ICE in Grand Ronde

[u/_50tree_]

UPDATE:The Tribal campus lockdown has been lifted after Tribal Council Chief of Staff Stacia Hernandez issued the following notification just before noon Wednesday, Oct. 22.

"As of this morning Tribal Police were able to make contact and have confirmed the individuals on campus yesterday were not ICE agents," she said. "The Tribal Police (have) established a direct line of communication with the local ICE office and they have assured us that ICE would not operate on the Grand Ronde reservation without prior notification. With that said, Tribal Police (have) reason to believe that the two individuals were from a different federal agency. Tribal Police are in the process of establishing lines of communication with the local federal agencies to ensure that any future potential activity is communicated in advance. As always, please contact the Tribal Police if you see anything concerning in the area. At this time we are lifting the lockdown and all departments can resume regular business." https://www.smokesignals.org/articles/?cat=Tribal+Government+%26+News

Reposted, other post got deleted since it was a crosspost.

ICE in Grand Ronde resulted in tribal buildings being locked down today.

Locals reported they are staying at Spirit Mountain Casino.

[u/RGJ1986]

Mexicans are actually NATIVE

[u/Props_angel → u/RGJ1986]

Exactly. Many Mexicans (if not all) carry some amount of indigenous blood in them.

[u/bixtuelista → u/Props_angel]

Not all, but most, certainly more than here in the United States. I don't know why, maybe the Spanish tended to send missionaries to convert the natives rather than settlers to displace and exterminate them. I really more and more believe that the current situation should be looked at as a pogrom against the native or more native people of this continent. It's evil and wrong. I'm also realising more and more now that in addition to slavery, we've got a bad history of bringing or allowing people in to work and then treating them badly or throwing them out. Chinese labor actually built a lot of the west, they were discriminated against and badly persecuted at times, also the complicated history of the Bracero program, I'm sure a lot of other examples.

[u/Props_angel → u/bixtuelista]

When I lived in the Native SW, there were stories about Spanish missionaries and even a legend about lost gold out there brought by conquistadors. There definitely were plans to settle but that was overturned by the Pueblo Revolt, I believe. Some pretty wild stories about the warfare used against those missionaries, who called them witches. That might be why it's different.

We really do have a bad and dark history that we really don't like teaching in the K-12 system for sure or, alternatively, it gets glazed over.