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Facebook Rejects Native American Profiles

By KFBB News Team

Story Created: May 20, 2009 at 9:42 PM MST

Story Updated: May 20, 2009 at 9:42 PM MST

Some Native Americans in Montana are being given the boot by the popular social networking website Facebook.
Tribal officials say Facebook is deleting accounts because they believe some Native American last names are fake.
Officials say this isn't the first time Native Americans have faced misunderstandings like this...but they say it's a first in the cyber world.
Facebook officials haven't provided an explanation as to why these profile accounts were deleted.

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Blueowl said on Friday, May 22 at 5:47 AM

They will correct their ways, this is 2009 now, not the 20th century! i have faith they will change it up for the NAtive Americans!

curtis crowboy said on Thursday, May 21 at 9:58 PM

this isnt the 1st time facebooks discriminated against native peoples names

WalksWithManySpirits said on Thursday, May 21 at 9:49 PM

I have forwarded this item to every other social networking site on the web that I know of and have suggested that anybody that has a Facebook account threaten to cancel it over this outrage. If Facebook doesn't restore the accounts of our brothers and sisters using its vast archives that they sell, then we should cancel Facebook's piece of pie.

usone1 said on Thursday, May 21 at 4:17 PM

we all can't be named Ken & Barbie!

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