Sanders appeals to Native Americans in California
One minority group that hasn’t received nearly as much attention — negative or otherwise — is Native Americans. But in California, Bernie Sanders is spotlighting indigenous peoples ahead of the Democratic presidential primary here on June 7.
Sanders has another good reason to focus on Native Americans. California is home to more of them — by far — than any other state. According to the 2010 census, 723,225 people claiming Native American heritage — 14 percent of the national total — live in California. One in 50 Californians is at least part Native American.
That’s still just a shard of the Golden State’s electorate, but Sanders needs every vote he can possibly get, as he tries to catch up to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, who holds a commanding lead in the delegate race.
At a rally in Visalia on Sunday, Sanders revisited injustices from several hundred years ago.
“This campaign is listening to a people whose pain is rarely heard — that is the Native American people,” he said. “All of you know the Native American people were lied to. They were cheated. Treaties they negotiated were broken from before this country even became a country. And we owe the Native American people a debt of gratitude we can never fully repay.”
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