Posted on 06/19/2007 2:09:24 PM PDT by gpapa
From New Hampshire to California, American Indian leaders are speaking out more forcefully about the danger of climate change.
Members of six tribes recently gathered near the Baker River in the White Mountains for a sacred ceremony honoring "Earth Mother." Talking Hawk, a Mohawk Indian who asked to be identified by his Indian name, pointed to the river's tea-colored water as proof that the overwhelming amount of pollution humans have produced has caused changes around the globe.
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Earth Mother’s got a bad case of PMS
lol. they need to stick to running casinos.
ALGORE is channeling Native Americans?
Midol moment.
So, one “tea-colored” river means that we are causing global climate change? What more evidence do we need?
That’s kind of ironic, Walking Eagle noticed the tea colored water and thought it looked like whiskey.
For sure!
Must be tough to base your life on mythological stories.
What’s Al Gore’s Indian name? Big Chief Lock Box? Great Carbon Footprint?
Wow. People are getting crazier by the day.
Waling Eagle used to be Flying Eagle until paleface medicine man at FAA take pilot license because of too much fire water.
>> People are getting crazier by the day.
Well, this nutball pseudo-science movement is, anyhow.
They can’t even agree what’s going on anymore. It’s gone from “global warming” to the much more nebulous “climate change”.
And the name of the game used to be “hit ‘em over the head with science”. Now, as more and more credentialed scientists call it hooey, and the money motive comes out, they’re hiding behind their Earth Mommie and substituting anecdotal bullcrap from Native Americans.
Next we’ll be hearing “evidence” from Kenyan witch doctors.
Meanwhile, at the Indian Casino...
Chief Runs with Premise: “Look at them! Small-minded idiots pouring their life-savings away!”
Elder 1: “Their cash flows out of them like diarrhea from the buffalo.”
Tea colored water? Probably comes from the Tannen of fallen leaves.
Sniff...sniff...
The "tea color" is [usually] due to natural processes - like decaying vegetation in/under the water source -- producing tannic acids -- that do not affect the purity of the water source -- only the color.
This Walking Eagle soothsayer... or anyone else thereabouts...
Needs to read a science book...
JMHO
Yep, same color as all the fly in lakes in Manitoba Canada we fish.
If I ever seek advice from a witch doctor, then I will have had a lobotomy and become a Dem.
Chief Dullest Knife. Or was it Stiff As Board?
Yep, same color as all the fly in lakes in Manitoba Canada we fish.
I seriously doubt Native Americans would join this Algorian cause. They know, as many of us do, there are some problems with pollution and some human caused GW on this plant but, they have never been known to *tag along*.
Well, until the earth tells me otherwise, I’ll continue to pee outside when the urge comes! ;-)
Ugghhh... Me seeum tea colored water... Got um cup?
Even if the river is polluted, it does not mean it has anything to do with “climate change”. Global warming BS is one thing, a river full of sewage another.
I'd say that the 'tea-colored' water was proof of Talking Hawk's overwhelming load of Bull 'Pucky' except for the fact that the river water was the same color when I was a kid in the 1960s paddling a canoe in the Boy Scouts down the rivers of central Florida. It's called called tannin and it's a naturally occuring chemical in tree roots and leaves that causes river water to turn brown.
“After reading the book, Sutton said he agrees with the American Indian philosophy of life: Use nature respectfully, never taking more than is needed.”
I do believe history shows the Indian tribes hardly followed this philosophy. The general rule was settle in an area, use up the natural resources, and when they are gone, move on to another site. Studies show the tribes often wrought ecological ruin where they settled.
That said, I have no problem with advocating a symbiotic relationship with nature, so long as humankind is recognized as having a respectable place in that relationship. I have a real problem with those who advocate that humankind either disappear (that is, those humans other than the enlightened advocates) or go back to the caves.
That is such cr*p. They burned forest to drive out game.
Drove herds of buffalo over cliffs to kill them by the hundreds. And many other not terribly nature friendly things.
I frankly am tired of this whole noble mystic of the plains nonsense.
“Native Americans have always been close to the land and have treated the land well.”
Really? I guess all of those migrations of tribes after they have stripped the land bare of crops and game were just part of their overall plan of crop and game rotation. Ok, now I get it.
I have travelled across numerous reservations across the western U.S.; the filth and trash that they emit just makes me plain depressed.
...and the answer is the election of Hillary Clinton. :D
Whiskey River don’t run dry,
You’re all I’ve got, take care of me.
I’d be more concerned about what Father God thinks.
earth father too
Too much fire water.
Even Chief Seattle was a farce, a hoax and a complete myth dreamed up by some high school drama teacher for a school play. But just like the radio play called “War Of The Worlds,” too many took it for reality and came to believe it and perpetuate the bad joke!!!
Claim: The actor known as Iron Eyes Cody was a true-born Native Indian. Status: False.
That is freaking hilarious!
It’s pollution, dammit!
How dare you make such a reasonable assumption that naturally occurring tannin could be involved!
You’re definitely not a friend of the earth...are you?!
(sarcasm off)
He might start by getting off the reservation and getting a real life.
yitbos
“Talking Hawk, a Mohawk Indian who asked to be identified by his Indian name” as opposed to his street name, B-stupid, or his given name Jimmy Farini said, “Earth Mother is not always angry. Sometimes she weeps tears of joy, giving us pure rain, sometimes her heart freezes and we see sister ice for a time. Then spring comes and . . . hey, f^(& you whitey, get your hands off my BMW you f^(&^*$ p#!(% . . . you think Benjamins grow on trees be-atch? 187 is coming around the corner and headed your way . . .
“What’s that, Earth Mother? You say you don’t want me to mow the lawn this weekend?”
Hey, this Earth Mother schtick has some promise! I wonder if Mrs. Tick will buy it...
Lone Ranger: "Tonto, you look terrible! What's the matter?"
Tonto: "Ugh, Kemo Sabe, me drink 500 cups of tea last night!"
Lone Ranger: "That's a lot of tea! What happened?"
Tonto: "Me almost drown in tea pee!"
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