tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88096194717871553862024-03-04T21:39:12.967-08:00Native American WarriorsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-4236281120099433482015-11-28T06:00:00.002-08:002015-11-28T06:01:50.663-08:00Brad Pitt's foundation promises homes for Fort Peck Tribe<img src="http://i2.wp.com/samuel-warde.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140627_142629_000.png?resize=500%2C305" height="390" width="640" /><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">In a promotional video on the foundation's website, the four locations in the foundation's plan are highlighted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">"From apartments for disabled veterans in New Jersey, to mixed-use housing helping kids leaving foster care in Missouri, to homes for Native Americans in Montana," the sound of Brad Pitt's voice states.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">"That's what they told us," said Fort Peck Tribal Council Executive Board Member Tommy Christian. "We have 20 of the best architects in the whole world under us and we're gonna come and save you Indians from yourselves."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Now tribal councilman Tommy Christian, along with the rest of the Fort Peck tribal council, questions if it's the foundation the tribe needs saving from.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">"This project has caused a lot of division on our council," said Councilman Garret Big Leggins. "And we've got councilmen who are mad at each other for the way this has developed and we feel like we're stuck."</span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">And homes that still stand hold two, sometimes three or more families each.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">When the New Orleans-based foundation approached the tribe with a solution, the idea was hard to pass up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">In 2011, former Councilman Stoney Anketel sealed the deal with the "Make It Right" foundation, a commitment to build 20 sustainable homes for free.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">But when Anketel was not re-elected in 2013, the tribe lost its main connection with the Pitt's foundation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">And after Anketel left Fort Peck and moved to Washington state, the word "free" left the reservation as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">"At the beginning, that we wouldn't have to put in nothing and now we're talking a little over a half million dollars we have to put in to get this project going," said Councilman Dana Buckles.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The tribe committed $600,000 in a good faith deposit. But the buck did not stop there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Fort Peck Journal reporter Louis Montclair watched tensions rise at tribal council meetings as the costs piled up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">"Make It Right does build houses, they will build the houses for free, you know their architects," said Montclair. "But they don't do infrastructure, though."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Infrastructure - the sewer system, water main, developed land - add up to $2.6 million in seemingly unexpected costs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Deb Madison, a board member of Integrated Solutions, the company charged with the build, said the tribe wasted time and in turn wasted money.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">"The tax credit situation, if we'd moved as fast as we had initially promised to, we would have got a higher bid because at one point we had three people who wanted in on this project and now we're down to one," said Madison.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The price grew and the tribe had to decide: Commit the $2.6 million or bail and lose the deposit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Cutting loses would also mean defaulting on $5 million in tax credits and, thus, broken credit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">After a 6-to-5 vote in February, the tribe decided to take the loan and build the homes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">"That $2.6 is not only for the sustainable village but it's covering everything as a whole in case there's future development there and all that infrastructure will already be there," said Buckles.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.krtv.com/story/28557251/brad-pitts-foundation-promises-homes-for-fort-peck-tribe-but-concerns-grow" target="_blank">SOURCE</a>art&beautyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09813269631343450348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-1629018088307940532014-08-07T03:45:00.001-07:002014-08-07T03:45:18.036-07:00A Healer's Last Journey: Documenting Endangered Knowledge in the Colombian Andes<div class="content" id="mainentrycontent" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Mama Margarita, a Kamentsa medicine woman, holds the leaves of a frailejón plant that she uses to treat fever and migraines. Photo credit: Monika Wnuk</div>
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The smell of gasoline floats through open windows as we wind our way through the foothills of the Sibundoy Valley in southwest Colombia. The sound of children chattering in the back seat and the engine straining against the incline interrupt the early-morning quiet, while blue-hued, predawn light falls on giant ferns scraping against the 21-seater bus.</div>
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Up front sits a Kamentsa tribal elder called Mama Margarita. Standing no more than five feet tall, she is a tiny powerhouse of traditional knowledge. After 80 years studying the medicinal plants of the páramo -- an endangered alpine tundra ecosystem -- Mama Margarita says today may be her last time making the eight-hour, round-trip hike into the Andes.</div>
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"Nowadays, I cannot come all the way up the mountain alone," she says. "I used to come with two dogs to gather the remedies. At three in the afternoon I would leave the páramo, and arrive back at my house at dark."</div>
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Her dogs have since passed away and, as Mama Margarita ages, she makes the trip less and less often.</div>
