[post] They’re still treating Native communities as data points in someone...

They’re still treating Native communities as data points in someone else’s poverty report while ignoring the treaties that outline our actual citizenship and jurisdiction. Leaders on both sides talk about family reunification like it’s a new idea, while tribal foster kids are shuttled to white homes an hour from the rez with no language, no ceremony, just paperwork that says “in the best interest of the child.” The Justice Department says it’s committed to MMIP, but won’t release the full database on missing cases since 2019. Water rights get called “local issues” while pipelines cross sacred land under permits signed by bureaucrats who’ve never seen the spring their grandmothers danced for. Healing happens in circles, not courtrooms, but no one funds the elders to lead them. We don’t need saviors. We need the U.S. to read its own damn treaties and stop pretending we’re a footnote in someone else’s history.