patients. Unbelievable. What about cleaning out the IHS yokels and replacing them with competent people who will do their jobs? NOW.

I like this president but this administration just doesn't hold people accountable. Even Bush finally got rid of Brownie after the Katrina fiasco.

This is a disgrace.

Thank God we have people outraged at the important things though like sports team nicknames.

the people who tortured, and committed genocide against them use.

We do have time to overcome the hatred used against these innocent people who were terrorized, pushed across the United States, treated with shocking contempt and hatred in order to feel justified in stealing the entire country, and leaving them with no homes at all, burning their villages, slaughtering all the bison, burning down their crops, stealing their stored goods, making a point of defiling them whenever and wherever possible, to mark them with such horror they would try to stay out of their way while they took everything they had, including their way of life, leaving them helpless, broken, if they survived at all.

Yeah, that's something I'm not going to call unimportant. Calling indigenous people "Redskins" was exactly the same as calling African people "nigger" and they had no respect for either people, and passed that filthy hatred down through their stupid generations, so their little dull-witted slow-learning, primitive spawn also remembered to insult and degrade non-white people, just like their idiot, murderous clown forbearers.

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would be very few. Neglect them? Absolutely. Probably a vast majority. We took away their land and way of life., put them on the poorest land that nobody else wanted, and then just left them to subsist in poverty for the most part.

Instead of focusing on issues that really affect Native American lives like the article posted here, we have idiotic do-gooders protesting against silly things like sports team nicknames to make themselves feel good. These nickname protests just distract attention from the NA's real needs. In the recent Native American poll on the Redskins name, 90% of Native Americans said fuck you to the idiotic do-gooders and said focus instead on the issues we really need help with.

Instead of addressing the IHS crisis, Harry Reid just gave another speech last week lambasting the Redskins name. What a disgrace.
In the meantime, Republican senators from South Dakota and Wyoming proposed a law that would reform the IHS and demand sorely needed accountability.

We should be ashamed that it is Republicans who are actually trying to reform the IHS while our leadership continues to just give stupid speeches about silly sports nicknames so they can pat themselves on the back that they care.

Besides. Why is it ok to refer to people as black, white, or brown, but not red? I would bet about as many white people would be offended if they were called palefaces as Native Americans are that they are called redskins. About 10%. People have more important issues to deal with.

I do, however, vehemently object to any teams called the Savages, as that denotes not skin color, but describes supposed sub human behavior. That was the term the settlers and politicians used to describe natives as less than human so they could justify breaking treaties, stealing their lands, and killing them off.

1890
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On Dec 29, U.S. troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of war, using a new rapid fire weapon that fired exploding shells called a Hotchkiss gun.

For this so-called "battle," twenty Congressional Medals of Honor for Valor were given to the 7th Calvary.

To this day, this is the most Medals of Honor ever awarded for a single battle. More medals of honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than in any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan.

The Wounded Knee Massacre is considered the end of the Indian Wars.
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Pine Ridge: American Prisoner of War Camp #334

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/06/05/872263/-Pine-Ridge-American-Prisoner-of-War-Camp-334

We incarcerated their parents and grandparents in POW camps. Children are still being born there. They suffer some of the most grinding poverty in this country, along with all of the social problems that go with it.


And they question our commitment.

people should be outraged about and be talking about, not silly things like sports team nicknames. I can't believe Harry Reid just gave another speech decrying the Washington Redskins nickname when this shit is going on. Instead of doing his job and focusing attention on this problem and working to fix it, he is distracting needed attention away from these real, serious problems onto stupid sports team nicknames. Unbelievable and why things never change on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Cut off Medicare and Medicaid funding. Perhaps the U.S. government should do an "unannounced survey" of their own egregious neglect of Native American issues.

of government because they are so inept. It's just laughable except the only ones who will be hurt by this are the tribal members. Nobody is ever held accountable.

be a mixed blessing. If the people who get care from this hospital are allowed to go elsewhere for their care. Some VERY good hospitals are located in Sioux Falls SD. Many of my family cross the border from Iowa to go the those hospitals.

Sioux falls is over 200 miles from pine ridge...on a reservation with close to 70% unemployment, who has the $$$ to just jump in a car and drive? many don't even have cars and those who do barely keep them running..and IF they manage to get there, many of the personnel in these hospitals look down their noses at these 'natives' who have no health care and who are mostly indigent...to name ONLY a few obstacles Indian People must face...methinks your privilege is talking.....

which is closer to Pine Ridge.

And you are correct that transportation would be a problem to either of those places. I wonder if Indian Health Services could pay for transportation when needed. Medicaid and Medicare both pay for transportation.

If the hospital is so bad on the Pine Ridge I would think the residents would want to go elsewhere. On our rez we have two clinics within one mile of each other - one IHS and the other private. I think they can chose. My grandson who has a rare disease goes to the private clinic. But you are talking about hospitals - we do not have any IHS hospital anywhere near us. Patients from the IHS clinics are referred to private hospitals.

The poor always pay the price.