Oct 01, 2024
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) are standing in solidarity with the Crow Tribe after disparaging remarks from Republican Senate Candidate Tim Sheehy.Charkoosta News posted an audio file where Sheehy can be heard saying Crow Tribal members are drunk by 8 in the morning and they threw beer cans at his head during the Crow Fair. RELATED: Montana tribal leaders call for public apology from Tim Sheehy for 'defamatory' commentsCSKT says Sheehys comments are disrespectful and send a dangerous message about Indigenous people.These people tend to think that they know what's best for tribal people and they really don't and in the position they're in the spot that they're at, they're, they're thinking that they don't need to be educated more about who we are when, in fact, they do need to be educated more, CSKT Tribal Chairman Michael Dolson told MTN. And these kind of remarks really show an immaturity of -- about dealing with our, our tribal people. And so, we definitely stand with our, our tribal brothers and sisters against language like this. CKST reaction to candidate Tim Sheehy's remarksDuring Monday nights U.S. Senate debate on Montana PBS, Tester pushed Sheehy to apologize for those insensitive comments about tribal members."The reality is, yeah, insensitive. I come from the military, as many our tribal members do. You know, we make insensitive jokes and probably off-color sometimes. And you know, I'm an adult. I'll take accountability for that. But let's not distract from the issues that our tribal communities are suffering, Sheehy said. And you can say, look, I'll take responsibility, but, you know, apologies matter and how you treat people matter. And if you treat them with disrespect, other people will disrespect them. So, like I said, to begin with, you're a big guy. Just apologize, Tester said."Will you apologize for opening the border?" Sheehy asked."I didn't open the border, Tester responded.- information from Robyn Iron included in this report.
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