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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
👋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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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 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
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
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"
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.
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?*
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".
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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...❤💙😘
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.
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! 💞💞
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
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.
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.
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 💩
@@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.
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.
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
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.)
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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
@@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...
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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, .
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.
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.
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!!!
@@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!
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 "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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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..
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.
Now you understand why Americns abroad are feeling despised, while Aussies and Kiwis have instant respect. All declining empires fail for the same reason.
@@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.
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 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. 🤡🙄😭😹
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.
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....
@@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 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.
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
@@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. 🤬
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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?
@@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. 🤡🙄
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 👊
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.
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.
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?"
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.
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....
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!
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.
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
Native Americans didn't sign up for our constitution. They weren't given the option to sign up for anything we chose. Their land was forcibly taken from them and they were forced to live where we told them. I don't see how our constitution factors into their lives without their consent. They should have the final say on their lives.
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!!!
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.
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
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😮
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!
We put them on some of the worst land we could find, then when gold, oil or anything of value shows up we move them again. That is exactly what the non native casino owners are trying to do now,
@@austinroberts7546 It is DAF, I don't hate any thing that happened hundreds of years ago nor does it bother me that they were conquered. What does bother me is that our government made promises that they failed to fulfill. We conquered both Germany and Japan and rebuilt them both.
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.
Didn't realize there was still a legally segregated area in the USA in 2022. The idea of this level of segregation still in practice in America is disturbing and SHOULD BE ended.
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.
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?
Native people have been fighting to keep their tribal identity and against our racialization since the beginning. It’s not us who is making everything about race.
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.
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 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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Here we go again. We must stand with the Native Americans. We must march in protest to protect their lands & their sovereignty. We must do all we can to honor these agreements.
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.
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.
The court stepped in to review a questionable ruling made by the 5th Circuit Appeals Court. A quote from Amy Howe, "In Haaland v. Brackeen (consolidated for one hour of oral argument with Cherokee Nation v. Brackeen, Texas v. Haaland, and Brackeen v. Haaland), the justices agreed to review a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that invalidated portions of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law enacted in 1978 that (among other things) establishes minimum standards for the removal of Native American children from their families and establishes a preference that Native children who are removed from their families be placed with extended family members or in Native foster homes. The court of appeals ruled that the provisions violate (again, among other things) the 10th Amendment because they “commandeer” - that is, impose duties on - the states. The federal government asked the Supreme Court to weigh in, which it agreed to do on Friday. The case will be argued in the fall, with a decision likely to follow sometime in 2023."
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.
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).
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!
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.
That was before we had the current off the rails far right supreme court. They're dead set on destroying America.
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.
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.
@@TheChopf26 ok Trumpist
@@galacticwarlock2271 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Wow, what an intelligent and well thought out response. Stunning and brave.
Remember that the fossil fuel industry is fronting the lawyers for the lawsuit because they want the lands.
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.
Maybe they should think of where they're going to find "Code Talkers" for the next World War.
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
@@sandyallen1523 They say that? Who says that?
@@chonqmonk quacks
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.
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.
Always!
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.
@@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.
👋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.
if you arent native, neither are your kids. they are natural born us citizens.
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.
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.
Casus belli?
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
@@nac.mac.feegle breed and adopt like crazy form your own tribal law!
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.
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.
The US defeated their crappy civilization, which is why you should be proud.
I would hate to be Narive American
The term is natives not Indian.
@@tonisno4174 Karen, everyone knows what she means and I've worked with many. many Navajos and they also used the word Indian!
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.
The only thing you got wrong is we're not "Indians", those folks are from INDIA! Columbus was lost and a big bullshitter.
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.
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
@@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
@@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
@@aishabintabubakr4944 Not as pathetic as you
@@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
The fact that the court even chose to hear this case is disgusting
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
But predictable if corporatists are trying to disband tribes and steal resources.
@@sandburgmartin7947 Well yeah, they've literally been trying for a couple centuries.
@@sandburgmartin7947 it's not the government it's the landowners. Like the program Yellowstone same thing in reality,,, greed.
