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Dec 28 2007
117th Anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre
The Sand Creek Massacre and the Washita Massacre both led to the Wounded Knee Massacre. The Sand Creek Massacre brought the realization that “the soldiers were destroying everything Cheyenne – the land, the buffalo, and the people themselves,” and the Washita Massacre added even more genocidal evidence to those facts. The Sand Creek Massacre caused the Cheyenne to put away their old grievances with the Sioux and join them in defending their lives against the U.S. extermination policy. The Washita Massacre did that even more so. After putting the Wounded Knee Massacre briefly into historical perspective, we’ll focus solely on the Wounded Knee Massacre itself for the 117th Anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Dec 16 2007
A Moral Condemnation to Support Wexler’s Impeachment Call
I am not reposting this now because I think it is great. I’m reposting this now, because I wrote it when we still had habeas corpus and to support Wexler’s Call for Cheney’s Impeachment.
(Condemn- to state that something or somebody is in some way wrong or unacceptable)
What would our forefathers say about the state of the nation today?
I imagine if they were alive now, they would say something similar to what I have written after they read this, at least.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14656812/
“In the eight months ending last May, Justice attorneys declined to prosecute more than nine out of every 10 terrorism cases sent to them by the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies. Nearly 4 in 10 of the rejected cases were scrapped because prosecutors found weak or insufficient evidence, no evidence of criminal intent or no evident federal crime.”
Dec 15 2007
Indian Boarding Schools: Cultural Assimilation and Destruction (Updated & Edited)
What happened inside the walls of theIndian Boarding School that used to be to the right here?
Let’s look to history for some feasible answers.
(This video is over at Pretty Bird Woman House)
Dec 09 2007
My Independent Republican Friend Hates Huckabee
A good friend of mine who describes them self as an Independent Republican wanted me to post this entire email they sent me. Obviously, I haven’t been writing about the presidential races, but it is significant to me when Republicans are this concerned about one of their candidates. I mean really, really concerned. So concerned in fact, that I’m willing to listen to their point of view when they don’t want a president in office who believes “Divine providence was responsible for his (Huckabee’s) recent surge in the polls in Iowa” either, aren’t you?
Dec 09 2007
Pretty Bird Woman House: Giving Hope (Update)
[Update]
betson08 reminds us from over at Kos about this challenge from Bubbanomics.
Bubbanomics issued a challenge this weekend – he’ll match all contributions up to a total of $1000 through today. So, if you donate right now it counts double!If you donate, leave a comment here (at Kos) or for bubbanomics about how much you donated.
ccamp made a comment over at Native American Netroots that I want to share and focus on. I then want to share a personal story of how much I think this fundraiser being successful will save lives by giving hope, and conclude with what betsyny has already told us.
Dec 02 2007
Sioux Scalp Needs Coverage by Olbermann
If someone had told me that someone would be selling a Sioux scalp online on the 143rd Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre; I would have hoped, “Surely nobody would be that barbaric and seeped in genocide denial.” Right? Wrong.
(Photos will be deleted after the scalp is in the proper tribal hands. For verification only)
Dec 01 2007
Sioux Scalp Needs Coverage by Olbermann
If someone had told me that someone would be selling a Sioux scalp online on the 143rd Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre; I would have hoped, “Surely nobody would be that barbaric and seeped in genocide denial.” Right? Wrong.
(Photos will be deleted after the scalp is in the proper tribal hands. For verification only)
Nov 29 2007
****!!!!&^##!!!!!!!! (Update 2x, 3x)
I got home from work, I have to go to job #2, and I don’t have time to write anymore.
But goddamn it.
Somebody do something with this, please.
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The picture wasn’t showing anymore, and on the Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre.
Nov 29 2007
143rd Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre of Nov. 29th, 1864
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Chief Black Kettle:I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.
A Cheyenne cemetery is in the same direction as where my mother told me she watched gypsies camp through her west window as a girl, about ½ mile from that house. I have reverently walked though that Cheyenne cemetery as early as ten, looking at the headstones and wondering who they were and where they came from. I did not know then, that in that cemetery were descendants from the Sand Creek Massacre.
Nov 27 2007
The 139th Anniversary of the Washita Massacre of Nov. 27, 1868
The intent to commit genocide at Washita is hidden in plain view, unless key elements are brought together. These are: that the Cheyenne were placed on land where they would starve while promises to avert starvation were broken; that George Bent observed how Civil War soldiers did not harm white women and children by a “code of honor,” while Indian women and children were slaughtered; that Sheridan declared “The only good Indians I ever saw were dead;” and that the War Department did not differentiate between peaceful and warring Indians. Hence, the orders “to kill or hang all warriors.” As the consequence, the intent was to kill all men
of a specific race.
We’ll begin with Custer prior to the Washita Massacre along with the fact that the Cheyenne were forced onto land wherein they would starve.
Nov 21 2007
Thanksgiving
http://images.google.com/imgre…“In a little more than one hour, five or six hundred of these barbarians
were dismissed from a world that was burdened with them.”“It may be demanded…Should not Christians have more mercy and
compassion? But…sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents…. We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings.”-Puritan divine Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana
Crossposted at Native American Netroots &
Progressive Historians
Nov 19 2007
I Want Olbermann to Cover Pretty Bird Woman House
Olbermann’s contact information
I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired of the main television media ignoring American Indian issues in general, and I’m even more sick and tired of conservative personalities spewing their racist venom towards American Indians. I think Olbermann would cover the critical issue of Pretty Bird Woman House if he were asked to by enough of us, but let’s look at some spewing of racist venom towards American Indians by conservative personalities first after a generalized observation of mine.