
Racial policy in a larger context
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
The thinking about Race or anything else for many of us in Sioux Territories, has always been Tribal.
We do NOT use that word as a negative, a pejorative.For the indigenous people who learned how to live in this geography a thousand years ago, Tribalism has never had a negative or degrading effect even though a policy called “peace” plans by the treaty-signing US have tried to convince us otherwise.
Every now and then, and especially in 2020 when the “land back” movement again stirs our young leaders here in the reddest state in the nation, it is useful to look up and let ourselves know that the world created by Trump-ian Republicans wants us to believe that we are too weak to resist. They know little about the meaning of Tribalism. They know even less about our long history of survival as a nation!

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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a retired Professor of Native Studies. She taught at Eastern Washington University and Arizona State University. She currently lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She has written 15 books in her field. One of her latest is Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya’s Earth, published by University of Illinois Press.
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