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Hitler, Germany, concentration camps, U.S., Wounded Knee
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Ugly Precursor to Auschwitz: Hitler Said to Have Been Inspired by US Indian Reservation System

By Simon Moya-Smith
In the seven months since Trump was sworn in as president, division and hate and lewd politics has taken hold.
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Moya-Smith: D.C.'s Nasty Underbelly, And, Yes, Trumpcare Will Kill Natives

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W. Kamau Bell, right, comedian and host of 'United Shades of America,' rides a horse with Victoria Hawk, Lakota Animal Caregiver.
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Moya-Smith: CNN's 'United Shades of America' Passes the Mic to Natives, Which Is Always the Right Thing to Do

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Fox News pundit Pete Hegseth compared Native Americans to ISIS. "This is Indian country," he said. "This is enemy country."
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Moya-Smith: Fox News Pundit Repulsively Compares Native Americans to ISIS

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Donald Trump and the GOP are using political incantations to raise a dead pipeline killed by the Obama Administration, writes Simon Moya-Smith, Culture Editor at Indian Country Media Network.
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Moya-Smith: A Zombie Pipeline Worth Only 35 Jobs and a Pissed, Rich GOP

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Native American hip-hop artists take the stage in New York City at NYU's Skirball Center For the Performing Arts to raise awareness of climate change and racial injustice.
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Hip-Hop Artist Taboo, Noted Native American Environmentalists Share Stage in NYC

By Simon Moya-Smith
Lone Basketball
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Moya-Smith: Radio Jockey Calls For Segregation of Native American Basketball Players

By Simon Moya-Smith
The arrest of Jenni Monet is another example of too many cops, too little justice.
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Moya-Smith: Today, Jenni, Tomorrow, You

By Simon Moya-Smith
From a Native American's perspective, Trump is acting more like the Founding Fathers than Hitler.
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Moya-Smith: Right Now, Trump Is Acting More Like the Founding Fathers Than Hitler

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Stephen King, referred to as the master of the macabre, tweeted on January 25 that President Donald Trump's first week in the White House has been "the ugliest first week of a presidency in the history of the American republic."
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Moya-Smith: Come On, Stephen King — Really?

By Simon Moya-Smith
Police killed more Native Americans in 2016 than 2015.
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Police Killed More Native Americans in 2016 Than Previous Year

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Simon Moya-Smith Bismark
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Moya-Smith: Bigotry, Bad Eggs, and Bismarck’s Brazen Ugliness

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Nearly 65-percent of North Dakotans voted for President-elect Donald Trump. Culture Editor Simon Moya-Smith visited Bismarck to scope the scene.
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Moya-Smith: Drunken Orange Supremacists All Up In Bismarck, N.D.

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Simon Moya-Smith, Culture Editor, says hope is a great thing. Prayer, too. But action will be required against Donald Trump's racism and bigotry.
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Moya-Smith: Small Hands On Deck. Donald Will Be ‘The Donald’ As POTUS

By Simon Moya-Smith
Hundreds of water protectors gathered along Highway 1806 for prayer as Chief Arvol Looking Horse carried the Pipe to negotiate peace with law enforcement.
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Spiritual Leaders Negotiate Impasse With Morton County Sheriff

By Simon Moya-Smith
Renee Davis, 23, was pregnant when police shot and killed her in Washington, according to reports.
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Number of Native Americans Killed By Police Rises — Again

By Simon Moya-Smith
Culture Editor Simon Moya-Smith says there's little difference between a primetime boxing match and the first presidential debate - lots of training and money and showboating.
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Moya-Smith: Clinton, Trump, And Spit Buckets

By Simon Moya-Smith
Protesters take over the press tent at the Democratic National Convention on July 26, 2016.
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Moya-Smith: Does the Liberty Bell Ring For Native Americans? A Raw Review of the DNC

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A young white man smudges protestors with no interference by police. The sight is in stark contrast to the arrest of Josie Valadez Fraire, an indigenous woman who earlier this month was detained by police in Denver while she smudged fellow demonstrators.
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Moya-Smith: At the DNC, A White Boy Smudges, And Sopping Wet Boxers

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Moya-Smith: Here's the Ad Trump Used to Demonize Native Americans

By Simon Moya-Smith
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'Smoke Alarms Us,' Police Allegedly Tell Woman Handcuffed While Holding Sage at Trump Protest

By Simon Moya-Smith
Victims of the Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890 are loaded into a mass grave, surrounded by their killers and volunteers who were paid $2 for every body buried.
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Moya-Smith: Orlando Was a Mass Shooting. So Was Wounded Knee

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Chief Spotted Elk lies dead in the snow following the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890. For hundreds of years, marginalized people in the United States have been victims of mass shootings simply because they were different.
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Moya-Smith: For Hundreds of Years, People Have Been Slaughtered in the U.S.

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Paul Rathbun of Colorado is slated to auction weapons used to during the massacre of more than 300 Lakota men, women, and children in 1890. Rathbun is the embodiment of America's decadence, Indian Country Today Culture Editor Simon Moya-Smith writes.
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Moya-Smith: Have You No Decency, Mr. Rathbun?

