"Today’s Dakota People of Minnesota see these U.S. Presidents as haters, fighters, and killers of not only the Dakota People but also of the other Indigenous Peoples of the U.S. We can take out a five-dollar bill and we see the ‘Dakota Executioner.’ We take out a one-dollar bill, and we see the ‘Town Destroyer.’ We see schools, buildings, counties, towns, universities, etc. named after these murderers of Native Peoples. There is no good reason why the Yellow Medicine Community (BIA name ‘Upper Sioux Community,’ Granite Falls, MN) and other Indigenous Communities/ Reservations need to celebrate and honor these Genocidaires. Instead, let us have holidays for our casinos, hotels, gas stations, businesses, and for our community programs, in which we let our employees and staff have a day off to celebrate and honor our Indigenous heroes, or to honor and mourn for those who paid the ultimate price in defending our lands against the land-stealing, treaty-breaking, and genocidal western European invaders."
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