholars say Thomas King case 'shockingly similar' to others falsely claiming ancestry | CBC News
After another respected name in Indigenous arts and culture was revealed to not have Indigenous ancestry , some scholars say it’s time to examine the Canadian institutions that have helped these peop...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thomas-king-scholars-react-9.6992591
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Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee
Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous as he originally assumed
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/books/article-thomas-king-cherokee-ancestry-genealogy/?fbclid=IwY2xjawORubZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeaLskTubIbYE3hEkI6sj-HQ0T8rQ7UMXvW2_yDdUcLlDUK3a2So2V06TEn3s_aem_sGEV0-B3IONgBLyBxaxQrQ&login=true
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Today
@aclu-norcal.bsky.social
and
@eff.org
filed a lawsuit on behalf of non-profit advocacy groups challenging San Jose’s warrantless searches as violating the California Constitution’s protections against unreasonable searches and right to privacy.
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Lawsuit Challenges San Jose’s Warrantless ALPR Mass Surveillance | ACLU of Northern CA
https://www.aclunc.org/news/lawsuit-challenges-san-jose-s-warrantless-alpr-mass-surveillance
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Vera Starbard
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On this seventeenth day of
#AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth
we’re highlighting the children’s
#picturebook
“How the Raven Got His Crooked Nose” by
#Dena’ina
mother/son team Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#books
#indigenous
#writer
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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 17
For our seventeenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re highlighting “How Raven Got His Crooked Nose.” This is a traditional Dena’ina story retold by Dena’ina mother/son team Barbara J. Atwa…
https://verastarbard.com/2025/11/17/thirty-days-of-alaska-native-books-day-17/
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Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese
about 2 months ago
Been out of the SCOTUS opinion analysis for a min (baby). But this Gorsuch Dissent (joined by Thomas 😮) from cert. denial in Veneno v. US, which challenged the Major Crimes Act (a fed. law that allows feds. to prosecute crimes on Indian Reservations), is worth discussing/explaining for a sec. 🧵 1/8
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Another Milestone for AICL's list! This is the first time School Library Journal has featured a Native writer on its cover. Here's Angeline Boulley (enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians):
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I think this may be the first time
@slj.com
has featured a Native writer on the cover. If anyone can recall a previous issue with a Native writer on the cover, let me know! Thanks.
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Frank Strong
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I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.
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Artist Georgia O'Keeffe ignored the Indigenous presence all around her in New Mexico. Now a new exhibition at the O'Keeffe Museum draws awareness to the ongoing presence of Tewa Peoples by presenting a group exhibition of Tewa artists.
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New exhibition at Georgia O’Keeffe Museum foregrounds contemporary Indigenous perspectives
On Aug. 26, 2020, three months after the start of the George Floyd protests, the award-winning journalist and arts writer Alicia Inez Guzmán hosted an online panel discussion, titled “This is Not O’Ke...
https://www.abqjournal.com/lifestyle/article_ccdc7042-d6de-4272-8bf9-6998df3583e1.html#3
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How Educators Can Support Native Students
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How Educators Can Support Native Students
Former ALA president Cindy Hohl and Printz-winning author Angeline Boulley discuss Sisters in the Wind, the foster system, and self-care.
https://www.slj.com/story/how-educators-can-support-native-students
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"Awesome" says a person with expertise in children's literature! Please click thru and sign up for the 2025-2026 webinars. Announced at mine was a new addition to the lineup: Angeline Boulley!
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Free webinars by Native writers? YES! Over 15 authors and illustrators, including Andrea Rogers (author of Caldecott winner, Chooch Helped) and Michaela Goode (illustrator of Caldecott winner, We Are Water Protectors). Take a look!
online.flippingbook.com/view/2526852...
Tell teachers and sign up.
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2025-26 NWOK Book Club flier
This interactive flipbook is created with FlippingBook, a service for streaming PDFs online. No download, no waiting. Open and start reading right away!
https://online.flippingbook.com/view/25268529/2/
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A look at my process when seeing a book by a writer that is unfamiliar to me
americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/08/debb...
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Debbie--Have you seen THE ECHO PEOPLE, published by Lee and Low?
Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books
https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/08/debbie-have-you-seen-echo-people.html
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2024 American Indian Youth Literature Award (AIYLA) -- Acceptance Speeches
Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books
https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/08/2024-american-indian-youth-literature.html
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Teachers/librarians write to me looking for accurate non-fiction bks. They know that authorship matters! Today I'm pleased as can be to share my review of THE CHEROKEE: PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND HISTORY by
@pollysgdaughter.bsky.social
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americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/07/high...
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Highly Recommended: THE CHEROKEE: PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND HISTORY by Twila M. Barnes
Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books
https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/07/highly-recommended-cherokee-people.html
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"What if Everything We Know about Sacagawea is Wrong?"
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"What if Everything We Know about Sacagawea is Wrong?"
Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books
https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/07/what-if-everything-we-know-about.html
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NOT RECOMMENDED: Lois Lowry's GOONEY BIRD AND THE ROOM MOTHER. Details here!
americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/06/not-...