The evil white supremacist Christian nationalists are still trying to eradicate the Native Americans.
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"
Boo hood they lost don't deserve anything
That reminds me of Brett "I like beer" Kavanaugh
@@edwardmiessner6502 Don't forget the woman that Hates women rights and Has Never prosided over a trial Before.
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.
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?*
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".
Can you translate that?
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@petemavus2948 agreed
I dont wish the worst but i wont hold my breath because its become clear America loves backtracking on yet another “promise”
There are a whole bunch of treaties that need to be enforced.
All of the treaties need to be enforced.
Right, 2022 and we still can't honor our treaties with the Native tribes.
I agtee.
We won the war.
You are Americans
@@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.
@@WTH1812
They are defeated people and their land belongs to the US
This is so heartbreaking to hear. Native Americans have suffered so much. They deserve rights like everyone else.
We do have rights like everyone else...... Wtf are you talking about......
Actually they deserve more, as the only Americans who don't live on stolen land.
If they deserve the same rights as everyone else they should get rid of the sovereign privileges listed in this video and many more
@@alexkumm4488 They deserve the right to govern themselves
@@oldslowcoach So organize and annex some land😂
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!
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.
Thank you for drawing attention to this. As you say, Ali, most average American never thinks about these issues.
Americans accept theses laws and treaties were solved many years ago.
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.
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.
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...❤💙😘
Great story! 👍👍
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.
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! 💞💞
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
Over 350 treaties were broken by the federal government and they do have sovereign status concerning their reservations
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.
White man speak with a forked tougue like their God Satan
And how many states have broken treaty laws or all kinds of laws for that matter.
"White man speaks with forked tongue"
Trump thinks breaking treaties makes us "great" again
Native Nations don't have enough protection here.
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.
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 💩
Bla bla bla never apologize for winning and im native
@@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.
@@marshayoung9387
Cleaveland Indians is offensive, but Fighting Irish is not?
The teams were not mocking the culture at all.
@@marshayoung9387 it's not they lost they need to hold there L and except they are conquered people.
In Canada: we are fighting our own issues with our government!! We need to UNITE!
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.
Please do. Otherwise it will get worse.
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
Native Americans throughout the Americas need to unite and fight for their sovereignty.
Ppl can’t even get along with others in their own country.
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.)
I was only a little kid back then, but my whole family loved JFK.
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.
I’m Native & this scares the life out of me‼️what will I do w/o my healthcare‼️
😂😂😂😂😂 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.
You will be "American" ..
I think it's time to join the fight for universal healthcare.
@@furiousapplesack eeww no. You've never dealt with IHS and you never want to, because letting the government control your healthcare is a mistake.
@@lillydogpoo65 you're a bad liar.
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!
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.
They shouldn't have gotten conquered they lucky we gave them savages reservations
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.
"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?
@@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.
Your and others comments are also disappearing from this thread evidently as well.
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.
It's in the same category as trying to uphold any laws or treaties established by Jefferson Davis.Null and void .
Even if the baby will be better off living away from the reservation?
@@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...
"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
White man speak with a forked tougue like his God Satan
Sad sad sad......... the GOP are colonizers
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
@@alexkumm4488 where do you think they got the smallpox from. They were given blankets that was infected with it
@@michelekayehedge7900 Myth, Germ Theory wasn't widely known until far later
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.
Doctrine of Discovery
"November is Native American Heritage month" does that include the Mexicans?
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.
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.
@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.
Current SCOTUS is beyond illegitimate. 💯
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, .
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.
I wish the Natives great success in the law suits. Also that they have success in getting their children.
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.
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!!!
"They said I murdered Custer, but it was a lie. He was a fool who rode to his own death."
Sitting Bull 1877
Cant we just bury the hatchet? or smoke a peace pipe?
Will Nancy Pelosi be charged for her involvement in the J6 false flag operation against MAGA ?
@@goldbud2287 You need more tin foil for your hat.
Real talk.
@@sidneygrief3567
The truth will come out, are you still wearing a mask ?
Just won't let Indigenous people have any peace.
