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The Supreme Court Case That Could Wipe Out Indigenous Sovereignty In The U.S.

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  • Опубліковано 26 лис 2022
  • The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a high-stakes case about indigenous children and culture. On the surface, the case known as Brackeen v. Haaland revolves around a dispute over whether a non-native family can adopt a native baby. At the heart of the case is the Indian Child Welfare Act, a law passed in 1978 that says if a state determines a Native child must be legally removed from their home, they must be placed with an American Indian family or, if possible, a member of the child’s extended family or tribe. Non-native families and states are challenging the constitutionality of ICWA, arguing it discriminates on the basis of race. But the case could have implications that extend far beyond that - potentially upending Native sovereignty altogether. “A lot of laws flow from this special nation-to-nation relationship between tribes and the US federal government,” says Cherokee Nation journalist Rebecca Nagle. “And the fear is that because the plaintiffs are making such broad and sweeping arguments in Brackeen, (if the court strikes down ICWA) they could turn all of that - literally centuries of laws - on their head.”
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  • @FeelinTangerine
    @FeelinTangerine Рік тому +81

    Remember that the fossil fuel industry is fronting the lawyers for the lawsuit because they want the lands.

  • @twotrackjack2260
    @twotrackjack2260 Рік тому +164

    The fact that the court even chose to hear this case is disgusting

    • @douglasdebias4983
      @douglasdebias4983 Рік тому

      Bidening administration gave half of Oklahoma back to the indigenous peoples. The eastern half which was government land for the most part. But they probably sucked all the oil out of it, naturally obviously not cool

    • @sandburgmartin7947
      @sandburgmartin7947 Рік тому +27

      But predictable if corporatists are trying to disband tribes and steal resources.

    • @twotrackjack2260
      @twotrackjack2260 Рік тому +10

      @@sandburgmartin7947 Well yeah, they've literally been trying for a couple centuries.

    • @douglasdebias4983
      @douglasdebias4983 Рік тому +4

      @@sandburgmartin7947 it's not the government it's the landowners. Like the program Yellowstone same thing in reality,,, greed.

    • @kalijasin
      @kalijasin Рік тому +1

      The evil white supremacist Christian nationalists are still trying to eradicate the Native Americans.

  • @tracyalan7201
    @tracyalan7201 Рік тому +663

    It is very disturbing for Native American rights. I thought the Supreme Court decided a long time ago that Native Americans are to be treated as its own nation a long time ago.

    • @randyscrafts8575
      @randyscrafts8575 Рік тому +15

      That was before we had the current off the rails far right supreme court. They're dead set on destroying America.

    • @lydias2012
      @lydias2012 Рік тому +60

      I thought they were nations within the US. They rule themselves and a treaty is actually the highest law of the land. But I am not an expert.

    • @TheChopf26
      @TheChopf26 Рік тому +10

      Im Native its not disturbing at all. This won't do anything to hurt tribal sovereignty or stop the tribes from being treated as nations. This is absolutely laughable.

    • @galacticwarlock2271
      @galacticwarlock2271 Рік тому +72

      @@TheChopf26 ok Trumpist

    • @TheChopf26
      @TheChopf26 Рік тому +12

      @@galacticwarlock2271 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Wow, what an intelligent and well thought out response. Stunning and brave.

  • @fixieroy
    @fixieroy Рік тому +96

    I dont wish the worst but i wont hold my breath because its become clear America loves backtracking on yet another “promise”

  • @cbpd89
    @cbpd89 Рік тому +301

    I used to drive past one of those forced removal schools for native kids on my way to college. Still sitting there empty, an absolutely haunting reminder of why this law was needed. The cultural erasure is real and people are still dealing with that generational trauma.

    • @luke_skywanker7643
      @luke_skywanker7643 Рік тому +2

      Maybe they should think of where they're going to find "Code Talkers" for the next World War.

    • @sandyallen1523
      @sandyallen1523 Рік тому +16

      They say that everything, every feeling, every fight, every loving moment and every tragedy leaves an imprint on your DNA which gets passed down to your children and then their children and their children.. ..... Every tragedy is permanent. So sad

    • @chonqmonk
      @chonqmonk Рік тому +1

      @@sandyallen1523 They say that? Who says that?

    • @Snake-yx1dq
      @Snake-yx1dq Рік тому +1

      @@chonqmonk quacks

    • @janinewetzler5037
      @janinewetzler5037 Рік тому +16

      This is one thing Canada has in common with the US, our history of treating Native people. One of the best things Trudeau did when elected the first time was to recognize the horrible history of the treatment of our Native people and to move progressively forward with reconciliation...not perfect, but huge leaps in the right direction.
      Our Residential school system has had literal skeletons dug up and we have a LOT to answer for.

  • @WTH1812
    @WTH1812 Рік тому +209

    There are a whole bunch of treaties that need to be enforced.

    • @chrisbudesa9355
      @chrisbudesa9355 Рік тому +17

      All of the treaties need to be enforced.

    • @meoff7602
      @meoff7602 Рік тому +16

      Right, 2022 and we still can't honor our treaties with the Native tribes.

    • @aishabintabubakr4944
      @aishabintabubakr4944 Рік тому

      I agtee.
      We won the war.
      You are Americans

    • @WTH1812
      @WTH1812 Рік тому

      @@aishabintabubakr4944 ... No, the US government made treaties with many Native American Nations. And has spent every day since refusing to honor those treaties, taking the land, destroying the resources, not recognizing tribes, treating the Native Americans as less than people in the eyes of the law.
      Keystone pipeline will destroy the hunting, fishing, water sources and food supply? So? Build it anyway.
      Trump's Wall goes through a sacred burial ground? So? Dig through it anyway.
      Dams destroying fish stocks and water access? So? Dams are good.
      There's mineral resources under sacred land? So? Dig, dig, dig.
      Native Americans are Americans. It's just revealing that the "States Rights" Party has no room for the Nations Rights of these Americans.

    • @aishabintabubakr4944
      @aishabintabubakr4944 Рік тому

      @@WTH1812
      They are defeated people and their land belongs to the US

  • @ArtHistoryNstuff332
    @ArtHistoryNstuff332 Рік тому +218

    I am a non-native, but my sons are. This SCOTUS scares me in that they simply do not seem to care about who they hurt and what damage they do. The plaintiffs are being selfish and putting entire nations of people at risk.

    • @jacquelinerobinson2122
      @jacquelinerobinson2122 Рік тому +2

      Always!

    • @pashakdescilly7517
      @pashakdescilly7517 Рік тому +2

      The entire Republican Party, including the packed Supreme Court, is dedicated to causing discord, upset and suffering to ordinary people. Their behaviour is outrageous. That approximately half of US votes are cast for such a party is appalling.

    • @jacquelinerobinson2122
      @jacquelinerobinson2122 Рік тому +12

      @@pashakdescilly7517 I agree. It's very appalling. I will never get people who enjoy inflicting pain on others. I wonder sometimes are they human, and what went so bad in their lives that they need to be thar way.

    • @sinkpehnarossfire454
      @sinkpehnarossfire454 Рік тому

      👋Hi, please see my Post. Sovereignty. We/you guarantee the Vatican and Papacies and certain business entities don't want their Sovereignties 'managed' by others.
      International Laws. Maritime and Privateer Laws, Federal, State, County, City, Parrishes, Townships and more. Loopholes ? Manage that. No 'legally get around others' anymore. Thank you for your words.

    • @DellikkilleD
      @DellikkilleD Рік тому +1

      if you arent native, neither are your kids. they are natural born us citizens.

  • @kathrynnicolau8513
    @kathrynnicolau8513 Рік тому +55

    This I saw coming! I saw this as the very first pen to paper , trump signed was the pipeline straight through native territory! Where oil companies are rich enough to plot around this territory! Also since the Native American communities saw a rice in murder rates by 400% and it was already high ! Racial discrimination was the lead cause! Also from one territory to the next laws within we’re limited and also was the health care! Also since trump , a movement to over turn treaties to get land to frack and drill for oil and to did for minerals and to get real-estate and be able to tax higher for that land . On purpose! To just stick it to the Native American people! Like they are doing around the world to indigenous people! Brazil , Africa, Hawaii, are just small examples! Generations later this is a chipping away what little these people still have ! It’s wrong! To correct some things to benefit these people is one thing ! To screw them over , is not some more, is criminal!

    • @petemavus2948
      @petemavus2948 Рік тому +2

      Like *Railbearts comment above, I too agree with yours as this whole scenario and the timing with our current SCOTUS just reeks of 45 and his usual smoke and mirrors.

  • @annagettings4675
    @annagettings4675 Рік тому +222

    This breaks my heart. How much do people think they can just keep taking from the Nations?! And all of this comes right after Thanks Giving?! It's revolting.

