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Why an Indian Needs Christopher ColumbusBy David YeagleyFrontPageMagazine.com | October 10, 2003 I wanted to lead the New York City Columbus parade this year, October 13th, 2003.   As a Comanche Indian, I thought I could touch up our savage image a bit, and reconcile the offenses other Indians have caused the Italian-Americans in recent years.  It would be a national reconciliation, I thought. Comanche Indians were not known for kindness to strangers, but other Indians were, especially the Taino, who first met Columbus on the Caribbean Islands and the Wampanoag, who saved the Pilgrims on the coast of New...

By David Yeagley I don’t understand why American Indian activists have focused on Christopher Columbus as the symbol of all ill that has befallen Indians of the Americas. It’s a catchy, indigenous trend, and now even Mexicans are complaining about Columbus as they try to identify with “American” Indians. Mexicans joined American Indians in Denver, back in 1992, along with American Negroes and even Koreans, A clear and severe case of anti-white racism and anti-American, anti-Western ideology. What a glorious inflammation of ill-defined culture ego this crowd must have felt. The Mexican protest against Columbus has developed in recent years....

Casinos are bringing billions of dollars to Indian tribes. Yet reservation Indians don’t pay taxes. To most Americans, Indians seem to have an “unfair advantage.” Naïve and ironic as this accusation seems to us Indians, who once lost our whole world, it represents a national, negative sentiment that threatens Indian tribal status altogether. I predict that casinos will cause Indians to lose our tribal status. Casinos will cause Indians to lose our reservations. Casinos will finally cause Indians to lose even our genetic identity through forced assimilation. Casinos will destroy Indians. Indians have mocked my concern. Those with casino connections,...

by David A. Yeagley When David Horowitz called foul on Ann Coulter’s Treason for categorizing all liberals as anti-American, he identified a cultural trend which may effect the outcome of word wars in American politics. That dangerous trend is called “ideological prejudice.” Horowitz denounces ideological prejudice as something as unfair, unkind, and unjust as racial prejudice. One simply cannot call all liberals and Democrats anti-American, and thus deny anyone wearing those labels the universally coveted status of “patriot.” An American-loving patriot is a label that should be accessible to all. It may be, in a sense, a label up for...

This day, I declare myself independent of the slavery of revenge, the drudgery of historical justice, and the blindness of useless hate. This day, I declare myself strong enough, free enough, brave enough, to admire my enemy, to honor the great, and to salute the strong, whoever they may be. This day, I declare myself an American Indian who looks to the future, who faces the wind, not turning my back on it, not driven by the abject passions of vengeance, not hopelessly victimized by circumstances, not endlessly agonizing over what has been lost. This day, I declare my vision...

By David Yeagley “Children should be seen and not heard,” is the old adage, but Kyle Williams is quickly becoming both. He’s going to New York this week to be on national radio and television. If fourteen-year-old Kyle isn’t the pride and joy of Oklahoma, he soon will be. The exceptional youngster represents everything a society could want, and everything America could hope for. How did this young boy from Guthrie, Oklahoma become seen and heard, when other youth are not considered worth listening to? How did he rise to the level of national attention? He started writing for WorldNetDaily.com...

By David Yeagley Is there a reason for race? We humans come in several varieties. Why? Is one better than another? What is the real function of race? I developed a course called “Psychology of Race” in 1997 for Oklahoma State University-OKC. It was a 2000-level course, designed to account for the existence of race and thereby to understand its purpose. I surveyed creation myths of the different cultures in the world, and also considered the basic scientific version of natural origins. I presented evolution as just the latest theory of origins. I thought logic suggested those humans who lived...

The White Woman Savior By David Yeagley Some white women feel they own American Indians. In their hearts they feel responsible for Indians, and see them as poor and needy children whom they must love and save. But is the beautiful white women savior really helping Indians today? She’s certainly different from her historical counterpart. She’s on the same mission to save the “dusky heathen” through her superior social and racial status. But she doesn’t bring the Bible and Christian education with her any more, like she did in Edwin H. Blashfield’s “Spirit of the West,” the famous historical mural...

Why Communism Loves IndiansBy David YeagleyFrontPageMagazine.com | April 22, 2003 Communism is the religion of envy. It says, “I want what you have. If you have a Cadillac, and I don’t, you have denied me, you have wronged me, and you owe me.” In the case of the American Indian, it’s “I want what you took from me—the land!”  That works just as well.   Never mind that Indians fought and lost.  America “wronged” the Indian.  Communism is the religion of hate. It says, “You have made me suffer. I will therefore violently take from you whatever you have that I...

By David Yeagley Communism is the religion of envy. It says, “I want what you have. If you have a Cadillac, and I don’t, you have denied me, you have wronged me, and you owe me.” Communism is the religion of hate. It says, “You have deprived me, and made me suffer. I will therefore violently take from you whatever you have that I want. You took it from me in the first place.” Communism misuses words. It deceives people into believing envy is justice. In Communism, “justice” means I have a right to have whatever you have. “Equality” means...

By David Yeagley PFC Lori Piestewa, 22, was among the first United States military personnel to be missing in action. As of March 28, there’s no sure word whether she’s held captive or was killed. The first report, March 23, gave little identity of the American soldiers captured, but only the facts of their predicament. Part of a supply convoy, the 507th Maintenance Division, made a wrong turn near An Nasiriyah, and was attacked. The next day, March 24, a report in the Arizona Sun pictured Lori, but didn’t note her obvious ethnicity. “It’s an Indian girl!” I shouted, when...

By David Yeagley I’m suing Michael Savage for using my name. I’m the American Indian. I’m the savage. I’m offended by his use of my Indian name. I’m offended by this obvious commercial rip-off of our sacred Indian cultural identity. How dare him! Everyone knows that the sole reason for his coruscant success is the single word “savage.” Everyone knows that without this incredible, powerful word, without this time-honored token of strength and manliness, Michael Weiner would be nothing. Michael Weiner-as-Savage has literally exploded in the media in just over two years. His radio show is one of the most...

"IF COLORADO had a high school team named the Niwot N-ggers, with a big-lipped spear-chucker as a mascot, we all know that African-American groups would demand that the school change the name," writes Denver Post columnist Reggie Rivers. It is therefore astonishing, concludes Rivers, that some people still defend team names such as "Braves," "Warriors" " and "Renegades" – names that are just as insulting to American Indians as Niwot N-ggers would be to blacks. With these words, Rivers accidentally stumbled upon the unspoken question looming behind the great team mascot debate: Why don’t we have any sports teams named...