Posted on 11/14/2011 5:39:10 PM PST by SJackson
What I like best about these threads when I can find them are the anecdotes you learn. I’ve heard of the Papago breakout, but never that story, or about the independent WWI war declaration. Which makes complete sense at the time.
Children taken from the tribe to go to Indian schools, broken treaties, theft of land and minerals, and not able to vote until the very last.
I've been to many "powwows", the American flag is proudly brought out first with the honors deserved.
Well, the government isn't necessarily America, in differing degrees to different people. Particularly when it came to the Indian schools (Canada too). Not to minimize other grievances, but that was the one designed to destroy cultural values.
Drive west past the Miccosukee Reservation, then continue on US 41 west of 40 Mile Bend, then 50 Mile Bend.
Now, watch along the right side (north side of US 41).
Note the 4X8 sheet of plywood with the racist, pro-Indian, anti-white rant.
Indians have their “Occupier” types, too.
‘Nuff said.
I think activist busybodies have tried to bring pressure on FSU to change their name, but the Seminole leaders have always said they are honored by FSU's use of their tribal name and do not want it changed. I heard Bobby Bowden say that more than once during his years as coach.
what seems different is the long memory that A.I.'s and tribes seem to have. This has much to do with the verbal tradition and history and that America is who we are. I have many friends that travel to China, India, Ireland, Italy to see where they came from, to visit family. They hang flags and colors of their ancestral home and celebrate the holidays of those lands- the Seven Fishes, can't wait!
This is our home, our emergence point, we are forever bound to this land as were those that came before us.
I think there are more liberal then conservative American Indians
And whatever happened to the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins? Or the Atlanta Braves?
About twenty years ago, led by Jane Fonda, they tried to ban the Tomahawk Chop gesture and the waving of foam rubber tomahawks that were in fact made by a local Indian nation whose chief showed up and raised holy h***.
Don’t forget to look up the long twilight struggle of the PC fanatics at Dartmouth University to outlaw the Dartmouth Indian mascot, a fearsome character who during hockey games skated onto the ice in full warpaint & feathers and gave the faculty feminists a screaming case of the vapors. The feminazis retaliated by having the offending Indian expelled though IIRC several wealthy benefactors threatened to cut off the school without a dime and the administration folded up like an accordion and readmitted the student.
Nothing’s changed in four decades. The lefty cr@p just goes on. Let Indians be Americans and I have yet to meet an Indian who objects to being referred to as one but it helps to call one by his/her tribal name only make sure you got the right tribe when you do.
This is a perfect place for me to ask the question about how many of you know that there was a VP of the United States who was a good portion Indian. Do any of you know who he was and when he served?
I didn’t know myself until I looked up another topic, and it was mentioned. I know I didn’t learn about it in school, and I’ll bet it isn’t taught today. I’ll wait about 15 minutes and post the answer. He carried the blood of 3 tribes. One of them was the Potowatomie.
See #51 for my challenge.
Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States (1929-1933). He was the first person with significant acknowledged Native American ancestry and the first person with significant acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the two highest offices in the United States government’s executive branch. His maternal ancestry was three-quarters’ Native American, of ethnic Kaw, Osage and Pottawatomie ancestry[1]. Curtis spent years of childhood living with his maternal grandparents on their Kaw reservation.
Are you sure this isn’t a Sean Hannity article?
“Indians, why do you hate America?”
True, and not only in what is usually thought of as Indian country. On 22 October 2011 my wife and I attended the American Indian festival at Patuxent River Park in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. We are not American Indians. The procession was led into the circle by American Indian veterans proudly carrying the American flag. Later in the proceedings, ALL American veterans were invited into the circle, led around the circle twice, individually asked to give their name, branch and years of service, and then publically thanked for their service. It was a moving experience.
Congratulations! Did you already know that, or did you google it? I certainly didn't learn this in school.
Your post didn't mention, however, who the President was who chose Mr. Curtis as his VP. Herbert Hoover, that's who. And Mr. Curtis was a Republican.
Kaw,Osage, Potawatomie.
I was fascinated to learn this.
BTW, I have no Indian ancestry, but I do have a long held respect for the Indian tribes.
My grandmother was a missionary to the Choctaw Reservation in the late 1890s. She went there right after college to teach the cchildren music. She didn’t stay long, however, because her fiance came from Missouri to marry her. They were married on the Choctaw Reservation in Indian Territory because Oklahoma wasn’t even a state yet.
My oldest daughter borrowed her great grandmother’s hand made wedding slip to wear under her wedding gown when she was married in 1985. Many brides in my family wore that slip at their own weddings.
There are several active Tribes here in Humboldt County. Yurok, Hoopa, Karok and Wiyot to name just 4.
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