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Happy to read his intentions on bringing a more meaningful redress to the Native American population. We are overdue.

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Mr. Kennedy clearly understands this eloquently spoken truth delivered by Russell Means to Americans regardless of ethnicity.

"You all live on the reservation now."

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Thank you for this article. I have been a supporter for the freedom of Leonard Peltier since the 1970's and amazed by the lack of justice in the USA especially on this case. It is another good reason to support the independent RFK, Jr. campaign for POTUS in 2024. Free Leonard Peltier - http://flybynews.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/free-leonard-peltier/

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Next on list protect American owned farmers and ranchers! Keep cement parking lots and strip shopping out we have enough! Keep lands protected! Say no to Nevada expanding out into wild burros and wild horse lands!

Build new reservoirs!

Not cities! We need our waters and trees

Stop harvesting !an stop the wild horse sterilization ! Protect them give some homes and tribes the excess horses but they need thier freedom to roam free! Maybe oneday there going to be needed again ! Give farmers and Amish horses to protect a ranchers give thier lands to some horses too! Steers an horses get along quiet well

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Reservations why? This is 2024 ! Is this another

Entombment camp

Seems this nation has placed every Indian behind bars fences etc their control is with their hierarchy the Indian nation that holds them back why are we not opening the nation to all? Why does America not help with the drug issues they are going thru too? Treatment centers need to be everywhere to kick the drug infiltration in our country! And drug laws need to be rewritten what’s legal what isn’t a the rights of Indian rituals protected! There’s a reason we have medicinal plants ! These all need to be legal and protected from environmental

Destruction by humans! Next keep ranges open to wild horses! Keep America Wild protected from slaughter ! Nice start with our Indian brothers and sisters

Now follow thru you have my vote

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It’s about time a politician steps up I hope you follow thru with these promises ! This great nation of ours belongs to the American Indians we would not behere if it was not for the Indian people that helped the first landing in America !

This land is your land this land is thier land it owes the tribes people water land clean air and freedom they deserve homes electricity heat cooling food and choices ! This great nation belongs to the great people !

They deserve a seat in our Capitol senate and rights to vote an run for the presidential seat too! I think we are about 3 hundred years late on this. It’s about time! How ever IF one of FBI AGENTS were killed by ANYONE OF ANY RACE THEN THEY NEED TO have to fill thier sentence! How ever if innocent courts need to re hear an set him free!

Injustice or justice that’s decision an entire judicial system needs to rehear! However lady justice wears blinders for a reason!

Thank you Bobby for helping the Indians!

The illegal immigrants don’t need our help the Indians come first!

Then the American !

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Another excellent column by Keala Kelly. I applaud The Kennedy Beacon for giving this Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) woman a voice here on this platform. Keala has been writing about Native issues not only in Hawaii and the US but also globally for many years and knows what she’s talking about. I always look forward to her columns.

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I have believed since I was a child that the treatment of Native Americans in this country has been a tragedy beyond belief. One of the many things I admire about Mr. Kennedy is the way he has worked on their behalf, as did his father and uncle. That being said, Deb Haaland has been a great disappointment as Secretary of the Interior. Under her leadership, the BLM continues it's cruel, inhumane treatment of our wild mustangs and burros in favor of corporate cattle ranchers, oil, and mining companies that are using and decimating our public lands. The majority of Americans, over 70%, believe the horses should remain in the wild. Instead, the BLM uses helicopter round-ups to torture and collect them, where most end up in holding facilities which, though taxpayer funded, are inaccessible to the public. There are currently more horses in these places than in the wild. This agency is never held accountable and answers only to corporate interests. I am praying that Mr. Kennedy will look deeply into this issue and make the changes needed to truly protect these wild lands and animals. https://theintercept.com/2023/03/27/wild-horses-burros-path-forward/

https://publicintegrity.org/accountability/feds-fight-to-keep-names-of-ranchers-with-grazing-permits-secret/

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Bravo !!

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Too bad Mr. RFK Jr. does not value Palestinian lives as much as our Native peoples.

He continues to support the Israeli Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people without pause and with US Support and weapons. He is against a ceasefire as stated in the Times of Israel.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/2024-dark-horse-rfk-jr-questions-gaza-ceasefire-defends-israeli-offensive/. (Ref: informationclearinghouse).

He says he can change his mind. Let us see if he is a man of his word.

I still support RFK JR. for president as there are no other alternatives presently, but wrong is wrong!

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