An Election We Could Not Sit Out: How Indigenous Voters Helped Defeat Trump & Elect Biden

Native American voters saw a massive increase in turnout this year and helped deliver key swing states for Joe Biden, but Indigenous peoples and the role they played in defeating Donald Trump have been largely ignored in mainstream media analyses. We speak with Allie Young, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and founder of Protect the Sacred, who organized a horseback trail ride to the polls. She says it was important to her to motivate Indigenous youth to turn out. “I was hearing on the ground that they weren’t feeling very motivated to participate in this election,” she says. “I wanted to communicate to them that this is an election that we just cannot sit out.”
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[@sinxso]

Outstanding! Thank you for covering the participation of Native American citizens! Bravo!

[@jean6453]

Allie Young - Well done ! I want to support her and learn about her future projects.

[@FunFitandWell]

Follow her on Instagram (I just found her) 💕

[@jean6453]

@@FunFitandWell Thanks, I'll do that : )

[@GladBurgio]

Thank you Allie Young!

[@yolandacarrizales3235]

With love my Native Americans Thank you and God bless you and stay safe!

[@ravennelson827]

Blessed as I ask creator to watch over you and all human beings....

[@damonreeves]

To my Native American Brothers and Sisters Fight the Power. Stay Strong Be Safe.✌🏽❤️

[@gtaytay2635]

From an Arizonian right outside the Navajo Nation, it is coming time for you to wake up and see who the real enemies of humankind are. You will be surprised.

[@carolinecorman1716]

Much respect from a Shawnee American.

[@wap9137]

Thank God for the Native Americans!!! A group we can count on to not be manipulated into craziness.

[@diankreczmer6595]

I live in Arizona and thank you Indian country for voting 😎😎😎😎😎

[@velvetlensfilms3290]

Native Americans this is your land first!!!

[@ravennelson827]

Indeed and we livestrong upon this land and are still here...Blessings

[@galatians2_20]

​@@ravennelson827 Stop! You are just as unforgiving as non whites. Pointing fingers with such unforgiving heart. No ones land... because Indigenous have fought one another even before... still to this day ALL INDIGENOUS AMERICANS do not get along. Its cRaZy! I wish Indigenous did have forgiving hearts, but no they dont!!

[@patriciaathome2719]

My goodness! Those Native American ladies are so strong, smart and beautiful! Keep up the fight for your safety and your rights, your lands. your heritage, your language. your right to vote and excercise that right!

[@brandonharris8111]

The Native Americans are fed up with everything going on. I am glad so many turned out to vote for Joe Biden. You cannot count on CNN, CBS, ABC, FOX, NBC to tell the truth.

[@FunFitandWell]

We appreciate you guys!! 💕 I SEE YOU!! I choose to be “other” because I am mixed and I rather no choose; But you guys deserve your own slot!

[@maribelvalentin9277]

“Something Else” is so incredibly offensive and WRONG.

[@ravennelson827]

I as a Full-blood take it in a different tone in that we are " Something Else " and turn these words to a positive...Blessings

[@maribelvalentin9277]

@@ravennelson827 ok, I agree that it can be turned into a positive. I took offense as 'something' is non-living and its unacceptable in reference to people. I do like the positive spin. Stay healthy and safe.

[@ravennelson827]

@@maribelvalentin9277 Stay strong stay thinking and I pray a ten-fold blessing on you and your's...

[@diannaskare7829]

What a strong and forgiving culture!

[@ravennelson827]

Forgive them for they know not what they do, by making us " Something Else " as we are... I love it...

[@galatians2_20]

@diannaskare7829 I disagree! Most Native still carry bitterness toward ppl around them ...not only the caucasins ,but also toward other Native tribes and even to their own family tribe. Most do not have forgiveness in their heart period. I wish they would ... I wish they would because right after FORGIVENESS comes HEALING. Nope most do not know much about forgiveness.

[@HD7100]

What Allie said about "horse medicine" is absolutely true.

[@smeyer9507]

The REAL Americans are 'SOMETHING ELSE.'...LOL!

[@ravennelson827]

Indeed I love it as a full-blood aboriginal , we are " something Else " LOL

[@maxdoubt5219]

1st Nations!

[@cristobalhuerta1504]

Great reminder of our native brothers contributions to politics ,and the importance of mother nature, great show ,.......

[@joanneadahk124]

Thank you Jodi , and Allie ❤🥰😷

[@ahmadtameem6312]

This is the real America

[@LeileeBaker805]

Stay Strong

[@ravennelson827]

Yes we are strong and are still here. no matter what happens we will make something happen...

[@VEE-rd7cu]

As always, Amy & Juan You continue to bring the Truth... You are truly an Inspiration. Advise me, how I can help our future leaders to succeed? These young woman are Warriors!

