About the 1500 missing Native Americans we've been hearing about lately.

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14. Progress is good.

We also need to remember that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. We would not have made much of the social progress that has been made in the US if people were not noisy and rowdy. Despite MLK's advocacy for non-violence (which was good), he was not quiet, at all. The Black Rights movement, the Women's movement, the Chicano movement, LGBT with Stonewall; none of that was quiet and all of it was decried by the media and by "all the good people" as disruptive and ugly.

Rights are never granted by the people in power. They must always be demanded. The stories and complaints about native women and women of color are tools to push people to get something done. I have confidence that Biden and Haaland are taking things seriously, but I think that everyone needs to take it seriously so that it is not up to Biden, or Haaland, or some other singular figure. The demand needs to be so great that anyone, Democratic, Republican, etc... would need to take it seriously.