tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-297697072024-03-13T23:20:02.721-07:00Newspaper RockWhere Native America meets pop culture<br>
<img src="http://www.bluecorncomics.com/pics/nwsrocka.jpg" align="center" width="600">Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger13566125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-6459482097884208352016-11-09T02:03:00.000-08:002018-11-15T02:20:59.114-08:00Trump election post-mortemMore tweets and thoughts on the Trump election debacle:<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085754792749:3">Retweeted Salon (@Salon):<br />
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</a>President Donald Trump: A colossal failure for democracy, and our terrifying new reality #Elections2016 https://t.co/CSQRw0HCFS https://t.co/lxczOIAbr3<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085817087749">“I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump, and they don’t necessarily agree with him,” the left-leaning documentarian said.</a><br />
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<b>Michael Moore: People will vote for Donald Trump as a giant “F**k you” — and he’ll win<br />
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Forget the polls, boho-proletarian filmmaker tells movie audience: Trump's "legal terrorism" will win</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085754792749:10">Retweeted Salon (@Salon):</a><br />
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How the White House, and so much more, was lost in #Election2016 https://t.co/0slwG7AenA https://t.co/4JcmZNP2Vr<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085849927749">The media says, "NOW we'll start pointing out Trump's lies."</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085871822749">Retweeted Cocky McSwagsalot (@MoreAndAgain):</a><br />
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66% of white women voted for Trump. This election is racist white blacklash against 8 yrs of Obama. https://t.co/51fSuVbm0J<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085891462749">On the bright side, it'll be hysterical laughing at Trump voters when their taxes are raised, their benefits cut, their abortions limited, etc.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085914557749">Retweeted Finn G. 🗳 (@phineasfrogg):</a><br />
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I've said this before, but Trump, Brexit, Marine Le Pen, etc are all part of a Western white supremacist backlash.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085914722749">"People will see their lives changed forever...will be ripped from their homes...will be made to feel like strangers in their own country."</a><br />
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More tweets and thoughts on the Trump election debacle:<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085942452749">Retweeted Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert):</a><br />
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media eviscerated Gore and we got Bush and Iraq War.<br />
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media eviscerated Hillary and we're abt to get 10x worse.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085945497749">On the bright side (?), America's racism is now much more in the open.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085947942749">The audience eagerly listens to Trump's acceptance speech.</a><br />
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<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Ku_Klux_Klan_ceremony_in_London,_Ontario.jpg" width=350><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085951762749">Okay, they're ignorant and racist, but not uneducated:</a><br />
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<b>thisisyourconscience @lincolnablades 3h</b><br />
STOP calling Trump voters UNEDUCATED. Trump DOMINATED the young white college vote in the south. Whites of ALL education levels chose this.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085965152749">The sun will rise tomorrow...until Trump starts a new war, repeals Obamacare, or outlaws abortion. Then people will start dying. #Trumpkills</a><br />
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https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085754792749:45<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085754792749:45">I feel about as sick as I did during Bush/Kerry. People dying in Iraq = people dying without healthcare.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085990352749">Trump wants to take us back to the '50s, so we'll need the civil rights movement all over again to protect our rights. Start organizing now.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154086019842749">Reminder: Trump hosted "Saturday Night Live" on Nov. 7, 2015. Talk about getting a free pass from the media.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154086033122749">I thought the election was rigged, stupid @realDonaldTrump. Before you even gave your acceptance speech, you already disproved your LIES.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154086037317749">Trump lied, America died.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154077022532749:19">The Mayan calendar was 4 years off.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154086051197749">And you thought Brits were stupid, xenophobic racists!</a><br />