[@hieuvu7984]

Well said Allie Young! Your voice is like music in my ears 👂.

[@alisondblake]

"We respect Mother Earth." ~ Allie Young *Thank you, Allie!

[@marryellenmonahan5585]

Thanks for asking questions that matter Linda!

[@gloria6396]

THANK YOU FOR THIS INTERVIEW

[@angiealexis3717]

Thank you for all that you made possible! :)

[@babycakes2077]

❤️ horse medicine 🤘🏽 Movement as medicine, ALWAYS 🤘🏽✊🏽❤️🕉

[@juliandorado4984]

We need to help them .more God bless America

[@twoknightfall3722]

Biden helped them before for 47years . That's why we elected him . What you mean ? C'mon man . You know that .

[@davidmcmullen3864]

God bless

[@marryellenmonahan5585]

Another amazing woman who I hope to see running for political office!

[@ramiznorthland7179]

Thumbs way up for native America

[@mikegriggs4572]

Thank you for sharing that Allie; it was beautiful. Great work. Excellent reporting Amy. Thank you always

[@heidihol]

I love my native american sisters and brothers and I'm glad they're given space here to talk. 🤟 this land was taken by our white and foreign ancestors and still today, your lives and culture are threatened. 🗺️❤️

[@claudetteearle5785]

❤️❤️

[@ravennelson827]

Blessings on your kind heart and know your words hold power....

[@ravennelson827]

@Maya T surviving is the first thing being in AIM is another from Standing rock ND to the 70's. hearing one's heart about a people helps bring a peoples spirit up and is good to hear. what are you doing about it?

[@galatians2_20]

@heidihol STOP! you know NOTHING about Indigenous culture or way of life. Just a snippet of airtime on these progressive outlets pulled on your emotions now all of a sudden you point fingers toward others. Indigenous have been given land but so much could be done with it ...they choose to just judge&blame. So many things have happened to every ethnicity-culture not just Indigenous! The Indigenous folk need to know forgiveness because right after that comes healing but they choose to live in the past! I disagree also because Indigenous fought one another ,to this day not all Indigenous Americans/ First Nation get along. So much you dont know.... but what you should know is EVERYBODY on Earth isn't an angel... nope no one!

[@bella42291]

I wish you peace and strength

[@ravennelson827]

May your wish come thru strong and I pray a ten-fold blessing back at you my friend....4- we are " Something Else "

[@experiencescotlanddifferen4910]

Well done and First Nation, please stand up!!!

[@rafamuhammad5986]

We all know this land belongs to Native Americans your Black family could never forget you are still here May God bless you all and increase your numbers and take your rightful place in this country!!!

[@tannithk.correa1331]

Well speaking for yourself these native Siberian American and native African American Charlize Theron and Elon Musk these people are something else anybody that don't have a conscious are so soul don't belong creator of the universe is cleaning up this place including me and everyone

[@gogo-word]

Thank you 🌟

[@GAR9BALDI]

As Indians say, "When the last fish is caught and the last tree is caught, you will learn money cannot be eaten,. 16 Cherokee and proud of it.1

[@tegridyfarms3166]

You claim to be part cherokee but refer to native americans as "indians"? Lol okay

[@GAR9BALDI]

As I recognize all the tribes of Canada, Mexico Central America, and South Amrivcsm where I taught tyonddyrt fleeing fom the actiond by th\e US military arming governments to annihilate them, I still remember Archpiship Romero being being shot throough the heart on March 4 as he was saying mass in Al Salvador. Those tfifth graders were an inspiration to the Katino communisty of Houston. I;ll bet you never opened your mouth about the suffering they went through.

[@jonathandow684]

First Nations in the Americas ✊😷

[@bryonblack4040]

Yes, excellent! To the great Native Tribes of America, I must thank you all for protecting and fighting to save "The Great Mother Earth", democracy, and your legacy! All people of the American land must come together and peacefully protest and fight to protect Earth from pollution and the raping of our sacred land and drinking water. We together, all ethnicities, all Americans must do our part.

[@rhondamoritz2565]

Allie Young should be commended for her hard work, the younger generation are our future. Thank you for all you and your colleagues have accomplished

[@davidharrington5287]

Say it. The word is Genocide.

[@carlosrojas01]

The recognition that Mr. Juan González wanted to use as a justification regarding the phrase "something else" was not appreciated by Mrs. Jodi Archambault because it is not justifiable. I am sure that Mr. González would not have liked it if it had been towards Latinos. Respect and you will be respected, the good for you must be the good for everyone.

[@noble.savage.1492]

Animal agriculture plays a large part in planetary degradation.

[@ordyhorizonrivieredunord712]

Much less than human occupation.

