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.
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.
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.
(Comment by navajo: Feel free to keep your posts simple also. Just text diaries are excellent. Don't feel the need to post images or embed video. Those are wonderful but not necessary.
Thank you winter rabbit for these instructions. You are a master at diaries. - promoted by navajo)
The title of this is how to post a diary, for posting a diary is what I believe is the barrier, as opposed to writing one and having the desire to do so. I will break it down to four stages: the word document, the pre - preview stage, the preview stage, and the posting stage.
The word document stage of writing a diary is the most crucial, for the spell check and the character counting tool under tools are necessary for cutting down on the amount of time it takes to post a diary.
The goodwill expressions of two hundred Netroots Nation attendees have been stitched into a star - and a few more Native American bloggers who were not in attendance will add their names to the background sky. As you know, this particular quilt is intended to benefit a Native American cause, to be chosen by this forum.
It's coming along. A couple more days and the star itself will be quilted.
This is the fourth of four quilts having their genesis in the Street Prophets community. Aunt Arctic designed the first two, I did the second two - but where is all this going?
My desire - and that of everyone who has participated in these projects - is to use the quilts to generate donations for good works or PACs that we support. We need a good legal opinion to make it happen - and that is going to take some underwriting.
Because of a comment by othniel on DKos, the idea got a lot bigger. A lot bigger. I wrote a proposal for something that is like the "Giving Liberally" idea and asked pastordan to nominate me for a Kos Fellowship to pursue it. He did nominate me.
I have no idea if my vision will fit within Kos' framework for fellowships - but I hope it will find support regardless. That's why I'm posting it here. Please take a look and tell me what you think. If you have suggestions, I look forward to hearing them.
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.
Yesterday was the anniversary of some mammoth multi-state dust storms. Robert Geiger (AP) wrote on 4/15/35:
Three little words achingly familiar on a Western farmer's tongue, rule life in the dust bowl of the continent - if it rains.
The name "Dust Bowl" stuck, first coined on today's date 74 years ago. The rains didn't return until four years later. When the dust settled in April 1935, scenes like this were repeated throughout the high plains region.
Crops were ruined. Farms produced nothing. Livestock died en masse. There was no one to sell to. People abandoned them in droves, with little more than the clothes on their back to show for many years of hard work building their homesteads.
The 1930s Dust Bowl is often referred to as a natural disaster. But that's not quite right. Human activities, en masse, had everything to do with it.
WHEREAS, 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.
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.
Vine Deloria Jr. in God Is Red uses the self explanatory phrases, "spiritual owners of the land" and "political owners of the land." Now, it is the "political owners of the land" who have taken tribal lands by conquest and yet distort the historical record.
Three members from the Hopi Tribe arrived to give their testimonies as show support for their neighbors, The Dine. Their presence dispelled the public relations myth that the traditional Hopi and the Dine are involved in a Range War."
PBS Mini-Series on Native American History
April 13, April 20, April 27, May 4, May 11
We Shall Remain is a groundbreaking mini-series and provocative
multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part
of American history. Five 90-minute documentaries spanning three hundred
years tell the story of pivotal moments in U.S. history from the Native
American perspective.
Episode 1 After the Mayflower
In 1621, the Wampanoag of New England negotiated a treaty with Pilgrim
settlers. A half-century later, as a brutal war flared between the English
and a confederation of Indians, this diplomatic gamble seemed to have been
a grave miscalculation.
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Episode 2 Tecumseh's Vision
In the course of his brief and meteoric career, Tecumseh would become one
of the greatest Native American leaders of all time, orchestrating the
most ambitious pan-Indian resistance movement ever mounted on the North
American continent.
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Episode 3 Trail of Tears
Though the Cherokee embraced "civilization" and won recognition of tribal
sovereignty in the U.S. Supreme Court, their resistance to
removal from their homeland failed. Thousands were forced on a perilous
march to Oklahoma.
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Episode 4 Geronimo
As the leader of the last Native American fighting force to capitulate to
the U.S. government, Geronimo was seen by some as the perpetrator of
unspeakable savage cruelties, while to others he was the embodiment of
proud resistance.
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Episode 5 Wounded Knee
In 1973, American Indian Movement activists and residents of the Pine
Ridge Reservation occupied the town of Wounded Knee, demanding redress for
grievances. As a result of the siege, Indians across the country forged a
new path into the future.
PBS Television Series
At the heart of the project is a five-part television series that shows
how Native peoples valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and
fought the extinction of their culture -- from the Wampanoags of New
England in the 1600s who used their alliance with the English to weaken
rival trib
es, to the bold new leaders of the 1970s who harnessed the
momentum of the civil rights movement to forge a pan-Indian identity. We
Shall Remain represents an unprecedented collaboration between Native and
non-Native filmmakers and involves Native advisors and scholars at all
levels of the project.
