Native Youth Beaten For Taking a Stand Against Redmen Mascot

During a recent basketball game, Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota youth Monge Cha Eastman, 14, was attacked in a bathroom by non-Native students for distributing ‘Not Your Mascot’ t-shirts. One student blocked the door, while another physically assaulted Monge. Other non-Native students surrounded them, egging on the violence.

Afterwards, Monge was left with welts, bruises, and scratches all over his body. He had a bloody nose, and his head was busted open.

Monge has been suspended for fighting by Tiospa Zina Tribal School, while the non-Native perpetrators from Sisseton School have not been disciplined; this despite reports that Monge was not the aggressor, and that the attack appears racially motivated. A snapchat posted the day before the fight by the student who assaulted Monge seems to show that the attack was premediated.

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