02/12/2018
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"It is a complicated history of injustice and of sorrow, for both Indian tribes and African Americans."
"This pandemic has made clear that the ongoing discrimination of the Freedmen descendants can literally mean the difference between life and death."
"We have a responsibility to uphold the agreements made with our tribes."
"We must stand by the rights promised to Freedmen and the treaties that guaranteed those rights over a century ago."