Natives? The Biggest DIGRACE IN US HISTORY!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

The date is 11/9/18 and it took this long for ANY state in the U.S.A. to vote Native American Women into Congress. Who knows the actual history about interaction between Native Americans and European invaders?

New Mexico was the last state to grant full suffrage to Native Americans. On Tuesday, it elected one of America's first Indigenous congresswomen.

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/11/08/deb-haaland-native-american-congresswomen

First Native American women: Democrat Sharice Davids won the House seat from Kansas' 3rd District, unseating incumbent Republican Kevin Yoder, and Democrat Deb Haaland won the seat in an open race in New Mexico's 1st District. That makes both of them the first Native American women elected to Congress.

A former MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter is going to Capitol Hill.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/11/07/sharice-davids-first-native-american-woman-mh-orig.cnn
Sharice Davids was elected to Congress on Tuesday night in the 3rd District of Kansas, multiple outlets are reporting.
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Davids, 38, will join Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma as former mixed martial arts fighters serving in the United States House of Representatives. Davids, a Democrat, will also be one of the first Native American women elected to Congress and the first-ever openly gay Native American woman elected to Congress. She was a long underdog early in the race in a state that votes mostly Republican.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. For that matter: How many Native Americans have served in the House or Senate?

[whathehell]

2. Ben Nighthorse Campbell

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nighthorse_Campbell

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. Yes I remember him. Was he the first Native American elected to Congress?

Were there other Native American men elected?

[whathehell]

11. I honestly do not know.. .n/t

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. Here in New Mexico, finally electing a Native American to congress may inspire more of them to vote

There are a lot of Navajo and Pueblo people here, who do not vote, in city, state or national elections. I believe that every large reservation, should be allowed to send a delegate to the House of Representatives.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. A turncoat sadly.

[whathehell]

20. Yes, he changed parties, Democrat to Republican

Does anyone know why?

[Demonaut]

21. he was a Reagan Democrat who eventually switched parties

[whathehell]

22. Unfortunate. n/t.

[Demonaut]

24. it was well after Reagan, 1995, but he was very conservative.

[whathehell]

3. How many have run?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. Like so much actual Native American history, the true answer is hard to find

I was taking anthropology in college before I learned scalping (not illegal football ticket sales) was done by settlers and killers, not Native Americans, to collect a bounty on ANY indigenous people, especially unarmed men, women and children, to prove they had slaughtered them. Often, to save ammunition, Native Americans were scalped, while they were still alive.

[whathehell]

10. Maybe pre- 20th century

but after that, it actually should not be hard to find.

As to scalping, my understanding is that it was started by the French during the French and Indian War

[Jeffersons Ghost]

14. French were "European invaders." Scalping became profitable, after US laws declared a bounty

Of course, Hollywood cleaned up the image of poor settlers - on Native American Holy-Land - were scalped by savages. What would you do if a Native American family settled in your back-yard, without your permission? Native Americans first asked some of them to leave and instead more settlers invaded their territory.

[whathehell]

23. One particular set of "European invaders"..

[SergeStorms]

4. Saw Charice Davids on Rachel last night.

That woman is a force to be reckoned with! What a fighter (literally and figuratively). Even better, she can kick any man's ass up and down the aisles, should it come to that. I was very impressed!

All of our Democratic women deserve HUGE props for their grit, determination, and sense of civic duty. I'm so proud to call myself a Democrat!

[safeinOhio]

5. My GF never liked the fights, until now.

When ever trump comes on the tv she makes me change the channel. So, I'll switch to MMA fights and she now really likes it. Especially female fights.

[SergeStorms]

17. I can't stomach watching the orange anus either.

I can't even turn away and just listen to his voice. He repulses me t the point where I have to change the channel completely until I'm sure he's gone.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

16. I think that the older, New Mexico, Native American woman will have more success in Congress

She is less of a fighter, more of a diplomat and probably wiser.

[SergeStorms]

18. She herself....

said how much of a fighter she is, and how beholding she is to the people she's been surrounded with in her life. There's no doubt that she's a super intelligent woman, and very wise as well. She's a great woman, and I expect BIG things from her in Congress, and perhaps even loftier goals.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Wonderful!! NT

[Jeffersons Ghost]

19. thanks n/t

[SaintLouisBlues]

7. She looks Mexican to me. Lock her up!

sarcasm

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. Like most states, jails in New Mexico are filled with Hispanics, Native Americans and Afro-Americans