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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">i have been neglecting mythic/cultural aspects: Western hero, action hero</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">just shoot or hang the bad guy</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">guns</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">reagan cut brush on vacation, kinda roy rogers dale evans vibe; wanted to be john wayne? draft dodger chickenhawks</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">poppy worse boots and ate pork rinds, all hat and no cattle but worked; dubya coyboy as shucks, but also fighter jock mission accomplished tho draft dodger;</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">rubber on dark $</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">aha note just mirror of std left charge: tucker boost on weaponization revived deep state, along w/ fbi raid on trump</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>note he like trump is a victim</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/ryan-zinke-accuses-deep-state/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/ryan-zinke-accuses-deep-state/</a></font></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">United States Congressman Ryan Zinke (R-Montana) delivered a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday in which he proclaimed that a "deep state" along with "liberals" are engaged in a sinister agenda targeting himself and other conservatives.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Prior to his election to Congress in the November 2022 midterms, Zinke served as secretary of the interior under former President Donald Trump. He resigned in December 2018 amid a flurry of <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/1081180054/ryan-zinke-interior-investigation-ig-report" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">ethics scandals</a> and <a href="https://rollcall.com/2018/12/15/amid-corruption-charges-zinke-is-leaving-as-interior-secretary/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">suspicions of corruption</a>.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Nonetheless, on Tuesday, Zinke declared himself a victim of a vast conspiracy and endorsed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-California) proposal to create a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/politics/house-republicans-fbi-investigation.html" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">subcommittee tasked with investigating various federal agencies</a> that have open inquiries into Trump.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/msn/kevin-mccarthy-2659094838/" target="self" title="view post: Paul Krugman: House Republicans’ economics are as 'divorced from reality' as their election lies" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Paul Krugman: House Republicans’ economics are as 'divorced from reality' as their election lies</a></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">"Mister Speaker, I rise today in support of a select committee to investigate the weaponization of the federal government,</span> something I have a lot of experience firsthand. I proudly served as the fifty-second secretary of interior, and <b>despite the deep state's repeatedly attempts to stop me</b>, I stand before you as a duly elected member of the United States Congress and<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> tell you that a deep state exists and it is perhaps the strongest covert weapon the left has against the American people,"</b> Zinke said.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"There is no doubt the federal government</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> deep state coordinates with liberal activists and uses politicians and willing media to carry their water. The deep state runs secret messaging campaigns with one goal in mind – to increase its power to censor and persuade the American people.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Dark money groups, funded by liberal billionaires and foreign investors, funnel money to shell organizations </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and repeatedly attempt to destroy the American West</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><b style=""> </b><b style="">They want to wipe out the American cowboy completely,</b></span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> remove public access to our lands, and turn Montana into a national park. They want to control our land and our lifestyle,"</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Zinke alleged before claiming that he amassed so-called evidence from a right-wing non-profit.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Mister Speaker," Zinke added, "I'd like to submit a five-part series of investigative articles by the <b style="">Capitol Research Center</b> entitled,<b style=""> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/john-kania-19301511_arabellas-long-war-keep-it-in-the-ground-activity-6866114510109974528--tk/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Arabella's Long War Keep It in the Ground</a></b> into the congressional record."</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Watch below or <a href="https://www.alternet.org/ryan-zinke-accuses-deep-state" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 13, 101); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">at this link</a>.</p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lotta cowboy cosplay jan 6? red wht & blue hats?</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the conv</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/american-gun-culture-frontier-mythology/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/american-gun-culture-frontier-mythology/</a></font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">i dunno, it is just Murkin john wayne aw shucks gary cooper i will fight for you?</font></div><div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/gop-violence/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/gop-violence/</a></font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx twt vid</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>Arizona Republican Senate hopeful slammed as 'disgusting' for violent campaign ad</div><div>[Jim Lamon speaking at a MAGA rally in Scottsdale, Arizona in July 2021,]</div><div>Alex Henderson February 11, 2022</div><div> </div><div><b>Jim Lamon, one of the MAGA Republicans competing in Arizona’s 2022 GOP U.S. Senate primary, is drawing criticism for a new campaign ad that depicts him shooting at President Joe Biden,</b> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly — who he is hoping to compete with in the general election, and whose wife, Gabby Giffords, survived an attempted murder in 2011.</div><div>
