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Terray Sylvester \/ Reuters Dakota Access Pipeline protesters square off against police near the Standing Rock Reservation and the pipeline route outside the little town of Saint Anthony, North Dakota on Oct. 5, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jonathan Klett, Liminal Films Rattler, legal name Michael Markus, is a 46-year-old Marine veteran who is the descendant of Chief Red Cloud, the Lakota leader who signed the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Lori Metoxen, 52, works as an administrator at Oneida Behavioral Health in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a treatment center for indigenous people suffering from addiction and mental illness. Metoxen says one beautiful summer day in 2017 she drove home from work with the windows down, the sunroof open, and her Oneida Nation license plate, available only to members of the tribe, proudly displayed on the back of her car. When she stopped at a traffic light in the part of western Green Bay that belongs to the Oneida Nation reservation, she noticed a car full of white, teenage girls in the lane beside hers.
\n\u201cGo back to Mexico, you scumbag sack of shit!\u201d one of the girls yelled at Metoxen.
\nCalling all HuffPost superfans!
\nStunned, Metoxen remembers saying something like, \u201cWhat is your problem?\u201d to which the girl, after a string of profanities, replied, \u201cYou heard me, go back to Mexico!\u201d
\n\u201cThe angriness of their voices was shocking to me,\u201d Metoxen, a Native American who is not from Mexico, recounted to HuffPost. \u201cThey really needed to make somebody feel bad. What was the fun in that?\u201d
\nAfter a few seconds, the light turned green and the white girls, all laughing, turned left. Metoxen drove straight, and as so often happens after incidents like these, she suddenly realized what she should have said.
\n\u201cYou go back to where you came from! I belong here!\u201d
\nA White Supremacist Slur
\nMetoxen\u2019s story is one of 22 stories HuffPost has collected of people with Native American ancestry being told \u2014 absurdly \u2014 to \u201cgo back\u201d to where they came from.
\nNative Americans reported being told different variations of the phrase: \u201cGo back to your country,\u201d \u201cgo back to Mexico,\u201d \u201cgo home,\u201d \u201cget out of our country,\u201d and \u201cgo back to the reservation.\u201d
\nFor a white person \u2014 and it\u2019s almost always a white person \u2014 to say \u201cgo back\u201d to a Native American, whose ancestors were here long before European settlers colonized this continent, betrays the real, white supremacist meaning of the phrase: We don\u2019t want you anywhere at all.
\nThese 22 stories were culled from over 800 reports of hate incidents, occurring over the last four years in the U.S., in which assailants communicated some variation of \u201cgo back\u201d to their victims. HuffPost, working with ProPublica\u2019s Documenting Hate project, collected these incidents in a database to examine the moral emergency of hate in the era of President Donald Trump.
\nThe 22 incidents occurred in 15 states, from a post office in Alaska to a Walmart in Arizona, from a library in Washington to that traffic intersection in Wisconsin.
\nFive of the perpetrators in these hate incidents invoked the president\u2019s name while targeting their victim; six yelled \u201cgo back\u201d from cars before driving off; six yelled \u201cgo back to Mexico\u201d at their victims, none of whom are from Mexico; and of the perpetrators whose race is known, all were white.
\nOf those Native Americans who were told to \u201cgo back\u201d where they came from, three were veterans of the U.S. military.
\nSome of those interviewed by HuffPost for this article expressed fears that anti-indigenous bigotry is on the rise thanks to the election of President Trump in 2016 \u2014 a man with a long history of racism towards Native Americans.
\nTrump, after all, keeps a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office, the 19th century president best known for his policy of \u201cIndian Removal,\u201d an ethnic cleansing campaign that included the Trail of Tears, the forced death march of Native Americans from their homes in the Deep South to points west, like Oklahoma, where 57-year-old Jennie Wright lives.
\n\u201cI look Indian,\u201d Wright, a high school English teacher, told HuffPost. Her father was white but her mother, she said, was an enrolled member of the Mississippi Choctaw tribe.
\nA couple weeks after the 2016 election, Wright says she went to a Walmart in Bartlesville, a short drive from the Osage Reservation (where Native Americans in the early 20th century, newly wealthy from oil discovered on that land, were systematically robbed and murdered.)
\nAs Wright crossed a crosswalk in the Walmart parking lot, she suddenly heard the sound of a revving engine. She looked around and saw a middle-aged white woman in a \u201cbeat-up old car\u201d speeding towards her. Wright scurried towards the sidewalk.
\nThe woman in the car stopped, leaned her head out of the window and yelled at Wright to \u201cgo back\u201d to where she came from. \u201cWhat the hell are you talking about?\u201d Wright replied.