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In Sibundoy, the ancestral territory of the Kamentsa and Inga indigenous people, both the elders and lands that sustain traditional knowledge are disappearing. To keep pace with climate change, globalization and the region's mining development, local groups are banding together to record this information before it disappears.</div>
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Among them is an organization called the Asociación de Mujeres Indígenas de la Medicina Tradicional (the Association for Indigenous Women of Traditional Medicine, or "ASOMI" for short) that spearheads ambitious efforts to preserve women's traditional knowledge across Colombia. This information, they believe, is critical to preserving both the identity and the health of local communities.</div>
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"ASOMI's role is special because it is vital to carrying on the legacy left by the grandmothers," says María del Rosario "Charito" Chicunque, president of ASOMI. "Much of the knowledge has been lost, but it's not too late to preserve what remains."</div>
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Mama Margarita joined ASOMI in 2003. Known in the region as a knowledgeable elder, she received an invitation to the organization's inaugural meeting. Today, several ASOMI representatives accompany Mama Margarita on the trek: Charito; Yolanda Mutumbajoy, ASOMI's treasurer; and anthropologist Denise Ganitsky of the Amazon Conservation Team -- an organization that works closely with ASOMI on a variety of cultural conservation initiatives. They arrived yesterday from their headquarters in Mocoa, a town located three hours away via a dangerous, winding mountain road known for its landslides. The trip was worth the unique chance to document a rare system of healing, Ganitsky says.</div>
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"In ASOMI, the women are experts on plants and traditional medicine, but there's one in particular who really knows páramo plants and that's Mama Margarita," she says.</div>
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"When these women come together to exchange plants, they're all learning more about traditional medicine. They strengthen their own knowledge and what they can pass on."</div>
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It's not just the local people who acknowledge this region's many fascinating species, adds Mark Plotkin, the president of the Amazon Conservation Team who has spent the last 30 years studying connections between humans and plants in Amazonia.</div>
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"The Sibundoy Valley represents a sort of mecca for ethnobotanists who study the extraordinary healing properties of medicinal plants and their use by local shamans," he said in a phone call from ACT headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.</div>
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To assist on the trip, Mama Margarita also invited two other companions: Rosa Clara Mutumbajoy, her daughter and apprentice, and José Narciso Jamioy Muchavisoy, the former governor of the Kamentsa Community Council. In addition, there are the seven Kamentsa teenagers from the Institución Educativa Bilingüe Artesanal Kamentsa -- a school that teaches both national and traditional curriculum. With its mission to preserve and pass on traditional knowledge, ASOMI organized and sponsored the trip for these young people who now slip on rainjackets and mudboots in preparation for the hike.</div>
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The páramo we will all visit today is one of three around Sibundoy and just one portion of roughly 3.7 million acres found throughout Colombia.</div>
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Of that total area, 25,000 acres are destroyed every year, a rate that suggests 50 percent of páramos could disappear by the end of the century, according to Dr. Wouter Buytaert and Francisco Cuesta, who recently published a study about páramos in <i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Global Ecology and Biogeography. </i>With this loss, many of the valuable ecosystem services that humans depend on would also disappear.</div>
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"You can give the páramo a value in terms of what you would lose in water, carbon pools, and medicinal plants," Cuesta says.</div>
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In Sibundoy, the primary threats to this ecosystem are development projects and climate change. Climate change models predict shifts in the páramo's rainfall, temperature, and nutrient availability that could endanger plants, Buytaert explains.</div>
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"Given the uniqueness of many species, and the likeliness that a significant number may disappear, it is very important to catalog medicinal plants," he said. "From a scientific perspective, there are probably few plants for which no classic medical alternative exists, but there is of course an entire cultural context which may disappear."</div>
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Furthermore, with 28 mining solicitations and 11 contracts already approved, the landscape of the valley is about to change. Today, 80 percent of foreign investment in Colombia goes to the mining and hydrocarbons sector, and that number keeps growing.</div>
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Many years ago, Mama Margarita would have hiked from the bottom of the mountain. Today, however, the bus provides a shortcut. As we pile out, Charito and Yolanda give each person a black plastic bag filled with boiled chicken, rice, potatoes and peanuts--the rations for the trip. The children grab the meal and run, leading the pack into the mountains, while Mama Margarita takes her time with the adults in the back. Every so often, she stops to point out a plant. When she does, Charito and Yolanda take photos and write notes about the plant's characteristics and how to prepare it as medicine. When they return to ASOMI, they will transcribe this information to a digitized document.</div>
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Mama Margarita (left) and Charito (right). Photo credit: Monika Wnuk</div>
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"These things have not been written down," Charito explains. "The information is passed on orally -- it's part of the Kamentsa's daily life and tradition. Our work documenting medicinal plants is moving along consistently. It is a colossal task, but one that needs to be done in order to preserve the knowledge left by the grandmothers."</div>
