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Editorials: Native American Insult on the radio
Posted on Sunday, November 25 @ 02:57:05 PST (1136 reads)

Anonymous writes

AUTHOR: Rev. Dan Newman

To Whom it May Concern; 12:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day I was listening to my was favorite radio station WGRR here in Cincinnati when I heard the following re-broadcast from Chris and Janeen morning show.

“A teacher had sent out a letter to students stating that not all families celebrate Thanksgiving! Native American consider Thanksgiving as a day of mourning due to 500 years of repression.” Janeen made the comment that “They needed to get over themselves!” I was so offended I’m not sure what Chris’s next comment was but something to the effect of “Who (referring to the teacher) put something in his noodles!”
Note: The requested apology has been given, thanks to your comments and phone calls.

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Editorials: Combating White Racism
Posted on Saturday, March 24 @ 16:44:24 PST (2517 reads)

Wahkon writes By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer

Jerry Mander, the director of The International Forum on Globalization (IFG), an organization that represents 60 organizations in 25 countries…wrote: "Our assumption of superiority does not come to us by accident. We have been trained in it. It is soaked into the fabric of every Western religion, economic system, and technology.

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Editorials: Native American Roots, Once Hidden Now embraced
Posted on Monday, February 21 @ 01:23:55 PST (3533 reads)

Aunita42 writes Native American Roots, Once Hidden Now embraced...KEYWORDS: native american roots indian ancestry ethnic roots lost culture lost traditions what it means to be Indian cherokee heritage cherokee grandmother Cherokee Indian Strong American Woman

AUTHOR: Aunita Tyler

The only story I have is of a little girl who has big brown eyes, light brown hair, and has always known she was Cherokee Indian and Norwegian.

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Editorials: Are the Pequots really a tribe?
Posted on Tuesday, November 02 @ 12:30:37 PST (2650 reads)

Are the Pequots really a tribe?... KEYWORDS: pequots Mashantucket Indians Indian gaming Mashantucket Pequot mixed blood native americans Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut Mashantucket Pequot chairman Without Reservation: How a controversial Indian tribe rose to power and built the world's largest casino by Jeff Benedict Passamaquoddy Elizabeth George

AUTHOR: Doreen Yellowbird, On the 'Indianness' of Indians indians on 1900 census indians on 1910 census

On the day of the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., I attended a press conference of the National Indian Gaming Association.

From my seat at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., I could see media people, tribal officials and staff I recognized from the National Indian Gaming Association. There were others whom I thought probably were members of the association's staff.

It was then that I realized my knowledge of Indian tribes needed reorienting. The influence of Indian gaming probably is the reason I am seeing a new kind of Indian. For example, the tribal chairman from the Mashantucket Pequot, whom I saw at the press conference, looked black rather than Native American. His aide did, too.

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Editorials: We destroyed our own religion first
Posted on Wednesday, October 27 @ 01:30:58 PDT (7080 reads)

We destroyed our own religion first... KEYWORDS: native american religion and spirituality editorial sun dance sweat lodge ancient medicine culture indigenous cultures native american religion pagan religion shamanistic Nerkabah mysticism

AUTHOR: Corey Wicks

In the brilliant 1988 film Powwow Highway, at one moment Red Bow looks down and makes a cynical remark about a powwow: "Look at these people dancing around a basketball court. You'd think a few feathers and some beads was a culture or something."

Red Bow's question strikes at the eternal debate about what is "authentic" Native American culture in the modern world.

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Editorials: Encouraging Native American Voting in Upcoming Elections
Posted on Wednesday, August 04 @ 17:15:24 PDT (6034 reads)

Anonymous writes It is time once and for all make our voices known through the voting polls of America!! Enough is enough for only peace meal answers and solutions. Every year we march to Congress to lobby for our needs and concerns and yet in some of our tribal areas we live in worse worse thab third world conditions.

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Editorials: When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History - Is it about to repeat itself?
Posted on Saturday, March 22 @ 12:51:56 PST (7003 reads)

AUTHOR: Thom Hartmann

The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world.

It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts.

The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist; the most recent research implies they did not.)

But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted; the man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted.

He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world.

His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media.