\n\u201cGo back to Mexico!\u201d the woman screamed, before speeding off and yelling, \u201cTrump!\u201d
\nWright says it was the first time anything like this has ever happened to her. \u201cIt opened my eyes a little bit,\u201d she told HuffPost. \u201cI always thought everything was pretty much okay. Thought it died out.\u201d
\n\u201cThen he came,\u201d she added, referring to the president. \u201cAnd he gave everyone free rein to say things.\u201d
\nA survey conducted in 2017 by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard University found that nearly 40% of Native Americans said they had personally experienced offensive comments about their race or ethnicity. Over a third of those surveyed said they or a family member had experienced either violence, threats or harassment because they are Native American.
\nCheryl Redhorse Bennett, an assistant professor at Arizona State University who studies hate crimes targeting indigenous people, says she\u2019s seen a \u201csurge\u201d in Native Americans being told to \u201cgo back\u201d since 2015.
\nAlthough she\u2019s seen her fair share of Native Americans being the victims of anti-Hispanic hate (being told to \u201cgo back to Mexico\u201d), she says perpetrators most often tell Native Americans to \u201cgo back to the reservation.\u201d
\n\u201cGenerally native people refer to towns that are adjacent to reservations as border towns,\u201d Bennet explained to HuffPost. \u201cWithin these border towns, there\u2019s a long history of violence against native people, racism, and hate crimes.\u201d
\nBennett said white border town residents often view reservations and treaty rights not for what they are \u2014 meager compensations for centuries of theft and genocide \u2014 but as \u201cprivileges\u201d unfairly bestowed upon Native Americans.
\n\u201cYou tell native people to \u2018go home,\u2019\u201d Bennett said, \u201cbut then you want to develop their land, you want to abolish treaty rights. So it\u2019s never enough.\u201d
\n\u201cWe Were Here First!\u201d
\nRattler, legal name Michael Markus, is a 46-year-old Marine veteran who is the descendant of Chief Red Cloud, the Lakota leader who signed the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty.
\nRattler was among thousands of Native activists in 2016 who set up camp on land that treaty protected: the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota. This was Rattler\u2019s ancestral land, and he was going to protect its ancient burial sites and its water from the planned construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline, he and other activists argued, was a violation of that treaty.
\nIt was also a violation of that treaty, they later claimed, for state law enforcement officials to invade the native activists\u2019 unarmed encampment on Oct. 27, 2016, using sound cannons, rubber bullets, pepper spray, and tanks to disperse the protesters. Rattler was among a handful of activists who allegedly set barricades of tires and wood on fire to slow the violent police raid.
\nFor this, months later in February, just after Trump\u2019s inauguration, he was indicted on federal charges of civil disorder and of using a fire to commit a felony. He and other activists saw the indictment as political \u2014 an excuse to justify the police brutality visited upon the encampments.
\nAs he awaited trial, Ratter\u2019s bail conditions stipulated he had to wear an ankle monitor and not leave the area in and around Bismarck, North Dakota \u2014 a border town.
\nIt was during this period, he told journalist Natasha Lennard, author of the book \u201cBeing Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life,\u201d that local residents would often drive past Rattler and yell \u201cgo home!\u201d as he smoked cigarettes on his porch.
\nJonathan Klett, Liminal Films Rattler, legal name Michael Markus, is a 46-year-old Marine veteran who is the descendant of Chief Red Cloud, the Lakota leader who signed the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty.
\nIt\u2019s a striking scene to imagine: a Native American Marine veteran wearing an ankle monitor, awaiting trial for protecting tribal land from the fossil fuel industry, being told to \u201cgo home\u201d by white people driving by.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s funny, because I want to get out of here too,\u201d Rattler told Lennard at the time. \u201cBut part of me wants to yell back, \u2018Go home? We were here first!\u2019\u201d
\nAs Rattler awaited trial, President Trump approved the final permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline, which over the next year spilled oil five times, just as native activists had warned it would.
\nRattler, after accepting a non-cooperating plea deal, is now serving a three-year sentence in a federal prison in South Dakota.
\nIn a statement released to the press after his sentencing, he said he was praying that native activists had \u201cthe strength to keep up the fight.\u201d Standing Rock, he said, \u201cwas a training ground.\u201d
\nAnd despite what he and other activists thought about the federal government\u2019s motivations for prosecuting him, Rattler also stated he was praying for the judge who handled his case.
\n\u201cWe all live on this earth together,\u201d he said. \u201cThey segregate us because we have a different color skin, but we\u2019re all red underneath.\u201d<\/p>\n

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