If they don't like it they can leave lol they lost and gotten conquered
@@austinroberts7546 you disgust me.
@@austinroberts7546 RACIST & STUPID is no way to go thru LIFE find some HUMANITY before U meet your Maker.
@@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!
@@austinroberts7546 You are the immigrant, why don't you go back to where you came from. They have no where else to go.
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.
This dose nothing to make our lives harder..... and no, this nothing like that at all.
@@TheChopf26 It's exactly like that.
Making America great again via broken treaties...
@@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.
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.
This is messed up! I hope this is not passed!
Yet another reason to unpack the Extreme Court.
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?
Do you lose your nationality when you go over seas when traveling
Leave it to Texas to make trouble‼️😡
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.
I'd suggest you learn about the Slippery Slope logical FALLACY before you injure your hands clutching pearls.
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.
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?
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.
When we're all dead and gone. Then the colonialists will have what they wanted all along.
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.
The evil white supremacist christians are still trying to eradicate the American Indians.
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?
Can’t go into another nation and just take there children
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.
Thats not happening.
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?
There children?
Where children?
I'm sorry what country was on North American continent before Europeans arrived that's right none lol. There was no nation.
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..
Type "You have to be carefully taught- South Pacific" in youtube search.
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.
Now you understand why Americns abroad are feeling despised, while Aussies and Kiwis have instant respect. All declining empires fail for the same reason.
@@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.
AUSTRALIA JUST AS EVIL AS THE USA WHEN IT COMES TOO ITS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.
They've been discriminating against us since our land was stolen, nothing new.
A'ho my beautiful Native Sister ✊
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. 😹
Your land wasn't stolen it was conquered you savages lost hold your L stop crying
@@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. 🤡🙄😭😹
Terrifying. Nothing we can do now, but sit and wait.
Not so. Any one of us could act.
@DrumWild protesting and more
What do you mean, nothing to do but wait. Nope, we will not sit by and wait.
And finally see another result of traitors work in our country
@DrumWild It's unfortunate that Americans see themselves as so powerless...The power of the people is economic..
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.
SCOTUS has been proven to already be illegimate.
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....
@@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.
@@TheChopf26 Promises made, promises broken..
@@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.
I wonder who brought about this suit beyond the adoption issue? Could it be the non-indigenous gaming industry?
The people it has always been. Those with more to gain and little to nothing to lose.
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
@@emowoly then it's a done deal. This SCOTUS majority kisses the collective glutes of all big corporations.
@@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. 🤬
1 Timothy 6:10 declares that "the love of money is the root of all evil."
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm very upset and scared about this. I'm part Cherokee and I think this would be absolutely devastating if it gets overturned.
Are you really part Cherokee, or are you are 5 dollar Indian?
@@Catnipfumar Your message is rude.
@@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?
@@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. 🤡🙄
The evil white supremacist christians are still trying to eradicate the American Indians.
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 👊
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.
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.
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?"
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.
I hadn't thought of SCOTUS's "Roe of dominos."
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....
Lol they got conquered they lost I don't feel bad for them at all.
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!
Thank you Rebecca. I didn't understand this before. This is so very disturbing. Oh please can our court not screw this up!
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.
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
Native Americans didn't sign up for our constitution. They weren't given the option to sign up for anything we chose. Their land was forcibly taken from them and they were forced to live where we told them. I don't see how our constitution factors into their lives without their consent. They should have the final say on their lives.
Excellent piece, thanks for the clarification.
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!!!
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.
This will be devastating should it happen.
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.
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
That would be the left.
@@TheChopf26 you mean calling out extremism? your own 'constituents' are calling it out, too... the MAGAT extremists are the ones who are RINOs...
@@oldslowcoach 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 You sound like a hardcore Democrat.
@@TheChopf26 That would be the very disgusting right ✅
@@TheChopf26 I didn't see the left running around beating up cops on Jan.6th - that was you lot.
This was predictable given past behaviors . Treaty is another word for lie .
Here we go again,who says history doesn’t repeat itself.A constant struggle that hurts the future.
