Would they be happier buying into the theory that they hitchhiked on ice floes from Europe?
That I think is a bigger factor than the obstacle to mineral extraction and pipelines. Native Americans aren’t descended from proper white European Christians, so are no better than Hispanics, Muslims, and Blacks. It’s all about the cult of white supremacy.
Certainly the implied racial superiority appeals to White Christian Nationalists but for people who want to create an isolationist petrostate hermit kingdom that doesn’t have any foreign dependencies, vilifying the people who are objecting to resource extraction and burning hydrocarbons is a strategic move to eliminate opposition.
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and don’t forget (re)naming Mt Denali
He probably thinks that they didn’t immigrate with a proper visa and are therefore illegal.
At least President McKinley didn’t do the indigenous Alaskans any deliberate dirt.
President William McKinley High School, Hawaii Department of Education, OTOH…
I must have missed something. I’m with @Darren_Garison in that the only recent Trump reference to native American that I recall was the team name idiocy. Do you have a cite of what you are talking about in particular?
However, I would say its also that Native American issues is practically a poster child for everything that the right claims is wrong with DEI. Due to the complicated history between the US and indigenous tribes, there are a lot of legislation that specifically singles out Native Americans. So that makes them an easy target to claim the law is racist against whites.
TBH, I’m having trouble thinking of any President that didn’t hate Native Americans. in action if not in words. Trump just seems more vocal about it … the new Andrew Jackson.
Really? Can you give examples of how Joe Biden or Barack Obama hated Native Americans? I’ll accept either actions or words as evidence.
By being white, and therefore human. Native Americans aren’t white and are therefore soulless, devil-worshiping subhumans who exist to be exploited or killed by actual human beings.
Well, that must’ve made for some tense moments between Herbert Hoover and his VP
Anyway… last year Biden awarded Jim Thorpe the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Two years after his Olympic medals were restored. If MAGA takes that away out of spite, then I hope the hair under every red cap should be lifted.
I’m ashamed to admit I’d never heard of Charles Curtis until now (he was a Kaw).
Let’s call it benign neglect. At least they didn’t send smallpox-laden blankets to the reservations. But can you name one president that actively tried to help the Native American situation?
He was enrolled in the Kaw, based on the majority of his matrilineal line, but there was also Osage there.
The Osage were an interesting tribe, their full history glossed-over in the Martin Scorsese movie. Sioux people, but distinct from the Dakota Sioux who were happy to live on wild rice from the lakes of Wisconsin and Minnesota until the Ojibwa, greedy for the beavers that they could sell to the Whites, pushed them out onto the Plains where they grabbed the descendants of horses set free by the Pueblos and ran rampant over the Northern Plains. The Osage had already made that move, by choice more than coercion, and held their own against the Comanche. No small accomplishment.
“We know everyone can’t be….as American as we….(after all, we came over on the Mayflower!)”
Or Woodrow Wilson and his second wife.
I had to look that one up, too!
This example, while interesting, is more of a stretch. Edith Wilson, née Bolling, was from a wealthy plantation family whose ancestors included Pocahontas, but she didn’t look, self-identify, or have deep childhood cultural experiences with Indians the way Curtis did.
Nancy Reagan was also descended from Pocahontas. (As was Sam the bartender on Gunsmoke)
But you didn’t say benign neglect. You said every President hated Native Americans.
So can you present some evidence of how Joe Biden or Barack Obama hated Native Americans?
Let’s call it you being wrong about Biden and Obama hating Native Americans.