CULT OF JAMES

South Dakota has 105 open missing persons cases. Sixty-six involve Native Americans. Forty-five of those are children. Native Americans are 9 percent of South Dakota’s population. They are 63 percent of its missing. For three and a half years, the state’s entire response to this was one woman with a phone number. Allison Morrisette, Oglala Lakota, grew up on the…

Disney called Midjourney a “bottomless pit of plagiarism.” Midjourney’s response: show us yours. In June 2025, Disney and Universal sued Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging its AI image generator trained on copyrighted characters — Darth Vader, Shrek, Homer Simpson — without permission and let paying subscribers generate endless images of them. Warner Bros. followed in September with its own complaint:…

Seventeen Indigenous performers will take the stage tonight at the National Monument. Two drum groups. Powwow dancers. Two songs. Around 8:40 p.m., between the Joint Armed Forces Orchestra and the President’s remarks. The occasion is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Craig Marbin, Akwesasne Mohawk, will carry the Mohawk Code Talker’s Eagle Staff — honoring relatives who served…

In 2015, a nineteen-year-old Navajo and Maidu student named Chiitaanibah Johnson sat in a history class at Sacramento State. The professor told the class he didn’t like the word “genocide” because it implied the decimation of American Indians was intentional. Johnson disagreed. The professor said she was hijacking his class. He dismissed the class early and told her she was…