skypalacearchitect:

strawberry-milkiie:

so… Are we just gonna ignore this? My people have been through enough.

Source: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/native-tribes-could-lose-federal-recognition-of-tribal-sovereignty-under-trump

Date of article: April 24th, 2018 

Ending paragraph from the article: 

“The Trump administration cannot ignore the law, nor the reality of tribes’ existence as sovereign nations that predate the United States. Treaties cannot be sponged away. The government’s legal duty to provide medical care to tribes, determined by treaties, Congress, Executive Orders, and the Supreme Court of the United States, cannot be summarily dismissed. These actions maynot only be illegal, but threaten the survival of natives today, whose ancestors were extinguished by the millions in the genocide of Indigenous that began with the landing of Christopher Columbus in 1492. We deserve to live.”