Dr. Nicky Kay Michael

A Future of Uncertainty; Indian Country in the Trump Administration There is no easy way to say what our future holds given the uncertain political climate.   Many days, the rhetoric of the President Elect harkened similar language to Hitler.   I looked up speeches to try and re-assure myself that what I was thinking was false and instead, confirmed similar wording between Trump and Hitler.   The news reported Al Gore recently met with Trump and his daughter Ivanka, which gave me some hope that perhaps what we heard in the campaigning was not going to be the substance of his policies.   Of course, today’s headlines state otherwise.   How can we prepare ourselves for this uncertain future when we have no real gauge of Trump’s policies? As a historian of Native American and United States policy I often see the waves of progress and backlash in public policy toward “Indians.”   It takes more than this linear thinking though to prepare for the unknown future.   We can anticipate