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😮
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!
YES. Exactly. Great summary.
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.
We took their effing land in exchange for these rights!!! We need to honor the treaties!!!
Trump doesn't believe in honoring contracts...including his subcontractors
Who is "we"?
You, I, and everyone else watching this video weren't even eggs and sperm yet.
Thank you for reporting on this and for educating us.
We put them on some of the worst land we could find, then when gold, oil or anything of value shows up we move them again. That is exactly what the non native casino owners are trying to do now,
Maybe they shouldn't have lost and gotten conquered
@@austinroberts7546 Now that is a Herschel Walker kind of stupid thing to say
@@franktalley it's not dumb it's truth they got conquered. You can hate it all you want but doesn't change the fact. They are conquered people.
@@austinroberts7546 It is DAF, I don't hate any thing that happened hundreds of years ago nor does it bother me that they were conquered. What does bother me is that our government made promises that they failed to fulfill. We conquered both Germany and Japan and rebuilt them both.
@@franktalley Report him. I did. It's hate speech and racist against Native Americans. He's said it all up and down these comments.
You know what some people call seizing sovereignty from a sovereign nation? Casus Belli. Power to the Tribes.
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.
Didn't realize there was still a legally segregated area in the USA in 2022. The idea of this level of segregation still in practice in America is disturbing and SHOULD BE ended.
Don’t like it? Give us back the land and go home settler
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.
That would include every single American citizen, as unless you have direct lineage to indigenous peoples you are a product of an immigrant.
Yea but they lost so who really cares about these conquered people, because I dont
We'd have a better society for sure if that were the case.
@@dsddala467 I think so too.
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?
Native people have been fighting to keep their tribal identity and against our racialization since the beginning. It’s not us who is making everything about race.
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.
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.
You forgot a giant reality called racism.
@@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
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
Our indigenous peoples need to be protected at all costs!!! This lawsuit is the biggest Karen I’ve seen this far
They want to rule a white world..
I know, right!
They contribute so much to our society like
Uhh!
Like... creating rain! and (???).
@@tim3172 Wow..
@@suehowie152 Report him for Hate Speech. Hover over the three little dots on the right side of his comment.
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!
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.
This story has nothing to do with Mormons. Wrong again.
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.
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.
How about we just do away with the Supreme Court? Who's with me?
Another ? How will it effect religious sovereign groups like Amish or Mennonite communities?
Who gives a crap about religious groups?
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.
Good point but they are white and christian so I doubt they would be targeted
@@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.
@@HWEspana I agree and eventually it will lead to people taking children away from other cultures within the US.
Here we go again. We must stand with the Native Americans. We must march in protest to protect their lands & their sovereignty. We must do all we can to honor these agreements.
Native Americans have never really been treated as people in their own nation.
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.
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.
The court stepped in to review a questionable ruling made by the 5th Circuit Appeals Court. A quote from Amy Howe, "In Haaland v. Brackeen (consolidated for one hour of oral argument with Cherokee Nation v. Brackeen, Texas v. Haaland, and Brackeen v. Haaland), the justices agreed to review a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that invalidated portions of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law enacted in 1978 that (among other things) establishes minimum standards for the removal of Native American children from their families and establishes a preference that Native children who are removed from their families be placed with extended family members or in Native foster homes. The court of appeals ruled that the provisions violate (again, among other things) the 10th Amendment because they “commandeer” - that is, impose duties on - the states. The federal government asked the Supreme Court to weigh in, which it agreed to do on Friday. The case will be argued in the fall, with a decision likely to follow sometime in 2023."
It's based on treaties which are by law, the law of the land. It supercedes other laws
Stand up, fight back.
It's about getting their hands on the Money 💰🤑
It's going to happen with THIS Court
If this is in the hands of this SCOTUS, you guys are toast.
Supreme Ayatollah Court
Supreme Sharia Court.
@@sandburgmartin7947 stop scapegoating islam for the evils of Christianity
@@kalijasin Why not scapegoat both? Both are absolute garbage.
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.
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).
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!
Great video! Thanks!