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Editorials: Bush gives cowboys bad image
Posted on Monday, March 10 @ 09:49:05 PST (5391 reads)

KEYWORDS: modern cowboys cowboy cowboys and Indians U.S. war effort President Bush Iraq War history editorials editorial Ghost Dance 7th Calvary John Potter John Potter, Billings Gazette Staff Writer

My heroes have always been cowboys.

I always wanted to be a cowboy -- that is, I DID, at least, when I was a kid and we played "cowboys and Indians."

No way was I gonna be an Indian. No way was I gonna be one of those dirty, thievin', murderous fiends I'd just seen on the big screen.

None of my friends would play the role either.

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Editorials: The Beauty Of It All
Posted on Tuesday, February 18 @ 00:45:14 PST (2714 reads)

Anonymous writes I would like you to come up into the Universe with me, now look out, we see many stars and galaxies, we see eternity and we wonder at magnificence of it all.

Wow! We look down together and see the earth, the size of a beach ball, we see the sun shining on one side and darkness on the other as the world turns, we see the clouds, the land formation.

Then we know and realize a simple truth, the world is but one country and mankind it's citizens, in its unity and diversity it makes for a beautiful garden of humanity.

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Editorials: a legacy of our own
Posted on Sunday, November 10 @ 09:39:38 PST (4147 reads)

KEYWORDS: a legacy of dominance war Islam find another way domninate the world weapons of mass destruction natural environment responsibility Creator Veteran's Day

AUTHOR: Jim Bush

On this Veteran's Day, as we prepare to embark on yet another war, it's becoming increasingly clear that the aging right-wingers of yore are determined to leave a legacy of "Dominance" to their descendants and the world. It behooves us, we aging left-wingers, to answer their "Clarion Call" with a call to leave a legacy of our own.

We must steel our selves and strengthen our backbones for, what may be, the longest and most difficult struggle of our entire lives. This may in fact be how we finish up.

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Editorials: Windtalkers seems to be tanking at the box office
Posted on Sunday, July 07 @ 16:56:58 PDT (4028 reads)

KEYWORDS: Windtalkers American Indian movies Indian sterotypes movie reviews movie review Native-themed movie war movie

AUTHOR: Rob Schmidt, Blue Corn Comics

"Windtalkers" is arguably the biggest Native-themed movie since "Smoke Signals," which was arguably the biggest since "Pocahontas." But critics are saying it's something of a bomb-- and they don't mean "da bomb." Comments from some well known movie critics suggest the movie's problems:

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Editorials: Concensus Needed to Determine Global Impact
Posted on Thursday, February 14 @ 12:22:57 PST (3417 reads)

Keywords: environment global impact Dakota Minnesota and Eastern Railroad Surface Transportation Board Powder River Basin in Wyoming Great Sioux Nation Treaty land Cheyenne River Valley air pollution Pine Ridge Reservation Rosebud Reservation South Dakota Oglala people

Author: Charmaine White Face

'Nearly Universal Opposition' was one of the headlines in a newspaper describing the people's response from three states to the prospect of a railroad being rebuilt over 600 miles, and adding 280 miles of new railroad track into pristine prairie land.

From Winona on the Mississippi River in Minnesota, through the entire state of South Dakota, to remote ranches in northeastern Wyoming, the opposition to this railroad has joined doctors, lawyers, ranchers, environmentalists, and Indian chiefs into one voice.

Yet, the federal government, through two people sitting as the Surface Transportation Board, has chosen not to hear that voice.

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Editorials: Census Bureau did a very poor job in counting Indians
Posted on Thursday, February 14 @ 11:56:12 PST (3143 reads)

Keywords: 1980 Census 1990 Census american indian population counting Indians indian census count

Author: Ron Andrae

While the numbers reported by the Census are higher, the Census Bureau did a very poor job in counting Indians. I worked as a tribal liaison for the Census Bureau in the Los Angeles region and I saw that little than lip service was given to the Indian Census count.

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Editorials: Man's Tyranny over Man
Posted on Friday, October 19 @ 23:23:41 PDT (4001 reads)

tashina writes History confirms the truth of "Man has dominated man to his injury," Ecclesiates 8:9. A reminder of this kind of suffering came in a speech by the Assisitant Secretary for Indian Affairs of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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