"Yep, just as I feared, you have a hippie infestation.">
Posted on 06/22/2015 8:33:12 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
James Swan parked his old Dodge alongside the South Dakota visitor center, where grungy hippies were sprawled on a lawn and passing around a feather. The two-dozen vagabonds are planning to unleash thousands of their brethren into the Black Hills for prayer and free thinking. But Swan wasn’t feeling the peace and love.
“We don’t want you here. You have no f—king respect for Lakota people!” the 54-year-old Native American yelled into a mic attached to his truck. His T-shirt bore another message: portraits of warriors who had shellacked the U.S. Army in the Battle of Little Bighorn, alongside the words “Original Homeland Security.”
“They aren’t listening to anybody,” Swan told The Daily Beast of the phalanx of graying flower children and their next-generation recruits. “This might work for them everywhere in other states, but they’re dealing with Lakotas now.”
“We’re a warrior society,” he added. “We don’t want violence, but this is our culture, our sacredness and we will protect it.”
Swan is not a tribal council representative and does not speak for the Sioux. That isn’t stopping him from fighting the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a counterculture group that’s held annual gatherings in national forests every July since 1972 to pray for world peace—and deliver drugs, nudity and sometimes murder and other crimes in their wake.
To some Lakota, the love fest threatens to desecrate the sacred Black Hills National Forest, where 5,000 to 20,000 hippies are expected to dig trench latrines, fire pits and kitchens. Swan and his band of activists with the United Urban Warrior Society say they’re planning a blockade and will remove the bums.
“You’re not a tribe,” Swan added. “You’re fricking fruitcake people.”
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The terms of the Treaty that created the Great Sioux Reservation were negotiated in 1868. The Sioux reneged on the treaty every bit as much as the US government did. Several of their chiefs claimed both the land of the reservation, and the right to continue to come and go, hunt, trap, make war with other tribes, and kill settlers wherever they pleased, despite the fact that the treaty required them to assent to the reservation system.
They wanted to eat their cake, and still have it for later.
When they left their reservation to make war on the Crow Nation and started murdering settlers, they started a war. As a result of that war, they lost 7.7 million acres of their country.
Happens all the time. Saying that land is "disputed" is like saying the US Southwest is "disputed" or that the land the Israelis took in the Six Day War is "disputed." No it isn't. The Sioux lost the Black Hills in a war they started, and a war they lost.
Lakota vs Hippies. Peace and love, eh bro’?
Go at it.
You simply take her hands in yours, make direct eye contact in a way that you have not done often before, and say, "Yes, it is your body, and you are old enough to make these decisions. I'm just telling you that it is very very easy to make a mistake here. Yes, you are allowed to make your own mistakes, but I also know that you're smart enough to not want to make mistakes. Our culture changes regularly, and what is cool today looks pathetic tomorrow. Think about 80's Big Hair... permanently on your head. Dreadlocks had a few years of gross popularity among white people here. Ear gauges permanently deforming beautiful faces are already falling out of favor. Belly button piercings turn perfect sexy navels into droopy flaps of skin before a hot girl turns 28. Tramp Stamps are already publicly denigrated and disdained and insulted. As a man who loves you dearly, and wants to help you avoid a mistake that you'll regret for many years (not soon, but for 30-40 years of your life), I am just asking you to trust me on this one. Some tats, done well, discreetly placed, that are meaningful, and allow you to still be a business professional when needed... those can possibly help you avoid future humiliations... but most skin art out there today? Not so much."
That's my usual speech, anyway.
In any event, as I said “get off my lawn!” is not going to work.
If the Lakotas want to descend on the dirty hippie dopehead scum like their ancestors did with the 7th Cavalry, well, I certainly have no problem with that. Wipe ‘em all out, and leave the remains to the buzzards.
"Yep, just as I feared, you have a hippie infestation.">
LMAO!
I see lots of crabs everywhere...
Right. But it’s really: “Get off the lawn I’m pretending is mine!”
Husband & I once visited an Indian church in Oklahoma. They took us to a pow-wow (which they weren’t very enthusiastic about). I asked one Indian fellow in feathers what was meant by the act of handing out money to the dancers. He sniffed & told me, “YOU wouldn’t understand!” - Well, kiss my grits. My sixth great grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian woman who married my sixth great grandfather; so I reckon that makes me a teeny little bit Indian. - In fact, I looked more “Indian” than a lot of the women dancing in the pow-wow. One woman was a light skinned redheaded carrot top. I have dark hair & tan passably well for a “paleface”. That was years ago. I didn’t know the story of my much-removed gggggg grandmother then. Oh well; I don’t dance anyway.
What is it with women getting tattoos on arms, lower arms especially, lets, all over their body as well as their necks.
It is disgusting
My great, great GM was full blooded Cherokee and one of the tribal leaders in Cherokee, NC snubbed me.
Right, which is a losing proposition. If he feels the need to interact with them he would do better to look at the fact that these are people out in the middle of nowhere who more than likely didn’t think things through. If you do well enough, you might even make friends and persuade them to be less disrespectful and horrible. You catch more flies with sugar than vinegar.
LOL
"Today is a good day to bathe!"
Ex hippies are now ex in laws thank God. Heroin addicts when they raised their kids, both on disability from poor health in their 40’s. Steal money from each other, even grandson, lie, cheat. Just wonderful people. Father an alcoholic incompetent, mother enabling grandson who is thief, liar, drop out. Wonderful repeat generation.
Custer got what he deserved for providing military backing to a notorious local militia in a massacre of elderly, disabled, and women and children when the young braves were all away on a hunting expedition. Custer had reportedly fathered an illegitimate child by a young girl in that Cheyenne tribe. It is also reported that a Cheyenne warrior from that village came forward in about 1905 claiming credit for killing Custer at Little Big Horn for precisely this reason. I hope that story is true.
Say that. I am rooting for both sides to kill each other.
...and then again, his approach might actually work, knock me over with a... ah... feather!
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