</div><div>The ad, which Lamon posted on Twitter on February 10, is made to look like one of Italian director Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns of the 1960s. Lamon plays a Clint Eastwood-like character, and the music recalls <b>Ennio Morricone’s work in Leone movies like “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,”</b> “Once Upon a Time in the West” and “A Fistful of Dollars.” <b>Actors portraying Biden, Pelosi and Kelly, all clad in western attire, are described in the ad as “</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The D.C. Gang” </b>— and Lamon shoots the guns out of their hands.</span></div><div>
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</div><div><b>Lamon, also wearing western attire, declares, “The good people of Arizona have had enough of you. It’s time for a showdown.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>The Guardian’s Gloria Oladipo reports, “Criticism towards the ad has been swift, with many people pointing out other recent instances of violent imagery used by members of the Republican Party. Last November<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, Paul Gosar, Republican representative for Arizona, was officially censured by the House after sharing an animated video depicting him killing the Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking Biden.</span>”</div><div>Shannon Watts, founder of the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, slammed the ad as “disgusting”:...</div></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>to apologize is unmanly</b>, admitting defeat, esp to trump/istas for whom loyal tribal solidarity litmus is all; played inevitable victim card? gop minority in both houses explicit aim is obstructionist, gerry maintain minority power yet he bemoan/threatens this will be weapon in future? </font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">aha: polarization --> demonization--> death threat --> death squad pinochet helo rides did nothing wrong Kyle</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mantra of demonization can make name eg pelosi into a devil term; she was actively hunted 1/6 shoot bitch in the brain? AOC = commie?</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">landed here pol cartoon accidentally but interesting analogy? pirate creshaw action here, gosar flies? defeats evil? scott perry chr freedom cocks we must destroy dems/nazis</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/ocasio-cortez-gosar/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/ocasio-cortez-gosar/</a></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">put in context of huge surge in death threats and 1/6 attack; gabby scalise shot;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> how signif is that this is pix? cartoon? anime genre? t</span>rump WWF vs CNN?</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">gosar censored for aoc kill anime, also biden; tired to blame staff? alt rt ploy just kidding? shooting bills in ads cliche so he just escalated to claiming that he was killing a rep/symbol of their policies [that are destroying am // scott perry freedom cock?]; prev border patrol agent vid rape aoc? threw burritos?</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">pretty good speech:</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, a far-right MAGA Republican and conspiracy theorist who has never been shy about making <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/politics/controversy-paul-gosar-congress/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">inflammatory remarks</a>, has been drawing <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-gosar-trump-ocasio-cortez/2021/11/08/ead37b36-40ca-11ec-9ea7-3eb2406a2e24_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">vehement criticism from Democrats</a> for posting a cartoon that depicts him murdering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York City and inflicting harm on President Joe Biden. <b>He has previously been criticized for appearing at a conference organized by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gosar-racism-remarks/2021/02/27/64f8ffa4-7901-11eb-948d-19472e683521_story.html" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">white supremacists</a>.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many House Republicans, however, have been silent about the controversies. And Ocasio-Cortez, during a speech on the House floor this week, called them out them out for it.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The congresswoman, during her speech, made it clear that a<b> much more vehement response from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other GOP leaders is needed.</b></font></p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="59248ff2d43e1c41130bdc3577f0125b" id="c1342"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 550px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><blockquote class="twitter-custom-tweet twitter-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-lazy-tweet-id="1461056633807810562" data-twitter-tweet-id="1461056633807810562" data-twitter-extracted-i1637257855553397376="true" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.531px;"><div style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">AOC: "It's a sad day in which a member who leads a political party in the United States of America cannot bring themselves to say that issuing a depiction of murdering a member of Congress is wrong, and instead decides to venture off into a tangent about gas prices and inflation</span><span style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">"pic.twitter.com/fi13Jb396s</span></font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">— Justin Baragona (@Justin Baragona)<a href="https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/statuses/1461056633807810562" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">1637178021</a></font></blockquote></div><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1dc3400e9a9d6ecd510b09464c19551f" id="d40e2"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 550px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><blockquote class="twitter-custom-tweet twitter-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-lazy-tweet-id="1461057856078286848" data-twitter-tweet-id="1461057856078286848" data-twitter-extracted-i1637257855553397376="true" style="margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.531px; background: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AOC: "Does anyone in this chamber find this behavior acceptable? Would you allow depictions of violence against women, against colleagues? Would you allow that in your home? ... And if it\u2019s not acceptable there, why should it be accepted here?!"pic.twitter.com/Bas9dS5dfo</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Justin Baragona (@Justin Baragona)<a href="https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/statuses/1461057856078286848" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">1637178312</a></font></blockquote></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ocasio-Cortez told fellow House members, "What I believe is unprecedented is for a member of House leadership of either party to be unable to condemn incitement of violence against a member of this body. It is sad, it is a sad day in which a member who leads a political party in the United States of America cannot bring themselves to say that issuing a depiction of murdering a member of Congress is wrong…. <b>What is so hard, what is so hard about saying that this is wrong?"