January 2010
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d55lane asked: I love your site. I am following, and I've sent it to another Native American, Usedup, and he's a follower now too. Thanks for giving us the recognition we deserve...Denise : ))
Oxaitoq's Song
xineann:
Walking inland, inland, inland, I am walking inland.
Nobody loves me, she least of all, so I walk inland. She has loved me only for the things I bring. She has loved me only for the food I bring.
~Anonymous Inuit, (ca 1894-1897)
Steve Russell : On Being 'Outed' as an American... →
theragblog:
[Steve Russell, a former 60s activist, is a trial court judge (by assignment), a retired professor, and a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.] ‘What does it matter to be an American Indian? It does not matter at all if you are willing to hide your ethnicity… But I’ve learned that it’s not easy to carry the freight of the least successful ethnicity in politics, in education,...
Obama's Indian problem →
svingen:
“”The hardest ones are the kids. The deaths are disturbing but so are the funerals,” he says. “At the funerals you see the glamorised attention they get. They’ve got their names written all over the windows in honour of this kid because he took his life. Kids see that. Kids want attention. This is how they’re going to get attention. I’ve heard them say: when I go, I hope that’s how they...
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Ishi
In August 1911, a group of butchers discovered a 50-year-old “wild man” in their corral in Oroville, Calif. The local sheriff gave him into the keeping of a San Francisco anthropology museum, where he remained until his death five years later.
It’s believed that “Ishi” was the very last of his kind — the last of his group, the last of his people, and the last Native American in Northern...