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Time to Acknowledge America’s Genocide Against Native Americans
Monday, August 23, 2021
President, Rosebud Sioux Tribe
America committed Genocide against American Indians. President Biden has acknowledged the Armenian Genocide, so he must acknowledge the America’s Genocide.
President Biden, in the cause of humanity, it’s time to publicly proclaim the Apology to Native Americans that Congress enacted in 2009. Our Rosebud Tribal Councilman Gabe Medicine Eagle championed this issue. America should know the truth. It is time to establish a Native Sovereign Nation Treaty Commission. America must re-name Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and President Biden should issue the requisite Proclamation.
In our Lakota winter counts, we remember Indian traders giving smallpox blankets and the dawn attacks of the U.S. Army on sleeping villages. Disregarding our treaties of peace and friendship, the United States massacred our Lakota People over a Mormon Cow and the transgressions of its own troops, who murdered Chief Conquering Bear in violation of the 1851 Treaty with the Sioux Nation.
President Rodney M. Bordeaux is currently serving in his fourth term leading the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. He holds concurrent leadership positions with the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association, the Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board, the National Congress of American Indians, and Dakotans for Health. Mr. Bordeaux received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Augustana College and a Master of Arts from Oglala Lakota College.
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