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Headline: Bo French Wants to Deport Native Americans. He May Win Statewide Office in Texas. Image of Bo French

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Bo French says Native Americans should be deported.

Tonight at 10 p.m. ET, @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social & I break it down on @johnfugelsang.bsky.social’s SiriusXM Progress show (Ch. 127) during our “We’re Still Here” segment.

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YouTube video by Jennifer Lisa Vest Two Spirit Drum at BAAITS 2026

Thanks to @juliefrancella.com & @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social, educating listeners to 𝙒𝙚'𝙧𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙚, on Tell Me Everything with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social on SiriusXM.
Here's a great video celebrating Two Spirit (LGBTQ+) people and their spiritual role in Indigenous culture
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To be Indigenous is less about being *born* Indigenous than it is about what we do w/ that honor. Crazy Horse was murdered while fighting arrest. Geronimo wouldn’t submit when threats were imminent. Being Native isn’t about simply claiming it, it’s about living up to the principles & never wavering.

For decades, Rev. Jesse Jackson stood with Indigenous peoples and our fight against injustice. He visited the Oceti Sakowin camp on the Standing Rock rez in 2016 as we fought against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Rest in power, sir.

It was me. And thank you! 😎

Yep. It was me. 😎

Yep. T’was muah.

And, in Ojibway, we also don’t have a word for “goodbye”. Instead, we say Baamaapii (Bah-mah-pee). It means “until later,” or “I will see you again.” Our language carries the understanding that relationships are never truly ended —even after death, we will see each other in this life or the next.

Yep. 😎

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We’ll discuss 1,200 people missing from Alligator Alcatraz, the Native prayer camp set up in Minneapolis, and more!

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Such a gift to get 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 Indigenous People's history, culture and perspectives on current events!

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@simonmoyasmith.bsky.social & I are live tonight at 10 PM ET on @johnfugelsang.bsky.social's SiriusXM Progress show (Ch. 127).
We’re talking AIM patrols returning in Minneapolis amid ICE raids + the push to scrub National Parks signage about Native mistreatment. And more.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
—Anne Frank

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Carney at Davos, Arizona’s new Native ID designation, Michigan boarding school report buried, Choctaw vs ICE, & more

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ICE has my people. They have Oglalas. They have Mexicanos. They’ve demonized us, the Indigenous ppls of this land, all over again. They did this when they first stumbled onto our continent 534 yrs ago. They kidnapped & terrorized, and they committed their hate under the banner of white supremacy.

Please follow Simon. I’ve learned so much from him about the indigenous perspective🙏

I dig yours. ✊🏾

An Indigenous perspective:

Democratic socialism has been here for thousands of years — everyone had a say, everyone had a vote, families didn’t starve, no one was homeless, children didn’t go hungry.

Caring for people wasn’t a hard math.

Who was in charge of Japanese internment? The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Why? B/c many Indian reservations were first established as prison camps. My rez is Prison Camp 334. Google ‘Poston.’ On the Navajo Nation, this was an internment camp within an internment camp. We’ve been here before.

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Really grateful for the opportunity to hear about issues and perspectives of Indigenous People on the weekly segment, Still Here with @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social & @juliefrancella.com on Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social on SiriusXM.

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How many times can we, Indigenous folks, say, “We told you so?” before you listen?

How many times have we said you can’t eat gold or drink oil?

How many times have we said the white man’s system will leave families houseless, cold, hungry, hunted, and sick?

How many times do we need to tell you?

It’s not surprising that Natives, this side of the white man’s border, would be arrested and held by the U.S. gov’t because of the color of their skin. It’s not surprising that the U.S. would demand compliance. The U.S. has been doing this for hundreds of years. None of this is new. This is America.

If they don’t shoot you, they’ll arrest you. When they arrest you, they’ll strip you of everything in jail — your clothes, purse, wallet, your phone, everything. So, always keep a Sharpie & write the phone number of an attorney on your arm & any other number you’ll need. They can’t erase a Sharpie.

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Tonight, @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social & I are back live on @johnfugelsang.bsky.social’s SiriusXM show ch. 127 for “We’re Still Here”.
Ist segment of January 2026.
The United States is acting like a rogue state.
From an Indigenous lens, none of this feels new.
Let’s talk about it.
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Typically, I don’t write in all caps but for this one I will so they can hear me in the back:

THEY INVADED NATIVE AMERICAN LANDS HERE FOR GOLD — FOR WEALTH & POWER — AND THEY JUSTIFIED THEIR TAKEOVER BY DEMONIZING OUR INDIGENOUS ASSES. THEY CALLED US “SAVAGES” & TOLD US THEIR INVASION WILL BE GOOD.

This is the oil-horny administration, which comes from the land-horny administration, which comes from the gold-horny admiration, so on and so forth.

The first illegal immigrants (white guys) are just wildly horny for more.

How many times have you gone to the African (or African American) Studies department at a university and found white people teaching it?

Now, go to the Indigenous studies department…

NYC is the *least* multicultural when it comes to Indigenous peoples:

“I’m Oglala.”

What’s that?

“I’m Chicano.”

What’s that?

“We’re Yup’ik, Inupiaq, O’odham, Rarámuri, Tulalip … Lenape?”

Even in NYC they don’t know who the Lenape are. You’re on their land! New York is ancestral Lenape land! 🤦🏽‍♂️

It’s only when your fur pup takes that walk over the rainbow bridge that you cherish the things they chewed on. You find yourself thumbing over their bite marks. Their hair on everything is everything now. Their beautiful snout left those marks on the window — a window we’ll never clean again. ❤️