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Today the women will collect a tiny portion of Mama Margarita's knowledge -- a vast quantity of information she began accumulating before taking her first steps.</div>
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"When I was a baby, I went three days without drinking milk," Mama Margarita says. "My mom had a friend who was an herbalist. He saved me and made me drink milk again. He guided me, and no one explained the plants to me but him."</div>
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Mama Margarita's years of experience in the Andes become clear as the trail turns from well-worn grasses into a scene from an obstacle course. Clothing catches on tangled branches, people duck under logs, and deep mud pulls on rain boots like people suck barbeque sauce off their fingers. One misstep lands an unlucky hiker in a thigh-high mud puddle, filling her boot with mud. The sound of laughter and the<i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">smack-smack-smack </i>of steps becomes the soundtrack for the hike. After a few hours, most of us are filthy. Mama Margarita, however, remains remarkably tidy.</div>
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Once in a while, our group stops for a view of the valley and the Putumayo River whose blue-grey waters run over a riverbed of red and blue granite boulders and tumble down to join the greatest river of them all: the Amazon. With his extensive knowledge of the region, Narciso can point out the location of each future mine, as well as new construction initiated by the mining industry.</div>
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"They cut down trees and carved through mountains for a road," Narciso says, pointing across the valley. "They are using sand from the river for cement. The river water used to be drinkable, but now it is too dirty."</div>
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The day before the hike, José Narciso shows us a section of the Putumayo River where he swam as a child. Photo credit: Megan Taylor Morrison</div>
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According to Cuesta, mining can be the most destructive of development projects. Toxic contamination may occur as heavy metals are pulled from the ground and transported, and additional construction is often required for support.</div>
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"Huge infrastructure projects, such as dams for hydroelectric power, will have a profound effect on the capacity of the páramo system to recover," Cuesta explains.</div>
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These issues are not just environmental, but also legal, according to John I. Laun, a committed conservationist and lawyer who founded the Colombia Support Network -- an organization dedicated to improving human rights in the country -- in 1987.</div>
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In 2009, the Colombian Constitutional Court ordered the Colombian government to protect the Inga and Kamentsa communities, along with 32 other indigenous groups. However, development projects continue.</div>
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"The mining concessions violate the Colombian Constitution and laws because no prior consultation with the indigenous communities was carried out by the Colombian government," Laun said in a phone interview.</div>
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There are also plans to build a highway into the valley as part of The Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA), Laun adds. Launched in late 2000 through an agreement between 12 South American presidents, the project aims to better link the continent's economies. The new construction would provide mining trucks with a shorter trip between San Francisco in Sibundoy and Mocoa.</div>
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If the project is approved, the road will pass through sacred lands and disrupt ecosystems, including páramos. Each day, trucks laden with heavy metals will travel through this area, contaminating the watershed and disrupting local agriculture. The changes could have impacts far beyond the valley, Laun says.</div>
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"This is part of the Amazon rainforest region," he explains. "When you start fiddling around with what's happening and make changes in that area, you're actually threatening the water source and climate control source for a great part of humanity."</div>
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For Narciso, the development leads to a question of cultural survival.</div>
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"According to the technical studies presented by the Instituto Nacional de Vías (<i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">INVÍAS)</i>, approximately 15,000 hectares of natural forest will be destroyed, which in the elders' worldview means stripping and destroying our Mother Earth in order to construct 37 kilometers of highway," he wrote in a <a href="http://colombiasupport.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/CSN-Fall-11.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">newsletter</a> for CSN."The Kamentsa and the Inga of the Sibundoy Valley are worried about the existence of these two communities, just as they are worried about the existence of all indigenous communities in the Amazon region."</div>
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At the halfway point, we sip coffee sweetened with local cane sugar and snack on<i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bocadillo, </i>a thick paste made of guava fruit. The children are beginning to look tired, but Mama Margarita jokes with Charito as she sips from a bottle of water.</div>
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Mama Margarita (left) and Charito (right). Photo credit: Megan Taylor Morrison</div>
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Despite the loss of many elders and the great threats to the region, these women believe they are making critical headway to protect and document local culture.</div>
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"I am optimistic," Charito says. "I am very enthusiastic about making sure the seeds left behind by the grandmothers are planted so that the history can be available for future generations."</div>