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A press conference was held Friday to highlight the continued efforts by Native Americans and allies to change the name of the Washington NFL team. Above, Ray Halbritter, representative and CEO of the Oneida Indian Nation, at a press conference at the Marriott Marquis.
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Campaign to Change Racist Name of Washington NFL Team Is Stalwart, Ongoing: Panelists

By Simon Moya-Smith
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Washington Post Finds 500 People Who Don't Find R-Word Offensive; Half Say They Are Enrolled Tribal Members

By Simon Moya-Smith
Juan Lamont, 24, Tevin Tyon, 21, and Tyrell Wilson, 23, have been missing for more than 10 days. Family and volunteers are raising funds for a possible reward to anyone with information leading to their whereabouts.
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Search Continues for Missing Lakota Men

By Simon Moya-Smith
President Barack Obama on Thursday commuted the sentences of 58 inmates. Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier was not one of them.
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Peltier Again Not Among Federal Prisoners Chosen by Obama for Clemency

By Simon Moya-Smith
The Bernie Sanders campaign called Hillary Clinton's choice of words against Trump "disappointing."
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Trump Has Gone 'Off the Reservation,' Clinton Says; Sanders Campaign Calls the Comment 'Disappointing'

By Simon Moya-Smith
Native American college students whose family were driven from the territory of Colorado by white invasion are closer to receiving in-state status.
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Colorado Senate Looks to Kill Native American Bill — Again

By Simon Moya-Smith
Members of the American Indian Movement in Colorado protest Columbus Day on the west steps of the state capitol there. Columbus Day as a holiday will continue in Colorado after a bill to repeal the holiday was killed late Monday.
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Bill to Abolish Columbus Day in Colorado Dies

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'I Am Very Sorry': House Rep. Apologizes for Comment About Native Americans, Alcoholism

By Simon Moya-Smith
Oklahoma House Representative Russ Todd, a Republican, above, said Native Americans are "predisposed to alcoholism."
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Oklahoma House Rep.: Native Americans Are 'Predisposed to Alcoholism'

By Simon Moya-Smith
Prince, the singer and songwriter whose music inspired generations and genres of music, died Thursday at his estate in Paisley Park, Minnesota.
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Music Legend Prince Walks On; Indian Country Mourns

By Simon Moya-Smith
Indian Country Today has a brimming list of influential writers and thinkers. Here is Part II of our series on Native American Women of ICTMN.
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Native Women of ICTMN, Part II

By Simon Moya-Smith
Indian Country Today has a glorious gallery of indigenous writers and thinkers. Here's a list of Native women of ICTMN, Part I.
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Native Women of ICTMN, Part I

By Simon Moya-Smith
Bernie Sanders's camp says he supports marijuana operations as an industry in Indian country. "But does Hillary Clinton?" asks Simon Moya-Smith.
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Moya-Smith: Bernie Is Down With Pot, But Will Clinton Inhale?

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A statue of Franciscan Friar Junipero Serra was decapitated in October. The head was discovered Saturday during a low tide in Monterey, California.
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Off With His Head: Decapitated Skull of Junipero Serra Statue Found By Ocean

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Video: The 1491s' Bobby Wilson Asks Jane Sanders About Native American Youth

By Simon Moya-Smith
Officials at Dictionary.com told ICTMN that they agree its definition of the word "powwow" needs revision. The new definition will roll out in May.
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Dictionary.com Agrees to Drop 'Magic' From 'Powwow' Definition

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Dancers in regalia take to the pow wow grounds at the Oglala Nation Pow Wow in 2014. Dictionary.com officially defines a powwow as an event where Native Americans practice "magic."
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Dictionary.com: A Pow Wow Is An Event Where Indians Practice 'Magic'

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If the Junior Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, left, or business magnate Donald Trump become president Native Americans would suffer immensely, Indian Country Today Culture Editor Simon Moya-Smith writes.
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Moya-Smith: This Is The Doom That Would Come With a Trump or Cruz Presidency

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Moya-Smith: Trump Calls Out Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Indian Blood,’ Then Warren Said This Madness

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Summer, who asked that her last name not be printed, of the Navajo Nation holds a sign reading, "Natives Against Trump," during a protest on March 19, 2016 in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
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'Natives Against Trump': Protesters Block Road to Donald Trump Rally in Arizona

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U.S. History textbooks have their fair share of tall tales about Native Americans, magic and curses, too, writes Simon Moya-Smith, Oglala Lakota.
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Moya-Smith: J.K. Rowling Has Got Nothing on U.S. History Textbook Fiction

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Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, center, and Tara Houska, left, during a Keep It In The Ground Act press conference in Washington, D.C. on November 4, 2015. On Tuesday, Houska was appointed to the position of Native American Advisor to Sanders.
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Tara Houska, Ojibwe, Named Native American Advisor to Bernie Sanders

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Moya-Smith: Native Americans Are Forced to Speak Up, Disrupt

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Lilah Sandoval, Diné, beaded this Bronco medallion. Sandoval was born and raised in Denver, and said a large number of Native Americans in Denver are Broncos fans.
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For Diné Beader, Business Is Good During Playoff, Super Bowl Season

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A cartoon published January 17 by the Bluefield Daily Telegraph in West Virginia of a grinning white man pulling on a Native American woman, bound at the wrists, is glaringly offensive, ICTMN Culture Editor Simon Moya-Smith writes.
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Moya-Smith: This Funny Isn't Funny; It's Racist and Sexist

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Simon Moya-Smith, Oglala Lakota, provides six ways people can respond to Columbus Day apologists.
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Moya-Smith: 6 Banal Defenses of Columbus Day, And How You Should Respond to the Moron

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