Tribal Affairs
2012
2012-04-01 Rick Santorum campaigned on anti-gay rhetoric and abortion misinformation. He claimed there was nothing in America before white colonizers arrived and that Native Americans had not contributed to American culture, marriage equality would lead to sibling marriages or man on dog marriages, and gay rights prevented God from blessing America.
https://www.harrywalker.com/speakers/rick-santorum
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/candidates/rick-santorum/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum
https://www.dignityusa.org/articles/dignityusa-responds-to-comments-by-senator-rick-santorum
EXCELLENT ARTICLE https://glaad.org/gap/rick-santorum/
EXCELLENT ARTICLE https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/cpac-2019-a-lot-like-a-trump-campaign-event
CNN CUT TIES WITH HIM https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-santorum-cnn-native-americans_n_60a92fa6e4b0313547978140
SANTORUM OPINION ON MLK JR https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/martin-luther-king-jr-according-to-the-right
SANTORUM ON GAY MARRIAGE https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/santorum-allowing-gay-marriage-like-changing-the-chemical-equation-for-water
SANTORUM ON NATIVE AMERICANS https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-santorum-native-american-culture_n_6086ddb7e4b05af50db9656b?or
2024
2024-10-01 Representatives in Kendrick Idaho claimed that discrimination doesn’t exist in Idaho. When Nez Perc member Trish Carter Goodheart disagreed, Senator Forman told her to go back to where she came from.
2025 January
2025-01-28 The Navajo Nation in Arizona issued a warning to citizens because dozens of their tribe members were being stopped, questioned, harassed and detained based solely on their appearance.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/us/navajo-detained-ice-indigenous-immigration-trump
https://narf.org/citizenship-immigration-2025/
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/29/native-american-immigration-raids-navajo-nation
2025 July
2025-07-06 Ann Coulter posted, “We didn’t kill enough Indians”.
https://nahc.ca.gov/2025/07/nahc-denounces-pro-genocidal-statement/
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1273507801440992&set=a.349594800498968&type=3&ref=embed_post
2025-07-23 Trump forced Muir Woods National Monument to remove displays about Native American history, women, and climate change.
2025-07-25 Data centers and resource extraction increasingly threaten Indigenous lands and sovereignty.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/data-centers-indian-country/
https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/data-centers-and-ai-are-a-betrayal-of-indigenous-lifeways/
https://icmagazine.org/indigenous-peoples-push-back-as-data-centers-expand-across-north-america/
https://www.honorearth.org/stopdatacolonialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac0-fBK0LVQ&list=WL&index=7&t=81s
2025 August
2025-08-19 Trump pushed back on a court decision to temporarily block the Resolution Copper project, blaming the delay on the “radical left”. The Resolution Copper project aims to develop copper mining upon sacred and protected Native American holy sites.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/copper-trump-slams-anti-american-pushback-over-arizona-project.html
2025 September
2025-09-15 Jacqueline De Leon of the Native American Rights Fund was interviewed by Katie Phang, stating how Native American rights are impacted by voting discrimination rulings. She discussed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act potentially being on the chopping block by fall.
2025 November
2025-11-28 Elaine Miles, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and known for her acting role in Northern Exposure, was detained and questioned by ICE. When she provided her tribal identification card ICE accused her of providing a fake ID.
2026 February
2026-02-05 The Trump Administration sanitized exhibits at Little Bighorn National Monument. The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council unanimously voted 11-0 against the changes.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/northern-cheyenne-push-back-against-175232834.html
2026 April
2026-04-21 The U.N. Permanent Forum presented a topic on the AI boom driving extraction and scraping of indigenous medicinal knowledge, traditional stories and genetic data, and massive data centers threatening tribal lands and water resources. The Trump administration allegedly tried to deny visas for indigenous people to attend the forum.
https://social.desa.un.org/issues/indigenous-peoples/unpfii/25th-session
https://un-declaration.narf.org/unpfii2026-registration
https://ictnews.org/news/war-climate-change-and-ai-whats-at-stake-at-this-years-un-indigenous-forum/
2026 May
2026-05-04 Border-wall crews destroyed a Native American archaeological site in the Sonoran Desert.
https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_50f4781a-021a-4147-a38b-8be88efde41c.html
https://people.com/trump-border-wall-damaged-1000-year-old-native-site-11965452
SUB WALL https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/04/30/border-wall-damage-indigenous-arizona/