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<b>Relieved Britain no longer biggest f**k-up of 2016<br />
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BRITAIN has woken up relieved to find its idiotic act of self-harm earlier this year is now a piffling historical footnote.</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154086055952749">I was hoping for a break. Now I have to spend the next four years savaging President Pussy-Grabber...sigh.</a>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-18230816972622642112016-11-08T23:30:00.000-08:002018-11-15T02:21:31.786-08:00The Trump election debacleTweets and thoughts on the 2016 election debacle--in real time:<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085413592749">Apparently the pollsters should've asked, "No, who are you REALLY voting for?" :-(</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085426462749">Yep, it's all about race:</a><br />
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<b>Brad Heath @bradheath 4m<br />
</b>Whitest U.S. counties are voting for Trump by an astonishing and unprecedented margin.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085429642749">Massive sarcasm:</a><br />
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<b>Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic 57m</b><br />
Donald Trump is winning white men by huge margins but sure this election is about economic anxiety and not straight up sexism and racism.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085459217749">So much for the polls showing a 3-6% margin, the great ground game, and an early Latino surge.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085490827749">Retweeted Laura Anne Gilman (@LAGilman):</a><br />
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Never again can anyone in the US wonder how Germany allowed the Nazi party to take power. Fear and willful stupidity.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085521042749">Retweeted Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie):</a><br />
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Donald Trump did what Romney and McCain wouldn’t do. He all but cried “nigger.” And it worked.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085532407749">Things to look forward to: Latinos gone, women locked up, DAPL completed, gay marriage illegal, etc.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085548717749">So pussy-grabbing is okay now? Trump voters say YES.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085568407749">Retweeted Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy):</a><br />
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sexual predator who ran an openly bigoted campaign is a threat to win the presidency<br />
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gotta write it out to grasp how big a fuck-up this is<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085579977749">It's a great night for Confederate flag wavers, gay bashers, and mosque burners as well as pussy grabbers. Everyone wins! #ElectionNight</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085595237749">Right...a primal scream against women and minorities gaining equality.</a><br />
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<b>Axelrod: Election a 'primal scream'<br />
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"What is clear is there was a hunger for change among a lot of Americans.”</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085614072749">Getting their wish: Republicans, neo-Nazis, and Klansmen, if that isn't redundant.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085618502749">Retweeted Sabaa Tahir (@sabaatahir):</a><br />
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Terrified right now. If you're not, you're probably not female, an immigrant, muslim, Mexican, a POC, gay, trans or marginalized at all.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085636632749">Brexit comes to America. Polls failing to measure white anger. Europeans rising up against the tide of brown bodies "threatening" them.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085652027749">Retweeted Ezra Klein (@ezraklein):</a><br />
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So many of the people who will truly suffer for this election have not yet been born, and had no chance to vote: https://t.co/ZdxPWGPSjC<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085663057749">Christians have proved to be even bigger hypocrites than I imagined.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085729837749">Retweeted Keifer Lirette (@KeiferLirette):</a><br />
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Imagine being so privileged that someone's racism is seen as a minor character flaw rather than an absolute deal breaker to run a country.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085740737749">Retweeted Astead Wesley (@AsteadWH):</a><br />
