(We help)

by: betsyny

Fri Nov 25, 2011 at 08:45:32 AM PST

Then one day I came up with something that made them quit. I held out my plate full of leftovers and said,

"well, here, send it to them."

That shut them both up.  Never again did I hear that stupid expression.

And that brings up Thanksgiving.

Many of us have a lot of leftovers in the fridge. We should be thankful for that.  But  like my parents, you can't really send your extra food to hungry people.

But you can take out your credit card or checkbook and donate to a food pantry on the Cheyenne River Reservation, where, like on many Indian reservations, hunger is rampant during the winter.
 

Starving in the Land of Plenty: Hunger in Native America. Feeding America Blogathon

by: Aji

Sun Sep 26, 2010 at 14:06:16 PM PDT

Even before the onset of the Great Depression, his family was intimately familiar with hunger.  Mixed-blood Indians living off the rez, in an area where cowards on horseback stalked the countryside in sheets and white hoods, were not the most "employable."  Gramps traveled miles every day, on foot, looking for work.  Sometimes he'd find something; just as often, he'd come trudging home, late at night, with nothing to show for it but sore feet and an empty stomach.  If he was lucky, someone might hire him for 16 hours of backbreaking labor in exchange for a sack of beans, or a little rice - or on a really good day, a whole chicken (that Grandma had to pluck and dress).  Most often, the beans or rice were served without salt, pepper, butter, or anything else.

To his dying day, my father hated rice.

The Meriam Report

by: Ojibwa

Tue Jul 06, 2010 at 10:27:38 AM PDT

The National Broadband Plan and Indian Country

by: exmearden

Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 19:56:09 PM PDT

It can be said, alternately, that the hungry bird cannot fly as far or hunt as successfully as the bird who has already been fed.

(Crossposted at Dailykos)

Abolishing Reservations??

by: new-moon-rising

Thu Mar 04, 2010 at 07:14:43 AM PST

Is is a political movement, a law trying to be put into effect, a concept from the grassroots?

Can anyone help me understand this, and moreover, tell me, as Native Americans what you think about this?

Thanks a lot and have a great day!
new-moon-rising

Faith-Based Reservations

by: Ojibwa

Fri Feb 26, 2010 at 18:09:54 PM PST

For the past five centuries, American Indians have had their religions suppressed (sometimes brutally and violently) and denied. With the formation of the United States and the adoption of the Bill of Rights which speaks of freedom of religion, this freedom has been denied to American Indians based on the notion that they were not citizens and therefore this freedom did not apply to them. The period of time from 1870 to 1934 can be considered the Dark Ages for American Indian Religious Freedom. During this time, the active suppression of American Indian religions reached its peak.

In this first part, we are going to look the faith-based administration of Indian reservations which sometimes resulted in theocracies.  

The FBI & Indian Reservations

by: Ojibwa

Sat Jan 02, 2010 at 15:43:36 PM PST