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  • Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin

    He also has one of a traditional dancer set to electronica. This provocative piece of Galanin’s was featured on BoingBoing today.

  • The Great Temple Mound at Etowah

    Enlargement Enlargement Etowah Indian Mounds, The Great Temple Mound Oct 2007 This is a view of the Great Temple Mound (Mound A) one doesn’t usually get, the images of it usually being from the walk to the mounds and great plaza on the other side, or to the front where the stairs were. The Great…

  • I'm reminded of Monty Python's "Is he dead, yet?"

    “We are prone to think the Indian problem is solved. It is not. Generation after generation must pass away before the last drop of Osage blood in amalgamated lines shall be lost. The future of the remnant of this once great tribe, its influence in the middle west, is a story yet to be written.…

  • Two of Frank Baum’s descendants apologize for his racism

    Not many people are aware of the racism of Frank Baum, author of the much beloved “The Wizard of Oz”. I felt it important and devoted a few pages to it in Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World or In Search of the Great Penguin. As Marty says, it’s refreshing news that a couple of…

  • New Echota

    Light box enlargement Emerson writing of the American Indian Removal of 1838 said, it was a “crime that really deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country; for how could we call the conspiracy that should crush these poor Indians our Government, or the land that was cursed by their parting and dying…

  • 150,000 square feet of asphalt at the foot of Bear Butte

    A jackass by the name of Jay Allen has big plans for Bear Butte. He is going to expand his “world’s biggest bikers’ bar” right up to its foot. The first phase of Sturgis County Line will have over 150,000 s.f. of asphalt for semi-tractor trailers, hand-picked vendors, motorcycle stunt riders and one hell-of-a-lot of…

  • Fuck Guenter Lewy

    George Mason University’s “History News Network” (byline Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too) has published 11-22-04 the article “Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?” by Guenter Lewy. You can read it yourself. I’m not going to go through it point by point. I will give two brief excerpts: The sorry…

  • Paving the road for Democracy

    Where are we going? What are we doing where we are? Where have we been? A minor visual aid.

  • Go outside in your yard, pick up a handful of earth, and think about it

    Maybe I should make a category for “What are we becoming? Yeah, well, where have we been?” Trail of Tears may grow by 2,000 miles if study OK’d By RICHARD POWELSON, powelsonr@shns.com February 17, 2006 WASHINGTON – The National Park Service on Thursday endorsed a study that may add about 2,000 miles of land and…

  • What in the world is this country becoming?

    People write in response to abuses in Iraq and the death and destruction there, what is this country becoming. And some write that if the media showed pictures on the television of the infants and children being killed, that the citizenry of America would rise up and put an end to the war, demand it.…

  • Dovetailing Mount Rushmore with everything, positively everything

    I was reading again last night (this morning really), elsewhere, the tired plaint of what this country is becoming. It’s a well meaning plaint, facing pictures out of Iraq. But it is wrong. Atrocity is nothing recent. It is nothing new. It’s just plain ol’ business as usual. And that’s the thing, that Americans have…

  • What happens when stupid white people doodle on their napkins at the dining table after Thanksgiving Dinner

    Wow! Imagine yourself riding the Flaming Arrow Express monorail at the proposed Trail of Tears Park in Tennessee. Imagine yourself visiting the Sacred Ground Pavilion. Imagine yourself in the seats of the Great Spirit Arena. What an amazing memorial it will be honoring those American Indians who walked the Trail of Tears from the southeast…