I mourn the loss of my specific tribal heritage due to my biological family being assimilated into Christianity, the shame that religion put into them, which caused them to lose their tribal heritage – thus mine. The Massacre For Which Thanksgiving Is Named (Pt.2) photo credit: Aaron Huey I mourn the loss of Native Languages, … Continued
“Rez” is a slang term for “reservation.” When the media focuses its attention on a reservation, there is a tendency to shore pictures of abject, grinding poverty. Yet there is another view of the reservation, a view of physical and spiritual beauty. Join me on a fast photo tour of one reservation-the Flathead Indian Reservation, … Continued
The clear origins of the Native American Flute date back several thousand millennia to flutes made of bone, to petroglyphs, and oral history. Unclear “origins” involve the Spanish Conquest insofar as the Spanish stealing the bamboo flute from Asia, and then introducing it to the Five Civilized Tribes. A Cheyenne Flute Maker relayed this to … Continued
The United States came into existence in its current governmental form with the adoption of the Constitution in 1787. Under the Constitution, the federal government, not the states, was to be involved with the Indian tribes. For the Cherokee, one of the largest tribes in the American southeast, the creation of the United States led … Continued
European nations assumed that they had a right to govern the Indian nations they encountered. This right stemmed from the legal and religious Doctrine of Discovery which declares that Christian nations have a right, if not an obligation, to govern all non-Christian nations. Once an Indian nation had been read the Christian history of the … Continued
During the nineteenth century non-Indian scholars, intellectuals, government officials, and others were convinced that American Indians were a dying race and that by the twentieth century, Indians would have vanished. Thus, when the twentieth century started Indians became invisible, relics of a mythical past. The symbol of American Indians was “The End of the Trail,” … Continued
Been going through all sorts of personal stuff, much of it very good. Hi Navajo! You are so wonderful, I was thinking about you this evening. I write on the evening of a holiday that hasn’t gotten entirely owned by bad religions; a day of the dead. I set out candles and made pumpkins. I … Continued
( – promoted by Meteor Blades) The Houston Chronicle reports that the ubiquitous hacktivist (dis)organization Anonymous is celebrating Halloween by threatening to expose the members of Zetas, one of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico. My little county, Rio Arriba, in northern New Mexico, has long been overrun by drugs because of this cartel. … Continued
This is a LTE to the Colville Confederated Tribal Tribune October 2011 issue. Go to page 8(Editorials)of the paper…. http://www.colvilletribes.com/… Dear Editor: We have many tribes in our confederacy of tribes, right or wrong. That is what the feds did to us and we pay the price for it today. I remember my elders (and … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) I hate the winter. I especially hate the darkness and the cold. Yes, I have Seasonal Affective Disorder. But I also have a warm apartment and a job, even if I am underemployed right now…. But I’m only SAD….add unemployment, terrible housing, hunger pangs and a chronic health condition or … Continued