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Stop telling ppl they'll be okay. There are a lot of people in this country that Donald Trump, himself, has promised won't be okay.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10154085753207749">A statistic I just saw says voters under $50,000 went for Clinton. Middle-class and rich people went for Trump. That alone destroys the "economic anxiety" argument.</a>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-71700204126317217282016-10-31T10:54:00.000-07:002018-11-14T08:47:45.489-08:00Custer's Last Stand--reviewA review of a fine documentary that I watched years ago:<br />
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<a href="http://www.historynet.com/american-experience-custers-last-stand-television-review.htm"><i>American Experience: Custer’s Last Stand</i> – Television Review</a><br />
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<b>By Jay Wertz</b><DIR>Overall, the story aspect of the film is strong when the viewer realizes that it is more about Custer and the myth surrounding the Last Stand than about the battle itself. Examples of the pop-culture development of the myth through movies and literature are presented. These things show the breadth of the fascination with the subject, and the on-camera speakers rev up enthusiasm for the man and the event. Some are stronger and more interesting than others. “Films like this end up having a certain synthesis built into them because we have a kind of Greek chorus of talking heads that help us bring the history back to life,” explains Ives.</DIR>A video of the documentary's first chapter:<br />
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<a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-custers-last-stand-chapter-1/"><i>Custer's Last Stand</i> Chapter 1</a><br />
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<b>Random thoughts</b><br />
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Some interesting comments taken or paraphrased from the film:<br />
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<LI>"The Battle of Washita." Some called it a massacre.</LI><br />
<LI>Custer was seen as a great Indian fighter.</LI><br />
<LI>Custer was ambivalent about Indians like most Americans. He admired their courage and fighting ability, but considered them primitive savages.</LI><br />
<LI>The official government policy toward Indians was tolerance and signed treaties. The unofficial policy was "get rid of them."</LI><br />
<LI>Custer attended 40 performances of <i>Julius Caesar</i>.</LI><br />
<LI>He wanted a triumph for the nation's centennial.</LI><br />
<LI>Custer was sent south to surround the Indian camp. Other soldiers thought he'd attack. "Leave some for us," they said.</LI><br />
<LI>Sitting Bull was calling tribes to gather. It was their last chance to live free, and the largest gathering ever.</LI><br />
<LI>Custer believed the Indians had no command structure. He thought they were disorganized, would panic and run. His soldiers could defeat much larger force.</LI><br />
<LI>Sitting Bull sent two people to negotiate.</LI><br />
<LI>Custer was haunted by the ghost of Elliot, whom he'd left behind to die at Washita.</LI><br />
<LI>Because of Sitting Bull's success, some believed he wasn't Indian. That he must've gone to West Point and studied Napoleon.</LI><br />
<b>Final quote</b><br />
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From Louis Warren:<DIR>Right away, Custer becomes a kind of martyr to the cause of American progress. And this allows the cause to be more acceptable than ever. Because it isn't as if Americans have not sacrificed anything now. It's not as if they haven't given something up. They gave up Custer. The more glorious they can paint Custer, in the aftermath of his death, the more they seem to have sacrificed as they take away <span style="font-style:italic;">all</span> the Indians' land.</DIR><br />
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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-32813448375212526282016-10-28T08:45:00.000-07:002018-10-25T00:01:52.284-07:00Armed white militants go freeThe verdict is in on the colonizers' latest occupation of Native land:<br />
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<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/how-the-government-lost-its-case-against-the-oregon-occupiers/">How the government lost its case against the Oregon occupiers</a><br />
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Many people noted how the armed white militants got off free while unarmed Native activists didn't:<br />
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<a href="http://qz.com/822374/the-bundy-verdict-proves-the-us-is-fine-with-armed-white-militants-but-not-native-american-activists/">The Bundy verdict proves the US is fine with armed white militants—but not Native American activists</a><br />
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<a href="http://commondreams.org/further/2016/10/28/criming-while-white-vs-saving-what-truly-sacred-world">Criming While White Vs. Saving What Is Truly Sacred In This World</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/injustice-at-standing-rock-injustice-everywhere-20161028">The Injustice at Standing Rock Is an American Story</a><br />
<b>I'm angry. White people in Oregon are acquitted while Native people in North Dakota are attacked by riot police from five states. And our politicians are preoccupied.</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bady-malheur-standing-rock-20161028-story.html">The protests at Standing Rock are necessary. What happened at Malheur was nonsense.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/30/dakota-access-pipeline-protest-north-dakota-oregon-militia-native-americans">Dakota Access pipeline protesters see bias after Oregon militia verdict</a><br />