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When Mama Margarita announces it's time to set off, the children groan. Their pace is now slower. In another two hours, the forest gives way suddenly to a mossy flat with incredible views of the surrounding Andes.</div>
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This is the páramo.</div>
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According to Cuesta, the sudden shift from dense forest to open grasslands is a hallmark of this ecosystem, and is due to two factors: soil temperature and UV radiation. As you move out from the tree line, these conditions change significantly, meaning different plants can thrive. The delicate balance suggests that changes due to climate or land use will drastically alter the ecosystem.</div>
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For now, however, the páramo looks unscathed. The tundra is covered with tall grasses and dense mosses that squish underfoot and allow the ecosystem to act like a giant sponge. By soaking up and releasing water gradually, páramos help maintain a steady water supply, Buytaert explains.</div>
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"They are the water towers for much of the Andes, including big cities such as Quito and Bogotá," he explains.</div>
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Mama Margarita walks over to one of the páramo's characteristic plants -- a <i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">frailejón</i>(Espeletia) -- that could easily be mistaken for one of Dr. Seuss' truffula trees. The species has a round base like a pineapple and long, velvet-like leaves that extend from a thick trunk. Mama Margarita gives a leaf a firm tug and it breaks loose. When a person has a high fever, she says, a healer will boil the leaves in water and place them on the patient's thighs to reduce it. When the leaves are placed on the head, they can cure migraines, she adds.</div>
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Rosa Clara Mutumbajoy, Mama Margarita's daughter and apprentice, gathers medicinal plants in the páramo. Photo credit: Megan Taylor Morrison</div>
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Mama Margarita then gets down on her hands and knees and begins to scavenge through the brush, holding up what appears to be a few straggly weeds. If you boil this plant, the broth can settle nausea, she says.</div>
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The day continues this way: Mama Margarita locates a plant, holds it up, and describes its use while everyone takes photos and careful notes. By the end of the day, she showcases an extensive collection. The plants' uses include lowering blood pressure, helping mothers produce milk for their babies, calming upset stomachs, curing stomach tumors and soothing arthritis.</div>
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"I thank my God that gives me the remedies," Mama Margarita says. "I hope the children won't miss the chance to learn."</div>
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The hikers gather for a group photo. Photo credit: Megan Taylor Morrison</div>
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In the late afternoon, we slog back down the mountain with bags of herbs in tow. The bus picks us up a short time later and we head to the home of Luz Angelica, the daughter of another mama, for a traditional Colombian meal. Today was a special day and we celebrate over chicken soup, beef and salad.</div>
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"We came down with 14 different plants that the participants didn't know, and those plants can be planted at their homes, at the school or in the ASOMI garden," Ganitsky says. "It was an important moment to see how traditional knowledge is transmitted and strengthened."</div>
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As threats to the culture and land mount, the urgency of such initiatives is bringing the indigenous people of Sibundoy closer together, according to Charito.</div>
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"We collaborate on issues that endanger our autonomy and livelihood," she explains. "When there are threats, that's when we become stronger."</div>
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The trend is promising for conservation efforts, Cuesta says.</div>
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"In the past, it was more like Western society trying to help local people," he explains. "That model doesn't work anymore. The environmental agenda is being decentralized and many questions about how to manage land are given to local municipalities. [They] will have the last decision as to whether to turn the last hectares of páramo into a crop field or protect it for future generations."</div>
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Due to these developments, Narciso urges the international community to empower the traditional stewards of the land -- people like Mama Margarita, Charito and himself -- in order to produce the best results. He emphasizes this urgent need in his article:</div>
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"The elders ask the world to support them so that these two indigenous communities are not wiped out physically or culturally and, above all, so that future generations are able to live in a dignified way," he wrote. "If the land is not protected, the Kamentsa and Inga ancestral communities will soon be wiped out."</div>
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As the evening winds down, we offer to drop off Narciso at his home. During the drive, Charito notices the countless mosquito bites we acquired on the hike and offers to boil a tree bark she gathered that will soothe our skin.</div>
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In Narciso's kitchen, we drink sweet tea with cinnamon as we wait for the hot broth to cool. When it's ready, Charito dips her hands in the liquid and rubs our arms and legs in soothing strokes. A few minutes later, we gather our things and Narciso walks us to the door.</div>
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As we wave our final goodbyes, we can't help but notice a new sensation. We look at each other in silent confirmation. The itching is gone.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">GOVERNMENT INACTION HAS LED TO AN INDEPENDENT DATABASE FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">
