To the editor: Hidden within the chaos of the present information cycle, I used to be struck by the irony of the 2 articles on the identical web page. One was concerning the U.S. Division of Agriculture utilizing “DEI” as justification for killing farm grants for tribes in Montana and the opposite detailed a brand new historic marker in Texas honoring Choctaw code talkers (“Tribes in Montana lose tens of millions after USDA kills farm grants, citing ‘DEI,’” April 5; “Descendants of Choctaw code talkers collect in Fort Value for historic marker unveiling,” April 3).
Variety, fairness and inclusion has turn into the goal of the far proper and the termination of those much-needed grants is a slap within the face to Native tribes particularly, and to all folks of shade usually.
Texas, in the meantime, is honoring our army’s use of code primarily based on Native languages. That code was unbreakable in World Wars I and II and contributed to saving many lives in fight.
These are the identical Native languages that the American Indian boarding colleges tried to eradicate. Actually ironic.
Harold Printup, Mar Vista
