A number of years ago in a very conservative state, a state that went very strong for Trump and which in the past had voted for every conservative political referendum, and voted for anything that granted superiority of a particular religious view over all others, a statue to the Land Run was being dedicated.

While the western half of what is now the state had been given away to settlers, the eastern part was “Indian Territory” and was to remain that way as long as the grass grew and the waters ran. However, through a series of post Dawes commission legal tricks and maneuvers this land soon became owned by settlers who had the lawyers willing to play a land grab game for a good price.

The Dawes Commission, which was created to evaluate the tribes, found that the communal living and tribal, not personal, ownership of land had prevented poverty and hunger, and because families were responsible for all members, no child was an orphan or left on his or her own. It was an idyllic and successful arrangement.

But the Commission ignored its own findings and concluded that, as good as the tribal system had been, the tribes had to be introduced, actually forced, to adopt the American way of life.

To that end tribal land was divided into parcel that would become the property of individual tribal members, and this actually introduced poverty and hunger to where it had not been, and orphaned children were sentm to “Indian Schools” where they were made into good Americans by having the Indian beat out of them.

Each Native American, regardless of age, was allotted a certain number of acres. But since minors in the United States coukd not own and manage property, the land given to children was put under the care of guardians who raped that land while the children were in the Indian schools, and whatever profits fromlease or resources should have gone to the minor went to the guardian.

The profits from lumber and oil that should have been held until the children reached majority was pocketed by their guardians assigned by the courts until they reached adulthood and found themselves poor and often landless.

Tribes lost their battle to maintain what was theirs by the conveniently ignored treaties entered into by the U.S government and the tribes when they were removed by Indian Removal acts when many endured the trail of tears.

Instead of tribal members being the richest people in the state because of the natural resources on and under their lands, they became the poorest, and the settlers and children of the settlers condemned, and continue to condemn them for their poverty..

When statehood was declared, to mark the occasion a faux wedding was staged at the original Capitol in Guthrie where a male actor playing a settler married a woman portraying a Native American woman to symbolize the joining of the western territory with Indian Territory to become one state.

Although romantic in nature, it cruelly mirrored the Dawes commission provision that while a male Native American marrying a non-Native woman could keep his land, the land of a woman Native American would become the property of her settler husband upon marriage, and she would lose any claim to it. Settlers marrying Native American women was an easy way to come to own land you otherwise could not afford or was out of reach because it was allotment land, and there was no way to guarantee such a marriage was not a planned sham.

So a statue of a man jumping from his horse to plant the stake with which to claim the land was objectionable to the descendants of those whose lands were taken and to whom the land should still belong.
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During the dedication ceremony held in the town that bore the name of the tribe who had their land swindled from under them, a group of tribal members were standing nearby protesting.

As one of the news stations was broadcasting the event live, a woman in the crowd of spectators turned on one of the protesters and in a spasm of total disconnect yelled that he needed to go home where you belong.

The protester smile and calmly said he was home.

I bring this up because of a story out of Arizonan where during an anti-immigration rally at the state Capitol a pro trump protester accosted a brown skinned man approaching the building, demanding to know if he was in the country “illegally”. Obviously, judging by things said to other brownish people that had been accosted, she was likely ready to tell him to go home and that he was not wanted here.

He replied by telling the person not to ask him such a question, and kept walking but not without  comments about illegals not being wanted here.

The brownish man as State Representative Eric Descheenie, a Navajo lawmaker.

Later he commented to the press,

“I’m indigenous to these lands. My ancestors fought and died on these lands. I just told them, ‘Don’t ask me that question.’”

There is, in the Southwest, a group of people known as the “Invisible Minority.” They are the descendants of those indigenous people who were there when the Spanish arrived, back before there were artificial borders.  Because of the imposition of the Spanish culture there, those people eventually took on Hispanic names, and today are assumed to be Hispanic, not Native American, and are often assumed to be Mexicans and, therefore, immigrants.

There are people there who have lived in the same area for a few millennia, and without moving have been citizens or subjects of a variety of European designated countries.

A native American whose family goes back to the mists of time can conceivably have lived there when there was no country designation, only to have lived over time on land claimed by Spain and France, were told they lived in Mexico when it became a country, spent some time in the Republic of Texas, and ended up living in the United States while never having moved more than a few yards from the location of where an ancestor built the family’s first hogan.

And many are being told by the descendants of European settlers that they are not wanted where they are and need to just go home.

If you are different, you are a target of uninformed hatred.