Make Native America Great Again | Pretendians #3
What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates
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🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Oklahoma's Republican governor Kevin Stitt is a card-carrying member of the Cherokee Nation. So why is he also considered the most "anti-Native governor" in history? A look at his family history reveals some wild surprises, and shows how Indigenous identity can be used as a weapon against Native nations.
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| 0:00.0 | Canada Land, funded by you. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey Robert, did you know that here in Oklahoma |
| 0:06.2 | we have one of the very first, card-carrying, enrolled, |
| 0:09.6 | Native American governors in U.S. history? I did not know that. Governor Kevin |
| 0:15.4 | said here. I'm actually a member of the Cherokees and we love our Indian |
| 0:19.7 | community. Well that sounds like progress. |
| 0:23.0 | Well, you'd hope so, wouldn't you? |
| 0:25.0 | But, uh, unfortunately. |
| 0:28.0 | The current governor, Kevin Stitz, the most anti-Indian governor in the history of the state. |
| 0:33.0 | Let's say an Indian steals your car. |
| 0:36.2 | There hasn't been a governor in modern times |
| 0:40.3 | that has destroyed that nation-to-nation relationship. |
| 0:44.4 | And there are tribal governments who want Tulsa to look like the Navajo Reservation. |
| 0:49.4 | The governor is meant on destroying tribal sovereignty, even if it costs the state tens of millions |
| 0:54.6 | of dollars. For me to do something that's bad for Oklahoma for the benefit of you |
| 1:00.0 | know one race I'm not going to do it. From Candeland Podcasts this is Pretendians a show where we investigate the impact that |
| 1:08.4 | fakes, frauds and fonies have on real native people. |
| 1:11.5 | My name is Robert Jago. I'm a freelance writer from the |
| 1:13.6 | Quantland First Nation and the exact Indian tribe. And I'm Angel Ellis, a |
| 1:17.0 | citizen of the Muskogee Creek Nation located in Olmogie, Oklahoma. I've been a |
| 1:21.2 | writer, editor, journalist for about 15 years. |
| 1:24.0 | In the heartland, where the fields stretched wide, there's a warierising to change back the tide. |
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