From “The ‘Noble Indian’: A Godsend for the Extreme Right,” published in Le Monde last July. Translated from the French by John Cullen.
Sitting Bull was a Sioux chief who saw his people slaughtered, despoiled, and dispossessed before he himself was killed. There’s now a local branch of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) political party claiming that, if Sitting Bull were alive today, he “would vote for AfD” and take a stand “against immigration without borders.” The AfD went on to declare, “Today, the original inhabitants of North America live on reservations. If mass immigration continues unchecked, a similar…