<b>Activists at the Malheur wildlife refuge were carrying guns – but ‘if native people were armed, we would be killed,’ says an activist at Standing Rock</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/opinions/bundy-acquittal-shows-disparity-joseph/index.html">The privileges of protesting while white</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/02/dakota-pipeline-protest-bundy-militia">Why do we punish Dakota pipeline protesters but exonerate the Bundys?</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/11/02/taking-on-militants-after-acquittals-in-an-armed-standoff/justice-looks-different-in-indian-country">Justice Looks Different in Indian Country</a><br />
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Some tweets on the subject:<br />
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<b>Debbie Reese@debreese 3 days ago</b><br />
White men (Bundy's) occupy gov land; desecrate Native lands, walk free. Native people protect water, are arrested, strip searched, maced.<br />
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<b>Mark Cogan@mccogan 3 days ago</b><br />
Let's be honest America. If a gang of heavily armed ppl of color took over a Federal facility, they'd be dead. No justice. #whiteprivilege<br />
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<b>Mic@mic 2 days ago</b><br />
America: Where peaceful activists are brutalized by the police but heavily armed protesters are greeted cordially.<br />
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<b>Victor Laszlo@Impolitics 2 days ago</b><br />
The armed terrorists who took over a wildlife refuge are acquitted on all counts following their brilliant defense strategy of being white.<br />
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<b>BlueCornComics@bluecorncomics 2 days ago</b><br />
The Bundy bunch immediately goes and reoccupies the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. "Why not? The court said we didn't do anything wrong."<br />
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<b>License to occupy</b><br />
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Some pundits warned us to expect more of these illegal stunts:<br />
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/after-oregon-verdict-a-hot-debate-a-victory-for-liberty-or-license-to-intimidate/2016/10/28/3cc1372c-9d37-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html">After Oregon verdict, a hot debate: A victory for liberty, or license to intimidate?</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/opinion/bundy-verdict-puts-a-target-on-the-backs-of-federal-workers.html">Bundy Verdict Puts a Target on the Backs of Federal Workers</a>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-53509802831706454052016-10-27T23:17:00.000-07:002018-10-24T23:22:15.173-07:00Sheyahshe's review of Peace PartyWhile I gear up to produce more comics, here is Michael Sheyahshe's review of <i>Peace Party</i> in his <i>Native Americans in Comic Books</i>:<dir>Schmidt has put some very hard work into this title. As mentioned, while he is non-Native, he does do his homework and he includes Native Americans in the creative process as well. The books are entertaining, well written, and well illustrated.</DIR><img src="http://www.bluecorncomics.com/pics/cover1.jpg" width=350>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-9318801161438863812016-10-25T20:28:00.000-07:002018-10-17T20:20:19.173-07:00Coppola's Virginia Dare restaurant<a href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/lifestyle/jeffcox/6538661-181/coppolas-creative-take-on-native">Creative take on Native American cooking at Francis Ford Coppola's Werowocomoco</a><br />
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<b>By Carey Sweet</b><DIR>Some Virginia tribe spokespeople seethed on social media that taking the name for commercial use was an “outrage” and a “disgrace,” especially as the winery location is all about alcohol. On a local level, some critics lamented that the restaurant wasn’t named after a California tribe.<br />
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Coppola was annoyed enough by all this that he penned a lengthy article for the San Francisco Chronicle’s opinion pages that fall. He noted that he “shared meals on Indian reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, in private homes and eateries for local people,” and he “formed a council of advisers consisting mainly of Native Americans of different tribes from around the country, to bring authenticity and respect for these traditions.”</DIR>A <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jacqueline.keeler/posts/10154596982788446">comment</a> from a Facebook posting:<dir>At first, I thought this was from The Onion. But no, I looked at the menu, and FFC's restaurant is planning to serve fry bread and salmon sashimi tacos in an apparent reference to a 16th century Virginia colony of English people, who he thinks were somehow "Native American" and, it gets better, ate fry bread centuries before it came into being and...sashimi?? Bizarre and offensive mashup of cultural appropriation.