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Native America Calling: Do stereotypes influence policy?
Thursday, January 19, 2023
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Do stereotypes influence policy?
Montana — home to 12 federally recognized tribes — is the latest battleground over damaging rhetoric by public officials.

One legislator floated a resolution calling on Congress to abolish reservations. The text was reportedly drafted by a businessman heading up what he calls “The States Rights Coalition”.

Montana Free Press: Republican complains of ‘handouts’ to Native voters
Montana Free Press: Republican complains of ‘handouts’ to Native voters

A Republican aide with political aspirations questioned whether members of tribes living on reservations should be able to vote in state elections.
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Another official publicly questioned why Native Americans should be allowed to vote. He told a reporter that view is “the consensus opinion among conservatives” in the state.

Thursday on Native America Calling, we’ll look at the continuing verbal, legal, and legislative affronts to tribal sovereignty based on outdated, stereotypical, and uninformed perspectives to which tribal officials are forced to respond.

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