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Native Americans hope for the best from healthcare reform
Eideard —
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Americas First Nation and health care reform.4 hours ago -
American Indian land sold off by IRS to pay off taxes
Stupidica —
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US tax officials have sold off thousands of acres of an impoverished Indian reservation in what the tribe claims is a "shameful" and unprecedented breach of laws protecting Native Americans. The 7,112 acres - or 11 square miles - of Crow Creek Sioux ancestral land in central South Dakota was auctioned off on Thursday ...10 hours ago -
Local artist sends prayer for unity to Parliament of World Religions
Civil Religion —
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"Bridge to the Meeting Place," ritual rattle created by St. Louis artist Julee Higginbotham for Pagan delegates to the Parliament of World Religions. Photo by Julee Higginbotham. For more information, she may be reached at julee5@mac.com. On this first full day of the Parliament of World Religions (PWR) in ...1 day ago -
Bear vs. Ninja: Nota Bene #2009-43
Scholars and Rogues —
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“Overture, curtain, lights / This is it. We’ll hit the heights / And oh, what sites we’ll hit / On with the links, this is it!” Enjoy! … “When he was on an operating table with his chest cracked open, everyone assumed Command Sgt. Maj. Thompson’s long Army career was over ” … “I felt at that ...1 day ago -
Syle in History
Wuthering Expectations —
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Im stealing the title of a Peter Gay book (1974) that I have looked at but not read, a study of the styles of a number of European historians (Gibbon, Burckhardt, etc). I want to write a bit about the style of some American historians. This week I have presented a few samples of Pekka Hämäläinens The Comanche ...2 days ago -
Jared Diamond’s Noble Savage Collapse
Disinformation —
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by Robert Singer Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his early writing contended that man is essentially good, a “noble savage” when in the “state of nature” (the state of all the other animals, and the condition man was in before the creation of civilization and society), and that good people are made unhappy and ...2 days ago -
Guidelines for the historical study of Native Americans - its so complex!
Wuthering Expectations —
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Exam question: Describe the material conditions of 13th century Plains Indians. Answer: Its a trick question. There were no Plains Indians in the 13th century: The dry period that had begun in the thirteenth century had plunged the plains vast bison herds into a sharp decline, discouraging the Shoshones from ...2 days ago -
Susan B Anthony And Womens Rights, Native Americans
Melissas Homeschool Blog —
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We have been studying Native Americans this year. Below are some videos that kids will enjoy to help cover the info they have learned. One of my favorite Americans in history, is Susan B. Anthony. Without her womens rights may have never came to be, or came much later in history. I still think women are not ...2 days ago -
Tancredo’s Turkey Day tale: Multiculturalism sucks!
Colorado Independent —
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Colorado’s controversial former U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo spun an edifying Thanksgiving yarn over the holiday week. It was, you might say, an alternative reading of the story of the Pilgrims and the Indians. The fact that the general thrust of the tale is nothing new for Tancredo, doesn’t really lessen the ...3 days ago -
How to miss (and see) evidence - the obese Comanche chiefs
Wuthering Expectations —
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Chief A Big Fat Fall by Tripping, it is told, owned fifteen hundred horses, but he was so fat that he could not ride any of them and had to be moved around on a travois. ( The Comanche Empire , 259) I want to discuss an example of how we (I) misunderstand evidence that is directly in front of us (me!), and how ...4 days ago -
“Face” The Nation and Native America’s Permanent Recession
voxunion.com —
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This week’s Jazz and Justice “redux” featured a too rare visit from DC’s legendary artist Face and a discussion with Dedrick Muhammad regarding his latest report on The Recession and Native America. Culminating Native Heritage Appreciation Month and another Thanksgiving holiday we thought it important to ...4 days ago -
Pekka Hämäläinens audacious The Comanche Empire
Wuthering Expectations —
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A sample of Pekka Hämäläinens startling The Comanche Empire (2009): The assault came in March 16, 1758, when an estimated two thousand allied Comanches, Taovayas, Tonkawas, and Hasinais appeared at the gates of the San Sabá mission, announcing that "they had come with the intention of killing the Apaches..." ...4 days ago -
Dueling Claims
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A tribal attempt to protect New Mexicos Mount Taylor sparks a bitter struggle over uranium mining, religious differences and claims to an ancient landscape.4 days ago -
CIPHA SOUNDS & ROSENBERG: 11/24/09
DON'T GET GASSED —
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Get off your diet and eat that turkey, stuff your face with those mash potatoes and scarf down those apple pies. Just go in!To pop off the day’s festivities Rosenberg was late again and we officially called him “black”, Mya didn’t win Dancing with the Stars, Black Girls Court: is ...5 days ago -
Unbelievable Facts
Zooped.com Social Networking blog —
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The skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body. The name for this is exoskelton Incas used to create pots in the shape of peanuts that were highly prized The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements Over 200 varieties of watermelons are grown in the U.S ...5 days ago -
Item of the Month - November 2009
Wellcome Library —
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The journals of Arthur Wellington Clah (1831-1916) – Christian missionary and First Nations hereditary Tsimshian chief – are perhaps one of the more unexpected treasures of the Wellcome Library. Written over fifty years, from 1859 to 1910, they comprise a uniquely personal meditation of social change drawn ...5 days ago -
7296: G.I. Navajo.
MultiCultClassics —
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From The Chicago Tribune… Veterans wall honors American Indians’ military service By Dan Simmons, Tribune reporter In his youth, Joe Yazzie wanted to be an artist. But his mother knew he would be a warrior in the proud tradition of his Navajo forebears. He was named for G.I. Joe and was made to run and chop ...5 days ago -
Two-Spirits
Best Gay Blogs —
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The Navajo used the word “nádleehí” to describe people who embodied both masculine and feminine traits. They were among the hundreds of Native communities that celebrated and revered tribe members who lived outside binary male/female restrictions. As today’s Native communities fight to revitalize the culture ...6 days ago -
What I’m Thankful For
mischief & impermanent bliss —
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I read two articles yesterday that have forever altered how I view Thanksgiving. Indian Country Today, one of my favorite publications to read, ran an essay by Congressman Joe Baca about today, Native American Heritage Day, and the history behind it. Signed earlier this year by President Obama, the legislation for ...1 week ago -
Sick Day, Smallpox Among Native Americans
Gary Rumor's Anti-Entropic Continuum —
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I had big plans for today. I was going to buy a Christmas gift for my son, take the car into the garage to get much needed body work done and look at a new place to live in Culver City that I saw yesterday when I was at the Krisna Temple getting my Vegan and Vegetarian Thanksgiving feast for my Dad and I. Instead I ...1 week ago
