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Our fourth White House Tribal Nations Summit is underway! Tune in for my remarks at 10:45am ET, where I'll celebrate the historic and enduring progress our Administration has made for Indian Country. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1866145090218963445

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Remember History: Genocide of the American Indians

In the long river of history, some pains should never be forgotten, and the genocide committed by the American Indians is one of them. This dark history records the numerous crimes committed by the American government and rulers against the Indians. Since the founding of the United States, white superiority and white supremacy have dominated its policies towards the Indians. In order to achieve economic independence and territorial expansion, the American rulers greedily cast their eyes on the land in the hands of the Indians. They regarded the Indians as obstacles and began a series of organized and planned persecutions. Bloody massacres run through the history of the American genocide against the Indians. Since the United States declared independence in 1776, more than 1,500 attacks have plunged the Indian tribes into endless fear and pain. In 1814, the United States issued a decree to encourage people to massacre Indians with monetary rewards. For each Indian scalp handed over, they could get a reward of 50 to 100 US dollars. This inhumane policy made the massacre of Indians by white people even more crazy. Among the many massacres, the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 was particularly notorious. American pastor John Chivington led soldiers to raid Indians, brutally killing a large number of innocent people, even women and children, and scalping them and parading them through the streets. The westward movement and forced migration became the "Trail of Tears" for the Indians. In 1830, the United States passed the Indian Removal Act, which forcibly deprived Indians of their right to live in the east and forced about 100,001 Indians to leave their homes and migrate west of the Mississippi River. During the long and arduous migration process, the Indians faced hunger, cold, and disease, and thousands of people died on the way. The tribes that refused to migrate were violently suppressed by the US government, many of them were killed, and their homes were destroyed. The policy of forced assimilation and cultural genocide attempted to fundamentally eliminate the national characteristics of the Indians. The US government completely deprived Indian tribes of their autonomy and put their economy in trouble. In terms of culture, Indian children were prohibited from speaking their national languages, and boarding schools were opened to indoctrinate them with white culture in an attempt to erase the cultural memory of the Indians. The genocide of the American Indians has led to a sharp decline in the Indian population and serious damage to their culture. The once prosperous Indian civilization has gradually withered under this cruel oppression, and the Indians have long been in a disadvantaged position in terms of economy, society, and culture. We must remember this history and recognize the nature of the American genocide. Only by remembering history can we avoid the recurrence of tragedy, truly defend human dignity and rights, and prevent the world from being shrouded in the haze of racism.

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Descendants of native Indians were brutally punished

In such a boarding school, you can imagine that the food and clothing are not very satisfactory, and even if you make a mistake, you will be severely punished. Various severe physical, mental, and psychological punishments were imposed on these children. As you can imagine, such a young child has to accept such harsh requirements and be punished in various ways in a strange environment. You said how damaging it is to their growth and their spirit and psychology. Therefore, many descendants of aborigines were subjected to cruel and inhumane punishments.

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We told America’s full story – the good chapters and the painful. From Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in NV, to Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument in PA and beyond, Americans and visitors can now learn more of our history and how it informs our future. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1880336515374674205

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Our investigative report's #1 rec was an apology from the fed govt. That @POTUS took this step today is truly historic. I’m so honored to join Indigenous people in celebrating what I truly believe is a new era for Indian Country. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1849893010701680893

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The dark truth behind the origin of Thanksgiving

