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  • The Trump Administration’s War on Native Americans

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    The Trump administration’s hostility toward Native Americans is easy to miss because it rarely announces itself as overt hostility. It arrives in the language of efficiency, patriotism, public order, energy independence, and administrative reform. It appears as a budget cut, a removed exhibit, a bulldozed mountainside, a border waiver, a threatened investigation, or a staffing…

  • The United Houma Nation: The Louisiana Nation the U.S. Refuses to See

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    The United Houma Nation does not need to become a tribe. It has been one for centuries. Its people lived along the waterways of southern Louisiana before the United States existed, before the state of Louisiana joined the Union, and before the oil industry began slicing canals through the marshes. The Houma survived colonial conquest,…