</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ: </strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/gop-theocracy/" target="_self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>A growing threat is emerging from the theocratic wing of the GOP — but many liberals are missing it</strong></a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Democratic congresswoman added, "This is not about me. This is not about Rep. Gosar. But this is about what we are willing to accept."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Gosar has maintained that the anti-AOC cartoon was meant to be a joke</span>, but Ocasio-Cortez stressed that depictions of murder should never be taken lightly.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"This nihilism runs deep," Ocasio-Cortez explained. "It conveys and betrays a certain contempt for the meaning and importance of our work here — that what we do, so long as we claim it is a joke, doesn't matter."</b></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">jihad squad: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/rep-ilhan-omar-torches-lauren-boebert-following-bizarre-rant-on-house-floor/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/rep-ilhan-omar-torches-lauren-boebert-following-bizarre-rant-on-house-floor/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/populist-alliances-of-cowboys-and-indians-are-protecting-rural-lands-114268">https://theconversation.com/populist-alliances-of-cowboys-and-indians-are-protecting-rural-lands-114268</a></p><div class="grid-ten large-grid-nine grid-last content-body content entry-content instapaper_body" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);" libre="Libre" baskerville="Baskerville" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" float="float" left="left" width="width" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://brilliantmaps.com/2016-county-election-map/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">sea of red</a> on recent election maps make it look like rural areas are uniformly populated by Republicans. And conventional wisdom suggests that those Americans are largely conservative populists who question many government regulations and do not welcome cultural diversity.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the growing influence of Native American nations in some rural areas is starting to change that picture. Empowered by their <a href="https://www.critfc.org/member_tribes_overview/treaty-q-a/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">treaty rights</a>, they are beginning to shift the values of their white neighbors toward a populism that cuts across racial and cultural lines to challenge large corporations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’m a <a href="https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">geographer</a> who studies the relationships between tribes and rural white farmers, ranchers and fishers. In my book “<a href="https://sites.evergreen.edu/unlikelyalliances" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands</a>,” I relate what I learned through dozens of interviews with Native Americans and their non-Native allies who described how the tribes are fusing the power of their sovereignty with the populist grievances of the tribes’ historic enemies.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By teaming up to defend the place they all call home, they are protecting their lands and waters for all.</font></p><figure class="align-center zoomable" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative;"><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/265966/original/file-20190326-36256-1skd1yz.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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padding: 0px; border: none; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: block; max-width: 100%; width: 754px;" /></a><div class="enlarge_hint" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: url(" assets="assets" icons="icons" x16search-white-67f83a253e8e71281277c5cf51a362ac.png="x16search-white-67f83a253e8e71281277c5cf51a362ac.png" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" rgba="rgba" transition="transition" opacity="opacity" s="s" ease-in="ease-in" position="position" absolute="absolute" top="top" px="px" right="right" border-bottom-left-radius="border-bottom-left-radius" border-top-right-radius="border-top-right-radius" width="width" height="height" text-indent="text-indent" em="em" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden"><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/265966/original/file-20190326-36256-1skd1yz.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; display: block; max-width: 100%;" /></div><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 18px;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" cursor="cursor" default="default"><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/265966/original/file-20190326-36256-1skd1yz.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; display: block; max-width: 100%;"><span class="caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span class="attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Zoltán Grossman</font></span></span></a></figcaption></figure><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/265966/original/file-20190326-36256-1skd1yz.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; display: block; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Unlikely alliances</font></a></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/265966/original/file-20190326-36256-1skd1yz.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; display: block; max-width: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Ever since Native Americans began to </font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/WILMES.html" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">reassert their treaty rights</a> to harvest fish, water and other natural resources, starting in the 1960s in the Pacific Northwest, a <a href="http://www.dickshovel.com/anti.html" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">far-right populist backlash</a> from some rural whites has sparked racial conflicts over those resources.