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  • Mattel Has a New Cherokee Barbie. Not Everyone Is Happy About It

    12/06/2023 3:46:26 PM PST · by DFG · 35 replies
    NYT via Yahoo ^ | 12/06/2023 | Sopan Deb
    A Barbie doll in the likeness of Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to be elected chief of the Cherokee Nation, has been hailed by tribal citizens. It’s also been lamented for its inaccuracies. An event held Tuesday in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, marked the anniversary of Mankiller becoming chief in 1985 and celebrated her Barbie doll. Mattel, the company that produces Barbie dolls, announced the new toy last month as part of the “Inspiring Women” series that includes conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall, journalist Ida B. Wells and writer Maya Angelou. The doll’s release has been met with some criticism. The doll itself...
  • 1838: Tsali, Cherokee

    11/25/2023 6:14:44 AM PST · by CheshireTheCat · 19 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | 1838: Tsali, Cherokee | Headsman
    This date in 2010 happens to be Thanksgiving in the United States. Dating to the Civil War in its modern incarnation, its ancestral event is the “first thanksgiving” wherein European colonists* chowed down with the Wampanoags who had saved them from starvation in New England. This moment of apparent amity obviously also presages the near-annihilation of native peoples by those European colonists over the succeeding centuries; even in 1621, the seeds of future conflict were at hand. By the very next year, Wampanoag chief Massasoit would demand the execution of legendary Pilgrim-befriender Tisquantum (Squanto). So it’s also fitting to remember...
  • Indigenous Slavers: American Indians Who Whipped and Owned Blacks-You won't learn about Indigenous slaveholders from our textbooks.

    10/16/2023 7:47:06 AM PDT · by SJackson · 29 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | October 16, 2023 | Paul Kengor
    As leftists look to cancel Christopher Columbus and today’s annual holiday commemorating him — that is, the man who discovered this land that is the United States of America — they’re also looking to replace the great explorer with a day of their own. That new day for these cultural revolutionaries, celebrated all the way up to the level of their president, one Joseph Robinette Biden, is something called Indigenous Peoples’ Day.How ironic this is.Among the sins that leftists try to peg on Columbus is slavery. And yet, many of their indigenous peoples, including the so-called “civilized” among them, in...
  • Wealthiest Tribe of Appalachia - Cherokee 🇺🇸

    08/14/2023 7:01:45 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 28 replies
    oday we travel to Cherokee in North Carolina to witness a tribe that's doing extremely well financially. Kids graduate high school with hundreds of thousands of dollars set aside in an account, higher education and health care are paid for by the tribe, and their land is some of the most beautiful in America. Join me for this eye-opening experience!
  • Leftist Law Professors Openly Call for Biden to Go Full Tyrant and Defy the Constitution and SCOTUS

    07/24/2023 5:07:09 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 43 replies
    Red State ^ | | 12:00 PM on July 23, 2023 | Jim Thompson
    Beginning in the 1820s, Georgia began a campaign to exterminate the Cherokee Nation by force and removal. The state annexed Cherokee land, and Georgia led the way in pressuring Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act. A minister by the name of Samuel Worcester was ministering on Cherokee land. Georgia eventually passed laws that made it “illegal” for whites to live on Cherokee land and extended Georgia’s territory into Cherokee land. Worcester didn’t leave. He and others were arrested by Georgia “police” and sentenced to four years of hard labor. He appealed his sentence, and the US Supreme Court struck...
  • Tribes on Warpath as L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Replaces Cherokee with ‘Queer’ White Male on Water Board

    07/04/2023 11:47:47 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 23 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/04/2023 | Joel B Pollack
    Native American leaders are furious with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass after she abruptly replaced the first-ever Native American commissioner of the Department of Water and Power (DWP) with a “queer” white male. Mayor Bass removed Cynthia Ruiz, who had only been in office a year, and is well-liked by stakeholders, with George McGraw, a “a leading queer voice in social entrepreneurship, environmental justice, and water.”
  • Open for business! Crowds flock to the opening of the 'world's largest convenience store' - a Buc-ee's travel center along busy Tennessee interstate

    06/26/2023 4:47:28 PM PDT · by DFG · 76 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/26/2023 | Helena Kelly
    Crowds of shoppers camped out overnight for the public opening of the world's largest convenience store - a Buc-ee's travel center in Tennessee. The store, located in Sevierville, is the first business to open at Exit 407: Gateway to Adventure - a 200-acre development owned and operated by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The new site spans 74,000 square feet, boasts 120 gas pumps, a 250-foot car wash and has 400 full-time employees. Fans reportedly began lining the streets on Sunday evening ahead of the opening at 6AM on Monday morning. Local traffic officials previously warned that any new...
  • Hollywood’s Top Native American Producer Is a Fake, Activists Claim

