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PENDLETON — “The United States has already demonstrated that we are not important as tribal people,” said Desireé Coyote, a speaker at the Eastern Oregon Forum on murdered and missing Indigenous people on Tuesday, Nov. 14. “They continue to demonstrate that.”
Coyote and another speaker, Kola Shippentower-Thompson, discussed the topic during a panel held on the Blue Mountain Community College campus as part of the forum series.
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