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Not Recommended: Gooney Bird and the Room Mother, by Lois Lowry
Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books
https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/06/not-recommended-gooney-bird-and-room.html
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Over at American Indians in Children's Literature, Jean recommends DAD, IS IT TIME TO GATHER MINT and HERRING TO HUCKLEBERRIES. Read her review and order the books!
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7 months ago
🚨 Super exciting news…the new edition of the Bluebook has a brand new rule… Rule 22 on how to cite materials from Tribal Nations!!! A long overdue and welcome development. Tribal Law scholars, we have a lot to be proud of today. Tribal Law and Tribal Nations are a little less invisible today.🫶🏽✊🏽
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A new website illuminates the history of Indigenous enslavement in New England. Historians at Brown Univ. & tribal members from across the region are launching a project they hope will bring awareness to the enslavement of Indigenous people in North America.
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A new website illuminates the history of Indigenous enslavement in New England - TPR: The Public's Radio
Brown University history professor Mack Scott grew up Indigenous in Rhode Island. He moved to the Narragansett reservation in Charlestown in middle school, where he was steeped in his culture. But pri...
https://thepublicsradio.org/arts-and-culture/a-new-website-illuminates-the-history-of-indigenous-enslavement-in-new-england/
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Taniel
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Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.
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A federal judge agreed Thursday to temporarily block the Trump administration from taking any more steps to dismantle an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the U.S.
apnews.com/article/inst...
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Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from dismantling library services agency
A federal judge has agreed to temporarily block the Trump administration from taking any more steps to dismantle an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the nation.
https://apnews.com/article/institute-of-museum-library-services-trump-dc5dee2513e33f8bfab1dc2e4a473ff6
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8 months ago
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Our resilience and strength as Native Women #shorts
YouTube video by Indian Country Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM1N_mjXz04
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Mark Joseph Stern
9 months ago
Grateful to
@jaywillis.net
for investigating ANOTHER children’s book slandered by the Supreme Court to find that—surprise, surprise—Neil Gorsuch is lying about what’s in it.
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/pride...
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I Think Neil Gorsuch Is Lying About a “Religious Freedom” Case Again
Why did Gorsuch claim that ‘Pride Puppy’, an alphabet book about a lost dog, introduces kids to bondage and sex workers? Let’s find out!
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/pride-puppy-gorsch-religious-freedom/
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Loving the NPR segment on Chooch Helped!
@andrealrogers.bsky.social
9 months ago
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Nick Estes
9 months ago
A tribute to Lakota writer Joseph Marshall III and a follow-up on my previous essay on Crazy Horse and anti-colonial resistance.
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Crazy Horse and Joseph Marshall III
A tribute to a Lakota writer
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickestes/p/crazy-horse-and-joseph-marshall-iii?r=rbovf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Tanner Allread
9 months ago
Read the experts,
@bethanyberger.bsky.social
& Greg Ablavsky, on the accurate history of Native peoples and birthright citizenship 👇
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ACLU
9 months ago
All students deserve the freedom to read. We sued the Department of Defense to protect the right to learn for students on military bases around the world.
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Students at Pentagon schools sue Hegseth over book bans on race and gender
Lawsuit argues that culling library books prevents children from learning about health, hygiene, biology and abuse
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/pentagon-school-students-sue-hegseth-book-bans
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Abenaki of Odanak chief applauds defeat of NH state law that would have recognized fraudulent Abenaki tribes. For years, the Abenaki of Odanak and W8linak have denounced self-identified Abenaki "tribes" in NH and VT. The states are finally listening.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Abenaki chief applauds defeat of state law he says gave too much power to New Hampshire tribes | CBC News
The Chief of the Abenaki Nation of Odanak says it's important to continue to push back against what he calls 'self-identified' Abenaki groups in the U.S. At the end of March, New Hampshire refused to ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/abenaki-chief-odanak-quebec-u-s-tribes-1.7508360
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Highly Recommended: We Weave, by Vandever and Mitchell -- Diné author and illustrator!
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Highly Recommended: WE WEAVE by Daniel W. Vandever and Deonoveigh Mitchell
Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books
https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/04/highly-recommended-we-weave-by-daniel-w.html
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Clint Smith
9 months ago
How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers) will be out September 2nd and is now available for pre-order. Can’t wait for you all to read it. Shout out to teachers. This is for y’all.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clint...
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jamelle
9 months ago
they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More)
9 months ago
✨ Today is the 25th anniversary of my first book, JINGLE DANCER, ill. by Cornelius Van Wright & Ying-Hwa Hu (HarperChildren’s, April 5, 2000). It was one of the first picture books to reflect contemporary Native people. An updated, paperback edition was released by Heartdrum in 2021.
#booksky
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Ursula
9 months ago
2/2 Check out this TOC. We got
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
,
@debreese.bsky.social
,
@ziibiing.com
,
@jessehagopian.bsky.social
,
@cristinapaul333.bsky.social
, and more. Subscribe:
rethinkingschools.org/magazine/
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9 months ago
Ending the month with a review
pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/03/31/r...