    03/26/2023 10:59:35 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 44 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 26, 2023 | Joshua Rhett Miller
    One of Hollywood’s leading Native American figures is being accused of faking her claims of Cherokee heritage, The Post can reveal. Award-winning Heather Rae, 56, serves on the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Indigenous Alliance, previously headed up the Sundance Institute’s Native American program and claims “my mother was Indian and my father was a cowboy.” Multiple prior news reports have also cited her as having a Cherokee mother. But a watchdog group called the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds is now demanding the Academy and the producer drop her “false claims” while activists insist she’s at best 1/2048th Cherokee. The group...
  • What Native American tribe was hated most by other Native American tribes? [Iroquois; Ojibwa; Sioux; Dakota, Lakota, Cheyenne;Choctaw; Chickasaw; Creek, Cherokee; Seminole; Crows; Comanche; Apache...?]

    03/07/2023 3:26:56 PM PST · by daniel1212 · 146 replies
    Quora.com ^ | January 21, 2023 a | James M. Volo
    In the Northeast woodlands the most feared and hated nation was the Iroquois — especially the Mohawk and Seneca. The Algonquian speaking nations and Iroquoian speaking Huron were particular enemies of the Iroquois. In the 1640s, the Iroquois unleashed a virtual genocide on the other Nations of the region, one that was not quickly forgotten. The Ojibwa defeated a number of the Iroquois incursions and ran the Sioux out of their forested homeland onto the plains. The Ojibwa (Chippewa and associated bands) occupied more land than any other tribe ever has from Manitoba to Indiana and took over smaller tribes...
  • Jeep lays off 1,350 workers at Illinois Cherokee SUV plant - blames high cost of switching to electric car production and moves factory to MEXICO

    12/11/2022 4:52:13 AM PST · by fruser1 · 62 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 12/11/2022 | Andrea Cavallier
    Stellantis is closing its assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois, in February 2023. The Illinois plant employs about 1,350 workers, who are expected to be laid off. Stellantis cited the rising costs of electric vehicle production for the closure. The company said the replacement of the Jeep Cherokee SUV, along with other vehicles on a new electrified platform, will be produced in Toluca, Mexico. Stellantis has said it will invest over $31.6 billion through 2025 on electrifying its vehicle lineup. It also has said it expects EVs to make up 100 percent of its sales in Europe and 50 percent in...
  • Pope Prepares For Meeting With Elizabeth Warren

    07/26/2022 3:55:58 PM PDT · by DFG · 15 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | 07/26/2022 | Babylon Bee
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Pope Francis donned a traditional Cherokee Indian headdress this week in preparation for a meeting with Native American Congresswoman Elizabeth Warren. "It's time for the Catholic church to apologize for what we did to indigenous people, and I think Senator Warren's tribe may be ready to hear what I have to say," said the Pope. "Catholics' brutal practice of adopting orphaned children from stone age tribes that practiced cannibalism and human sacrifice is horrible. To make matters worse, we even educated these orphaned children in the ways of the Catholic church. This is unforgivable." Sources close to...
  • False accusations are emotional devastation. It's the medias master tool.

    02/28/2022 6:28:08 AM PST · by AuntB · 8 replies
    TownCrierNews ^ | Feb. 28, 2022 | TheTownCrier
    Someone asked Donald Trump, a few days ago, how he has stood up without breaking from the onslaught of fake news and false accusations they have thrown at him for years. He said he wasn't sure how he survived it but was sure most couldn't. And he is right. Donald Trump isn't just an ordinary person like most of us. Many years ago, a huge survey was taken asking the participants what was the most mentally distressing thing that could happen to them. The vast majority agreed that being falsely accused of something heinous was the most devastating. That is...
  • "Jesus Wept", An American Story. Book now online for free

    12/27/2021 9:27:54 AM PST · by AuntB · 9 replies
    website ^ | 2008 | Billie Nix aka JustAnotherSavage
    My home and office burned in the Alameda wildfire of Sept. 20. I will not order more copies and have decided to share it with the public. YOU will find it in full here: Thank you, AuntB, aka JAS, Billie Nix, TheTownCrier "JESUS WEPT" An American Story (jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com) "JESUS WEPT" An American Story: Jesus Wept, An American Story. Chapters 1 thru 3. https://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/2021/12/jesus-wept-american-story-chapters-1.html Chapters. 4-6 https://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/2021/12/jesus-wept-chapters-4-thru-7-merry.html Chapters 7 & 8 https://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/2021/12/jesus-wept-chapters-7-8-merry-christmas.html Chapters 9 - 11 https://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/2021/12/jesus-wept-american-story-chapters-9-10.html Chapters 12 - 14 https://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/2021/12/jesus-wept-chapters-12-thru-14.html Chapter 15 https://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/2021/12/jesus-wept-american-story-chapters-15.html
  • Racism lurks in names given to plants and animals. That’s starting to change