    • @aishabintabubakr4944
      @aishabintabubakr4944 Рік тому +4

      Thanksgiving is victory day.
      The people you cry for never discovered a wheel while the rest of humanity knew it 3000 BCE.
      That is pretty pathetic

    • @sandyallen1523
      @sandyallen1523 Рік тому +3

      @@aishabintabubakr4944 what's pathetic is someone putting down a whole race just to make themselves feel superior. It's people like you who start wars

    • @aishabintabubakr4944
      @aishabintabubakr4944 Рік тому

      @@sandyallen1523
      Native Americans never discovered the wheel (which even the fictional Flintstones discovered) until white people showed them how to do it in the 1700's
      That's more pathetic

    • @richsackett3423
      @richsackett3423 Рік тому +1

      @@aishabintabubakr4944 Not as pathetic as you

    • @aishabintabubakr4944
      @aishabintabubakr4944 Рік тому

      @@richsackett3423
      I think you're mad that your precious Native Americans added nothing to world history except scalping.
      If they were not in this continent history will still be the same

  • @sandramorey2529
    @sandramorey2529 Рік тому +298

    I am a non native, but I, too, am scared about this. There are hundreds of broken treaties between Indians and non Indian governments. This will be extremely problematic for Indians and their families. It can't help but fall on other political groups as well.

    • @aishabintabubakr4944
      @aishabintabubakr4944 Рік тому

      The US defeated their crappy civilization, which is why you should be proud.
      I would hate to be Narive American

    • @tonisno4174
      @tonisno4174 Рік тому +13

      The term is natives not Indian.

    • @randallmarsh1187
      @randallmarsh1187 Рік тому +17

      @@tonisno4174 Karen, everyone knows what she means and I've worked with many. many Navajos and they also used the word Indian!

    • @MarcosElMalo2
      @MarcosElMalo2 Рік тому +12

      It’s going to be extremely problematic for the non-natives when the various tribal nations demand the return of their land, which they lost by signing unfavorable treaties.
      Constitutionally, foreign policy is conducted by the federal government. The states, local governments, and individuals do not have the right to conduct their own FP.

    • @wallacepeeace6492
      @wallacepeeace6492 Рік тому +2

      The only thing you got wrong is we're not "Indians", those folks are from INDIA! Columbus was lost and a big bullshitter.

  • @Notfunnysam
    @Notfunnysam Рік тому +127

    I'm a native aboriginal Canadian who just got my official Indian Status status after trying repeatedly for 20 years.
    The federal government here spends millions on class action litigation fighting to avoid reparations instead of settling and it makes me sick.

    • @LWJCarroll
      @LWJCarroll Рік тому +9

      Hi, check to see if the enforcement of our Treaty Of Waitangi here in New Zealand which was with the Crown and still is has precedence for yourselves in Canada? The protests here at Bastion Pt Auckland helped lead to getting it set firmly in NZ Law and the Treaty Settlements process set up and working. Ngati Whatua which is Bastion Pt has just been reported as their assets being now worth 1.6 billion NZD today as I recall. Which is great to see and gets them back to being economically sound….. FYI.

    • @LeCharles07
      @LeCharles07 Рік тому

      Casus belli?

    • @yobabydaddyismine
      @yobabydaddyismine Рік тому

      They don't owe you anything. You are a conquered people. People have been conquered for the last 6000 years so what makes you people any different? The governments in North America don't owe you anything they've already given you enough. If you want to be mad at anyone, be mad at your ancestors for losing your land to the settlers. That was nobody's fault but your own ancestors for having crappy war strategies! You can holler treaties all you want to but treaties have been broken for thousands of years. The treaties that are in place in Canada and the US with the Indians are no different and can be broken like any other treaty. Instead of waiting for a handout, how about pulling yourself up by the bootstraps and making your own way. Just like countries in Africa and Asia were taken by colonial powers at that time period, so was yours. You aren't the only conquered people in the world.... Smdh

    • @bitkrusher5948
      @bitkrusher5948 Рік тому

      @@nac.mac.feegle breed and adopt like crazy form your own tribal law!

    • @alext2566
      @alext2566 Рік тому +2

      We must follow the example of the Jewish people. Persist. No matter how much or how many times an attempt is made to cut our people down, we must face it head on, without fear and without hatred in our hearts. We will prevail through sheer will.
      One day our grandchildren or great-grandchildren will see eye to eye. The dichotomy of of 'us' and 'them' will fade with time. We are all human beings.
      Ignorance will not win.

  • @4saken404
    @4saken404 Рік тому +144

    I was already disgusted when I heard how these people are crying "discrimination". But as soon as I heard "state's right" being included I had to roll my eyes. Because it makes it REALLY obvious what kind of people we're dealing with here. Reminds me of how a bully will be like "Stop hitting my hand with your face".

    • @jturtle5318
      @jturtle5318 Рік тому +1

      Can you translate that?

    • @spiceyhotpot
      @spiceyhotpot Рік тому +4

      State's Rights is a convenient rallying cry for the Radical Fright when they are in the minority, but with a Congressional majority see no issue with imposing their beliefs on others through legislation.

    • @Sevenfold120
      @Sevenfold120 Рік тому +12

      @@jturtle5318 Yeah. Greedy people are trying to take away Natives rights. IE the pro bono law firm representing the plaintiffs filed on behalf of non native casino developers in washington state alleging native casinos are discriminatory.

    • @petemavus2948
      @petemavus2948 Рік тому +2

      @@Sevenfold120 As a total novice in this area, even I can see what appears to be an attack on the sustainability of sovereignty by covetous overreach from outside developers.

    • @Sevenfold120
      @Sevenfold120 Рік тому +2

      @@petemavus2948 agreed

  • @driftlessman2094
    @driftlessman2094 Рік тому +204

    Just when you thought our government couldn't possibly F Native Americans more than all the atrocities they've already committed throughout history, the Supreme Court says, "Hold my Beer"

    • @austinroberts7546
      @austinroberts7546 Рік тому

      Boo hood they lost don't deserve anything

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 Рік тому +9

      That reminds me of Brett "I like beer" Kavanaugh

    • @kimberlyakin8908
      @kimberlyakin8908 Рік тому +1

      @@edwardmiessner6502 Don't forget the woman that Hates women rights and Has Never prosided over a trial Before.

    • @johaquila
      @johaquila Рік тому +5

      That seems a bit premature. Apparently, so far the Supreme Court has merely accepted the case as something to decide, and asked questions to the parties. The point of this news report is that given the state of the Supreme Court there seems a real danger that they will basically restart the war against the Indians by breaking all the old treaties. But they haven't done it yet, and it's not at all clear that they will. They shouldn't have accepted the case, but at least they haven't decided it yet.

    • @shealstewart5381
      @shealstewart5381 Рік тому

      This not the government...this a *COOPERATE LAWYER* "volunteering" their time to go after *FRIST NATIONS'S RIGHTS!*
      Wonder what's in it for the *COOPERATION?*

  • @drejlangseth2579
    @drejlangseth2579 Рік тому +39

    Native Nations don't have enough protection here.

  • @jamesjackovich5886
    @jamesjackovich5886 Рік тому +109

    Over 350 treaties were broken by the federal government and they do have sovereign status concerning their reservations

    • @douglasreagan4979
      @douglasreagan4979 Рік тому

      Then why do democrats want to give more power to a federal Government that has abused its power and continues to this day. Its really a head scratcher why Democrats think the way they do.

    • @DrumWild
      @DrumWild Рік тому +19

      It's as if government promises mean nothing, even in writing. But they want us to respect THEIR documents.

    • @toneyingram732
      @toneyingram732 Рік тому +1

      White man speak with a forked tougue like their God Satan

    • @georgesheffield1580
      @georgesheffield1580 Рік тому +3

      And how many states have broken treaty laws or all kinds of laws for that matter.

    • @curtisthomas2670
      @curtisthomas2670 Рік тому +8

      "White man speaks with forked tongue"

  • @oneworld9071
    @oneworld9071 Рік тому +58

    I've met and hung out with world-class musicians and artists, researchers, military command, senators, attorneys, etc. The ONE individual I felt fortunate to encounter, considered an HONOR, and wish I could experience once more in my 6+ decades was a Navajo man. I was on my way home by Greyhound bus to Annapolis from 2 years of college in California, and had stayed a few days in Phoenix with a family friend. I had a window seat with vacant aisle seat next to me. The Navajo man was a few years my senior. As the bus rolled out of Phoenix to Albuquerque, I offered the seat to him as he'd been standing and holding onto the overhead rail. No eye contact, and a clear refusal. I immediately thought "really? We're gonna have a chat...... you got the wrong guy......".
    He stood the entire 400 miles. The entire time I had a terrible feeling in my gut, or more accurately my heart. While I am not religious, I do believe that if God exists, "it" approves of best intentions and respect for others. At the Albuquerque bus depot, he stood alone. I'd come up with a way to attempt to initiate a conversation, asking if the clock on the wall was correct. I had a joint in my shirt pocket, flashed it, asking, "uh..... hey man, you wanna help me "destroy some evidence?". His first response gave me a jab in the gut. He was looking around in disbelief, like maybe I was setting him to get jumped. He finally said "yeh..... okay.....". Behind the depot, as we smoked the joint, I was yammering on about how different the desert feels than where I'm from on the Chesapeake Bay, and he spoke, "you are the FIRST white man I've EVER met in my whole life...... THIS is a PEACE PIPE...... we are FRIENDS forever!!!!!!" Again, I still feel that was the most honor I've ever experienced. I may be, 40+ years later, STILL the only white man he'd ever encountered. He certainly had a story to tell the rest of his life.
    NO greater reward than to be trusted by those who have "reason" to expect much different.

