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Aug 09 2009
Genocide & Intent Of The Infected Blankets
Indian genocide is a controversial subject on the internet and on this site. Genocide and Holocaust are words that are easy to throw around, often to grab a reader’s attention, but proving them is something else. What one group calls genocide, another group may call progress. This statement is used in the same context as the saying…one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
The argument for Indian genocide is based primarily on letters written by General Jeffery Amherst during the French and Indian War.Letters by General Amherst and Colonel Bouquet mentioning spreading smallpox to Indians does not mean that this was ever carried out.
Assumptions derived from letters and oral traditions are not proof of anything.
Aug 06 2009
Introducing Manifest Destiny News
I apologize for the deceptive title. My main objective in having written this last year was not to create a new blog (Native American Netroots serves as that function). My main objective was and is to encourage people to blog about the issues that are outlined in this essay, and for the reasons stated herein.
Jul 24 2009
Me as a Mixed Blood
Introduction
I finished this in approximately May of 2008 and wanted to wait till the issue came up again and after I was able to let it go to discuss it. Poignantly, I wish to discuss the issue of “many simply feel they do not belong.”
High Country: Blood quantum threatens tribesThousands of Native Americans are not enrolled in their tribes because their bloodlines have become diluted over the years, as is happening with the Comes Last family. Even some full-blooded Native Americans lack enough of any one tribe’s heritage to qualify for enrollment. .. And, on a more intangible note, many simply feel they do not belong.
Another way of saying “many simply feel they do not belong” is to say that many feel isolated. I’ll offer some thoughts on that and then share the essay I wrote in 2008.
Jun 17 2009
Custer, Rape, Genocide, & Happy Meals
Jun 13 2009
Chief Leonard Crow Dog Speaks For Leonard Peltier
Chief Leonard Crow Dog:
My Relatives,Long, long time I come here – and during those trials. Now I’m 68 years old, can hardly walk, can hardly sing. Oh before I go, I want Leonard to be free.
Jun 12 2009
“Dead Indian Creek” & Cultural Hegemony
Why say “Dead Warrior Creek,” when racism fuels cultural hegemony so well?
The official name now is Dead Warrior Lake, ending for some a controversy over the lake’s name that has been going on for almost a decade.
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The first settlers in the area came up with the name after discovering a Cheyenne burial site. Cottonwoods that lined the creek made for a perfect burial site near the tribe’s winter camp.
Jun 06 2009
A Teaching Assistant Cut A First Nations Child’s Hair
There’s a reason Kevin Annett has a petition stating, “apparent refusal to investigate suspected crime sites related to the mass burials of children who died in Indian residential schools.”
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The child was touched without permission, during this time the assailant was holding what we can easily refer to as a “deadly weapon” given that you could hypothetically be killed by a pair of scissors. In fact, it is not a stretch to imagine this happening.
Jun 03 2009
Albert Gray Eagle, Flute Maker, Needs An Author
My friend and spirit brother, Albert Gray Eagle, needs an author.
Apr 18 2009
Forced Sterilizations of Indigenous Women
The sterilizations of indigenous women were covert means of the continuation of the extermination policy against the Indian Nations. At least three indigenous generations from 3,406 women are not in existence now as the result. The sterilizations were not unintentional or negligible. They were genocide. What would the indigenous culture and political landscape be now? One can only imagine, but the sterilizations like the relocations – were forced.
Apr 13 2009
Petition: Stop Oklahoma Land Run Re – Enactments
Stop Land Run Re – Enactments in Oklahoma Public SchoolsWHEREAS, S.P.I.R.I.T is working for the rights of Oklahoma Indians, all American Indians, Indigenous people and the peaceful solution to all differences; and
WHEREAS, the Oklahoma History and US History does not provide the whole and true history of Oklahoma Indians or American Indians (Native Americans), and
WHEREAS, re-enacting the Land Run in public schools and in communities in Oklahoma is demeaning and humiliating to Oklahoma Indians, and
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the undersigned and S.P.I.R.I.T, the group formed to help American Indians with matters such as these, formally requests the Oklahoma School Boards, Department of Education, Legislators and public officials to abolish the Land Run re-enactments held annually in this state.
Mar 29 2009
Splitting the Sky Tried Arresting “The Decider”
The United States of America gave its president the power to decide if anyone, including US citizens, were enemies of the state or “enemy combatants” during the Bush Administration. Henceforth, the CIA kidnapped people from their homes or off streets. Against International Law, human beings were: forced into vans, taken to CIA prisons, tortured and detained indefinitely without trial and without a lawyer, ripped away from family, ripped away from friends, ripped away from work, and ripped away from everything that they had ever worked for in their entire lives.
