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I choose this Gif because I felt it could be  an accurate  GIF representation of the many generations of Native American, battle against inequalities, racial and social injustices.

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I chose this GIF because many people don't want to accept the fact that the US is built upon stolen land. Native American voices are silenced or not listened to because we don't want to accept anything unfair was done to them. -Ailyn

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"We only have one Earth; let's take care of it" - Deb Haaland. 

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I chose this GIF because I think it encompasses a lot of Native American values when it comes to the environment. For example, the Hopi tribe believes that the caretaker of the Earth, Maasaw gifted the Earth to them and told them that they must care for it. - Daphne Vergara

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I chose this gif of Sancheen Littlefeather becausw of the context behind this gif and what it means for how Native Americans are seen in public. During this gif, Sacheen was giving a speech for winning the award for best actor at the Oscars, but was met with boo’s and laughter for what she said, due to her being a Native America. Only until August of this year she was issued an apology for what she endured, 50 years after the original speech. This gif shows the struggle of being herd of within white Americans as an indigenous person, where they mostly see you as a laughing stock and dress up as you for Halloween.

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I choose this Gif because just from looking at them stand in what looks like a snow day or rain still dancing and united and cheering to what might look like some social injustice. Sandra De La Cruz

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I chose this gif because for the past 500 years, Native Americans have faced genocide, dislocation, and various forms of physical, mental, and social abuse. These factors have led to high rates of violence, assault, poverty and suicide.

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I chose this GIF because it I think it represent the leaders from Native American Timeline. As the GIF shows we were here first, I think that they have experienced hardships in the past from haunting and surviving. I learned that they were called Cheyenne but preferred to be known as Tsitsistas. Also, I chose this GIF because it shows that they should be remembered and respected for what they have experienced.
-Daphne Cando

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Native American Social Movement Leader:  Advocates For The Protection and Safety of Indigenous Women

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Native American Social Movement Leader:  Advocates For The Protection and Safety of Indigenous Women

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I chose this youtube presentation by Sarah Deer, an activist advocating for change to protect and safeguard American Indian women from domestic violence, sexual abuse, human trafficking, and murder.  As a female, I find these crimes are brazen, offensive, and intolerable.  Yet, the statistics of these crimes against native American Indian women is at 50% of their female population which exceeds the national average of women in the U.S. who have suffered the same crimes.  Moreover, American Indian women have suffered much of these crimes being exploited by non-Indians and urbanization for over 500 years.  It's time for this social injustice to end for native American Indian women with the help of all Americans. Submitted by Lois Kato.

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Safety for Our Sisters: Ending Violence Against Native Women – 2 Sarah Deer

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I chose this gif because it resonated with me after just celebrating Thanksgiving. Many people don’t realize that Native Americans have a huge part to do with why we celebrate Thanksgiving and the people that do know usually see a very glamorized version of it and not the truth.

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Wounded Knee was a significant place where activists rallied for justice. They pointed out how centuries of stealing land, broken treaties, and forced assimilation affected Native Americans. Unfortunately this cry for help took a turn for the worst as soldiers of the US Army slaughtered hundreds of Sioux men, women, and children. This was the final major battle of the Indian Wars.

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I picked this GIF because of the movement that has been going on with the sports teams. Some sports teams were and is still using Native Americans as mascots. They are still using the image of a Native Americans image, and it is dehumanizing. Slowing but surely people are removing them from the mascots that are poor images of Native Americans. -Mady

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This gif speaks to the movement created from the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women, or MMIW. Just as, historically, native women have been brutally separated from their personal bodily autonomy at the will of non-native men, kidnapped and assaulted, today, many native women in modern America are still burdened with this pain.  Not just because they are women, not just because they are native, but because of the intense oppression experienced at the intersection of two marginalized identities.  The roles we cast for ourselves today affect more than just our immediate interactions with people at the present time; the dehumanization of indigenous women over the course of the past four hundred years carries from family to family, from year to year, from girl to girl.  Their pain and their suffering live on through the trials of their descendants.  According to a 2016 research report conducted by the National Institute of Justice, 55.5% of Native American women have experienced physical violence from an intimate partner, while 48.8% have experienced stalking. Here, now, in the present, there are thousands of activists, young and old, begging to be heard by those in power.  But while activists work hard to find solutions to the abundance of problems at hand, government officials continue to conduct little to no research into the growing number of missing and murdered indigenous women.

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I chose this GIF because it is true and very unfortunate. I am glad that a lot more people are now brining awareness about issues about the original people of this country. Native Americans and their history is so important.

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Pictured proudly is a true Native American. With the recent passing of the American tradition, Thanksgiving I found myself thinking throughout our gathering all the Natives just like above that were slaughtered. As a proud Mexican American I also realize pictured above is meow then likely my own descendent. Realizing that our institutional racist education taught me to say “Indian” rather then Native American is also soul crushing.