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But starting in the late 1970s, some Native nations across the country joined with their rural white neighbors — including people who had been their adversaries in treaty conflicts — to block threats to rural lands and waters, such as mining, pipeline, dam, nuclear waste and military projects.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The alliances joined tribes and rural, mostly white, Americans to confront common enemies. They helped whites in these areas <a href="https://www.kearneyhub.com/news/local/poncas-nebraskans-hope-to-rescue-rare-native-corn/article_3d43c5d6-83f9-11e1-a229-001a4bcf887a.html" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">learn more about indigenous cultural traditions</a>, legal powers and ecological values. Tribal members also learned that their neighbors valued the local environment, and wanted to protect it from outside corporations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In South Dakota and Nebraska, for example, a group called the <a href="https://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/black-snake-in-the-heartland-spirituality-american-enviromentalism" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Cowboy Indian Alliance</a> has, since 2013, brought together Lakota and other tribes with white ranchers and farmers to stop the <a href="https://www.apnews.com/d62e3aaa796c402cbe29bcece6cee009" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Keystone XL oil pipeline</a>. The alliance drew from earlier coalitions that stopped <a href="https://bhcleanwateralliance.org/about/black-hills-alliance/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">uranium and coal projects</a> and a <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-30-mn-4978-story.html" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">bombing range</a> in the Black Hills of South Dakota.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Farmers and ranchers in these two deep-red states opposed the use of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/03/keystone-pipeline-protests-land-rights-south-dakota" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">eminent domain</a> to seize their private property for the pipeline. That land had originally belonged to the tribes.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As they worked together against the pipeline, the tribes influenced some white neighbors to protect sacred burial sites on their property.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We come from two cultures that clashed over land,” Alliance spokeswoman Faith Spotted Eagle observed. “This is a healing for the generations.”</font></p><figure class="align-center zoomable" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative;"><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 18px;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" cursor="cursor" default="default"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></font></figcaption></figure><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fossil fuel and mining projects</font></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Washington and Oregon, Native nations are using their <a href="https://nwifc.org/w/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2014/10/understanding-treaty-rights-final.pdf" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">treaty rights</a> to <a href="https://theconversation.com/companies-blocked-from-using-west-coast-ports-to-export-fossil-fuels-keep-seeking-workarounds-106300" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">stop plans</a> to build <a href="https://www.sightline.org/2018/04/23/how-northwest-communities-continue-to-stop-fossil-fuel-projects-before-they-start/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">coal and oil export terminals</a>. The same largely white fishing groups in that region that used to aggressively protest treaty rights now back the tribes in protecting fisheries from <a href="https://www.sightline.org/2017/06/20/mapping-the-thin-green-line/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">oil and coal shipping</a>, and in <a href="https://lltk.org/partnering-with-salish-sea-tribes-to-restore-salmon-populations/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">restoring fish habitat</a> damaged by development.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/tribes-prevail-kill-proposed-coal-terminal-at-cherry-point/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Lummi Nation</a>, near Bellingham, Washington, led the fight that staved off a coal terminal in a sacred burial ground. The <a href="https://olywip.org/quinault-nation-builds-bridges-stop-grays-harbor-oil-terminal/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Quinault Nation</a> on the Pacific coast led an alliance that helped <a href="https://www.standuptooil.org/grays-harbor/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">kill plans to build oil export infrastructure</a> that would have threatened salmon and shellfish.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The mostly white working-class residents of former logging towns in the area, who have strongly opposed timber industry regulations, have worked more easily with local tribes than with urban environmental groups to protect their local economy from fossil fuels.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The relationships we have with our neighbors arose out of a relationship of much division, strife, and conflict,” Quinault President Fawn Sharp told me. Through that, she added, “they’ve come to know who we are.”</font></p><figure class="align-center zoomable" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative;"><figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 18px;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" cursor="cursor" default="default"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></font></figcaption></figure><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Wisconsin and Michigan, Ojibwe and Menominee tribes are fighting to prevent new mining projects, joined by their rural white neighbors, because those projects threaten fishing streams, wild rice beds and burial sites.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As recently as the early 1990s, many white anglers in northern Wisconsin were <a href="https://www.beechriverbooks.com/id17.html" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">violently protesting Ojibwe treaty rights</a> to spear fish, harassing and physically attacking Native Americans after anti-treaty groups led to them to believe that tribal fishing threatened the local tourism economy.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the tribes presented their treaties as a legal obstacle to the mines that both groups viewed as a threat to the fishery.