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New YouTube video: apologies and elections

Yay! I finally finished my YouTube video this week! I have been nose to the grindstone trying to catch up and get everything done. Halloween was fun as a family. I spent time with the kiddos and took them trick-or-treating. I am keeping tabs on election updates, but of course, nothing solid will be coming out until next week. Tensions have continued to get higher as political tactics leverage people’s emotional states. I was emotionally thrashed after all the various apologies to Indigenous communities. My emotional reactions aside, I could not shut my mind off for days due to the potential political possibilities I never thought I’d see in my lifetime. Things are so incredibly delicate right now. Folks have been tagging me in this story:

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"Visitors shouldn't feel confronted, a senior official told employees, they should feel welcomed," according to the newspaper. "Shogan and her senior advisers also have raised concerns that planned exhibits and educational displays expected to open next year might anger Republican lawmakers—who share control of the agency's budget—or a potential Trump administration."

As the Journal reported:

Shogan's senior aides ordered that a proposed image of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. be cut from a planned "Step Into History" photo booth in the Discovery Center. The booth will give visitors a chance to take photos of themselves superimposed alongside historic figures. The aides also ordered the removal of labor union pioneer Dolores Huerta and Minnie Spotted-Wolf, the first Native American woman to join the Marine Corps, from the photo booth, according to current and former employees and agency documents.

The aides proposed using instead images of former President Richard Nixon greeting Elvis Presley and former President Ronald Reagan with baseball player Cal Ripken Jr.

After reviewing plans for an exhibit about the nation's Westward expansion, Shogan asked one staffer, Why is it so much about Indians? according to current and former employees. Among the records Shogan ordered cut from the exhibit were several treaties signed by Native American tribes ceding their lands to the U.S. government, according to the employees and documents.

This honestly put my blood pressure into new heights. Shogan’s actions have already drawn a lot of backlash. Many are calling the move “whitewashing” history, I agree.

I will be doing my morning lives as normal this week. Come check in if you like. I will do my best to keep things chill.

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