Complicit in Killing the Earth: Of Pepsi Challenges and Democrats and Republicans
Cross-posted from our friends at Indian Country Today A few months ago—right up until Election Day—many of our people messaged and pontificated like crazy to point out that there are serious and profound differences between the two political parties. This past election was presented as the ultimate Pepsi Challenge©; in a blind-folded taste test, Native [...]
What The Heck Are All These Indians Acting All Indian About, Ey? Lately, Native people have taken to the streets malls in demonstrations of Public Indian-ness (“PI”) that surpasses the sheer volume of activism of even Alcatraz and the Longest Walk. There’s a heapum big amount of PI going on right now! Many people, non-Native [...]
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Originally posted in Indian Country Today. The abduction, brutal rape and strangulation of a First Nations woman by two white men on December 27 in Thunder Bay, Ontario has stirred fear, anger and urgent calls to catch the perpetrators, who, the victim says, told her they had done this kind of thing before, and [...]
Continue reading …Russell Means, Lightning and Sexiness: The Toughest Indian In The Whole Wide World
October 25, 2012 Comments Off
“…after I die, I’m coming back as lightning,” he said. “When it zaps the White House, they’ll know it’s me.” — Russell Means I never met Russell Means. I had the chance to meet him when I was a kid. In fact, I saw him a few times as a youngster, but I was so [...]
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Why Progressive People Should Give Money To Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign To Get This Bigot Out Of Office Senator Scott Brown from Massachusetts. Hold that thought, please—indulge me for a few minutes while we talk about discrimination, outrage and offensive behavior. See, subjective tests for racial/gender outrage are ineffective—everybody feels offended at something that other people [...]
Continue reading …A Pragmatic Look at Tribal Participation in Non-Native Elections: Mountains, Winds and Abraham Lincoln The Gay, Woman, and Minority Hunter
September 4, 2012 Comments Off
An Indian Tribe—an autonomous Nation comprised of Natives that has existed on this continent since time immemorial—deferring to a political party is like a mighty glacier conforming to the howling wind. It simply should not happen. Instead, that mountain has been there since the formation of the earth cannot be shaped by the wind that [...]
Continue reading …Supreme Court’s Affirmation of ‘ObamaCare’ Means a Fundamentally Different Debate; Indian Health Care Improvement Act is Permanent
June 28, 2012 Comments Off
The entire debate over “ObamaCare” is now fundamentally different. It’s the law of the land that has been upheld by the Supreme Court. And, deep in the pages of the Affordable Care Act, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, is permanent. It no longer requires going back to Congress every few years and arguing for [...]
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By Dominique Godreche, from our friends at Indian Country Today, Eleven Native artists went to Paris late last year for an art show titled Oklahoma Painters, which was part of the sixth annual Art en Capital event at the massive Grand Palais. The exhibit was set up by curator Russell Tall Chief, Osage, director of arts & exhibitions [...]
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Cross-posted from Indian Country Today By Chuck Trimble Since we’re in an era in which fact, truth and accuracy are of little importance, let me use conjecture to tell about something that happened at a recent reading by the author of a new book that relates personal stories of suffering in Indian boarding schools [...]
Continue reading …Native Mother Attacked and Beaten in Alleged Hate Crime, DA Doesn’t See It
February 14, 2012 Comments Off
FRESNO, Calif. – Indian Country Today – At the last two preliminary hearings for Patty Dawson’s alleged attacker, Jennifer Fraser, there was a strong Native American presence outside the Fresno Superior Courthouse. On January 23 and again on February 6, supporters of Dawson surrounded a drum group singing traditional songs. Several people held signs [...]
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