They’re calling it infrastructure week again while the BIA schools still have no heat and the water lines on Pine Ridge break every third winter. Leaders don’t come here unless there’s a protest or a scandal, and even then they bring photo ops, not deeds. The Indian Child Welfare Act is under attack in federal courts, and not one senator from outside Indian Country has shown up to defend it like it’s their child’s life on the line—because it isn’t. They don’t see that every broken promise is a wound that spreads, not just in the past tense. Healing isn’t grandstanding. It’s showing up when the cameras leave. It’s honoring treaties like they mean something, not just inconvenient history.
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