Let's talk about Indigenous Peoples' Day and what you can do.... 

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Ben Franklin never said this. Its first instance seems to be a message board in 1997.

@@AvangionQ sorry to hear that... anonymous quote?

@@AvangionQ Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured by crime feel as indignant as those who are." -Solomon (635-577 B.C.) This is the first version. "Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured." -Thucydides (c.460 - 400 BC) The History of the Peloponnesian War, 431-413 BC. This is the second. "Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." -Benjamin Franklin And that is the third.

@@earlofsmeg That particular variation is from a conference on criminal justice reform held by the Free Congress Foundation's Institute for Government and Politics on September 27, 1983. You found a source that's earlier than mine. Thanks.

Katness Damn right.

Uh, maybe because the tribal police "investigator" assigned to the case is a nephew of the tribal chief? Or, maybe, a pissing contest between tribal police and local authorities over jurisdiction? I've seen both..... I assure you, NO ONE wants to see a Native American woman abused, killed, missing or neglected, certainly not here in Oklahoma. When such cases come to light one can pretty much bet other factors are at play.....often tribal politics.

@@keithtolman6904 that's crap thinking. You can't empathize with someone at the same time as assigning them guilt. It's also a VERY common complaint here in Canada where we all know for a fact that it's bs and whoever said that is a small bigot.

the news today is about profits as any business is. not saying this is right but rather reality. catering to white news watchers/listeners will bring these companies the most money. if the money was catering to another ethnic group, then that group would be the focus. whites are most interested in white stuff, blacks are interested in their people/culture, etc... it is not limited to news, it includes movies, music, clothes, etc...

The reason is because people are interested in what happens to others who are like them. They care more about what happens in their neighborhood than across the world. They care more about what happens to people who they can relate to in a personal way. So they click on those stories. If indigenous people were a majority in this country then those stories would get all the attention.

🤗 Hi Neeley! Thanks for being a part of this community/family too.

Environmental racism...🤢 😡

@@Andrea.1tree hi

@@comfortablynumb9342 😄🌻 Hello amigo! Are coming to the end of your not so busy day?

How much radiation exposure did your family members receive? What has been done to document this? [EDIT: Were you exposed to mill tailings, radon gas, what was the nature of the material and your family's proximity to it?]

The people around the pit will have no wealth left, and almost certainly poisoned water, rendering their land worthless.

Not if the wealthy no longer have heads, therefore eyes, to see anything to whine about. "When the terror comes, we will not apologize."

Not just an eyesore, but a toxic eyesore that sucked up an unholy amount of water.

@@jackneison People around the proposed pit area are poor, or at best lower-middle class. ...Rich people have power. So they don't have toxic mines, dangerous production facilities, or toxic dumps sited around themselves. They have too many "power coupons" for that to occur. Edit: I have toxic sites local to me. This is how it works.

@@jackneison Or they'll just move, if they can't stop whatever from happening. They can afford a loss.

Start by getting rid of the governor and Republican lawmakers. I'm one of the five Greens in Pinal County, which is the vast red territory between Mesa and Tucson.

@@almitrahopkins1873 No. We'll keep our Republican lawmakers. We value our freedoms too much to elect control freak Dems.

@@BobSmith-tg5lg I'm one of the five Greens in Pinal County. I don't want the Jackasses in office either.

Thanks for the support, it does have a generational life changing effect ✊🏼

@@stuckinflorida9685 Always. Just another mixed Creek born in Florida.

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@@sabotagesavant5277 Aren’t you supposed to be driving, Sir? 🧐 Stay safe. 🙂

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@@briansmutti 🐝!!! We have regressed to only making contact here! 😫

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Yes, Sir! ✊🏾

that would be Pine Ridge not Crow Creek

LOL sorry im from South Dakota and a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe i hope my comment came off dickish

Open a casino.

I know where we can nation build, right here, in the nations that exist within our borders

@@robertfletcher3756 And create how many more pollution problems? Then there's the destruction of the land that people are living on. Where do the people go? This video is partially about the community helping to prevent copper mining on traditional Indigenous land, so this seems like a pretty odd suggestion.

It put a smile on my face hearing those words "Indigenous Peoples' Day". Helping to stop this proposed mine made that smile grow.

Saying thank you feels so inadequate.

Love it!

@John Smith lol. OK. I'll give you this one Smith. Both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day are now Federal Holidays. It is petty enough of a point for me to acknowledge your petty victory. Does it feel as good as you'd hoped? It represents a cultural change for the better; no matter how much you may disagree, it's good to acknowledge Indigenous Peoples as contributing members of our society. Edit: It's good to give them more attention than the long dead people who initiallly subjugated them.