[@briancattani5109]

As an old white guy I am so proud of the native americans for standing up here and all the good work they have been doing. I have been embarrassed for all of my life for your people and the black americans so mistreated. I ended up moving out of the US in protest25 years ago. My son is in Flagstaff and voted with your people.

[@ew7908]

grateful that democracy now gives Native/Indigenous people visibility and a platform

[@robroy7456]

Native Americans like all groups aren’t a monolith.

[@Paslayas]

I'm proud to be part of 'the something else'!❤

[@KB-mk9lv]

That is hysterical! Wow huh?

[@justice4all224]

It will be something else when evil people loose all their power and become the minority.. That's Something Else ✊🏾🙏🏽✊🏾

[@paddymaguire2541]

Thank you, DN!

[@jorgemaya1872]

Native North Americans need to learn from Evo Morales and all the South American Native

[@nope6908]

like what?

[@patriciablagrove206]

We need more of you in Congress. This is your land.

[@TheWayOfRespectAndKindness]

I was born in this land, I am of this land. And I will protect the life of this land. That's what a native does.

[@livondiramerian6999]

When superiority is the goal we have a serious problem?

[@dividedconquered3784]

Hola, from 💛NM❤!

[@dchapero6929]

The cover photo for this video is breathtaking. Inspiring and powerful on a godly level.

[@ALL_CAPS__]

It's time for indigenous communities to reclaim thier place in this country through the electoral process. It will never make up for the endless sins against them, but it's a start to grow power for their communities.

[@evolvedape3341]

Horseback riding is cultural appropriation.

[@davidmadison9369]

Race is a social construct. Tracking ethnicity would require a lot more boxes.

[@SoundScientist1]

@Madison. Most of them don't "get" it.

[@drakedanys3462]

@Ladybug Laff cool comment

[@SoundScientist1]

@Ladybug Laff. Young girl, there are no significant anatomical differences between human people groups that would warrant classifying group A in one species & group B in another. You DO comprehend that Charles Darwin FLUNKED OUT of medical college - right? When you read Darwin's actual writings... even HE acknowledged that there were holes & missing pieces in his classification system & "evolution" hypothesis.

[@joelpowell4792]

@Ladybug Laff Yikes -- your advanced forensic anthro course is about 110 years out of date.

[@SoundScientist1]

This topic of "race" has historically been an endeavor of euro-albino pseudo-scholars rambling in their effort to create a classification system that placed euro-albino human mutants at the top of said classification scheme. Furthermore... They couldn't even agree on the number of so-called "human races." In "The Descent of Man," Darwin noted the great difficulty naturalists had in trying to decide how many "races" there actually were: "Man has been studied more carefully than any other animal, and yet there is the greatest possible diversity amongst capable judges whether he should be classed as a single species or race, or as two (Virey), as three (Jacquinot), as four (Kant), five (Blumenbach), six (Buffon), seven (Hunter), eight (Agassiz), eleven (Pickering), fifteen (Bory St. Vincent), sixteen (Desmoulins), twenty-two (Morton), sixty (Crawfurd), or as sixty-three, according to Burke. This diversity of judgment does not prove that the races ought not to be ranked as species, but it shews that they graduate into each other, and that it is hardly possible to discover clear distinctive characters between them." Posted Th. 11/19/2020.

[@angelasepi657]

As Native Americans, we are not victims. We know who we are, we are here to stay.

[@yolandaphillips3972]

👍👍👍Talking about ," learning something new every day ". I have often wondered WHERE ARE OUR NATIVE AMERICANS IN THIS POLITICAL ARENA & HOW THEY RULED ON T***PISM. MY QUESTIONS GOT ANSWERED DURING OUR BLACK FAMILY HOLIDAY DINNER THIS YEAR. THANK YOU ONE MILLION TIMES.✌✌✌

[@Ashaweshk]

"I went to bed indigenous, i woke up Something Else".

[@Alex-tp5qk]

Do not allow this labels to influence your consciousness. This language is designed to take your soul power away from you.

[@lilianedubois2539]

We should listen with respect to our Native American Siblings. They have a lot to teach us, they understand the Environmental laws and kept America pristine for thousands of years, we polluted it in 400.

[@aliciaaltair]

I walked 12 feet to my mailbox to vote. She rallied the (understandably) disenchanted youth of a nation that covers 27,000 square miles, to ride horses across a desert, to vote. Now THAT really IS something else!

[@wavelength7503]

Allie will be put on the FBI list for standing up for her peoples rights.

[@tedbarrow9856]

The Native American's are the Noblest people's in the America's Mother Earth is paramount ,to be as One with Nature,a proud and honourable Tribal People's.