Web & New Media
An in-depth Web site will serve the general public, educators, and
students, offering educational resources and several hours of streaming
video. Part of PBS Online, one of the leading dot-org sites on the
Internet, the We Shall Remain site will feature Web-exclusive videos
exploring contemporary topics such as language revitalization efforts,
Native enterprise and tribal sovereignty. The site will also host
behind-the-scenes production stories, streaming of the ReelNative films,
and information about upcoming events across the nation.
ReelNative
This unique project offers Native Americans a venue to share their stories
with a national audience. At workshops in Arizona,
Massachusetts, and Oklahoma, participants ranging in age from fourteen to
fifty-five were taught to produce short films. Quirky, touching, funny,
and profound, the films reveal the diversity of the contemporary Native
experience and testify to the resilience of Native people and culture.
Community Engagement Campaign
A nationwide community outreach campaign is engaging Native communities
and organizations, Native radio, public television stations,
universities, museums, schools, and libraries. The events, activities, and
dialogue that come out of these relationships will extend We Shall
Remain's crucial message to invite audiences to tune in to the
broadcast.
Educator Resources
The We Shall Remain Web site will launch an extensive Teacher's Guide
< http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/w... earn> for social studies educators. The guide will incorporate video
segments from the five documentaries into social studies resources,
offering both viewing and comprehension aids and classroom activities. T
his resource will inspire and support teachers to integrate Native history
and issues into their curricula and encourage them to present Native
history as an integral part of American history.
National Library Initiative
WGBH is working closely with the American Library Association (ALA) and
its 2007-2008 President Loriene Roy (White Earth Anishinabe) to build
awareness of the series among librarians, Native organizations,
scholars, and writers. Ms. Roy is also collaborating with WGBH to
develop innovative ideas for how to use We Shall Remain materials to serve
the unique needs of local communities and tribal libraries. A library
event kit developed specifically for public, college, school, and tribal
libraries will be distributed to 17,000 public libraries, as well as to
all tribal libraries. The kit offers programming ideas and resources to
help libraries organize and deliver engaging events related to We Shall
Remain. Features include storytelling days, Native
literature reading circles, cross-cultural art projects for youth,
discussion forums, guidelines for evaluating media about Native peoples,
and an extensive bibliography of book, film, and Internet resources.
a) Apparently being directly mentored by none other than Mr. Joel's Army himself (C. Peter Wagner) and actively teaching at Wagner's ordination mill, Fuller Seminary and cross-promotion of Wagner's and Warren's material by the two
"Springtime" continues, as "BIA Hopi Agency Police and Rangers are patrolling this region (Big Mountain) where a few traditional elders continue to live and also resist federal mandates to relocate."
As we speak, there exist a state of fear and anxiety in a traditional community at Big Mountain in the heart of Black Mesa. And as we speak, the federally deputized officers of the BIA Hopi Agency Police and Rangers are patrolling this region where a few traditional elders continue to live and also resist federal mandates to relocate.
I went to the SPIRIT garage sale on this cold, windy day in Oklahoma, and donated a couple things. The garage sale was to raise funds so that SPIRIT can achieve 501c3 status; also, it was so that SPIRIT can afford extra traveling expenses for speaking purposes. Brenda Golden, who " helped establish SPIRIT, a group that increases education and awareness about Oklahoma Indians," gave me her permission to quote her entire new article from theNative American Community Examiner. (Also, catch her at Red Town Radio)
One last thing before you read Brenda's article, "Oklahoma Fairness Bill and tribal sovereignty." That is, I asked her if she wanted me to inform people that they could volunteer to help with things like paper work for SPIRIT. She said, "I could use all the help I can get." So feel free to contact her through the site that's linked to if you're interested in helping. Now to the issue at hand.
Why is "The 'fairness' bill (is) an attempt to turn Oklahoma businesses and citizens against the Tribal Nations?" Read on.
With Native American Indians having some of the highest dropout rates, Gevena Wiki founded Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods, or KRECR (pronounced "krek-er") to provide a culturally relevant program for tribal high school students in 2005. Since then, KRECR students have surpassed other local schools on high school exit exam scores.
However, KRECR students currently have no scientific calculators. My husband took down a stack of regular calculators today, left over from his business, but we don't have, and can't afford, the scientific calculators the kids need. So he set up an Amazon.com wishlist account that will deliver scientific calculators directly to KRECR. The address for the school is included, in case you happen to have an old scientific calculator collecting dust and want it put to good use.
Gover recited a litany of wrongs the BIA inflicted on Indians since its creation as the Indian Office of the War Department. Estimates vary widely, but the agency is believed responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Indians.
The last photo from the Fort Smith Historical Society begins by asking a question: "What does it mean to be civilized?" The implication being, the dominant culture was civilized, while the American Indian culture wasn't.
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