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Tunica-Biloxi Tribe Nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize - but don't blame them [1]

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Date: 2025-07-22

Trump really, really, really wants to get that Nobel Peace Prize. He's pulling out all the stops to make it happen.

This time, his partners in crime are the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana. The Tribe has their own website at TunicaBiloxi.org. They have a page up explaining why they think Donald Trump deserves the prize. They follow all of Trump's talking points. All of them. Abraham Accords. Serbia and Kosovo. Congo and Rwanda. Ceasefire between India and Pakistan. Israel and Iran. "...no world leader has dedicated more time and effort to promoting global peace than President Donald Trump."

Karoline Leavitt could have written it. Maybe she did. Can they actually do a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize? While a Native American tribe is not specifically listed as an allowed nominating entity, the United States treats them as a sovereign nation and that would be a qualifier. The fact that they're doing it, is what Donald Trump cares about. I don't mean to be negative about a Native American tribe, but there's another story about why they would be doing it. And it's not in their nomination.

It's called Federal money. They want to keep it, and who has majority control over it continuing? If you guessed Donald Trump, even though it's Congress that does it, you'd be right. With all the cutbacks, and all the grants for any purpose, contracts for any purpose that DOGE has eliminated, why would they expect to be able to sit at the government trough any longer?

Just for instance, why would Trump give $75,000 to a tribe for an oral history project? How about $2.3 million given by the Department of Education, which soon will not exist? How about the $979,000 grant to improve the tribal police force? How about the $1.6 million to revitalize a manufacturing plant? How about that grant to promote local food procurement and distribution? What about the $6.7 million from HUD? The $2.5 million from the Department of Transportation, for unknown reasons. Also grants from Health and Human Services.

There are 574 Native American tribes and also more Alaskan Native entities. With the Trump administration canceling programs and contracts across the board, why would they think they're still in line for Federal money? They shouldn't. What Trump cares about is getting the Washington Commanders renamed back to Washington Redskins, and the Cleveland Guardians renamed back to Cleveland Indians. That's what Trump knows about Native Americans.

Even though I've listed the money that the Tunica-Biloxi Native American tribe gets, I'm not blaming them for trying to suck up to Trump. It's become a matter of survival. This is something that nobody has thought about or covered. Here's the post Trump put up on Truth Social.

Trump is trying to put every single nomination into the public consciousness. People and entities still want help from the United States. That means praising Trump, massaging his ego. Look what Benjamin Netanyahu did in nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. He wants all those arm shipments to continue. Trump doesn't care about the Palestinians or Jews, he just cares about keeping up his anti-anti-semitism crusade, with Israel as the front to attack higher education and any other protesters against him.

The politically incorrect-named Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service still exist. For how long?

There are ways to generate money to replace Federal funding, but it is not in their interests for them to rape the land with mining and logging. Polluting water resources is always one of their main concerns. Renewable energy resources like wind farms or solar projects are disappearing under the Trump Administration. He'd tell them to build a coal-fired power plant instead.

Using tribal resources to create new businesses is one way to make up the difference. But locations make a difference for things like casinos and tourism. Do they even have their own agriculture to provide food for themselves and for sale? In the old days, Native Americans were put onto reservation lands that were barren. The Tunica-Biloxi seem to have it better than most. They have 951 members living on the reservation, which comprises 0.649 square miles.

Tunica-Biloxi Museum.

They have the sovereign right to tax activities and commerce within the reservation, but that's somewhat self-defeating.

Native Americans are facing a new problem of extinction through neglect. They need to find a way to quickly replace Federal funding that is disappearing.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs budget for tribal colleges and universities is being cut 80%, from $183.3 million to $22.1 million. Core tribal programs are being cut by $911 million, a 24% reduction. Native American housing block grants are going from $1.12 billion to $872 million, a drop of 22%. The Indian Loan Guarantee and Indian Land Consolidation Funds are being eliminated, $617 million worth. Public Safety and Justice Program cut by $107 million. Native American Employment and Training Program. Eliminated. Possible state block grants, but federal funding is gone.

A Brookings Institute analysis shows that $24.5 billion dollars in tribal investment could be frozen by the Trump Administration.

Programs supporting education, health, law enforcement and infrastructure are in danger.

There is one piece of leverage that Native American tribes still have, but that's only if they're honored. There are treaties with all these tribes. These cuts would be a violation of treaty obligations.

Tribes can sue the federal government over violations of treaties, statutes, and agreements. There is the Indian Tucker Act, where the United States has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to certain lawsuits about treaties, agreements and trust responsibilities. But even when the tribe can sue, the government can still bring up sovereign immunity. It gets really complicated with federal and tribal law.

Native American tribes are in limbo. Other than the cuts they already know are coming, for which they can sue, everything else coming from the federal government is being taken away, if Trump can do it without too much commotion. Treaties be damned.

The Tunica-Biloxi tribe came up with a unique way to keep Donald Trump's attention and keep federal money flowing. I don't think it's going to work.

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