Assailants called Glacier County Commissioner "Dirty Indian" as they kicked him.
The trial of three Montana men who hurled racial slurs as they assaulted a Blackfeet man will begin February 3 in Libby, Montana. The attack occurred in September 2008 as Ron Rides at the Door, a member of the Blackfeet Nation and a Glacier County Commissioner, attempted to break up a fight outside a Great Falls bar.
In mid-August an Alaska Native man was assaulted by a young white couple who threw eggs at him and kicked him while using racial slurs.
Rapid City, South Dakota has experienced a rash of hate crimes directed against Native people in recent months.
On September 22, the Moscow City Court sentenced a group of ultra-nationalist young people to prison terms for three attempted murders and other crimes committed out of ethnic hatred.
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