    • @alicecrystalpalace
      @alicecrystalpalace Рік тому +5

      Lovely story. ❤ Reminds me a little bit of the movie "Midnight Cowboy". Yes. That one where Jon Voight was a normal human being, way back in the day...❤💙😘

    • @luke_skywanker7643
      @luke_skywanker7643 Рік тому +4

      Great story! 👍👍

    • @barrywassel3899
      @barrywassel3899 Рік тому +1

      Your story invokes a lot of different emotions. To think that native peoples are so reluctant to open up to Europeans, is sad. But I can't blame him, either. However, you persisted, and he finally relaxed, which is good. We need this to happen on a large scale ....let's hope it happens.

    • @tracybrown6821
      @tracybrown6821 Рік тому +2

      A smile, and a little kindness, is UNIVERSAL! I'm Metis living in Canada, I look White, and alot of times have gotten looks by Indigenous people, because they are Sooo fearful of White People, for good reason. You persisted, and showed that Man,we are all the same inside. I usually don't tell Indigenous people I meet, I'm Metis, as I want them to accept me as a person first. Volunteer for any cause for the Indigenous people you can, and you will change the world! 💞💞

    • @carmelinhawaii
      @carmelinhawaii Рік тому +3

      Very cool. I was born and raised in Navajo Nation….says right on my birth certificate. Navajo Nation. My mom was a school teacher in Gallup. I was on a few of those bus trips. Twice…I was given beautiful art work by guys on the bus. My step grandfather spoke better Navajo than they did….he had a radio show in Gallup….he would chant sing and everything

  • @shirleyandrews1152
    @shirleyandrews1152 Рік тому +130

    I’m Native & this scares the life out of me‼️what will I do w/o my healthcare‼️

    • @TheChopf26
      @TheChopf26 Рік тому

      😂😂😂😂😂 Dont fall for the fear mongering. This will do nothing to end tribal sovereignty or the horrendous IHC. I'm Native too, but you look like a bot.

    • @matikaevur6299
      @matikaevur6299 Рік тому +11

      You will be "American" ..

    • @furiousapplesack
      @furiousapplesack Рік тому +20

      I think it's time to join the fight for universal healthcare.

    • @TheChopf26
      @TheChopf26 Рік тому

      @@furiousapplesack eeww no. You've never dealt with IHS and you never want to, because letting the government control your healthcare is a mistake.

    • @TheChopf26
      @TheChopf26 Рік тому +3

      @@lillydogpoo65 you're a bad liar.

  • @ankitsaggi2039
    @ankitsaggi2039 Рік тому +277

    This is so heartbreaking to hear. Native Americans have suffered so much. They deserve rights like everyone else.

    • @TheChopf26
      @TheChopf26 Рік тому

      We do have rights like everyone else...... Wtf are you talking about......

    • @desperadox7565
      @desperadox7565 Рік тому +18

      Actually they deserve more, as the only Americans who don't live on stolen land.

    • @robinwashington4948
      @robinwashington4948 Рік тому +1

      Not when you have idiots that bends at certain ones or for certain ones, but I wonders who are they going to run to when the races that they think they are so much higher than our race when all the races that they are treating bad WILL ONE DAY RAISE UP AND WON'T TAKE THE UNDERCOVER RACIST SO CALL SUPPOSED TO BE HUMANS, BECAUSE BEST BELIEVE THE CHILDREN WILL NOT FORGET !😡

    • @alexkumm4488
      @alexkumm4488 Рік тому +3

      If they deserve the same rights as everyone else they should get rid of the sovereign privileges listed in this video and many more

    • @oldslowcoach
      @oldslowcoach Рік тому +14

      @@alexkumm4488 They deserve the right to govern themselves

  • @smallfootprint2961
    @smallfootprint2961 Рік тому +43

    Thank you for drawing attention to this. As you say, Ali, most average American never thinks about these issues.

    • @1m2rich
      @1m2rich Рік тому +1

      Americans accept theses laws and treaties were solved many years ago.

    • @Amber_MM_
      @Amber_MM_ Рік тому +1

      As the daughter of a Lakota mother who was adopted out for her tribe and into a white Christian family and never grew up knowing her culture or her family, I've had no other choice but to think about this. The average American not thinking about this is also admitting the average American knows nothing about the natives who still exist and live amongst them.

  • @kevinvey9474
    @kevinvey9474 Рік тому +94

    As a non- native american it pains me that there are some indigenous people that aren't even recognized as having any land. We base our very system of government on what they taught us. We have screwed them over since the start. Now we are going to break another treaty, one that we have never fully honored to begin with. I'm really starting to believe that the devil's advocates are stripping us of our soul. Thanksgiving day is changing.

    • @aishabintabubakr4944
      @aishabintabubakr4944 Рік тому +2

      The Natives fought bravely and were defeated soundly.
      We honored them by naming teams after them, but that's apparently not good enough.
      If they are unwilling to accept a team after them, then they don't deserve 💩

    • @James-po6ib
      @James-po6ib Рік тому +1

      Bla bla bla never apologize for winning and im native

    • @marshayoung9387
      @marshayoung9387 Рік тому +9

      @@aishabintabubakr4944 that's a horrible thing to say. Just because we name a stupid ball team after them it's supposed to be an honor ? You say if they don't like it then they don't deserve 💩 ? That is the most outlandish thing I have ever heard.

    • @aishabintabubakr4944
      @aishabintabubakr4944 Рік тому +2

      @@marshayoung9387
      Cleaveland Indians is offensive, but Fighting Irish is not?
      The teams were not mocking the culture at all.

    • @austinroberts7546
      @austinroberts7546 Рік тому

      @@marshayoung9387 it's not they lost they need to hold there L and except they are conquered people.

  • @rr7firefly
    @rr7firefly Рік тому +60

    We must act with courage and with determination to bring justice to our world. Robert Kennedy said, "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." (Back in the 1960s the word "man" was understood to mean the collective "human." It was not used as a strictly masculine term.)

    • @luke_skywanker7643
      @luke_skywanker7643 Рік тому +8

      I was only a little kid back then, but my whole family loved JFK.

  • @eh3477
    @eh3477 Рік тому +22

    These foster parents are only being "discriminated against" in the sense that many adoption agencies are strongly biased against natural/ biological families. The plaintiffs are used to abusing a system that wrongly favors them.

  • @justathought3141
    @justathought3141 Рік тому +153

    In Canada: we are fighting our own issues with our government!! We need to UNITE!

    • @douglasreagan4979
      @douglasreagan4979 Рік тому

      Dont look for the US government to help you. Joe Biden told Justin to "Crush" the truckers strike. Neo fascist left is just as strong in the US as it is in Canada.

    • @freyatilly
      @freyatilly Рік тому +5

      Please do. Otherwise it will get worse.

    • @AuntyKsTarot
      @AuntyKsTarot Рік тому

      News flash this is also an Indigenous issue in so called canada as canada never had an ICWA and have stolen more children via the scoop then the residential school era. This is a shared issue where so called Canada stands as the warning. *I was scooped pre ICWA from the so called US to so called Canada

    • @r.pres.4121
      @r.pres.4121 Рік тому +6

      Native Americans throughout the Americas need to unite and fight for their sovereignty.

    • @audreejamie4873
      @audreejamie4873 Рік тому +2

      Ppl can’t even get along with others in their own country.

  • @Jin420
    @Jin420 Рік тому +9

    Current SCOTUS is beyond illegitimate. 💯

  • @ianreed9571
    @ianreed9571 Рік тому +111

    "They made us many promises, more than I can remember but they only kept one. They promised to take our land and they took it."
    Chief Red Cloud

    • @toneyingram732
      @toneyingram732 Рік тому +1

      White man speak with a forked tougue like his God Satan

    • @jandunn169
      @jandunn169 Рік тому

      Sad sad sad......... the GOP are colonizers

    • @alexkumm4488
      @alexkumm4488 Рік тому +1

      Nearly 90% of Natives died from Smallpox not genocide 😂. What were the settlers supposed to do not use land that was practically empty at the time

    • @michelekayehedge7900
      @michelekayehedge7900 Рік тому +8

      @@alexkumm4488 where do you think they got the smallpox from. They were given blankets that was infected with it

    • @alexkumm4488
      @alexkumm4488 Рік тому +1

      @@michelekayehedge7900 Myth, Germ Theory wasn't widely known until far later

  • @blueeyedchippewa8271
    @blueeyedchippewa8271 Рік тому +16

    I live on Indian land, and use Indian healthcare system... This is terrifying. My family has been here since the French fur traders. This WHOLE AREA used to be Indian land. (Some argue it still is - if treaty rights were actually honored) My great grandmother was in a residential home. Her mother died in an asylum.... This is a travesty!

  • @Apollonos
    @Apollonos Рік тому +25

    This is very disturbing. The U.S. Government has broken so many treaties with Native Americans and treated them so badly ("Trail of Tears", anyone?) that you'd think the time to start making amends is long overdue, but considering the makeup of the current Supreme Court, I don't have much hope for a fair decision.

