MRFF Op-Ed on LA Progressive: Bringing the Sioux to Jesus — Dehumanizing presentation by “history expert” from commander’s church infuriates Sioux officer

In an astounding display of Christian nationalist bigotry, supremacy, and historical just-making-crap-up, a local so-called “history expert,” brought in by a military commander from his off-base evangelical megachurch to deliver a presentation on the history of the base, told a unit assembled at a mandatory gathering that the soldiers stationed at the installation in its early days were there to “domesticate” the Sioux Indians and bring them to Jesus.

Now, as you might imagine, this “history expert’s” presentation did not go over well, to put it mildly, particularly with one of the unit’s officers who happens to be a Native American and enrolled member of his Sioux tribe. …

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