</DIR>Comment: Coppola's response seems to support his critics. He's met Indians and eaten in homes around the country? That's why he has an Eastern seaboard restaurant in California with food from the Northwest or the Southwest--not from the Eastern seaboard or California. It sounds like a typical example of pan-Indianism--like "a bizarre and offensive mashup of Indian cultures."Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-1941367425498327922016-10-11T21:25:00.002-07:002018-10-17T19:16:34.184-07:00Savage Indians on Yale-Dartmouth program<a href="http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/10/10/football-programs-criticized-for-racist-imagery/">Football programs criticized for racist imagery</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3832841/Yale-apologizes-racist-imagery-football-program-cover.html">Yale apologizes for republishing racist Native American illustrations on football program to mark 100th Dartmouth football game</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8257">Yale apologizes for 'dehumanizing' cartoons of Dartmouth mascot</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2016/10/yale-criticized-for-use-of-dartmouth-indian-images">Yale criticized for use of Dartmouth Indian images</a><br />
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<a href="http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/10/11/asmiow-learn-from-the-past-change-the-present/">ASIMOW: Learn from the past, change the present</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/pattisonave/Common-sense--missing-from-Yale-football-game-program.html">Common sense missing from Yale game program</a><br />
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<img src="https://ydn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CourtesyofMaryKathrynNagle_dartmouth.jpg" width=350>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-89969928234145782832016-10-11T01:18:00.000-07:002018-10-17T18:57:45.512-07:00Pedro Martinez's war whoop<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/pedro-martinez-native-american-stereotype-indians-win-article-1.2826029">Pedro Martinez acts out Native American stereotype after Indians sweep Red Sox, apologizes on Twitter</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/10/11/pedro-martinez-salutes-indians-sweep-of-red-sox-with-horrible-stereotype/">Pedro Martinez salutes Indians’ sweep of Red Sox with horrible stereotype</a><br />
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<a href="http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/21/im-sick-left-wing-politics-sports-stories/">I’m Sick Of Left-Wing Politics In My Sports Stories</a><br />
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<b>By Robert Pickup</b><DIR>Martinez, who is part of the TBS pre- and post-game broadcast, did a Native American war whoop in tribute to the team. Since athletes have compared their competition to battle since forever and Cleveland’s mascot is an Indian, it just makes sense to imitate a war cry after victory.</DIR>Comment: It "makes sense to imitate a war cry after victory"...because you think Indians are primitive, warlike savages? Rather than modern people with cellphones and computers? I guess that makes sense...if you're a racist.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-33238439879266493182016-10-10T21:27:00.000-07:002018-10-12T22:06:08.535-07:00Fly on Hillary = spirit animal?A <a href="https://twitter.com/debreese/status/785635904698380288/photo/1">tweet</a> from educator Debbie Reese:<dir>In Native American culture, all animals are believed to have totems. When they cross your path unexpectedly, they mean something. So, we looked into what it might have meant that a fly landed on <b>Hillary Clinton's</b> face tonight.</DIR>Comment: Reese says CBS News got its info from a New Age website.<br />
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I believe CBS has garbled an already garbled claim. The fly on Clinton's face has a totem? What would the fly's totem be...another fly? An eagle? Donald Trump?<br />
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The actual claim, I think, is that all people have animal totems. Not that all animals have totems.<br />
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Of course, this claim is a false generalization about thousands of Native cultures. It may be true in a few cases--especially in Plains cultures--but I doubt it's widespread. I doubt it applies to everyone even within those cultures.<br />
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<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CucjsOZXEAAIN4w.jpg" width=350>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-21967868180596863592016-10-05T01:17:00.000-07:002018-10-10T21:59:41.479-07:00Buffalo God in American Gods comics<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/31366-american-gods-adapted-for-comics-by-dark-horse.html">AMERICAN GODS Adapted For Comics By DARK HORSE</a><br />
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Comment: This announcement helpfully includes an image of the figure who's sort of the elder god of the American continent.<br />
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A Buffalo God with a Pacific Northwest tattoo and a super-tomahawk? Looks like pan-Indian stereotypes to me.<br />
