dragoni reblogged
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- FACTS: Native American genocide / Genocide of indigenous peoples #WhiteSupremacy #AmericaFirst
- A Made in America problem. America complicit. Broken Promises!
- Reservations are Japanese internment camps without the guards
- Intended consequences?
- American Exceptionalism is BS PR
- Trickle down economics never worked or intended for Native Americans
- What about preserving the culture and heritage of indigenous peoples?
- Trump and Republican Jobs Program? Systemic Oppression
- Republicans continue to stealing their land for their Oil and Gas company donors. Dakota Access Pipeline #DAPL #Corporatocracy
“The 12-year-old girl went to the bathroom and tried to kill herself.”
“They’ll say: ‘I didn’t have a blanket. I gave it to my little sister. I was cold.’ It just breaks your heart.”
“They want to be in school. It’s warm. It’s safe. Their immediate needs are met.”
Janis’s organization is the reservation’s sole suicide prevention group, and she and just one other counselor, Yvonne DeCory, serve the reservation’s 40,000 residents.
Both women keep their phones on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. DeCory said they may get calls about three or four suicide attempts a night, year round.
Pine Ridge Reservation
- Larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined
- Third-poorest county in the United States
- Home to the Oglala Lakota, a tribe that’s part of the Sioux people
- Per capita income in the county is $9,150
- 80 percent of residents are unemployed.
“Out here, it feels like we’re in our own world. It doesn’t feel like the U.S. It feels like a third-world country.” #ShitHoleCountry
Source: The Huffington Post
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