Brett Chapman

You have to be a 'person' to have civil rights. Slaves couldn't go to court until 1865. Native Americans couldn't go to court until 1879 when my relative Standing Bear was illegally arrested by the United States Army and sued for his civil rights due him as a 'person' and won.

It’s not hard: all of these make a mockery of Native Americans, whether it be through racist caricature imagery or through that chanting and chopping by 50,000 fans—largely White males between the ages of 20 and 50—or both

The colonial history part of the National Museum of American History is the worst kind of whitewashed American exceptionalism garbage and as a Native American here, it’s painful to see all the ridiculous spin here on bad people

Huge congratulations to the Muscogee Creek Freedman descendants who won their fight for inclusion into the Tribe today creeksupremecourt.com/wp-content/upl…

I strongly believe skin color and race do not define Native Americans in the US—sovereignty does. Native people here today are defined by their association with one or more of the many Indigenous nations that have long exercised historical self-governance over their lands

I find it sad that Trump has to resort to identity politics by picking on Native Americans using the long settled mascots debate in a desperate bid to do something—anything—to draw the attention away from his increasingly cozy association with Jeffrey Epstein. Pathetic, really

I like Jim Thorpe not because he is the greatest athlete to ever live but because of the barriers he broke such as becoming the first Native American to achieve international fame for something other than being a chief, warrior, or orator—shows the diversity of Indigenous people!

Indigenous greatness!

This morning I was going to try and be cool to my son by going to QuikTrip and casually being like “oh look, your dad’s on the front page of the paper” at the counter where the papers are . . . and so we went, but the story on my case ran in yesterday’s paper 😂

"#Oklahoma (...) launched a systemic campaign of legal warfare designed to achieve through judicial erosion what it could not accomplish directly: effectively overruling this court’s landmark (McGirt) decision in practice.” — attorney @brettachapman nondoc.com/2025/07/09/kei…

Out for a walk and got enamored with this duck

I’ve been in a little jet sitting on the tarmac for the last hour because there are storms in Virginia—even worse is that its incredibly stuffy in this tin can and someone just busted out some Arby’s that smells absolutely atrocious and has reeked up the whole cabin with it. Ahh!

Congratulations to my Aunt Noni whose father Hollis Stabler, a great Indigenous WW2 hero, received recognition by Congress today and this Gold Medal. He was a member of the Omaha Tribe!