It is your honor, Mr. President I have a short story. In my late twenties, I worked a few summers at a now-defunct hardware chain on the east coast. I was married with two children wanting to finish an advanced degree and stuck in a dead-end job. The son of one of the company executives … Continued
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly located at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. We are going to start today with some American Indian jewelry from the Southwest. Like peoples throughout the world, the Native peoples of … Continued
Maine-Wabanaki REACH (Reconciliation-Engagement-Advocacy-Change-Healing) began as a collaboration of state and tribal child welfare workers who knew from their work together that children, families, and communities need truth, healing and change. — see logo ↓ below An activity in observance of our next Greater United States’ national holiday, Indigenous Peoples Day Oct. 14 @ 3pm EDT/noon … Continued
“What skirt,” you say? Yesterday, volunteers for Okiciyap (we help) the Isabel Community, put the skirt on the trailer. AND…we have a $500 challenge grant, good to tomorrow at midnight, This donor is asking all the small donors to get together now….can you pitch in $5, $10, $15? It adds up quickly, believe me. Right … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) What does the epithet “Prairie RedSkins” have to do with the controversy around the University of North Dakota’s mascot, the “Fighting Sioux?” It’s simple. Racism. Simply racism. Follow me from a 2009 Tribal Council Meeting on the Standing Rock Reservation where students testified about why they had dropped out of … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) Pepsi Challenge Grant Lifting the Digital Curtain http://youtu.be/eGdMXxA7lU4 Many communities across the United States, especially rural communities and communities of color, live behind a digital divide. They don’t have access to the same online organizing tools as urban white upper and middle class neighborhoods. And, at the same time, progressives … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) I don’t know about you, but I had parents who would pull the “starving children in Africa” thing if I was going to leave food on my plate. Then one day I came up with something that made them quit. I held out my plate full of leftovers and said, … Continued
TONIGHT, at 10 PM Eastern, ABC is airing a 20/20 special called “Hidden America: Children of the Plains” featuring Tashina Iron Horse, a 5 year old from Pine Ridge Reservation. Young Tashina Iron Horse is a competitive pow wow dancer. (credit: Elissa Stohler/ABC News) Pine Ridge residents live amid poverty that rivals … Continued
This is part three of my continuing coverage of Aaron Huey’s Pine Ridge Billboard Project. Below is Ernesto Yerena’s latest screenprint made for this project and based on one of Aaron Huey’s images from Pine Ridge. Information about Ernesto and his first illustration for this project is featured below the fold. I’m truly amazed at … Continued
In my last diary Sherry Cornelius aka lpggirl of St. Francis Energy told us about Lillian Walking Eagle who desperately needed a new propane heater: Lillian Walking Eagle and grand daughter : Lillian’s son Cornell said to put the caption “These two old ladies nearly froze.” they have an old faulty ummm lpg space heater? … Continued
