Celebrate Native American Heritage Month...if you can find it

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with a good read from Google Play here.  They have provided this selection featured on their Books page, though it is at the very bottom of the page, and it is titled, "Celebrate with Great Reads".  The fine print below that title is "Native American Heritage Month."

Google posted an Indigenous-related doodle on 18 November, which would've been Native author James Welch, Blackfeet/Gros Ventre, 76th birthday.   

There are two YouTube Spotlight channels, both of which are prominent if one knows to click on the Spotlight page.  Beats, Rhymes, and Indigenous Life features 17 music videos from Indigenous hip-hop artists of America.  Dancing, Drums, and Powwow Days features 10 videos of "Traditions from Native American and First Nations social gatherings".    

Google Cultural Institute has posted a website that "explores the lives and work of 6 Native American artists".  Additionally, Google has launched new Google Expeditions of Indian Country, covering topics ranging from Southwest tribes to powwows to the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

But, is this really enough to honor and recognize the lives, beauty, and inherent value of the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island?  In the midst of a raging blizzard on the Northern Plains, my relatives on Standing Rock and a multitude of supporters fight on the front line of ongoing desecration and broken treaties.  #StandingRock #NoDAPL #RezpectOurWater  Even though media coverage is good by overseas media and by numerous independent media outlets, Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, and U.N. Observers, the U.S. media is not covering it at the level or truth it deserves.  

This feels like token recognition when Google and other large web providers and engines could do so very much more. Don't misunderstand me - I appreciate what little we get, but....