So many old Indians stopped drinking one drink before the drink which would’ve killed them. I’ll write poetry exactly that way. From Sherman Alexie’s 1992 poem “Going on the Wagon” via this JSTOR Daily article about him: “The Absolutely True Story of Sherman Alexie | JSTOR
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lastrealindians:Facebook Doesn’t Believe in Indian Names by Dana Lone HillThis is the message I received from Facebook when I tried to sign in. At first I had thought it was because I switched my name to my father’s last name, which I had gone by up until high school when I received my birth certificate …
chirotus: constant-instigator: ermefinedining: This map should be included in every history book. Oh wow! I’ve been wanting this for ages! This needs to be in every history book along with a map showing where those nations have been pushed to now. A map of the major (indigenous) linguistic groups in North America.
Columbus Day
To still believe that Christopher Columbus was a great man who “discovered” the “new world” and to downplay the horrors of colonialism that started after his arrival is like believing the world is flat. Horrors that can’t be undone. Certainly European people can’t (and shouldn’t) be removed from the Americas today, hundreds of years later. …
Yellowstone To Kill 900 Bison During Winter Cull
I admit that it’ss easy to say as someone in non-rural Germany, but still: I’d love to see more Bison in the wild – and not just in specified areas like a national park. A population of 4,000 bisons isn’t that large, there used to bve millions. Not like that area is cramped for space. …
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Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not? Louise Erdrich: The Round House p. 60
raulrene: “Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief was considered America’s first major prima ballerina, and was the first Native American to hold the rank.” Her life is a really interesting story
This Thanksgiving Day is also the last day of Native American Heritage Month, and gatherings nationwide will memorialize a meal that prefaced the destruction of indigenous food systems in North America by those struggling newcomers. While many American tables will be decorated with the “Indian corn” that comes out of its holiday storage space to …
We’re not Native to America, we were here before ‘America’. Leonard Prescott, Former Chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Community (via nativnuance) Good point.
For years, I opened my 11th-grade U.S. history classes by asking students, “What’s the name of that guy they say discovered America?” A few students might object to the word “discover,” but they all knew the fellow I was talking about. “Christopher Columbus!” several called out in unison.“Right. So who did he find when he …
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