Thune Campaign Flyer Upsets Lakota People

Indian Country Today ^ | October 30, 2004 | David Melmer

[kingu]

Did anyone else laugh when they read this, or was it just me?

It always gets me that the fakers always get the quotes, mostly because the reporters search for them. I doubt there's one buffalo that accidentally stepped in a prairie dog hole that felt the least bit of harmony with the critters.

[quark]

Hey Sitting Bull, take a couple shots of firewater & stifle yourself.

[Fruitbat]

Oy Vay!

Expect to hear reports of little green men with laser beams pointed at them preventing them from going into the polling places tomorrow too.

Naturally the little green men will have a "W in '04" bumper sticker on their UFO!

[Dog Gone]

Some people are always looking for a reason to be offended.

[Marysecretary]

Good grief. When will people stop all this nonsense? We don't live in the past folks! Deal with it.

[Doctor Stochastic]

There were never any "No Dogs or Indians" signs. I'd love to see one bit of verifiable historical evidence to support that claim.

While pastoring in the Rocky Mountain area, I saw this brutally savage sign on a cafe, "No dogs or Indians allowed." But there is no such sign on the city of ... Note: .pdf file of Joseph Gray's sermons published in 1959. There are many instance of people remember seeing these signs (like I remember seperate drinking fountains for Blacks and separate theatre seating for Hispanics).

Conservatives continue to deny the existance of racism to their own detriment.

[wideawake]

(1) South Dakota is not in the "Rocky Mountains" area.

(2) Jim Crow laws are an historic fact and are verifiable. I am not denying the existence of racism - I am being skeptical of certain unsubstantiated claims by a Democrat campaign worker.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The "remembered claims" come from Texas (pictures blocked by employer firewall), Virginia, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, California, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. The GOP is just screwing themselves again.

[sdpatriot]

before you start babbling about racism and feeding this fabricated monster, you should get the facts as they pertain to the subject of this thread. we have a major crisis in western sd with the prairie dog plague. it was a major campaign issue this election. John Thune got the "rats" off the waiting list of endangered species a month ago- much to Daschle's shame. Daschle then promptly tried to take credit for it, but that didn't hold water. that is why if you lived in SD the flyer Thune sent out was totally in context. and it was weeks ago. this is nothing but a ploy fed by the dems. and the plague is a huge problem on the Pine Ridge Res. Thune will get votes based on his action with this issue - from smart Indians who know the facts. stop adding to the stupid myth and bs the Daschle camp is propagating.

[Oztrich Boy]

Looks like an offense looking for an opportunity to be taken.

Everyone has the right to be offended

[Oztrich Boy]

The Lakota deal with prairie dogs by treating them with respect?

And I'm thinking of The Simpsons episode wherw the Amerindian said "The beaver is our enemy. The beaver is also our god. In retrospect, that was not a wise choice."

[Cold Heat]

Uhgh..........You must have believed the propaganda that created the issue in the first place.

I do not think Thune is FOR prairie dogs.

[Oztrich Boy]

Did anyone else laugh when they read this, or was it just me?

not just you. see my previous.

[missnry]

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!
Every Prairie Dog should be insulted as being labled a democrat!!
/sarcasm

[Verginius Rufus]

In ancient Egypt some animals were considered divine, but beliefs differed in different parts of the country. I remember reading about a religious war which happened because the people in one village considered a certain kind of fish sacred, whereas the people in the next village considered it food.

So, do prairie dogs taste good?