    09/14/2021 6:13:08 PM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 63 replies
    Science News ^ | Jaime Chambers
    With lemon and black plumage, the Scott’s oriole flashes in the desert like a flame. But the bird’s name holds a violent history that Stephen Hampton can’t forget. He used to see the orioles often, living in California. Now that he lives outside the bird’s range, “I’m kind of relieved,” he says. Hampton is a birder and registered citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Winfield Scott, a U.S. military commander and the bird’s namesake, drove Hampton’s ancestors and other Native Americans from their land in the 1800s during a series of forced marches now known as the Trail of Tears. The...
  • Chief of Cherokee Nation Says 'It's Time' for Jeep to Stop Using Name

    02/23/2021 1:29:45 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 172 replies
    Car and Driver ^ | 2/20/2021 | Annie White
    Jeep has been using Cherokee as a model name since the mid-1970s, but its next generation of vehicles arrives during a heightened national discussion of racial and social justice issues. Jeep sells vehicles named Cherokee and Grand Cherokee. It also uses Mojave, the name of a Native American people and a desert in the American Southwest, as a trim designator on the Gladiator. The Cherokee Nation has commented on the record several times since Jeep started using the name in North America in 2013 after a 12-year hiatus. A representative of Cherokee Nation said that until recently it had been...
  • Elizabeth Warren criticized, again, over bogus claims of Cherokee heritage

    02/27/2020 5:56:15 AM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 5 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | Feb. 26 2020 | HILLARY CHABOT
    U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s ailing presidential campaign is facing fresh scandal about her false claims of Native American heritage as the Cambridge Democrat tries to mount a 2020 comeback in delegate-rich Super Tuesday states like California. A group of 200 Native Americans issued an open letter Tuesday night scolding Warren for identifying as part Cherokee, citing new reporting from the Los Angeles Times that showed $800 million in federal grants meant for Native Americans went instead to “white members of fake ‘tribes.’”
  • Marcus man sentenced to prison for stealing copper from wind turbines (Iowa)

    02/07/2020 8:05:28 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 36 replies
    The Sioux City Journal ^ | February 7, 2020 | Nick Hytrek
    CHEROKEE, Iowa -- A Marcus, Iowa, man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for stealing copper from wind turbine sites around Marcus and burglarizing several businesses. Andrew Bock, 35, pleaded guilty in Cherokee County District Court to first-degree criminal mischief, third-degree burglary and third-offense possession of a controlled substance. Bock was charged with stealing copper and materials valued at $7,390 from nine wind turbine sites on Oct. 12 or Oct. 13. He was accused of causing $11,080 in damage to the wind turbine sites.
  • This Cherokee Congressman Is for Trump – and Indian Country

    01/03/2020 9:44:18 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 17 replies
    High Country News ^ | Dec. 9, 2019 | Graham Lee Brewer
    Markwayne Mullin, who is hard-right and white-passing, may not seem like an Indigenous lawmaker, but he’s no anomaly.Last April, on the day the country was eagerly anticipating the release of the Mueller report, a small group of seniors in rural southeast Oklahoma woke up early to go have coffee with their congressman. There was concern for a nefarious plot underway. “The Green New Deal has nothing to do with climate change. It has to do with a federal takeover,” Rep. Markwayne Mullin said as he slowly paced between the lectern and the half-dozen rows of folding metal chairs. “Federal takeover...
  • Elizabeth Warren to meet with Native American groups in Oklahoma as DNA controversy lingers

    12/24/2019 9:05:29 AM PST · by powermill · 32 replies
    Fox News ^ | December 23, 2019 | Adam Shaw
    Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., will return to Oklahoma City on Sunday, where she will meet with Native American groups as part of a reported effort to blunt continuing criticism over her past claims to have Native American heritage. The 2020 hopeful, who was born in the city, will meet privately with tribal leaders -- where representatives from all of the approximately 40 federally recognized tribes in the state have been invited for the Sunday morning meeting. Later in the day she will hold a town hall meeting. The meeting will reportedly focus on Warren’s agenda for the community and is...
  • Native American: Elizabeth Warren's Ancestors Complicit in Cherokee Oppression

    08/24/2019 10:13:14 AM PDT · by Steve1999 · 16 replies
    NN ^ | 08-24-19 | Jay Greenberg
    A Native American activist has blasted 2020 Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), accusing her ancestors of being "white squatters" who were "complicit in Cherokee dispossession."Cherokee Nation citizen Rebecca Nagle slammed the presidential hopeful in a Huffington Post op-ed, urging Warren to "tell the truth" about her dark ancestorial past.According to Nagle, Warren's maiden family, the Crawfords, were allegedly “white squatters” on Cherokee land and were complicit in Native American oppression.