ELIZABETH WARREN/NATIVE AMERICANS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s been more than a century since the Wounded Knee massacre and the Battle of Little Bighorn, but both of these notorious conflicts were thrust into a national conversation about Native Americans and race following President Trump’s Sunday night tweet directed at Senator Elizabeth Warren. Mr. Trump, responding to a Q. and A. that Ms. Warren posted on Instagram Live a couple of weeks ago, used a line referring to Wounded Knee and Bighorn that mocked Ms. Warren’s claims of Native American heritage. In Ms. Warren’s video, posted on Dec. 31, the same day she entered the 2020 race for president, she drank a beer in her kitchen and complimented her husband, who made a brief cameo…In a statement, Jefferson Keel, the president of the National Congress of American Indians, condemned, ‘in the strongest possible terms, the casual and callous use of these events as part of a political attack.’”
–Christina Caron, “Trump’s Use of Wounded Knee to Mock Elizabeth Warren Angers Native Americans,” The New York Times online, January 14, 2019