[@tannithk.correa1331]

Do just like everybody else people they do wrong and they do right

[@calmdown2876]

This is a very good fact based video. I like fact based information in this video

[@KoolT]

I'm native now voting Republican 😮

[@ScopsOwl-f5z]

I voted for him last time. This election is either trump or thr wef agenda, that's how I see it. I want trump back to at least prevent ww3, the rest of the issues are gonna take a team effort.

[@bitcoinmaster3634]

It saddens me what Native Americans went through. It’s funny how Europeans introduced the horse to North America, but Native Americans mastered the ride.

[@kathleenaustin6147]

What's sad is...we go to other countries and dig wells for water!!! Yet...here we have communities with NO WATER!!! I know wells have dried out...but alot more CAN be done!!!🙏

[@rudyriccabutihan9331]

I was amazed that you did nothing is posible ty.

[@bitcoinmaster3634]

Native Americans, we have your back. The black correlation.

[@christianpetersen163]

"YOU TALKIN TO ME, JULIE!?" ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[@waxifari5528]

Native Americans should get like a 1000 vote per person powered-up voting schema. Least we could do.

[@davidharrington5287]

Sat it. The word is GENOCIDE.

[@dafnaganani3016]

💗

[@roosbenjamin773]

God bless our Native-Americans for their sacrifices... hope Biden will take their unrelenting effort to help him win Arizona into account.

[@9897431]

this did not age well

[@ScopsOwl-f5z]

I don't understand how after all they've been though they can vote for democrats who want to push the wef one world government agenda. Haven't we learned anything?

[@leannthomas2103]

native for trump !

[@leonardball5067]

Anyone who wants a govt. OF the people and not AT the people needed to get the autocrat out of the WH.

[@phantomcreamer]

Biden received most of his funding from the big banks and had the backing of the elite. He is not for the people

[@dreamlife2351]

@@phantomcreamer Propaganda lies

[@phantomcreamer]

@@dreamlife2351 Are you serious? You clearly haven't done any research and just accuse me of lying. Shame on you

[@Evolved9]

Truth 10,009 BC

[@lawrencea274]

She said, "mainstream media had a tendency to leave out the full picture " an absolute fact. But left wing/progressive media on line outlets are also share the same complaint/fact. One being TYT the biggest online independent progresive news outlet. I'm not sure why Amy cute Jodi of.

[@williecook810]

If your native American what your flag look like . This is my land turtle island

[@kbgirel6965]

She looks like a girl from Himalayas of Nepal

[@fthat8780]

Never sit out an election, trump presidency proved that.

[@ilashandlove6726]

Stop watching main stream media n choose the policies that effect you and yours.

[@phantomcreamer]

The alliance of DN with the legacy media, intelligence communities, and finance is very concerning to me.

[@jaiditnon8528]

💗🌹💗🌹💗🌹💗🌹💗🌹💗🌹💗🌹💗🌹💗🌹💗

[@weirdshibainu]

Yeah, thank god for that big native American vote. Lol.

[@dreamlife2351]

Go away hateful TROLL

[@brit7202]

Voting socialism is a slap in the face to Indian ancestors. How depressing.

[@techloidtech2051]

Sorry but they weren't called something else, they where out in that category probably due to low population...

[@misshelloareyouthere]

FIRST! Who is Native American or “true” Native American ? The 5 dollar Indian, native Indian mix with Spain/ Portugal ancestors and or black/ cooper American Aborigines . There are people of color with indigenous ancestors who call themselves black/ “African” American or Latino not indigenous/ Native American .

[@vonciris4705]

Go away hatful troll

[@tannithk.correa1331]

These people are native to Siberia yes they are something else they came and killed the original people off and took their place these people are something else

[@jaa999]

What the heck is latinex

[@rogbrogb5341]

Latinx: Saying "LatinOs" is MASCULINE plural. And "LatinAs"would leave males out. We try to be non- sexist.

[@jaa999]

First, that is your interpretation. Second there was no such thing as “masculine” when used in the English language, the Spanish language is Latinas, maybe you should be also using that. Beside we are Hispanics, Latin is for those countries that are in South America that speak another language other than Spanish.

[@anidiquaojala1804]

AHO Dine!

[@voxclamantis9280]

Stay strong and resilient, you will survive the coming catastrophes. But don't expect any help from Joe and Kamala. They view your value system a threat to their predatory/crony capitalism

[@cheapcharlieredhorse2286]

Horse medicine

[@shawngatschene3912]

FEAR PANIC PAIN SCREAM RABIDTS SCREAM

[@vangthao720]

this is american democracy, 2020 still so divided. Go sa sa....states of america that is...s.a..s.a....lol. no wonder the world have left us. Make meka great again lol

I dont want to offend anyone but I was sure horses ware imported to America...

[@Evolved9]

Wrong