    • @austinroberts7546
      @austinroberts7546 Рік тому

      They shouldn't have gotten conquered they lucky we gave them savages reservations

    • @rogeryazzie3658
      @rogeryazzie3658 Рік тому

      The US government is a mob style setup . Doesn't matter what polical is in office.The setup was to exterminate Indigenous populations from the face of the Earth. These right wing justices are extremely racist . To say Indigenous is racist is futile.Indigenious are like a particular ethnic groups that were thriving before any European set foot. The so called American is mixed breed trying to control ethnic populations throughout the world.

    • @petemavus2948
      @petemavus2948 Рік тому +2

      "the makeup of the current Supreme Court" Why does it seem like another 'pet project' for this SCOTUS that's been waiting in the wings all along?

    • @Apollonos
      @Apollonos Рік тому

      @@petemavus2948 Republicans have wanted a national abortion ban for years. They finally managed to get a majority on the SCOTUS through unscrupulous methods, so now they're making it happen.

    • @petemavus2948
      @petemavus2948 Рік тому

      Your and others comments are also disappearing from this thread evidently as well.

  • @michaelstorto8658
    @michaelstorto8658 Рік тому +50

    THANK YOU that these issues are being brought to the open, it needs that the general population understands and acknowledges Native Rights and to respect treaties signed by the government ,even if most treaties signed by the US were never officially materialized by the US government.

    • @debrasmith6423
      @debrasmith6423 Рік тому +3

      It's in the same category as trying to uphold any laws or treaties established by Jefferson Davis.Null and void .

    • @Kellygro
      @Kellygro Рік тому

      Even if the baby will be better off living away from the reservation?

    • @michaelstorto8658
      @michaelstorto8658 Рік тому

      @@Kellygro The US has done all for hundreds of years to destabalize First Nation rights, from sterelising young women at birth of their child to stealing Native children to be adopted within white families, to disrupting all family ties'...- "reeducation"....all.purpose to completely dismantle any First Nation social structure. To have them leave their reservation would serve many political and corporate interests......surely NOT in the interest of Native people..!!
      They woukd give up all heritage and thus adhere to an" assimilation", speak: disappearance of their culture, their history , their rights as sovereign people...

  • @JusticeFALL-USA
    @JusticeFALL-USA Рік тому +38

    November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should stop to think about our Country's beginning; and that the 🇺🇸United States would not exist if not for a great deal of sacrifice, blood, and tears by Indian Tribes across the Country.

    • @faroutfan3.024
      @faroutfan3.024 Рік тому +1

      Doctrine of Discovery

    • @kalijasin
      @kalijasin Рік тому

      "November is Native American Heritage month" does that include the Mexicans?

    • @sam-xn6yt
      @sam-xn6yt Рік тому +1

      Let's also remember the Native Americans that served in WWI 12,000 and WWII 25,000 from the Reservations and 20,000 off the Reservations.
      1.2 million current active duty service men and women.
      There are 150,000 American Indigenous and Alaskan Native Veterans.

    • @JSkyGemini
      @JSkyGemini Рік тому +1

      Indians are in India. The Native Americans were only called Indians because some drunk Eurotrash didn't know where he was.
      I find it interesting the US holds it's Native American Heritage month in the same month they celebrate thanksgiving day. That doesn't sound too hypocritical.

    • @Amber_MM_
      @Amber_MM_ Рік тому +2

      @Jason C. The Latin Heritage Month in the U.S. is from Sept 15 - Oct 15, which includes Mexicans and Mexican cultures. Why are you concerned about Mexicans being included in our Native American Heritage Month? It is honoring the tribes that exist in our borders. Just because indigenous Mexicans aren't established in our borders and treaties and aren't in our Native American Heritage Month does not mean Mexicans aren't also Native Americans. The distinction that was made was made by the colonizer states, that it considers within these borders "Native Americans" to specifically mean the nations whose homelands are in the U.S. at the time of the treaties and establishment of state lines and federal borders, done by and for the U.S.

  • @MarcosElMalo2
    @MarcosElMalo2 Рік тому +17

    Easy solution: If states wish to dissolve these treaties that govern the relations between the tribal nations and the state government, they have to return the land to the tribes. All of it.

  • @valdagadsden2956
    @valdagadsden2956 Рік тому +24

    I wish the Natives great success in the law suits. Also that they have success in getting their children.

  • @charlessmith1059
    @charlessmith1059 Рік тому +27

    Just won't let Indigenous people have any peace.

    • @austinroberts7546
      @austinroberts7546 Рік тому

      If they don't like it they can leave lol they lost and gotten conquered

    • @tonyOn1ce
      @tonyOn1ce Рік тому

      @@austinroberts7546 you disgust me.

    • @charlessmith1059
      @charlessmith1059 Рік тому

      @@austinroberts7546 RACIST & STUPID is no way to go thru LIFE find some HUMANITY before U meet your Maker.

    • @sam-xn6yt
      @sam-xn6yt Рік тому

      @@austinroberts7546 Shove it racist. Most of us wish we could send you back to whatever part of Europe your ancestors came from.
      We're sick of you and your shenanigans!

    • @dsddala467
      @dsddala467 Рік тому

      @@austinroberts7546 You are the immigrant, why don't you go back to where you came from. They have no where else to go.

  • @mechanic6682
    @mechanic6682 Рік тому +11

    After seeing how America goes back on all its deals, like the Iran nuclear deal, why would any country enter in to any agreement with us?

  • @jeromedamian5740
    @jeromedamian5740 Рік тому +23

    I feel all Native people around the world need to gather together in unity and come up with their own protection and laws to protect themselves against outside influences be it corporations, religion or laws, .

    • @Hal-Blue
      @Hal-Blue Рік тому +1

      That would be good except for the following. There where many tribes that had members that intermarried with African of free and enslaved people of that time. Who's descendents grew up on reservations with allotments of land they lived on for generations. When some off those Nations tribes where given funds to distribute. The actually made the elders and younger with mixed ancestors I previously mentioned Leave. Stated they where not part of the Nation at all. People born and raised for generations who could name all their ancestors. They kicked them out. And only invited them to come back after throwing them out. When they realized they wouldn't get the amount of money they figured could be shared between fewer people for a bigger chunk. Only after they found out without those people removed they wouldn't get as much money. There is a documentary about it. It's very sad that those raised for generations where denied their heritage for the one drop rule. My mother and her family from her mother's side where all except the youngest 12- more year younger than the rest of the siblings outside their own children are the first not to be raised on the Rez. But when Natives that are not every Nation but more than should be doing it. Are playing the one drop rule that the US Government used in the long past to argue against Nation status of Non-white and Native offspring only. Who is going to fairly state through their ancestry who is and not considered Native. You would unfortunately or not be surprised by how many of the People segregate using the so called 1 drop rule of only being African American or Black American erasing the Native ancestry of those descendants. Again it isn't everyone but it's more than it should be.

  • @daniela.valadez8870
    @daniela.valadez8870 Рік тому +20

    This is messed up! I hope this is not passed!

  • @shirleyandrews1152
    @shirleyandrews1152 Рік тому +16

    Leave it to Texas to make trouble‼️😡

  • @suomynona4607
    @suomynona4607 Рік тому +24

    Yet another reason to unpack the Extreme Court.

  • @jennyray4698
    @jennyray4698 Рік тому +6

    I am Native and i have so much healing to do from generational trauma from the government...Why are they adding a new layer to that? this court is out of control. The dems need to put more judges on the court and set term limits!!!

  • @mannersmatter6773
    @mannersmatter6773 Рік тому +34

    Can’t go into another nation and just take there children

    • @t3tsuyaguy1
      @t3tsuyaguy1 Рік тому +4

      Bingo. I'm really hoping this ends up being a hard 9-0 with opinion written by Gorsch. He has a long history of getting really fiery about the need to honor our treaties with the first nations. This whole case is rooted in the disturbing way that so many Americans simply don't know/respect that these nations were never part of the United States.

    • @TheChopf26
      @TheChopf26 Рік тому

      Thats not happening.

    • @markjohnson4217
      @markjohnson4217 Рік тому +1

      The Commonwealth have been doing it for a few centuries now, and more than this, they alwahs make sure they gain ownership of ALL of the land, every last inch of
      It. With or without treaties or promises, they WILL take it, because in their twisted colonial minds, it is THEY, the Colonists who have the God given right to own land and property and bear arms, blah blah blah. If it was still owned by the British Crown, the Queen would technically 'own' all of the native Foster children. Pleasant thoughts eh?

    • @tim3172
      @tim3172 Рік тому

      There children?
      Where children?

    • @austinroberts7546
      @austinroberts7546 Рік тому

      I'm sorry what country was on North American continent before Europeans arrived that's right none lol. There was no nation.

  • @matthawkins4579
    @matthawkins4579 Рік тому +13

    I am concerned about this....though I live in Canada, this precedent, if set, could spill over. My wife is Mohawk and has Nation to Nation agreements with the Canadian government. If the settlements and agreements to self governance are stripped away, is that not just a repeat of the invasion of native land and freedoms from the past. And, for the record, native children here are far more likely to be ripped from their biological mother than non native kids. Makes me puke in my throat a little.

