tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post2235615482936633222..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Native reactions to Redskins pollRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-91645359219256009262016-10-26T21:51:20.922-07:002016-10-26T21:51:20.922-07:00Greetings Outlander,
Ka-to-ma-kee (Greetings). Fi...Greetings Outlander,<br /><br />Ka-to-ma-kee (Greetings). First, I offer the thoughts of my people regarding this issue. Truly the term ‘redskin’ is na-ho-la-fee (offensive), but it is but a name. The Red Man has faced greater adversaries in this world and will overcome this one.<br /><br />I hope you will use this electrophonic letter of yours to further a cause for my people. You see, for many years now, our braves and squaws are being harassed by the local kwa-ho-tee-wa (white) people. They take our crops from us. They call us savage. They molest our totems.<br /><br />My people could easily declare war but we are a ha-ho-tee-pa (peaceful) people. We wish to resolve this issue in a way that sheds no blood. That is why I have come to you to ask you to be a mediator in this affair. You are an Outlander but you have spoken for the Red Man many times.<br /><br />Our home is the Flatheel Indian Reservation, in the western territories of Montana. May the spirit of the Great Sky Boar always be with you.Chief Wise Tortoisenoreply@blogger.com