[anymouse]

Herrington wanted to fly some tobacco leaves, too, but NASA vetoed it because of a space agency ban on tobacco aboard its spacecraft.

I suppose the FReeper smoker activists might find this interesting.

Not long after Columbus Day, the two crewmates — both 44-year-old U.S. Navy pilots — discussed the historic significance of their pairing.

"It would be like having a German and a Jew go out together" on a spacewalk, Lopez-Alegria said.

Bill Anoatubby, governor of the Chickasaw Nation in Ada, Okla., said it is wonderful to see two men, whose ancestors may have been enemies, on the same spaceflight. "It has come full circle," he said.

I guess Herrington and Lopez-Alegria won't be smoking a peace pipe then. :)

Seriously, this cheesey PC claptrap that NASA's Public Affairs Office pushes should be ended. These statements are an insult to Indian (Native) Americans, Americans of Spanish decent, German decent and Jews. As if they need a NASA publicity stunt to get along.

[Taiwan Bocks]

Say, wasn't there a big deal about his special T-P ?

[anymouse]

ping.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I'd like to see a bush man from the Kalahari nabbed up and shipped into space for a week, and then dropped off back home. His kin folk would never believe it. "Abducted by aliens! Sure."

[Jeff Chandler]

a rock from the sacred site of Bear Butte

A bar stool?

[Hank Rearden]

So, are they actually going to do anything on this very expensive mission, or is it just a touchy-feely waste of tax dollars?

A privitized space industry would just get to work, not spend its time putting out politically-correct press releases.

[Hank Rearden]

"I've always imagined what it would be like to be able to go out the hatch and to see the Earth in all its glory," said John Herrington. "I think it's going to fill me with an incredible sense of who I am."

Check your job description; somewhere there, it probably says you're an astronaut.

[ken in texas]

Is this the actual article title?

I'm a native American too - born here in 1951. This fancy terminology garbage is starting to get to me. Sorry for the rant... I realize you didn't write it, you just posted it.

[First_Salute]

With only a couple, maybe three exceptions, all the flyers aboard the Space Shuttle flights have been native Americans.

The above news story is about an indigenous native American, about whom our ancestral terminology has referred to as American Indian.

By the way, the terms "chief" and "warrior" are not native American expressions originally; they formerly derive from Scotland and various other parts of mainland Europe.

The Air Apaches of the U.S. Army Air Forces flew in the worst of Southwest Pacific Theatre conditions, and however they chose, as have many before and since chosen, to "gear up" for combat by donning war paint.

We still do.

Only the fussy-dom of fascist-socialism that is destroying the Democrat Party, is uncomfortable with the superficial and therein they are lost.

  

Mike

Native American

[Consort]

[snopercod]

"I think it's going to fill me with an incredible sense of who I am."

Right kimosabe, the space program is all about your feelings.

Think he's a liberal?

[southern rock]

Herrington wanted to fly some tobacco leaves, too, but NASA vetoed it because of a space agency ban on tobacco aboard its spacecraft.

Ah! The mentality that has given us those wonderful zero tolerance policies across the country.

[southern rock]

Tim McGraw

Indian Outlaw

I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

All my friends call me Bear Claw
The Village Cheaftin' is my paw-paw
He gets his orders from my maw-maw
She makes him walk the line

You can find me in my wigwam
I'll be beatin' on my tom-tom
Pull out the pipe and smoke you some
Hey and pass it around

'Cause I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

I ain't lookin' for trouble
We can ride my pony double
Make your little heart bubble
Lord, Like a glass of wine

I remember the medicine man
He caught runnin' water in my hands
Drug me around by my headband
Said I wasn't her kind

Cause I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

I can kill a deer or buffalo
With just my arrow and my hickory bow
>From a hundred yards don't you know
I do it all the time

They all gather 'round my teepee
Late at night tryin' to catch a peek at me In nothin' but my buffalo briefs
I got 'em standin' in line

Cause I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

Cherokee people
Cherokee tribe
So proud to live
So proud to die