@John Smith If you really believed that, then you wouldn't spend so much time trolling. People who are secure in themselves and their views don't have an overwhelming compulsion to force others to agree, when there is nothing at stake. Only the truly ignorant and self-righteous believe themselves to be in a position to correct others, by being stubborn and antagonistic on internet sites (it's a real sign of insecurity and a need for approval). I meant all I said about having some pity for you. Healthy, happy, secure people just don't behave this way. Genuinely intelligent people find much more pleasing and productive ways to pass time.

Essential imo.

EXCEPTENCE and TOLERANCE are EVEN more IMPORTANT. With out that it doesn't matter how many groups you have.... You will NEVER be a UNITED GROUP OR A FAMILY.

@@BobSmith-tg5lg Here's another video that the same man did about white folks feeling guilty. At the end of the day, nobody cares how white folks feel. The rest of the human family just wants the harms to end and as much repair as is possible. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WOaPr2KUb4E.html

Maybe we should pledge allegiance to the Constitution instead.

@@suzannepottsshorts You shouldn't pledge allegiance to anything until you're an adult.

@@suzannepottsshorts I don't pledge my allegiance to the flag, the constitution or The USA. I'll pledge my allegiance to my people first. Humans above nationality. My people were not brought here so we could reap the benefits of US citizenship in any way shape or form. If we're going to be ok, we'll have to stick together. Unfortunately this nation has been the source of a lot of hardship for folks like me. We may all be connected to this land, but our relationships with this nation is not all the same.

I wish we were able to face our US history the way so many Canadians do yours. We can't make better choices in the future if we never admit that we've made horrific decisions in the past. Even the Canadian name for the holiday is thoughtful. We should add a holiday to match yours, and keep our current Indigenous Peoples' Day as well. We have a lot of truth to face and reconciliation to begin working toward.

@@katie6731 It's still bad up here though, there are still really bad issues with our First Nation's people. Lots of racism and "just get over it" from Joe Public. But when the residential schools where deaths and abuse and torture happened only closed in 1998 (the last one), it's not an ancient history thing, but present history.

@@twiztedsynz Yeah there's this idea that slavery in the u.s. is ancient history, but I know a young man whose great grandmother was a slave and she either is still alive or passed recently i can't remember which, but the shit ain't that fuckin long ago. Certainly not near long enough to "get over it."

@@twiztedsynz It disgusts me that the Pope hasn't even truly acknowledged the problem. He has not even taken the effort to apologise, for the failings of the Catholic church, the priests, bishops, deacons, and nuns. Some Bishops offered $30 million as restitution. After the Indigenous people were denied speaking in their own tongue, their language was almost erased by the denials of their own identities. I personally believe that the pope needs to apologise , and to pay restitution of 1 Billion dollars to those Indigenous nations for destroying their identities. The in the future to keep paying restitution for at least another 50 years for their wanton disregard of their identities, language and ancestral ways. Then ABOLOSH the Catholic church.

@@i-love-comountains3850 Exactly but after this past near 2 years, the proof that humans are narcissistic a-holes is more evident than ever.

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Tell them to look up what's sovereign Nation means.. but the people of California want to go by tribal laws? Doubtful so they have no business trying to force state laws on tribal land..

@@erismana2105 I was looking up the tax situation for casinos earlier, and ended up pretty confused. "Native Americans are U.S. citizens, and unlike their tribes, individuals are subject to federal income taxes. Even exempt tribal income can be taxed when distributed to individual members of the tribe. One of the more complicated provisions of [Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988] permits Native American tribes to make per capita distributions of revenue from gaming activities to tribe members. These per capita distributions are taxed. But Some Payments to Native Americans are Exempt. Some “general welfare” payments to individuals under social benefit programs are not taxed. In general, to be tax-free, payments must be made under a governmental program; be for the promotion of general welfare (i.e., based generally on individual, family or other needs); and not be compensation for services" (source: www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2012/10/11/native-american-casino-and-tax-rules-that-may-surprise-you/ ). Some taxes also depend on whether a member of a tribe lives on reservation land or not. As far as laws, Native casinos have to comply with OSHA and minimum wage requirements. So, that makes me think there's a lot more federal, state, and local government involvement in the casinos than we know. It all seems set up to cause people to make tax and legal mistakes or have to hire people to wade through the overlapping regulations.

Not sure how much my comment has to do with anything, but one thing we have seen in So Cal is that the tribes with the casinos have had pretty big purges of their rolls, throwing out families that have played big roles in the tribes for generations over the casino money. Unfortunately corruption is not limited to non- indigenous folks, but taxing them probably doesn't fix much while we give tax breaks to d-bags like Musk & Bezos.

