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Brett Chapman

@brettachapman

Native American attorney continuing the legacy of my relative Standing Bear who was the first Native American to win civil rights in the United States

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These 4 Ponca children were separated from their families by the US government in 1885 and forced to live at a Native American boarding school where Whites claimed they would be transformed by education into “civilized” humans—instead, they all just died there within 3 years 🇺🇸

These 4 Ponca children were separated from their families by the US government in 1885 and forced to live at a Native American boarding school where Whites claimed they would be transformed by education into “civilized” humans—instead, they all just died there within 3 years 🇺🇸
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That mountain is Denali. It was Denali long before the first foreigner named “McKinley” stepped off a rickety boat from Europe and it always will be Denali

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Far too many people still don't really know that Native Americans are still here as people living today who dress in today's clothes and not the stereotypical regalia of a 19th century Plains chief. Indigenous people have always been here and always will be!

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When I think of sacred artifacts belonging to Native Americans being in museums in the US, I think of how outraged Whites here would be if the Chinese suddenly started stealing and buying up sacred Christian artifacts and putting them on display in Beijing. Same thing!

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When will Muscogee Creek nation stand by their own treaty which adopted Creek freedmen and their descendants? will they protect the McGirt decision which says 1866 treaty is still in effect? Waiting to see...

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This is my great great great great grandpa Wégasapì (Iron Whip) in 1858. He was my age before he or any of my other Ponca ancestors learned of the Christian religion. And he unapologetically rejected that foreign superstition once he did—I often think of how it was not long ago!

This is my great great great great grandpa Wégasapì (Iron Whip) in 1858. He was my age before he or any of my other Ponca ancestors learned of the Christian religion. And he unapologetically rejected that foreign superstition once he did—I often think of how it was not long ago!
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The U.S. tried hard to destroy Native American cultures by targeting children—forcing them to boarding schools to be indoctrinated with white supremacism to make them ashamed of themselves. It was awful, but the scheme failed as many like this young man held on to all they could!

The U.S. tried hard to destroy Native American cultures by targeting children—forcing them to boarding schools to be indoctrinated with white supremacism to make them ashamed of themselves. It was awful, but the scheme failed as many like this young man held on to all they could!
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I am writing a SCOTUS petition and I find that listening to the same song on repeat provides focus but I swear on everything I will never listen to the classical waltz “Blue Danube” ever again after this!

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George Washington was a foreigner—a natural born British subject. I say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander in this nation that was founded on stealing land from Indigenous nations and replacing the Native population with foreign White immigrants

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I am working on something that could be of national importance to an issue I care about very much and feeling that weightiness of responsibility in my work as the culmination draws near is a uniquely motivating sensation

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I saw that this horrific excuse for a human being’s name wasn’t being published and knew immediately that he was going to be White because that’s how it works in this country with the privilege

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Congratulations to my Aunt Noni whose father Hollis Stabler, a great Indigenous WW2 hero, received recognition by Congress today and this Gold Medal. He was a member of the Omaha Tribe!

Congratulations to my Aunt Noni whose father Hollis Stabler, a great Indigenous WW2 hero, received recognition by Congress today and this Gold Medal. He was a member of the Omaha Tribe!
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I’ve been in a little jet sitting on the tarmac for the last hour because there are storms in Virginia—even worse is that its incredibly stuffy in this tin can and someone just busted out some Arby’s that smells absolutely atrocious and has reeked up the whole cabin with it. Ahh!

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The colonial history part of the National Museum of American History is the worst kind of whitewashed American exceptionalism garbage and as a Native American here, it’s painful to see all the ridiculous spin here on bad people