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Using Native Americans to Sell Chicken in Africa: Mis-appropriation Goes Global
This is one of the best essays on cultural stereotyping I’ve read, and it comes from Busisiwe Deyi of South Africa, on the Africa Is A Country blog. She writes about the Spur restaurant chain that uses Native American imagery … Continue reading
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Tagged africaisacountry, Busisiwe Deyi, cultural appropriation, erasure, native american, redskins, Spur, stereotype
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Hate Crime against Lakota Children in South Dakota
They are being charged with abuse and assault, but will they be charged with committing a hate crime? http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/57-charges-child-abuse-assault-leveled-drunken-hockey-fans-sparyed-native-youth-beer/
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Tagged abuse, hate crime, hockey, lakota, Pine ridge, rapid city, rapid city rush
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On this date… January 26, 1700… Washington
Based on records in Japan and ghost forests and sediment cores in Washington, we know that, at around 9pm on this date in the year 1700, the Cascadia earthquake struck the Pacific Northwest, sending a tsunami to Japan, the Philippines, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cascadia, earthquake, makah, Native American history, thunderbird, tsunami, whale
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Why Cheap Gas Implies Worse Things for the Climate than the Keystone Pipeline
In November, the House of Representatives approved the Keystone XL Pipeline. The Rosebud Sioux, whose land the pipeline would run through, responded by declaring, “We are a sovereign nation…. We will close our reservation borders to Keystone XL. Authorizing Keystone … Continue reading
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Tagged cheap gas, climate change, energy, gas prices, geo-engineering, global warming, Keystone, markets, McKibben, oil supply, pipeline, Rosebud Sioux
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On this date… January 9-10, 1879… Nebraska
Originally posted on Memories of the People:
On this date in 1879, in weather even colder than today’s, the long saga of Dull Knife’s (aka Morning Star) band of Cheyenne reached a climax. Three years earlier, in the aftermath of…
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On this date… December 29… Pennsylvania, Georgia, South Dakota
A lot happened on December 29th. In 1790, President George Washington told the Seneca that, at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the US government assured them that “in future you cannot be defrauded of your lands. That you possess the … Continue reading
Unprotecting Sacred Land in Arizona UPDATE
President Eisenhower specifically protected this land from mining. The current Republican-controlled Congress is poised to sell it off to a foreign mining company. Watch the video. UPDATE Mar 2016: President Obama has blocked the sale of the land to the … Continue reading
On this date… Thanksgiving, 1621… Massachusetts
Originally posted on Memories of the People:
Here is the original account of the first Thanksgiving. But first, a little context. The Pilgrims arrived the previous December, finally settling in the abandoned Indian village of Patuxet. A year or two…
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“Wounded Knee: A Line in the Sand”
While all eyes are on Ferguson (deservedly so), here comes an exciting request on Kickstarter to complete a documentary about the Wounded Knee stand-off in 1973. Like Ferguson, it is another story from America’s underclass of a racial struggle to … Continue reading
Rosebud Sioux Declare Keystone XL Pipeline an Act of War
This is getting interesting, especially since the current planned route passes thru their reservation. http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/rosebud-sioux-tribe-house-vote-favor-keystone-xl-pipeline-act-war/
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