    • @tim3172
      @tim3172 Рік тому

      I'd suggest you learn about the Slippery Slope logical FALLACY before you injure your hands clutching pearls.

  • @cj-qn8ou
    @cj-qn8ou Рік тому +10

    Treaty rights specifically acknowledge that Natives are sovereign citizens on their reservations. The Supreme Court shouldn't be hearing this case.
    Let's be honest, we've all seen what happened at these "Indian" boarding schools, seen the history of genocide commited against native and they couldn't even leave reservations until 1953.

  • @jandunn169
    @jandunn169 Рік тому +49

    Well we did sign Treaties which we tried to weasel out of. Are we going back in time and making life even harder for Native Americans? This is very very disturbing. Native children have a right to not be adopted by people who want to convert them to different belief systems. These attempts are reminiscent of when we sent Native children to colonizing schools.

    • @TheChopf26
      @TheChopf26 Рік тому +1

      This dose nothing to make our lives harder..... and no, this nothing like that at all.

    • @sport1girl
      @sport1girl Рік тому +9

      @@TheChopf26 It's exactly like that.

    • @justayoutuber1906
      @justayoutuber1906 Рік тому

      Making America great again via broken treaties...

    • @furiousapplesack
      @furiousapplesack Рік тому +1

      @@TheChopf26 "Our?" Plenty of native people in this comment section very much disagreeing with you. You're a conspiracy theorist going off about "globalists" and the "tree of liberty" being thirsty (fantasizing about murdering people) in your profile so yeah, I'm guessing you're a fascist now pretending to be native american.

    • @kalijasin
      @kalijasin Рік тому

      Like the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which was suppose to give all Mexicans living in California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, etc.. U.S. citizenship (defacto)?
      Note: Mexicans are native Americans. They are decedents of the Indigenous population of Mexico which included what is now California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, etc.

  • @ianreed9571
    @ianreed9571 Рік тому +103

    "They said I murdered Custer, but it was a lie. He was a fool who rode to his own death."
    Sitting Bull 1877

    • @douglasreagan4979
      @douglasreagan4979 Рік тому +9

      Cant we just bury the hatchet? or smoke a peace pipe?

    • @goldbud2287
      @goldbud2287 Рік тому +1

      Will Nancy Pelosi be charged for her involvement in the J6 false flag operation against MAGA ?

    • @sidneygrief3567
      @sidneygrief3567 Рік тому +5

      @@goldbud2287 You need more tin foil for your hat.

    • @Ink0ne415
      @Ink0ne415 Рік тому

      Real talk.

    • @goldbud2287
      @goldbud2287 Рік тому +1

      @@sidneygrief3567
      The truth will come out, are you still wearing a mask ?

  • @honeybadger1847
    @honeybadger1847 Рік тому +16

    I listened to the oral arguments with increasing dread. If the Court takes a narrow approach, I think it will distinguish between children on/off tribal land. For example, if the Native birth parent(s) reside in downtown LA, the child won’t be subject to Navajo nation jurisdiction. (But that brings up a right to travel argument.) Do you lose your nationality by moving off the rez?

    • @arcanecarott6037
      @arcanecarott6037 Рік тому

      Do you lose your nationality when you go over seas when traveling

  • @dittzx1597
    @dittzx1597 Рік тому +129

    "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones like Magas are full of confidence.” Charles Bukowski

    • @donnavorce8856
      @donnavorce8856 Рік тому +25

      They also scream the loudest and attack often.

    • @davediamond7228
      @davediamond7228 Рік тому

      troll on loser !

    • @patricknoonan3610
      @patricknoonan3610 Рік тому +1

      You hit the nail on the head. The stupid one have to watch the fire burn down everything to, learn that their way wasn't going to work. How long our new dark age will last is any bodies guess. Intelligent people have to keep their head above water, until our new dark age is over. Thought it was over in 2020 I was wrong. It might going into 2032 and of, course into 2036. The stupid one's just want to burn things down, with fear and hate just to see how burning things down will, not work. 200 steps back to take, 50 steps forward.

    • @hewitc
      @hewitc Рік тому +18

      They are totally ignorant about history, and other subjects.

    • @user-st6nt4ou6f
      @user-st6nt4ou6f Рік тому +5

      Exactly. So many, many people are complacent, unaware, uninvolved, uninformed, that the extremists hold sway. I've given up on any reasonable life in this country any longer. The lack of critical thinking and involvement allows anarchy and disorder

  • @tigertiger1699
    @tigertiger1699 Рік тому +44

    Will we are in 🇳🇿 are still learn how and to honour our treaty.., it is the based agreement/ document of our founding.
    This best is that the more we honour it/ remember to.. the better the outcomes we as a nation are getting 👍
    Long road to undo hate..

    • @dthomas9230
      @dthomas9230 Рік тому

      Type "You have to be carefully taught- South Pacific" in youtube search.

    • @jayjamal3912
      @jayjamal3912 Рік тому

      And they better honor the Treaty alright cause if not, the British needs to be lining up some canoes with paddles to come collect the trash they came and dumped on our shores. NATIVE RIGHTS IS HUMAN RIGHTS and natives needs to wake up and know that.. So natives fight like there is no tomorrow cause u don't wanna be robbed twice period.

    • @douglaidlaw740
      @douglaidlaw740 Рік тому +1

      Now you understand why Americns abroad are feeling despised, while Aussies and Kiwis have instant respect. All declining empires fail for the same reason.

    • @dthomas9230
      @dthomas9230 Рік тому

      @@douglaidlaw740 I'm an expat in Sweden and try to pass for Canadian occasionally, depending on the news and for 4 years under 45 & 8 years under W niether one elected, both assigned. SCOTUS picked W and EC picked the moron. Sandy O'Connor wanted a pro-lifer in the WH before she quit so she denied FL' vote for Gore and begat 9/11 (3400 dead), Katrina (1100 ded). and Iraq's 5000 US and 500,000 Iraqis dead but it bought a carrier landing photo-op and her two pro-lifers.

    • @kalijasin
      @kalijasin Рік тому

      AUSTRALIA JUST AS EVIL AS THE USA WHEN IT COMES TOO ITS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

  • @terryr.5093
    @terryr.5093 Рік тому +19

    I wonder who brought about this suit beyond the adoption issue? Could it be the non-indigenous gaming industry?

    • @Hal-Blue
      @Hal-Blue Рік тому +3

      The people it has always been. Those with more to gain and little to nothing to lose.

    • @emowoly
      @emowoly Рік тому +8

      Likely oil companies. The lawyers representing the adoption case(pro bono) is corporate law firm Gibson Dunn, a firm that's represented companies behind pipelines majorly protested against by Indigenous people like the DAPL. If they get tribal sovereignty dismantled, we lose the rights we have over the land they want to drill/place pipelines in

    • @sandburgmartin7947
      @sandburgmartin7947 Рік тому +1

      @@emowoly then it's a done deal. This SCOTUS majority kisses the collective glutes of all big corporations.

    • @erinmac4750
      @erinmac4750 Рік тому +5

      @@emowoly Exactly! I couldn't remember the name of the firm. It should be illegal for big corporations to front cases where they are manipulating the courts and law for their own ends. 🤬

    • @kalijasin
      @kalijasin Рік тому +2

      1 Timothy 6:10 declares that "the love of money is the root of all evil."

  • @franciswilliams9654
    @franciswilliams9654 Рік тому +8

    This was predictable given past behaviors . Treaty is another word for lie .

  • @stevenpinkerton777
    @stevenpinkerton777 Рік тому +12

    I hadn't thought of SCOTUS's "Roe of dominos."

  • @MrChristianDT
    @MrChristianDT Рік тому +24

    Terrifying. Nothing we can do now, but sit and wait.

    • @monkeyshineart
      @monkeyshineart Рік тому +6

      Not so. Any one of us could act.

    • @DrumWild
      @DrumWild Рік тому +1

      @@monkeyshineart Please let everyone know what they can do to "act." Because I can't think of what we can do beyond voting.

    • @Riolupai
      @Riolupai Рік тому +4

      @@DrumWild protesting and more

    • @carollittlewind6581
      @carollittlewind6581 Рік тому +4

      What do you mean, nothing to do but wait. Nope, we will not sit by and wait.

    • @user-st6nt4ou6f
      @user-st6nt4ou6f Рік тому +3

      And finally see another result of traitors work in our country

  • @HannahSmith-eo9ef
    @HannahSmith-eo9ef Рік тому +7

    Two things : First of all the Constitution provides that treaties have the same force of law as the Constitution itself.
    Secondly, the U.S. child welfare system is grossly deficient because the U.S. is the only country which has refused to sign on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty signed by Clinton in 1998, which the Senate has refused to ratify. Why? Because U.S. law categorizes children as the property of parents (chattel) which. of course has no rights. However, it is because they are property, which the government is entitled to protect and regulate, that enables states to "take" abused and neglected hildre, much as they do abandoned vehicles and roaming cattle, or place a lien on a house with an unkempt lawn. It is also because they are property that parents can be ordered to provide children with education and, if they are truant, the state rounds them up and places them in juvenile detention facilities.
    The reason these cases (half a million a year) are not well known to the general public, is because the judicial proceedings are confidential, as are the foster placements.
    That is why the Biden administration is still trying to find 400 missing migrant children who were "taken" in violation of the UNCRC. Only U.S. born children are considered property. Foreigners have recognized human rights.
    If you read the Constitution, you will see that only property rights and citizens' obligations are addresses. The Bill of Rights is a misnomer since it enumerates a number of prohibitions that the agents of government might engage in. Even the 19th Amendment only states that the ballot cannot be denied on the basis of gender. There is nothing to preclude the voting age to be raised back to 21 as some authoritarians are suggesting.

