Voting For Future Generations: Justice

October 21, 2016 – Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were asked about racial healing in their first debate. The Black Lives Matter movement has forced many elected officials and candidates to start talking about racism and high rates of arrest and incarceration of people of color across the United States. I

In Native communities, the concept of justice is not just the western model of policing and the courts. In our final installment of Elections 2016: Voting For Future Generations, we hear from two young leaders in the Pueblo of Acoma who are playing key roles in legal efforts to bring sacred items that were removed from the pueblo. Aaron Sims (Acoma) is an attorney for the tribe and Jonathan Sims (Acoma) currently serves on the tribal council. We also hear from activists from tribes across the country who are part of The Red Nation in Albuquerque, which has protested how Native Americans and other people of color have been treated by police officers and guards in the local jail.

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