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Update @ 12/16/2008: Obama names Wizipan Garriott of the Rosebud Sioux to the transition team in the role of First Nations Liaison.

Here, an Ex Isler named Joe D’Monix, himself of the First Nations, mentions that Sioux is not actually the preferred term – rather, that Wizipan is from the Lakota tribe. Thanks, Joe!

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I haven’t had much criticism for President Elect Obama. I, like most Americans, think he’s doing a great job. BUT – I am worried that a particular promise is not being kept – and I’m going to keep this issue alive on this blog until it’s addressed. I would hate to think that the nation’s first black president would keep a tradition of breaking promises to the native americans (or, First Peoples, as he called them during the campaign).

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/19/obama_adopted_into_crow_nation.html

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