  • @maygodbewithus6392
    @maygodbewithus6392 Рік тому +16

    If any one nation needs our help its the native American people they have and are still being treated like the dirt on the bottom of shoes with that said WHAT EVER I CAN DO TO HELP THEM I'LL DO. PEACE BE WITH YOU 👊

    • @Hal-Blue
      @Hal-Blue Рік тому

      It's the ones loosing all the rights because of others who voted for Trump and Independents. This country only has 2 parties that matter. No matter what anyone thinks. Republican or Democrats and voting independent saying principle has always been a lie in this country for high offices. And everyone knows this that is a minority like Native and Black Americans. These are people who will not be hugely affected no matter who wins. Because they fall in the category where they don't need to worry about the actual outcome. Think about that. They can feel sorry for "others" but it truly does not effect them or their lives in any significant way.

  • @MonkeyJedi99
    @MonkeyJedi99 Рік тому +10

    While we're ignoring written government documents, let's ignore the part of the U.S. Constitution that says the Supreme Court justices are appointed for life.
    -
    But to be more serious, I would gladly support a defined term of some number of years not divisible by 2, 4, or 6. 11, 13 or 15 work.
    With that, allow them to be re-nominated for up to one more term.
    Why a number not divisible by 2, 4, or 6? So that their terms don't always line up with the terms of elected federal politicians.

  • @merlin6625
    @merlin6625 Рік тому +5

    They've been discriminating against us since our land was stolen, nothing new.
    A'ho my beautiful Native Sister ✊

    • @Catnipfumar
      @Catnipfumar Рік тому

      Let me guess you're claiming to be Cherokee. Your great great grandmother was a Cherokee princess, right? You better double check and make sure you're not a 5 dollar Indian. I'm not Cherokee I'm in rolled with the Navajo nation, no 5 dollar Indian over here. 😹

    • @austinroberts7546
      @austinroberts7546 Рік тому

      Your land wasn't stolen it was conquered you savages lost hold your L stop crying

    • @Catnipfumar
      @Catnipfumar Рік тому

      @@austinroberts7546 you're telling other people to stop crying and what have white people been crying about lately? Crying about the so-called mythical white replacement theory.
      Nobody's replacing white people other than evolution. The days of the Neanderthal blood is coming to an end science has already proven that people of European and Asian descent have the majority of this blood in their veins than people of African descent.
      So what's really quite interesting is you think it's funny to say that native Americans lost land but who's losing the majority population? What was stolen yesterday will be taken back from the thieves tomorrow.
      The census Data report tells us who's actually winning and who the real losers are. Don't you got something better to do then trolling on UA-cam? Don't you got an emotional support gun to go play with remember don't shoot anybody.
      You keep being hateful it really doesn't matter. The reason it doesn't matter is because you can't stop what's going to happen in less than 24 years. Your hate and your racism will not stop the fact that you will become the minority and less than 24 years. So you see we are getting our land back. 🤡🙄😭😹

  • @Rnankn
    @Rnankn Рік тому +7

    Careful with this one, I sense a deeper motive. Racial discrimination is discrimination against an individual, but native sovereignty is identity-based right of self-determination. These are not easy to reconcile, but most democracies expect courts to protect collectively held minority rights. The US tradition has always been reluctant to move beyond recognizing individuals to groups, in large measure because of race relations. For native people, how you determine membership can be politically diluted if it is based on biological race, with measures like blood, and its inevitable dilution over time leading to an erasure of native peoples. Instead, they should be culturally recognized as distinct, and determine their own identity. But conservatives have been making entitlement claims using this logic to make illiberal claims and limit federal democratic and majority rule. With far right strategists and this court, it is easy to assume rulings are being set up to create or revoke precedents that have impact beyond their immediate ruling and get conservatives closer to their strategic goals of dystopian nightmare.

  • @keithharris4378
    @keithharris4378 Рік тому +7

    They just can't leave people alone can they. Everything that was done to these people and now they just want the last little bit they have left.

  • @troytheriot8679
    @troytheriot8679 Рік тому +7

    They were promised certain by different treaties that were taken away when it became an inconvenient and it needs to stop. Every time they are given something it taken back

  • @lolabunny2470
    @lolabunny2470 Рік тому +5

    I'm very upset and scared about this. I'm part Cherokee and I think this would be absolutely devastating if it gets overturned.

    • @Catnipfumar
      @Catnipfumar Рік тому +1

      Are you really part Cherokee, or are you are 5 dollar Indian?

    • @lolabunny2470
      @lolabunny2470 Рік тому +2

      @@Catnipfumar Your message is rude.

    • @Catnipfumar
      @Catnipfumar Рік тому +1

      @@lolabunny2470 is it true? Are you a 5 dollar Indian? Do you know for sure that you have Cherokee in your blood, because it's all white people like to say when they find out that somebody is native? Oh, your Native American, me too. My great great grandmother was a Cherokee princess. Hear this all the time when people ask me what I'm mixed with. I'm actually enrolled with the Navajo nation. My grandma not my great great grandmother, but my mother's mother full blooded. My mother full blooded, my father was black, so I have a reason to ask you this, so you want to say it's rude, will do you know the actual truth, or are you just going by what, mommy and daddy or grandma and Grandpa told you?

    • @Catnipfumar
      @Catnipfumar Рік тому +1

      @@lolabunny2470 so I must be right, since you're not responding. Giggles with Grandpa, your only video on your channel, so if that's your child and that's Grandpa, why does Grandpa looks so white? Why does he have such a sick mustache it's common knowledge that Native American men really don't grow facial hair.
      So, like I said, supposedly your great great grandmother was a Cherokee princess, because if that's your daddy and your you tube video, he looks super white. Native Americans that can actually prove that their Native American, they don't have to go about what they were told, are tired of people claiming to be Native American when they're not. That's called cultural appropriation. Needs to stop. I'm half and half half Navajo and half black, my mother was full blooded Navajo. I don't have to take a 23 and me DNA test to see if I have native in me like Elizabeth Warren had to do, and guess what? There may have been some Native Americans in her ancestor e, but it's not in her blood, and I'm pretty sure the same results would come about with you. Like I said, you are 5 dollar Indian. 🤡🙄

    • @kalijasin
      @kalijasin Рік тому

      The evil white supremacist christians are still trying to eradicate the American Indians.

  • @jmcmillan8713
    @jmcmillan8713 Рік тому +3

    My Grandson is part Cherokee. Most non natives have no idea what natives have gone through.
    Government schools, discrimination, removal of their culture for purpose of "improvement." It breaks my heart.

  • @jdice6868
    @jdice6868 Рік тому +16

    This is NOT the SCOTUS that should be hearing this case! I find it disturbing that these unelected people can have such a terrible impact on millions of indigenous people. When will we stop finding ways to screw these people over?

    • @Hal-Blue
      @Hal-Blue Рік тому +1

      Don't you mean these Dark money Republican selected to do the Republicans bidding. Put in place by Republicans who planned to rule the courts by illegitimately stopping Democratic Presidents from placing reputable judges on the court. Who Trump stopped the investigating into the reputation of Kavenaugh. Stopped President Obama and Biden from placing 3 judges on the court. Instead of 1 of the 3 seats they should have filled. Anyone who voted Republican or independent The year Trump was nominated is responsible for all of this.

    • @Molly_W
      @Molly_W Рік тому +1

      When we're all dead and gone. Then the colonialists will have what they wanted all along.

    • @sandburgmartin7947
      @sandburgmartin7947 Рік тому +4

      Unfortunately for the greediest it will be when the last blade of grass, the last grain of sand, and the last drop of water is stolen away from them.

    • @kalijasin
      @kalijasin Рік тому +1

      The evil white supremacist christians are still trying to eradicate the American Indians.

  • @johnellharris1366
    @johnellharris1366 Рік тому +6

    Here we go again,who says history doesn’t repeat itself.A constant struggle that hurts the future.

  • @kimbaldunsmore4633
    @kimbaldunsmore4633 Рік тому +18

    As an Australian, I am impressed with the progressive and sophisticated approach the US has taken to first nations people. We in Australia are only just now starting to address our history vis a vis the relationship between white and other immigrant peoples and the indigenous peoples.
    I am confident that in this term of our new (Labor) government, our first nations people will be given an independent 'Voice to Parliament'.
    This has the support of the majority here and I look forward to the day that happens.

    • @Illyria1217
      @Illyria1217 Рік тому

      Here in America, some states no longer teach about the true history of how this country was created and what happened to the native Americans because it makes white people feel bad. Any history that makes white proper feel bad is considered critical race theory and are not allowed to be taught.

