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“And remember what you’re celebrating: the fact that a bunch of white, male, slave-owning aristocrats didn’t want to pay their taxes!” – Dazed and Confused

( – promoted by navajo) BLACK MESA INDIGENOUS SUPPORT Critical Deadline Only Days Away! Please Act Now to stop the proposed Black Mesa Project: Peabody Coal Company’s massive coal-mining expansion plans on the Dine’ (Navajo) & Hopi peoples sacred ancestral homelands of Black Mesa, AZ. Your voices are urgently needed before the comment period closes … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) “We continue to believe that someone important someplace cares and will do something before our situation becomes impossible.” Fools Crow from “Fools Crow,” by Thomas E. Mails. p. 217 It’s gone from bad, Please forward in its entirety. Press release Corporate America ~vs~ Sacred Sites Decision on Bear Butte issue … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) I am 27 years old and my name is Cassie. My roots lie with the blackfoot, and I have been a natural healer since I was born. I am currently tracking my roots to get acknowlegment among the blackfoot. I learned all the same things in school as everyone else, … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) Was losing Major Elliot’s strategic location during the extermination of the Southern Cheyenne Arapaho at Washita by Lieutenant Colonel Custer acceptable by U.S. military standards? Captain Benteen thought not. Source “Surely some search will be made for our missing comrades” mocked Benteen’s piece, before concluding, “No, they are forgotten.” Custer … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) I’ve always acknowledged my Abenaki heritage and for a long time, I’ve wanted to take part in the tribal council and the political process it involves. However, the council in my opinion, is a puppet council. There is no tribal democracy here. Instead, the chief came to power by nepotism … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) (Part II will appear next Friday.) Rabbit-Proof Fence is my favorite big-screen movie of American Indians. But that’s an Australian movie, you say? Yep. The best film of American Indians is a Down Under 2002 movie about aboriginals without a loin-cloth, smear of war paint or drop of firewater in … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) I will be organizing the Native American Caucus again this year at Netroots Nation in Austin. Time and room assignments have not been issued yet but most likely will take place on Thursday, August 17th in the early afternoon at 9 a.m.  I will update this diary when I receive … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) “You introduced legislation (S1973-1 and S.1003) and claimed that legislation was justified by a non-existent range war between the Dineh and the Hopi,” Andrew Jackson said – – to McCain. “Your bogus claim that the Navajo and the Hopi were having land disputes when the truth was they weren’t, was … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) This diary is an update on the Pretty Bird Woman House and a request for a few small donations. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this project, it’s a women’s shelter on the South Dakota side of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation that the netroots came together to … Continued