@@katie6731 I was referring to Cali trying to impose taxes on the Rez

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And the new Secretary for the Department of the Interior, Deb Haaland, is also Native American. Her father and family are of Norwegian ancestry making Haagland ALSO the first Norwegian-American Secretary of the Interior. SO, what does this all mean....except pandering for pseudo-liberal votes based on ethnicity rather than qualifications and character? Yeah (musing nostalgically here), there was once this guy named Martin Luther King, Jr.......

Just signed the petition

@Troll Smithski The 11th October is North Macedonia's Revolution Day, National Coming Out Day, International Newspaper Carrier Day, International Day of the Girl Child, General Pulaski Memorial Day, the day of the sacking of Wexford, completion of the survey of the Mason-Dixon line, inauguration of the University of Sydney, birthday of Henry J. Heinz, Indigenous People's Day, AND an American celebration of a stubborn, arrogant and idiotic Italian navigator who got amazingly lucky while trying to prove that the Earth was 75% of the size that everyone else said it was, by sailing West from Andalucia and expecting to easily arrive in China or Japan.

@@chrisboyd3540 You. Are. Awesome! 💙 Though, he wasn't just arrogant and idiotic. He was also a cruel, tyrannical, murdering slaver and rapist.

@John Smith It’s actually Indigenous Peoples Day.

@@chrisboyd3540 Pulaski day here. parade and all.

@@chrisboyd3540 You forgot National Sausage Pizza Day.

Not my favorite kind of dirty for sure. Pan Pirate😋

@@kathryncasey4114 Not the good dirty, no. 😜 I need a good little subbie.😈

@@grmpEqweer A demi sapo can only cheer from the sidelines,,, sigh Go pirates, Yay!

Can’t you be thankful for your own life without costing someone else theirs? Killing and eating birds is weird way to show gratitude.

@@kellyjeanhayward2236 It's a bird. Get over it.

Guten Tag!!! 🙂👋🏾 and also Danke.

@@d123mahesh2 hey there ...good to see ya. Hope the day sees you well.🥰

@@samfetter2968 Yes, thank you. And you too. Hope you have a great Tuesday as well since it’s past midnight for you. I know this coz I just finished talking with my husband. Hez in Germany right now visiting his folks.

@@d123mahesh2 thanks...yes, time for bed. But it was a Beau video...what could you do, other than watch, right?😁 Greetings to your husband as well🙋‍♂️

@@samfetter2968 Yep. When Beau’s video drops, everything and everyone else gets dropped. Gute Nacht! 👋🏾

Cheri Ann Thank you for your support ✊🏼

@@stuckinflorida9685 D123 Mahesh and a few others were looking for you! Apparently, you've recently discussed this issue with them. I hope that you find Mahesh's thread!

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Rio Tinto can dig holes in China or Australia instead. That's the name of the company that is trying to mine Oak Flats. It's a joint venture of Australian and Chinese origin.

That's also riparian forest, not desert. Mining would kill off that rare ecosystem.

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Most of those are owned by corporations, not the tribe. Support the local businesses instead.

@@almitrahopkins1873 No, they are owned by the tribes.

@@reallyaznokidding Harrah's is a tribe now?

Kind of hard to fight racism with racism though...

@@BullScrapPracEff There is Never Fight in a sentence that means easy!

@@BullScrapPracEff how is land back racist?

I like your attitude. I hope it's contagious.

I like the idea, but remember, apple pie is Germanic, so are hot dogs and hamburgers and beer, but these things, like native ways and ideas have been mixed into American farming culture so long it would be difficult to trademark now

What inventions ?

YES! Abso-fucking-lutely! We have a long history of stealing from those we have made vulnerable. It's despicable!

You mean like the wheel and thousands of other Anglo inventions Native Americans have benefited from? Time to pay up! Yeah, that's what I thought.....

He "discovered" Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Columbus never set foot on North America in all of his four voyages.

Thank you for the observation.

Only 38% Native American, but 100% warrior for the right cause. 🤘🏼

I like "Stay golden pony boy"!

@@railroad7401 Hi Railroad! I don’t think I’ve seen that t-shirt. Unless your joke went over my head?

@@Andrea.1tree hello friend ! Been told that there is some Cherokee in my bloodline wouldn't be more than a 16th. Doesn't matter, fairness & equality do and they are looooong I mean LONNNG overdue.

@@sabotagesavant5277 🌻😄 Howdy Tom! I think you’re right. It’s been the elephant in the room for a very long time. I wish I’d had the opportunity to know that side of my family. How’s your day going? Anything interesting?