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review: Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
Urban Native young adults from numerous intersecting identities venture to this communal space to meet a crush, read a poem, mourn, or reconnect with family.
https://pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/03/31/review/
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Carolyn Foote
10 months ago
Spread this news. Contact your Congressperson. IMLS was created by Congress. 5Calls app has a script, or call on your own. ⬇️
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Sune 🍞
10 months ago
Screenshot in case the main post gets taken down
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Arlyssa D. Becenti
10 months ago
From me: ‘Navajo Code Talker links restored on DOD sites; other Native stories still missing’ Via
@azcentral.com
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Navajo Code Talker links restored on DOD sites; other Native stories still missing
After widespread criticism, the Defense Department has begun restoring links to Navajo Code Talkers on its websites.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2025/03/19/defense-department-restores-code-talker-links-other-native-stories-missing/82548517007/
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NPR
10 months ago
JUST IN: Thousands of probationary federal employees fired by the Trump administration must be offered job reinstatement within the next week, a district judge in San Francisco has ruled, because they were terminated unlawfully.
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Thousands of fired federal workers must be offered reinstatement, a judge rules
Thousands of probationary federal employees fired by the Trump administration must be offered job reinstatement within the next week, a district judge in San Francisco has ruled, because they were ter...
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325959/federal-employees-court-firing
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Way cool info! Coming in September from Angeline Boulley is SISTERS IN THE WIND. And a prequel about Granny June!!! That's in the works, too.
www.ncwlife.com/news/northwe...
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Getting to know Angeline Boulley
Angeline Boulley's work has made Time magazine best-of-all-time lists, been optioned by the Obamas' Higher Ground Productions, and introduced legions of readers to the Ojibwe community of Michigan's U...
https://www.ncwlife.com/news/northwest/getting-to-know-angeline-boulley/article_f4a4b8dc-6382-5aa0-9bb7-e42577b701f1.html
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Are you following/learning about boarding schools for Native kids in the US where the goal was 'kill the Indian and save the man'? Sign up for this presentation:
heard.org/event/k-12-e...
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K-12 Educator Night: Boarding Schools - Heard Museum
Educators, you are invited to a virtual event with the Heard Museum on March 18 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. for K-12 Educator Night! Join us for an evening of professional learning and classroom resources ...
https://heard.org/event/k-12-educator-night-boarding-schools/
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Kevin Moberg, Ph.D.
10 months ago
I just read REZ BALL by
@byrongraves.bsky.social
. It was named a Whippoorwill Award honor book for 2024. Smooth interweaving of northern MN rurality, Ojibwe culture, sports, video gaming, grief, and other elements of adolescent life.
#AdolLit
#YALit
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Kim TallBear
10 months ago
Bluesky may not be great for this yet. But i'm gathering reports/policies from universities, institutions, agencies on verification of
#Indigenous
membership/citizenship if anyone has any leads. So far, i have (and I'll add as i go): 🧵
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More)
11 months ago
Friends, please refrain from referencing picture books within insults, political or otherwise. Most picture books are carefully researched, wonderfully illustrated & affirm the needs of young readers. They inspire, inform & entertain. Support kids & those who create art for them.
#politics
#kidlit
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Malinda Lo
11 months ago
This has been 4 years in the making at least. Nobody should be surprised this is among the first actions taken in this new administration. Nobody better think book bans are a badge of honor anymore. Nobody better say "book bans sell books." We have been warning you. This was a long time coming.
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Ruth H. Burns
11 months ago
Layoffs will affect 2,600 federal employees in the Dept of Interior, 118 BIA employees, 40 BIE employees, firefighters, police, 850 IHS employees including +90 physicians, 350 nurses, 25 nurse practitioners, 20 dentists, 43 dental assistants, 85 pharmacists & 45 lab techs
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Abrupt federal layoffs expected to hit tribal programs
Thousands of workers could be affected in health, education and other programs across Indian Country *Updated
https://ictnews.org/news/abrupt-federal-layoffs-expected-to-hit-tribal-programs
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Dr. Joely Proudfit
11 months ago
Haskell Indian Nations University lays off dozens of employees after federal orders
lawrencekstimes.com/2025/02/14/h...
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Haskell Indian Nations University lays off dozens of employees after federal orders
Numerous employees of Haskell Indian Nations University lost their jobs Friday as part of sweeping nationwide cuts ordered by President Donald Trump's administration.
https://lawrencekstimes.com/2025/02/14/haskell-layoffs/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3WUI2SIt5JlI82lZQpcgDmIZUlScj9ajiTmOipanIubvV_h22nKCFh0W8_aem_Qqf3D8XrZUI4V05jiHfOiQ
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Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese
11 months ago
Trump is laying off the DOCTORS at the Indian Health Service?! A chronically underfunded agency?! Irresponsible, dangerous, & a complete disregard for the lives of Native people and the government’s treaty and trust responsibilities. “Shame on them” is inadequate.
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