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For more on the subject, see <a HREF="http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2016/03/america-not-good-country-for-gods.html"?">America "Not a Good Country for Gods"?</A><br />
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<img src="http://www.bluecorncomics.com/pics/buffalogod.jpg" width=350>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-6629276318134731712016-10-01T22:28:00.000-07:002018-10-09T20:55:13.232-07:00Werewolves excised from Lone RangerA Native filmmaker <a href="https://www.facebook.com/robschmidt/posts/10151522127527749">says</a> Disney excised a werewolf plot from Johnny Depp's <I>The Lone Ranger</I>:<dir>The tone is bonkers. All the underlying structure of Injun Werewolves is still there... We see Butch Cavendish eat the Lone Ranger's brother's heart, and then the next scene is wacky hijinx with Tonto. Tonto calls Cavendish "Wendigo" all through the film. 200 residents of Tonto's boyhood village were killed by two white men with pistols? No one ran away? They never ran out of bullets? Clearly it was supposed to be a werewolf attack. Helena Bonham Carter's leg was eaten by Cavendish. There are rabbit meat-eating bunny rabbits everywhere. The signs of the excision of the Werewolves are everywhere... and they're typically over the top and unnecessarily violent. They go utterly unexplained, and then are immediately papered over in each case by goofy pratfalls. It's just bizarre. I went in with a truly open mind, and was enjoying it for a while... but then it abruptly got stupid and long and wow was it tedious toward the end. The final action sequence is 30 minutes long, and it's visually amazing... But it comes too late to save a truly confused film.</DIR>Comment: Tonto says he's hunting Cavendish because Cavendish is a wendigo--a flesh-eating creature from the northeastern woodlands.<br />
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It doens't make sense for a wendigo to be in Texas--the movie's setting. Or in Monument Valley in southern Utah, the movie's actual setting.<br />
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It also doesn't make sense for Tonto, supposedly a Comanche Indian, to believe in or care about wendigos. It would be like a Chinese man hunting a Jewish golem. It could happen, but it makes no sense without an elaborate explanation.<br />
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I don't know anything about the supposed werewolf subplot. What's left is a villain who's inordinately evil because he's a wendigo--a malevolent spirit in human form. He eats human hearts and massacres whole villages--which isn't much different from your usual mass-murdering bad guy.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-15029970211792752752016-09-17T03:01:00.000-07:002018-10-06T20:58:09.456-07:00Pocahontas by Dingo Pictures<a href="http://phelous.com/2016/09/16/phelous/and-the-movies/pocahontas-dingo-pictures/">Pocahontas (Dingo Pictures)</a><dir>Dingo Pictures bring us their horrid take on Pocahontas but more importantly this is Wabuu’s origin story!</DIR>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-82338873567599885492016-09-16T15:00:00.000-07:002018-10-05T23:18:41.667-07:00Ungava Gin exploits Inuit culture<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ungava-gin-cultural-appropriation-1.3754819">Quebec-made Ungava gin accused of cultural appropriation</a><br />
<b>Inuk Montrealer says company’s advertising, branding profit off Inuit culture</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/15/canadian-gin-company-ungava-offends-inuit-people">Canadian gin company's campaign accused of cultural appropriation</a><br />
<b>Ungava apologises to Inuit for offensive video showing cartoon characters paddling a canoe past igloos and a man’s voice is heard chanting</b><br />
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<a href="http://aptn.ca/news/2016/09/15/have-you-met-the-ungava-inuits-a-response-to-ungava-gins-marketing-campaign/">“Have you met the Ungava Inuits?” A response to Ungava Gin’s marketing campaign</a><br />
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<a href="http://aptn.ca/news/2016/09/15/ungava-gin-apologizes-for-marketing-miscue-but-did-the-company-learn-anything/">Ungava gin apologizes for marketing miscue, but did the company learn anything?</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/ungava-gin-cultural-appropriation-social-media-campaign-1.3398599">Gin takes it on the chin as Inuit complain of images used in sales pitch</a><br />
<b>'The more I've looked into stuff, the more disgusted I got,' says journalist Ossie Michelin</b>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-72273521814739454552016-09-14T07:08:00.000-07:002018-10-04T23:01:20.195-07:00Apache Gold in Wyatt EarpAnother TV Western that occasionally featured Indians:<br />
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<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0631751/">Apache Gold </a><br />
<b>Episode aired 7 March 1961</b><dir>The Clanton gang is selling liquor to the Apaches with Ike and Phin hoping their contact will tell the location of hidden gold rumored to be in a cave but it is causing unrest in the tribe. When Phin is captured, Earp must help free him.</DIR>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-27021052634825295622016-09-14T01:10:00.000-07:002018-10-03T18:59:06.638-07:00Clarke Indians' "Tribal Family" poster<a href="http://deadspin.com/girls-high-school-basketball-teams-poster-is-very-good-1786690393">Girls High School Basketball Team's Poster Is Very Good And Very Bad</a><br />
