deluxvivens: pyromantix: tzoc-che: nakkyy: lastrealindians: Rapid City, South Dakota – A member and resident of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota came home from a 14-day stay in the hospital to find he had been horribly mutilated.  Three Ks can be easily seen carved or burned into his abdomen in the shocking photograph taken the day after he came home.  Vernon Traversie, who is completely blind, said his nightmare began when he had a heart attack while at the Heart Doctors office in Rapid City last August.  He said they immediately sent him a few blocks away to Rapid City Regional Hospital for emergency surgery….read the rest:  LAKOTA MAN ACCUSES HOSPITAL OF HEALTHCARE HATE CRIME, By Evelyn Red Lodge Please read and reblog. This is so awful it hurts. I have no words. YOU GUYS THIS IS THE AREA I COME FROM. This hopefully explains a lot of the angry that I have. Waiting for some creatively inspired headdress wearers to honor this indian man by activism on his behalf. In the meantime, the rest of us can get busy on this.
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Rapid City, South Dakota – A member and resident of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota came home from a 14-day stay in the hospital to find he had been horribly mutilated.  Three Ks can be easily seen carved or burned into his abdomen in the shocking photograph taken the day after he came home.

 Vernon Traversie, who is completely blind, said his nightmare began when he had a heart attack while at the Heart Doctors office in Rapid City last August.  He said they immediately sent him a few blocks away to Rapid City Regional Hospital for emergency surgery….read the rest:  LAKOTA MAN ACCUSES HOSPITAL OF HEALTHCARE HATE CRIME, By Evelyn Red Lodge

Please read and reblog.

This is so awful it hurts.

I have no words.

YOU GUYS THIS IS THE AREA I COME FROM.

This hopefully explains a lot of the angry that I have.

Waiting for some creatively inspired headdress wearers to honor this indian man by activism on his behalf.

In the meantime, the rest of us can get busy on this.

(via witchsistah)

Source: lastrealindians

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    The link above is not working (for me). Read and sign here. This is horrific.
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    Holy fucking shit :O
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    Horrible.
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    THE FUCK, WORLD. THE FUCK?
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    What does this have to do with hipsters or said cultural appropriation uughh, this is HORRIBLE and the fact that it...
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    askjdfhacnjdhmafxksdhglavjdnhtuacaxkjdshfjgvdbhjdcgndsf.
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    Facebook: Justice
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    I also await for the hipsters to prance around in cheaply made headdresses in “honor” of this.
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    what. the. actual. fuck. (see original post for picture. TW, obviously)
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    What in the all holy fuck is this. Man, I can’t.
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