<img alt="" src="http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/175233/missing-women--1-.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 349px; max-width: 642px; width: 642px;" /><br /><br /><em style="font-weight: inherit;"><span class="photo_caption" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 11px; margin-top: -15px;">Image <a href="http://thecurvature.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/missing-women.jpg" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">via WikiMedia Commons.</a></span></em><br />A new online database of missing and murdered Indigenous women, trans women and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Spirit" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Two-Spirit</a>people is aiming to not just record numbers, but to fight back by remembering the lives of the women who have been lost.</div>
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“The strength of the database will be from how it honours and remembers missing and murdered Indigenous women, Two Spirit, and trans women,” wrote Erin Konsmo, of the <a href="http://www.nativeyouthsexualhealth.com/" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Native Youth Sexual Health Network</a> (NYSHN), in an email interview with VICE. <a href="http://itstartswithus-mmiw.com/" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">It Starts With Us – Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women</a>, a collaboration of NYSHN, Families of Sisters in Spirit and No More Silence, launched in late July. The site <a href="http://itstartswithus-mmiw.com%2C/" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">already features the names of 72 women</a> who have gone missing, were found dead, or were murdered in Ontario. Another 50 will be added soon. In the coming weeks and months, the names of the hundreds of other native women who have gone missing from other regions of Canada over the last several decades.</div>
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Calls for action and public awareness of the epidemic of violence towards Indigenous women has been growing since earlier this year, said Audrey Huntley, one of the organizers with <a href="http://nomoresilence-nomoresilence.blogspot.ca/" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">No More Silence</a>. She's worked to combat violence against Indigenous women for about 20 years, and since February, there's been media attention like she's never seen before.</div>
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She attributes it to a kind of perfect storm that has focused the media's attention on the topic. That includes the <a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/lorettas-disappearance-part-horrific-pattern/21840" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">murder of Loretta Saunders</a>, a pregnant Inuk woman doing her masters thesis in Halifax on missing and murdered Indigenous women in February. There was also last year's<a href="http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/a-new-un-report-urges-canada-call-for-an-inquiry-into-the-cases-of-over-1200-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">unsolved death</a> of Bella Laboucan-Mclean, a young Cree woman from Alberta who had moved to Toronto to pursue a career in fashion who fell 31 stories from a high-rise condo in downtown Toronto under suspicious circumstances (the case is still open). Then came a <a href="http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/a-new-un-report-urges-canada-call-for-an-inquiry-into-the-cases-of-over-1200-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">United Nations report</a> calling for action, and the release of an <a href="http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/pubs/mmaw-faapd-eng.pdf" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">RCMP report</a> this past May placing the number of MMIW over the past 30 years at 1,181 (previous estimates have ranged from 500 to over 3,000—some feel that the RCMP report still <a href="http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-rcmps-report-on-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women-is-simply-not-enough" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">downplays the severity of the issue</a>).</div>
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Even with all this, the federal government has refused to take action. Recently, the Conservatives<a href="http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/mohawks-of-tyendinaga-blockade" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">once again denied calls</a> for a national inquiry into the issue. And what little resources that were given in the past for Indigenous-led efforts, such as funding to Sisters in Spirit to compile a similar national database, have been cut. When Sisters in Spirit’s funding was cut in 2010, the information they had gathered was taken by the government, and has never been made publicly accessible.</div>
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It would be easy to assume that increasing awareness would lead to less violence, but it hasn't played out that way. <a href="http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/pubs/mmaw-faapd-eng.htm" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The RCMP's recent study</a> reported that the proportion of native women killed, as compared to all murders of women in Canada, has grown from 18 percent in 2011 to 23 percent in 2012. In 1980 it was nine percent. While they attribute this change to the fact that fewer women are being killed in Canada, this only underscores that Indigenous women face a disproportionate amount of violence. And over the 30 years covered in the study, Indigenous women accounted for 16 percent of murder victims, while they make up only four percent of the Canadian population.</div>
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Huntley says she's seen this continued increase in violence in her own work. While public awareness may have increased, she says, the causes of violence haven't changed.</div>
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“What hasn't changed is the fucking violence and the rapes,” she said over the phone. “Not that I thought [greater awareness] would make that big of a difference. But it is alarming to notice that even though more people know about this now, it seems to be just as acceptable as always. It goes hand in hand with the austerity projects that this government has been behind, making more women more vulnerable. Increasing their poverty makes them more vulnerable,” she said.</div>