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="http://treaty.indigenousnative.org/content.html" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Midwest Treaty Network</a> convinced many anglers <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870701538927" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">to cooperate with tribes</a> and environmental groups to join in the effort to stymie plans to build a copper and zinc mine near <a href="https://ejatlas.org/conflict/proposed-crandon-mine-in-northeast-wisconsin-usa" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Crandon, Wisconsin</a>. They won a protracted fight in 2003. The anglers had realized that if they kept arguing with the tribes over fishing rights, there might not be any fish left.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More recently, the <a href="https://www.badriver-nsn.gov/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bad River Tribe</a> on the Wisconsin shore of Lake Superior led an alliance that stopped the <a href="https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/50-solutions/wisconsin-tribe-halts-15-billion-open-pit-mine-20161220" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Penokees iron mine</a> in 2015, upstream from wild rice beds culturally valuable to the tribe.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And the <a href="http://www.noback40.org/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Menominee Nation and its allies</a> are trying to block the <a href="https://www.mining-journal.com/gold-and-silver-news/news/1362299/aquilas-back-forty-permit-upheld" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Back Forty</a> zinc and gold mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><div class="grid-ten large-grid-nine grid-last content-body content entry-content instapaper_body" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.8; float: left; width: 754px;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">nity through diversity</font></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One advantage that sovereign tribal nations have in these battles is that they can draw federal agencies and courts into the fray in a way that local and state governments cannot.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tribes are in the fight for the long haul, because the survival of their cultures is at stake. They can’t simply move away from environmental hazards, because they have harvesting rights only within their treaty territory, and their identities and cultures are rooted in a particular place.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some areas of the most intense treaty conflicts, where the tribes most strongly asserted their rights, developed the earliest and most successful tribal alliances with white farmers, ranchers and fishers.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In these areas, rural populists have begun to see the tribes as more effective guardians of their local economies from large corporations than their state, local or federal governments. Wisconsin fishing guide Wally Cooper had spoken at rallies against Ojibwe treaty rights. He told me he changed his mind “because Native Americans can stop” the Crandon mine that threatened the rivers that he loved.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The success of these unlikely alliances challenges political stereotypes. Some progressives tend to dismiss rural whites as <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/03/in-2017-fusing-identity-and-class-politics-in-trumpland/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">recalcitrant and unwilling</a> to treat people who are different as equals.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many conservatives – along with some liberals – presume that highlighting cultural differences through <a href="https://www.sas.upenn.edu/andrea-mitchell-center/francis-fukuyama-against-identity-politics" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">identity politics</a> gets in the way of unifying people who otherwise share economic or environmental goals.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But celebrating differences and unity can be compatible. Native sovereignty can protect land and water for all rural people, and help build an <a href="https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2018/12/american-politics-progressive-populism-ballot-measures/578977/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">anti-corporate movement</a> that crosses cultural lines. If even cowboys and Indians can find common ground, maybe there is hope for what I call cross-cultural populism.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /><section class="inline-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 1px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0.5rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.5rem;"><a href="http://www.aag.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/environmental-activism-3496" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Environmental activism</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/geography-4376" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Geography</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/native-americans-7853" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Native Americans</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/cultural-diversity-11582" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Cultural diversity</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/populism-13481" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Populism</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/land-use-politics-25035" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Land use politics</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/rural-america-35278" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Rural America</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/american-association-of-geographers-38537" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">American Association of Geographers</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/cowboys-48270" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Cowboys</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/thin-green-line-70708" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(216, 53, 42); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Thin green line</font></a></li></ul></span></div></div><div class="content" data-raw="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 165px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By appealing to the hearts and minds of their white neighbors, Native Americans are carving out common ground. Together, these different groups are building unity through diversity.</font></span></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/265344/original/file-20190322-36244-jav5vf.png?w=128&h=128265344/original/file-20190322-36244-jav5vf.png?w=128&h=128" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; float: right; width: 64px;" />