    • @auteurfiddler8706
      @auteurfiddler8706 Рік тому

      It is "convoluted" not sophisticated. Less than half of people with Indian blood live on reservations. If you leave, you have to get a job and if you get a job you lose your free health care and have to pay high rent and earn low wages. If you stay you live in a shack. And, most people with native blood today have only a small fraction of it. Meaning they are 75 percent or more white.
      Tribal gaming has made a few insiders millionaires while most get nothing at all.
      I really think Australia has more to be proud of than the US regarding Indigenous persons, except, perhaps, in that our road was "paved with good intentions" for the last 100 years or so anyway.

  • @FtanmoOfEtheirys
    @FtanmoOfEtheirys Рік тому +8

    These are the same people who try to say our ancestors didn't commit genocide and enslave the natives to this land. There's a reason why we allow the natives to have their own form of government, it couldn't be because we took their country by force or anything....

    • @austinroberts7546
      @austinroberts7546 Рік тому

      Lol they got conquered they lost I don't feel bad for them at all.

    • @auteurfiddler8706
      @auteurfiddler8706 Рік тому

      This happened in some states but never happened in some others. The enslavement and genocide part. Well the taking the land part was pretty much everywhere, but they actually have more land than the rest of us do relative to their numbers now. Several reservations have more land area than several states!

  • @user-st6nt4ou6f
    @user-st6nt4ou6f Рік тому +12

    The government, Congress in particular, is divided into factions and unable to address these serious issues. Some of it because many members of Congress want to bring down the government and sow discontent within the populace

    • @TheChopf26
      @TheChopf26 Рік тому +1

      That would be the left.

    • @oldslowcoach
      @oldslowcoach Рік тому

      @@TheChopf26 you mean calling out extremism? your own 'constituents' are calling it out, too... the MAGAT extremists are the ones who are RINOs...

    • @TheChopf26
      @TheChopf26 Рік тому

      @@oldslowcoach 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 You sound like a hardcore Democrat.

    • @KCsun258
      @KCsun258 Рік тому +3

      @@TheChopf26 That would be the very disgusting right ✅

    • @eshbena
      @eshbena Рік тому

      @@TheChopf26 I didn't see the left running around beating up cops on Jan.6th - that was you lot.

  • @paularhodes1997
    @paularhodes1997 Рік тому +3

    Thank you Rebecca. I didn't understand this before. This is so very disturbing. Oh please can our court not screw this up!

  • @MissyGail4eva
    @MissyGail4eva Рік тому +9

    Excellent piece, thanks for the clarification.

  • @phoenixr6811
    @phoenixr6811 Рік тому +17

    Interesting so the law was based on them being a political status and not race and the lawsuit is based on race. This will be interesting to see how ends😮

    • @debrasmith6423
      @debrasmith6423 Рік тому

      Because they are not a race. Their DNA is the same as people from lower Asia and upper Europe.. people hero worshipping early settlers is kinda nutty. There were no humans on this continent before the first folks migrated out of Eurasia . No indigenous people here at all.Stop the fake history!

    • @bencollins2259
      @bencollins2259 Рік тому +1

      YES. Exactly. Great summary.

  • @markjohnson4217
    @markjohnson4217 Рік тому +7

    With the growth and strengthening of the Sovereign nations, there should be enough of a decline in the number of broken families for the Indigenous to stake a claim in recieving first priority in adoption rights. If all tribes get together NOW and start working on a Bill proposal that is better suited for today, when the time comes and the Scotus tries some stunt, there will be enough pushback to stop them. In fact the references to historical stats of child separations and great numbers of Indigenous families being broken up, may be the key to turn their own argument about the 'different treatment due to race" against them. Why would the non-native families CHOOSE to adopt a native child?? THAT would definitely be a violation of the constitution if held to the same scrutiny, wouldn't it? If according to that law, the families should not be favored or treated differently because of race, then neither should the child be 'favored' and chosen by a white family. Especially when placed in the historical light of cultural and genetic 'erasure', which was always the real purpose of separating children from families and the keeping the reservations in remote areas, and the dreaded Catholic 'schooling'. Out of respect for the first nations people, I think that these Indigenous adoptions by non-native families should stop completely.

  • @mothersgauri4137
    @mothersgauri4137 Рік тому +2

    Thanks for reporting on this story. Clearly it is not getting the attention it needs.
    There are no words.....one more nail in the coffin. Disgusting.

  • @cotati76
    @cotati76 Рік тому +4

    I used tribal healthcare in California for 30 years. It is the best healthcare I’ve ever received. It had doctors, dentists, mental health, and a pharmacy all in one place and it was all totally free. Some people would call it socialized healthy and they might be right. I never had to wait to see a doctor as there was the ability to make regular appointments and you could make same day appointments if needed. Too bad the rest of the US doesn’t adopt this method of healthcare. It would be devastating to the native community if that was somehow taken away due to a Supreme Court ruling.

    • @dsddala467
      @dsddala467 Рік тому +1

      Yes, that is "socialized," but considering most Americans don't know the difference between Communism and Socialism, how about we just call it "universal" or "tribal?"

    • @auteurfiddler8706
      @auteurfiddler8706 Рік тому +1

      Did you ever feel bad for all the people with the same amount of Indian blood as you but who got nothing because they weren't part of a federally recognized tribe? And the govt says, "We can't control who they let in, that's their right."
      But I agree with your point that solution is to expand the health care. I suspect they will not expand it but will "grandfather" it in for existing benifeciaries to avoid an uprising.

  • @vincentminor1638
    @vincentminor1638 Рік тому +3

    This will be devastating should it happen.

  • @WhereOceansMeeet
    @WhereOceansMeeet Рік тому +3

    How about we just do away with the Supreme Court? Who's with me?

  • @gcromer903
    @gcromer903 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for reporting on this and for educating us.

  • @jenniferhampton5171
    @jenniferhampton5171 Рік тому +2

    This is common sense. We've nearly whipped out their entire race and culture: we must support their tribes' survival at all levels now. Yes, try to keep their kids with them!!!

  • @MsKeebe
    @MsKeebe Рік тому +5

    They aren’t a race, but the FLDS owns their towns. All the law enforcement forces are FLDS. The courts are stacked with members. The system makes it almost impossible for abused girls and women to escape.

    • @Anthony-hu3rj
      @Anthony-hu3rj Рік тому

      This story has nothing to do with Mormons. Wrong again.

  • @LeCharles07
    @LeCharles07 Рік тому +3

    You know what some people call seizing sovereignty from a sovereign nation? Casus Belli. Power to the Tribes.

  • @rebeccamd7903
    @rebeccamd7903 Рік тому +1

    This was a horrible idea in our past and Canada as well. This can’t stand. So many of us have lost our history and it can’t keep happening. No more!

  • @mitziewheeler8517
    @mitziewheeler8517 Рік тому +2

    I live where now it is a Native American college, Haskell University. Originally it was a school where Native American children were forcible removed from their homes and families to be taught the white way. At that time what little of this city there was it was not near the school. This whole city is built on a marsh. It totally surrounded the school at that time. No one knows just how many children died trying to escape, in that marsh. The city and state wanted to move the highway for a long time. Many that live here, Haskell University, and KU fought it for a long time, there was finally a agreement reached, that took a lot of things into consideration. One of the biggest reasons it was fought for so long is because many both Native American and non Native Americans, looked at that part of untouched marsh aa a burial ground. I think it's way past time thet we keep treating those of the Native American Nations as second class citizens. There people were here since the beginning of the first people's to walk this land. Anyone that is not Native American can say that, every single one of us that is not Native American our people came from another country, another contanet even. Yes they are American citizens, but for most things they are their own nations. Since the day the first European set foot on both north and south America, the Native American Nations have been treated like crap, they have been pushed out of their home lands many tribes no longer even exist because of our greed. We pushed them onto reservations, we have signed treaties then broken them, it's time it stops. In truth I think more land should be given to them, if you own a home on that land fine it's still yours nothing changes other than you would now be under their jurisdiction. It's time people started truly learning about all the people in our country not just their own little bubble.

  • @Valicroix
    @Valicroix Рік тому +5

    With this SCOTUS every case appears to be an adventure. Don't adoption agencies already try and place children with adoptive parents of the same race and religion? That just seems like common sense to me.

    • @cielonehellofaservicedog4648
      @cielonehellofaservicedog4648 Рік тому +3

      no, not with native children. That is why ICWA was developed and passed in the 70s. 25-35% of native children were in the system for adoption, while 98% were placed in non-native homes, before ICWA was passed. This has been a thing for years...priests were also known for selling children to white people, we have the literal type written receipts of those priests in charge of native boarding schools, writing to prospective buyers and how much each child, up for sale, would cost.

    • @AuntyKsTarot
      @AuntyKsTarot Рік тому +2

      You forgot a giant reality called racism.

    • @pjpredhomme7699
      @pjpredhomme7699 Рік тому

      @@AuntyKsTarot Ummmm I am pretty sure this supreme court determined that doesn't exist anymore I wonder if any of the casinos are setting a line on what the odds are on this supreme court ruling in favor of the vulnerable ? it might be a good idea at least maybe make a little money off of getting screwed

  • @robwealer5416
    @robwealer5416 Рік тому +3

    Usually you will hear about courts bringing in the child to testify about their own wishes and where they want to live, who they would rather live with. That's often the final word in a lot of cases. Looks entirely avoided here for some reason. If the child in question is not an infant, then are these cases coming up because some children wish to stay with long time fosters? Hard to imagine foster parents going to court, initially paying huge money to adopt a child who does not want to be with them. Some clarity here would be appreciated.

