• We have the quickest, easiest, least involved ways: sign the petition started by the Lakota People's Law Project and donate to them. This gesture is appreciated, but there is always more you can do if you want to help more after that.
• When the problem is not knowing, the solution is learning. Do your research. Learn about the United States' history of genocide of the Native peoples. You are going to find a lot of difficult and painful details, but for the sake of advocacy and solidarity, i need you to stomach them, absorb them, and keep them in your mind. Nobody every learned from history by keeping it pretty, and remember: nothing you find will be news to a Native person. It's something passed down from generation to generation or it's learned when we're old enough to ask why there are so few of us when we were here first. Learn about L Frank Baum and Teddy Roosevelt and others who have wanted us dead and the vile things they've said about us. Read it until you can recite it from memory. Read about the accounts of John Wayne having to be held back by six security guards from trying to attack Sacheen Littlefeather for telling the audience at the Academy Awards that Marlon Brando declined his best actor award in protest of the portrayal of Natives in movies. Learn as much as you can. If it devestates you, if it enrages you, it should. Let that motivate you.
• If you didn't know, your social circle likely didn't know either. Tell them. I've found an easy way to start the conversation is "you know what's messed up?" or "do you ever think about the things the US government and the oil companies don't want you to know?" Engage them. Give them the gutwrenching details. Make them angry about it. Make them want to do more to help.
• This is crucial: if you see anti-Native racism and/or willful ignorance (such as quoting statistics without questioning why things skew one way or the other) call them out on it. Use what you've learned and help them understand, and if they double down, you double down too. People insist on remaining racist and ignorant because it's comfortable, so your job as an ally is to take away their excuses and make ignorance and racism uncomfortable. Familiarize yourself with other forms of racism and draw appropriate comparisons if you must. Embarass them. Make them feel guilty. Do not allow them to remain comfortable in their harmful, backward beliefs. If someone tries to derail the argument by policing the tone or word choice of the Native person making the argument, call it out and shut it down. We are facing genocide attempts that never actually stopped; there's more at stake than non-Natives' hurt feelings
• Keep your ear to the proverbial ground. If Native people need help, help them or seek out someone who can. If they ask for your support and solidarity, show up or spread the word to people who can. Don't take photos at protests and don't talk to cops. Remember that we are human beings and ask yourself what you'd want people to do if it was you in this situation

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