A friend sent me a link to a video of Jingle Dancers and an Indian Drum at the George Floyd assassination site in Minneapolis. Indians rarely make the news, so this quite stunning event was not covered in any major news feeds I saw. And it is rarely and barely mentioned that Indians suffer discrimination and death at the hands of police as often or more often than do African-Americans.
The pandemic itself has hit Indians hard, but aside from the occasional story about the Navajo, we don’t get much news of it. I know from friends that this brings up generational memory of the impact of diseases on other reservations.
This beautiful video reminds us that Indians are still here in their country.
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