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Pine Ridge Reservation, where only one third vote in tribal elections
Monday, July 18, 2022
Native Sun News Today Columnist
Those government and parochial school history, civics, and government classes have deeply and negatively influenced today’s reservation residents.
Back then we were told that democracy was born in ancient Greece and Rome. There may be a tiny bit of truth to that, but the colonists told us they invented democracy here in a “new” land where there was “nothing but wilderness.”
As a result, many Lakota believe democracy is strictly a “white man” thing and steer clear of it. The real stinker here is the colonist’s lack of truth about modern democracy’s origin. The sooner we realize the fact that the colonists found democracy here on the continent, with the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse), known as the Iroquois Confederacy, the sooner we can progress and enjoy freedom.
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