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<b>By Nick Martin</b><dir>The poster, taken from the Facebook page of KCCI’s Andy Garman, has attracted anger from Native Americans, who are rightfully calling the poster out for its blunt appropriation of Native American culture. (Sloppy too! The totem pole, war dance, and headdresses mix and match from traditions of widely varying tribes.)</DIR><img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--PvewbajT--/c_fit,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/e97deo6y8d21dltxvjcw.jpg" width=350>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-90052934358174645072016-09-12T23:00:00.000-07:002018-10-03T01:16:20.743-07:00Red Rock Tomahawk video game<a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865662275/Game-review-Flickem-Up-Red-Rock-Tomahawk-Dont-mess-with-the-Native-Americans.html">Game review: Flick'em Up, Red Rock Tomahawk: Don't mess with the Native Americans</a><br />
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<b>By Ryan Morgenegg</b><dir>Flick'em Up is a game all about the pieces. In the box, a gamer gets the added scenery of three forests, a totem pole, a red rock mountain and one tipi. There are five native American figures, two bows, six arrows, a Tomahawk, a Gatling gun and six bullets.</DIR>Comment: Tipis, totem poles, and tomahawks in one setting? That's stereotypical.<br />
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By the time of the Gatling gun--1861 and after--Natives were using rifles as much as bows and arrows. The whole idea of modern soldiers fighting primitive warriors is stereotypical.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-79114462072762553192016-09-12T20:04:00.000-07:002018-10-03T01:12:57.671-07:00Whitewashing in Doctor Strange<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/01/not-your-asian-ninja-how-the-marvel-cinematic-universe-keeps-failing-asian-americans.html">Not Your Asian Ninja: How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Keeps Failing Asian-Americans</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/05/01/white_isnt_a_neutral_color_doctor_strange_tilda_swinton_and_the_unwinnable_diversity_argument/">White isn’t a neutral color: “Doctor Strange,” Tilda Swinton and the “unwinnable” diversity argument</a><br />
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<a href="http://mashable.com/2016/05/02/tilda-swinton-george-takei/">George Takei gets real about 'cringeworthy' Marvel casting for 'Doctor Strange'</a><br />
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<a href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-director-of-doctor-strange-thinks-one-asian-charact-1786535396">The Director of Doctor Strange Thinks One Asian Character Makes Up for the Movie's Biggest Screw-Up</a>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-90555270708536618142016-09-07T20:54:00.001-07:002018-09-22T23:45:19.900-07:00Black nationalist "Washitaw Nation"<a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-washitaw-nation-baton-rouge-snap-story.html">Black nationalist group Washitaw Nation distances itself from the Baton Rouge shooter, who had pledged allegiance to it</a><br />
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<b>By Jaweed Kaleem and Jenny Jarvie</b><dir>Gavin Eugene Long was the killer. The empire was the Washitaw Nation, an "indigenous" black group that claims ownership over vast swaths of the United States and Canada and of which Washington is a top leader.<br />
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In May 2015 in Jackson County, Mo., Long filed court papers declaring allegiance to the group, which has been monitored by the FBI and tied to sovereign citizen movements.</DIR>Comment: Another fake Indian tribe.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-88094648509068412302016-08-31T20:49:00.000-07:002018-09-21T03:08:40.386-07:00Racist stereotypes in Sausage Party<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/08/15/sausage-partys-race-problem-this-equal-opportunity-offender-is-just-plain-offensive/">“Sausage Party”’s race problem: This “equal opportunity offender” is just plain offensive</a><br />
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<b>No matter how well-intentioned, this kind of comedy only really works in a world where opportunity itself is equal<br />
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By Nico Lang</b><dir>Humphrey also pointed to Firewater, a Native American chief played by Bill Hader, who is distressingly reminiscent of the redface caricatures in “Peter Pan.” Like the Indian Chief in the Disney feature, he speaks in “grunts and uses sign language.”</DIR>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-56776714416567643772016-08-30T20:50:00.000-07:002018-09-20T00:17:50.785-07:00Totem Vodka<a href="https://psmag.com/totem-vodka-and-indigenous-cultural-appropriation-28ea5552b2d0">Totem Vodka and Indigenous Cultural Appropriation</a><br />
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<b>When, if ever, is it acceptable to adopt the cultural icons of an outside group?<br />
