President Donald Trump is struggling to plan his grand spectacles without highlighting his fraught relationship with people of color
But tribal leaders tell a different story. The National Congress of American Indians, which bills itself as the oldest and largest group representing Native Americans and Alaska Natives, says it has urged Trump for more than three years to talk to them about policy the way previous presidents did — to no avail.
Instead, Native American leaders say, Trump has enacted policies that actively hurt their community. He approved pipelines that will cross tribal lands and water supplies. He reduced the Bears Ears National Monument, created at the request of Native Americans. He is building agiving hard-hit Native Americans and Alaska Natives $8 billion to tackle the coronavirus — the largest single program investment in Indian Country — tribes sued the federal government, alleging a delay in sending the money.
And he keeps using the name “Pocahontas,” who was captured by colonists as a girl, as a pejorative nickname for Sen. Elizabeth Warren. He even used it during a 2017 event at the White House with Navajo Code Talkers, who helped transmit secret messages that helped allied forces win World War II.
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