Trump loathes Indigenous Americans: part n

Since at least 1851 treaties that served as constitutions for American Indigenous were broken and are still being rewritten for political expediency. Indian Country even had a champion in Venezuela's Hugo Chavez who practiced Liberation Theology and hated the Holy Roman Kiddie Diddlers.

Despite the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples American Indians are subject to at least four overlapping jurisdictions making tribes the most regulated people in the US without representatives serving in Congress and Native kids are slipping through the education cracks.

This week, the Education Department said it would break off several of its main offices and hand over their responsibilities to agencies like the Department of Labor and the Department of the Interior. “This transfer brings no additional support to our schools, and merely shifts us from one inadequate system to another,” said Steve Sitting Bear, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. “This instability is unacceptable when the well-being and success of our students is at risk.” The education funding and resources the federal government provides to Native Americans are part of the country’s trust responsibilities, which are the legal promises that were made through treaties and acts of Congress in exchange for the land it took from tribal nations. Tribal leaders have said that the administration of those legal obligations have been uncertain and precarious ever since the Trump administration began slashing federal spending and reducing the federal workforce. [Tribal leaders not consulted on Education Department changes]

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