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By Alexandra Rodney</b><dir>Totem poles are important symbolic creations of some First Nations families in Canada’s Pacific Northwest. They are symbols of family lineage that serve to document stories or histories of people, communities, or clans. The Totem Vodka bottle and marketing images erases these families while appropriating their symbols.<br />
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The bottle stopper is shaped like a Thunderbird, a supernatural bird that causes thunder and lightning according to First Nations mythology. The Thunderbird crest is traditionally carved on the totem poles of people from the Thunderbird clan of the Kwakwaka’wakw nations (on Vancouver Island).</DIR>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-5481694524603580502016-08-27T20:04:00.000-07:002018-09-19T02:01:09.611-07:00The Indians Are Coming in The Beverly Hillbillies<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0522644/">The Indians Are Coming</a><br />
<b>Episode aired 1 February 1967</b><dir>When Crowfoot Indians come to Beverly Hills to discuss a boundary dispute at the Clampett oil field, Granny prepares for war.</DIR><img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BO4FWptvyoU/hqdefault.jpg" width=450><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7MLGCPbdyM">John Wayne on <i>The Beverly Hillbillies</i></a><DIR>Throughout the episode Granny wishes John Wayne were present to help fight the Injuns. He shows up at the very end in a brief cameo appearance.</DIR><iframe width="450" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h7MLGCPbdyM" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-73669290774901531512016-08-26T15:54:00.000-07:002018-09-18T00:39:02.503-07:00Indians in LaramieI recently caught one or two episodes of the old Western TV show <i>Laramie</i>. Its attitude toward Natives wasn't bad for the times.<br />
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Here are the two episodes that come up when you search for "Laramie TV show Indians."<br />
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0624826/">Wolf Cub</a><br />
<b>Episode aired 21 November 1961</b><dir>Jess rescues a crippled Blackfoot boy from a scalp hunter. Several of the Blackfoot have escaped the reservation with the Army rounding up most of them. With tensions high Mike and the boy leave putting both into danger from both sides.</DIR><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0624796/">The Perfect Gift </a><br />
<b>Episode aired 2 January 1962</b><dir>After saving the life of an Arapaho girl in a fire and helping acquit her in a trial for killing a man, Slim finds her his possession due to Arapaho law. When she won't leave him, he takes her in but soon finds he has feelings for her.</DIR>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-18493751014722109052016-08-25T20:51:00.000-07:002018-09-18T00:37:01.802-07:00"Red skin" counts as wearing cardinal?<a href="http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2016/08/25/uiw-put-president-on-medical-leave-after-weird-comments-about-black-native-american-students-skin-color">UIW Put President on "Medical Leave" After Weird Comments About Black, Native American Students' Skin Color</a>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-22014000856682893752016-08-20T01:36:00.000-07:002018-09-18T00:33:26.989-07:00Chippewa adoption in The Good Wife<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/19/1300148/-The-Good-Wife-A-Weird-Year-5-22">The Good Wife: A Weird Year (5.22)</a><dir>The lawsuit that hangs over Alicia's head: The $6-million suit that's on the periphery of the episode and gets the central story rolling has been a recurring plot point this season. Alicia is being blamed for David Lee's attempted bribery of the Chippewa Nation, which screwed up an adoption. Why? Because Lockhart-Gardner bribed an associate with a partnership to secure his testimony pinning the blame on Alicia. Some of the facts of the case are based on Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, in which a couple from South Carolina adopted a child in 2009. Two years later, the child's biological father, a member of the Cherokee Nation, contested the adoption on the grounds that he wasn't properly notified, and the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) set guidelines for how parental rights for members of Native-American tribes can be relinquished. In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the relevant sections of the ICWA do not apply when the parent in question never had custody of the child. In 2013, the adoption of "Baby Veronica" was finalized.</DIR>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-64205965096380334322016-08-16T20:57:00.000-07:002018-09-16T18:49:34.044-07:00Aborigines look like dinosaurs?!<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3742943/Artist-Marina-Abramovic-calls-indigenous-Australians-dinosaurs-memoir-passage.html">'They look terrible... they are like dinosaurs': Outrage over world-famous performance artist Marina Abramovic's 'racist' description of Aborigines in her memoir</a><dir>'Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They look like dinosaurs,' the passage reads.</DIR>Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com0