( – promoted by navajo) 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 … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) http://images.google.com/image… 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 … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) 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 … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) http://images.google… “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 … Continued
What follows is a heavily edited version of my last year’s Diary on Thanksgiving. I forced myself to watch the History Channel’s Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower last weekend. I don’t feel as if I totally wasted my time. Including performances and interviews of some Wampanoags, descendants of the indigenes who saw … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) This was official U.S. government policy towards the education of Indian Children for decades. A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one, and that high sanction of his destruction has been an enormous factor in promoting Indian massacres. In a sense, I agree with … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing click to enlarge The early settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts were particularly grateful to Squanto, the Native American and former British slave who taught them how to both catch eel and grow corn and also served as their … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Olbermann’s contact information Artwork by Tigana. 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 … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) (cross-posted from DailyKos) American Indians, Native people, Native Americans – somehow Thanksgiving is one of the times in the year when I hear the word ‘Indian’ most often (unless casinos or a sports team are in the news). Which is no doubt why November is Native American Heritage Month. Though … Continued
Hello! I’m a french woman, I really would like to correspond with a native indian person, to meet her or hiw – why not? I’m very interested by this people’s history, I live in France but I would be very very happy to go to the USA to meet indian people.. Thank you for answering … Continued