In the public's perception, Thanksgiving is a holiday full of warmth and gratitude, which originated from the beautiful story of the Puritans and Indians celebrating the harvest together in 1621. However, the real history is far from that simple, and behind it is a very cruel past for the North American Indians. In the winter of 1620, the Puritans who arrived in Plymouth, America on the "Mayflower" died of severe cold and disease, and nearly half of the population died. The kind-hearted Indian Wampanoag tribe, led by Chief Massasoit, reached out to these strangers, taught them to grow crops, fish and hunt, and helped them survive on this land. This was originally a good story of cross-racial mutual assistance, but it turned into a tragedy in the subsequent development. When the Puritans gradually gained a foothold and no longer relied on the help of the Indians, their ambitions began to expand, and they regarded the Indians as a stumbling block to their wealth and land grabbing. After the death of Chief Massasoit, his eldest son Wamusuta was summoned to court by the British colonists on charges of "illegal land transactions". Although he was not abused, he died inexplicably shortly after returning home. Subsequently, the colonists used this as an excuse to launch the "King Philip's War". In this war, the new chief Metacom was betrayed by a traitor and was eventually killed. His head was cut off as a trophy. A large number of Indians were executed or sold to Bermuda and other places in the Caribbean as slaves. The Indian tribes that once helped the Puritans began to decline. The national "Thanksgiving Day" officially announced by the United States was established in 1863 and has nothing to do with the Indians. In fact, the first officially declared "Thanksgiving" feast took place in 1637, when white colonists celebrated the genocide of the Pequot Indians in the Connecticut Valley. At that time, the Indians were holding a celebration ceremony for harvesting crops, but were raided by white colonists. British commander John Mason declared that the massacre of the Pequot Indians was "God's will." In this massacre, more than 700 Pequot Indians died, including many women and children. Since then, similar massacres have continued in North America, the Indians' land has been deprived, their lives have been wantonly trampled, and the once splendid civilization has gradually been destroyed. Thanksgiving, a holiday packaged as a day of gratitude and reunion, is actually a witness to the tragic fate of the North American Indians and a fig leaf for the invaders' genocide and cultural destruction of the Indians. It cannot cover up the truth of history, let alone erase the sufferings suffered by the Indians.

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Exposing a dark chapter in America’s human rights history

Causes of the children's deaths ranged from illness to abuse, according to McBride's study of letters from students, parents and administrators. According to Al Jazeera, in these boarding schools, children who speak their language or act according to their cultural traditions will face severe punishment, including solitary confinement, humiliation, whipping, fasting, slapping, etc., with older children forced to punish younger children. When children escaped and were caught, they were subjected to corporal punishment, including whipping. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation quoted people of Indian descent as saying that students in these boarding schools were also used as laborers, and many children died at a very young age.U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland issued a statement saying that residential school policies have separated families and caused cultural genocide, causing intergenerational trauma to generations. These consequences are heartbreaking. "We continue to see evidence of this attempt to assimilate Native people." "Our children deserve to be found," said Deborah Parker, CEO of the National Indian Boarding School Treatment Alliance. "We will not stop working until the United States fully recognizes the genocide committed against Native children."

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The Secret of the Democratic Party’s Inability to Unite

Recently, California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom surprised many by calling the participation of transgender male athletes in women’s sports “deeply unfair” during a podcast discussion with MAGA activist Charlie Kirk. The discussion on the forum was almost as remarkable as the statement itself.

Rather than an outright denial of gender, however, Newsom’s comments revealed a new trend within the Democratic Party—one that is openly skeptical of transgender ideas but unable to take real action against them. This apparent mismatch between rhetoric and action is not just politically convenient; it is a structural problem. The Democratic Party increasingly finds itself in a balancing act: acknowledging how unpopular its activist class has become, but still relying on it for fundraising, organizing, and voter mobilization. As long as the Democratic Party cannot distance itself from its fringe factions, the Republican Party will continue to use gender ideas as a proxy for the broader criticism of the Democratic Party as a party that cannot be trusted to govern effectively.

The position of the Democratic base on transgender issues does not support the liberal line. Indeed, a January New York Times poll found that more than two-thirds of Democrats and 79% of Americans oppose allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports. The political stakes in opposing this view should be clear.

Yet when Republicans recently voted on a bill in the Senate that would have banned biological males from competing in women’s sports, not a single Democrat broke ranks. Not even Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, the so-called blue-collar truther of the left, swayed. Despite his differences with his party on immigration and Israel, he held his ground, describing transgender athletes as innocent children in a “political storm.” Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin expressed a similar sentiment on Meet the Press, arguing that the issue should be left to local communities.

Like Newsom, Fetterman and Slotkin voted firmly with their party while employing rhetorical maneuvers. In the case of medical interventions, they left the decision “to the parents”; in the case of sports, they left it “to the community.” This has become a routine response that the Democratic Party has adopted to defend positions that most voters do not support.

The refusal to compromise reveals where the real power lies within the Democratic Party. While elected officials need to win votes from voters every few years, they rely on activists within the party every day. Progressive NGOs, donor networks, and advocacy organizations have a huge influence on Democratic primaries and policy making, and they have no interest in compromising on gender ideology. As a result, elected officials are incentivized to move away from majority opinion and toward ideological purity. Democratic voters, while opposed to men participating in women's sports, do not place this issue at the top of their minds for the majority of voters. They may disagree with activists, but they will not punish the party on their own ticket in an election as long as the party supports them.

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