The Navajo reservation 128 miles from Albuquerque NM covers hundreds of miles of desolate land

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Where is Progressive Rage Over Lives of Native Americans

Jerrie (South)DeRose
4 min readJun 12, 2019

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While Progressives and Liberals focus solely on Immigrants at the border and dreamers, a majority of Native Americans still live in deplorable conditions

Introduction

Prior to the 2018 elections Progressives and Liberals stood alongside SD and other Native Americans against gerrymandering because most houses on the reservations had no physical address, and joined in alongside Native Americans trying to stop the keystone oil pipeline from going through their land and threatening the water in the river. This open grassroots participation helped propel Liberals and Progressives into the U.S. Congress to take the majority.

Progressives rant about the mistreatment of Hispanic youth in detention and the adults on the other side of the border being separated from their parents while their concern over Native Americans disappeared. Yet the Navajo and other tribes have lived in abject poverty on land no one else wanted, attacked and abused by whites and other populations, exposed to the dangerous bi-products of mining forced onto them by greedy mining companies, lived with little or no access to health care, and much more. Not all tribes have money from oil and other resources to help sustain their dignity and to live well.

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Jerrie (South)DeRose
Jerrie (South)DeRose

Written by Jerrie (South)DeRose

Early Childhood ED background, BOD, promote prevention/intervention, Home and Community based SVC MH, journalism, creative writing, cultural diversity, Army Vet

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