    • @dsddala467
      @dsddala467 Рік тому +1

      Usually the minimum age to have a child weigh in on their preferences when custody is in question is 12, sometimes 13. I doubt if these children are that old.

  • @gregkump3639
    @gregkump3639 Рік тому +13

    Another ? How will it effect religious sovereign groups like Amish or Mennonite communities?

    • @user-jc8py7dw7r
      @user-jc8py7dw7r Рік тому

      Who gives a crap about religious groups?

    • @jeffreyhinds9317
      @jeffreyhinds9317 Рік тому

      They will go after them next.Where is life ,liberty and persuit of happiness. Is this only for caucasians/ white people? They seem to be never satisfied always want their share and the other person.

    • @jandunn169
      @jandunn169 Рік тому +3

      Good point but they are white and christian so I doubt they would be targeted

    • @DHEspana
      @DHEspana Рік тому +1

      @@jandunn169 They aren't national sovereign groups so this wouldn't affect them in and if it did, do you really think atheist groups wouldn't immediately target them with lawsuits? Don't be naive.

    • @michelekayehedge7900
      @michelekayehedge7900 Рік тому +1

      @@DHEspana I agree and eventually it will lead to people taking children away from other cultures within the US.

  • @christiclaycomb2639
    @christiclaycomb2639 Рік тому +3

    It's based on treaties which are by law, the law of the land. It supercedes other laws

  • @richardbaileysr2602
    @richardbaileysr2602 Рік тому +4

    It's about getting their hands on the Money 💰🤑

  • @greggiles7309
    @greggiles7309 Рік тому +1

    So States can throw out Lincolns proclamation because it abridged State property rights.

  • @misspriss7786
    @misspriss7786 Рік тому +2

    It's going to happen with THIS Court

  • @llc1976
    @llc1976 Рік тому +5

    Who else is expecting the worst possible outcome? 😳

    • @auteurfiddler8706
      @auteurfiddler8706 Рік тому +1

      I can't get any worse than it is now is how I look at it.

  • @heatherc2939
    @heatherc2939 Рік тому +23

    If SCOTUS doesn't rule in favor of what congress had already established, then SCOTUS IS ILLIGITIMATE.
    The difference w Roe, is that congress didn't codify.

    • @climbnride58
      @climbnride58 Рік тому +2

      SCOTUS has been proven to already be illegimate.

    • @TheChopf26
      @TheChopf26 Рік тому +1

      You clearly dont know the job of SCOTUS. They are not supposed to blindly do whatever Congress says. What would be the point of the court even existing....

    • @bulkvanderhuge9006
      @bulkvanderhuge9006 Рік тому

      @@TheChopf26 YOu clearly haven't been paying attention to what the SCROTUS has been doing, I notice you're everywhere in this comment section giving your myopic Right-WIng views.

    • @suehowie152
      @suehowie152 Рік тому

      @@TheChopf26 Promises made, promises broken..

    • @dsddala467
      @dsddala467 Рік тому

      @@suehowie152 I don't think Iamthe Partyone is saying that Natives don't deserve sovereignty, what they are saying is that Congress is the Legislative Branch and SCOTUS is the Judicial branch and one does not do the same thing as the other. Precedence is a thing. And this current court seems to not care about it in the least. They have already undone 50 years of precedence, and now they are looking at going back hundreds of years. It's, well...unprecedented.

  • @davidantell2855
    @davidantell2855 Рік тому +2

    We've had children taken from their families to go to boarding schools, had children taken to live with religious missionaries, just taken away from their families to live with non-native ones. So laws were made to help stop that. Now wth, those laws protecting our kids are discriminatory? If it all goes away, and takes everything else with it, then i guess we just need to be paid for all the land taken away by treaty, all the resources mined that were never paid for. Or, all the land just needs to be returned and we can figure it out ourselves.

  • @jamesburge1983
    @jamesburge1983 Рік тому +4

    So these attornies went to law school and passed a bar exam, yet they do not understand the difference between 'racial' and 'political'. Seems to me not only should these cases be thrown out but the attornies should be admonished for supporting frivolous lawsuits.

    • @tflg3257
      @tflg3257 Рік тому

      So far, it appears the U.S. Supreme Court had to step in to repair a 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision that invalidated portions of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act.

  • @starsaligninthesky
    @starsaligninthesky Рік тому +8

    Personally, I feel the native American Indian nation should be governing the immigrants from Europe, and everywhere else people flock to native American land from.

    • @BrianUnAK
      @BrianUnAK Рік тому

      That would include every single American citizen, as unless you have direct lineage to indigenous peoples you are a product of an immigrant.

    • @yobabydaddyismine
      @yobabydaddyismine Рік тому

      Yea but they lost so who really cares about these conquered people, because I dont

    • @dsddala467
      @dsddala467 Рік тому +1

      We'd have a better society for sure if that were the case.

    • @starsaligninthesky
      @starsaligninthesky Рік тому

      @@dsddala467 I think so too.

    • @jessicadorion8507
      @jessicadorion8507 Рік тому

      Most reservations are failing and the people are suffering from alcohol and drugs, what good are they gonna do for them when they're going extinct themselves?

  • @lilbob369
    @lilbob369 Рік тому +4

    Six years? That infuriates me

  • @bonniehoke-scedrov4906
    @bonniehoke-scedrov4906 Рік тому +1

    Great video! Thanks!

  • @junit483
    @junit483 Рік тому +2

    On the one hand, I understand the adoption process makes little no to sense. On the other, the potential ramifications could be unprecedented.

  • @odenwalt
    @odenwalt Рік тому +3

    State justices have no say, this is out of their jurisdiction. This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

  • @urciell
    @urciell Рік тому +22

    Our indigenous peoples need to be protected at all costs!!! This lawsuit is the biggest Karen I’ve seen this far

    • @suehowie152
      @suehowie152 Рік тому

      They want to rule a white world..

    • @tim3172
      @tim3172 Рік тому

      I know, right!
      They contribute so much to our society like
      Uhh!
      Like... creating rain! and (???).

    • @suehowie152
      @suehowie152 Рік тому

      @@tim3172 Wow..

    • @dsddala467
      @dsddala467 Рік тому +1

      @@suehowie152 Report him for Hate Speech. Hover over the three little dots on the right side of his comment.

  • @milliechalk8398
    @milliechalk8398 Рік тому +7

    We took their effing land in exchange for these rights!!! We need to honor the treaties!!!

    • @justayoutuber1906
      @justayoutuber1906 Рік тому

      Trump doesn't believe in honoring contracts...including his subcontractors

    • @tim3172
      @tim3172 Рік тому

      Who is "we"?
      You, I, and everyone else watching this video weren't even eggs and sperm yet.

  • @jon9103
    @jon9103 Рік тому +3

    Somehow, I doubt the law firm isn't being paid. They may not be paid by their "clients" who are likely just pawns, but somebody is funding this. Everyone funding this needs to be publicly exposed.

  • @hollydowns2279
    @hollydowns2279 Рік тому +2

    They added three years to my working class sentence to 68 from 65, women (as well as men) have no guarantee of autonomy, we live in an Oligarchy not a Republic nor a Democracy. There are no penalties to "lawmakers"(lawbreakers) in North America, where seldom is heard a truthful word and the poverty divide grows ever wide

  • @mikewilt709
    @mikewilt709 Рік тому +2

    I really hope that this issue does not turn out like the racist name of a football team and only got changed due to a different issue. I am part native american and it always seems like no one really takes any issues seriously.

  • @stevebulbowmd7142
    @stevebulbowmd7142 Рік тому +4

    Well to be fair, the U.S. government did STEAL PRIME INDIAN LAND & TERRITORIES, in exchange for a safe heaven of their customs, culture & traditions on worthless land...& like ALWAYS, the U.S. government, ONCE AGAIN, wants to welch out of it obligations in TREATIES PREVIOUSLY SIGNED, basically becoming once again, "Indian givers"(the complete & applicable pun was intentional).

    • @yobabydaddyismine
      @yobabydaddyismine Рік тому

      These people are a conquered people and the United States doesn't owe them anything, they are lucky to even have Reservations which could be considered unconstitutional. These Cherokee people scream unfair treatment, all while removing the descendents of their former slaves from their membership rolls, so with that being said they've chipped away at their own sovereignty because plenty of populations see them as a farce for being racist to their formerly enslaved descendants. They aren't owed any favors by the US government. They've already given you enough. You are no different than any other conquered people around the world. It's nobody's fault that the Indian is in the predicament they are in but their ancestors for having crappy war strategies against the Colonizers. And don't holler treaties. treaties have been made and broken for thousands of years. How about the Indians pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and make their own way instead of begging for more handouts. Do you think you people are the only ones forced to walk hundreds of miles from your home to a new home, because you aren't. Even after the decimation by European diseases there were still more Indians here than settlers and still lost their land. Cry a river, build a bridge and get over it already!