( – promoted by navajo) Columbus’s first voyage in 1492 combined with his religious motivations for making it led Pope Alexander VI to issue a Papal Bull in 1493. Pope Alexander VI ordered Ferdinand and Isabella to observe and to do the following: that the primary purpose of all future voyages and ensuing discoveries of … Continued
After this, I don’t know what to do next. Source It seems like someone ought to let the president know that an American Indian man fasted in front of the White House for one week. Someone ought to say this man sat on a bench in Lafayette Park, starving in a silent protest, not taking … Continued
Source The Indian removals which destroyed one quarter of the Cherokee tribe, were actually conceptualized by Jefferson and then extended and carried out by Jackson. There were great debates about whether the “redskins” were human and whether they had souls. I heard a descendant of Moxtaveto (Black Kettle), speak about the racism of Sports Mascots. … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) I am so, so so naive. Since Obama was willing to have a beer with a professor and an officer of the law over racial issues, why then shouldn’t he meet with Ben Carnes to discuss freeing Leonard Peltier? What was I thinking, that Obama would actually free Peltier on … Continued
Source Ben Carnes is fasting in Lafayette Park across from the White House in solidarity with freedom for Leonard Peltier. Peltier is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians who has been held as a political prisoner of the Government of the United States of America for over 33 years. Mr. President, … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Plains Indian Smallpox Indian genocide is a controversial subject on the internet and on this site. Genocide and Holocaust are words that are easy to throw around, often to grab a reader’s attention, but proving them is something else. What one group calls genocide, another group may call progress. This … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) I apologize for the deceptive title. My main objective in having written this last year was not to create a new blog (Native American Netroots serves as that function). My main objective was and is to encourage people to blog about the issues that are outlined in this essay, and … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) I’ll have a Big Mac, fries, and a medium Dr. Pepper. Source Custer rides again, although he’s atop a plastic motorcycle and in a McDonald’s Happy Meal box. My wife wants chicken McNuggets and a Coke. The 140th Anniversary of the Washita Massacre of Nov. 27, 1868 The Cheyenne women … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Chief Leonard Crow Dog: My Relatives, Long, long time I come here – and during those trials. Now I’m 68 years old, can hardly walk, can hardly sing. Oh before I go, I want Leonard to be free. I am neither going to elaborate on Chief Leonard Crow Dog’s words, … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) There’s a reason Kevin Annett has a petition stating, “apparent refusal to investigate suspected crime sites related to the mass burials of children who died in Indian residential schools.” http://feminismfriday.wordpres… The child was touched without permission, during this time the assailant was holding what we can easily refer to as … Continued