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The terrible track record of the Canadian government doesn't surprise either Huntley or Konsmo. They both make clear that the creation of the database isn't based on some recent frustration with the Conservative government, but rather the recognition that since its founding, Canada has sought to settle the land at the expense of Indigenous communities. In light of that, the only solution is to create alternative, Indigenous-led services and structures.</div>
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It Starts With US is “very much about this idea of not looking to the state for solutions, and seeing this as part of a bigger resurgence of Indigenous people taking control over their own lives,” Huntley said.</div>
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So instead, they are building something they say will reflect the community itself. The three groups originally came together through a series of workshops dedicated to building resistance to violence against Indigenous women. It was at one of these meetings with all three groups present where they met Dr. Janet Smiley of the Keenan Research Centre who specializes in Aboriginal health and helped develop the methodology for the database. This led to more discussion and the creation of the database over the ensuing months. The three groups also <a href="http://www.nativeyouthsexualhealth.com/march142014.pdf" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">put out a joint statement</a> in March 2014 calling for a wide range of actions on top of the development of a database—from developing Media Arts Justice to teach-ins to supporting people in the sex trade—in order to “foster resurgence in everyday ways to respond to gender-based violence.”</div>
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“Collaborating with other grassroots initiatives like No More Silence and FSIS are long term relationships to work to shift all the ways in which colonial gender based violence affects our communities,” Konsmo said. “Working in collaboration for us is a way of nation-building and supporting one another.”</div>
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Part of that is honouring the lives—and not just focusing on the deaths—of the women who have been killed or have disappeared. It's that belief that gave rise to the tribute section of the website, where more in-depth profiles of the lives of missing and murdered women will be featured. The launch of the site was timed to coincide with one year after death of Bella Laboucan-McLean. Working closely with Bella's family, they <a href="http://www.itstartswithus-mmiw.com/bella" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">created a memorial page</a> celebrating her life and accomplishments.</div>
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“I think the family feel like they got some healing by being able to tell their own story in their own way,” she said. And other families have taken notice. “Other families have been in touch with me and they are in the process of collecting the photos and writing up the stories of their loved ones, because they really want to do the same.”</div>
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Konsmo echoes this importance, and emphasized that it can help prevent future violence as well: “When we are able to tell the stories about our own bodies, that they aren’t empty and conquerable, but full of history, culture, language, and legacies of resistance we are able to resist violence,” she said.</div>
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While putting together a tribute page is a rigorous process, so is entering each name on the list. The team of volunteers makes sure that they collect not just information about how a woman died, but also about their life, details like residential school history in their family, interactions with child and family services, and whether they spent time on the street. Each life is given context, rather than superficially documenting their death.</div>
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That kind of work isn't easy though. “It's daunting, it's overwhelming, it's incredibly sad. It's incredibly hard work,” said Huntley. Volunteers try to meet face to face to support each other in the difficult work of documenting these stories. They work with elders in ceremony to help them through the at-times troubling information they often need to gather. Huntley had two weeks off during the winter and took the opportunity to enter about 70 stories into the database. She got post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from it, she said. “I got pretty sick.” No one person can take on too much of the work without getting overwhelmed, explained Huntley, so they are always looking for new volunteers, who can sign up through the website. The difficult nature of the work, though, means it can be hard to recruit. But gradually, more people from across the country are getting in touch since the site was launched.</div>
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Just focusing on the numbers would help speed up the process and make it easier on the volunteers. But in this case, the database isn't just about pumping out numbers: it's about the community, the people, and the stories it can tell.</div>
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“It's just really important for us that when we're honouring these stories, to do it in a way that's respectful,” said Huntley. “Which may make it a slower process, and we just recognize that that is the way it is. It will take us as long as it takes us... We'll get there when we get there.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/government-inaction-has-led-to-an-independent-database-for-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-41380734232574155072014-08-07T03:37:00.003-07:002014-08-07T03:37:50.482-07:00NAJA asks Indian Country Today Media Network for apology following headline<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: 0.125em;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">Dear </span>Mr. Halbritter,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">When Indian Country Today hit newsstands in 1981, it served as one of the only national outlets for Native American news in the country. Up-and-coming Indigenous journalists were able to build careers and followings thanks to the publication, and the United States was also able to learn about the many struggles and issues Native Americans faced.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Since those early days, many things have changed: The publication has gone from newsprint to digital only, and the journalism has started to move from abiding by the high, ethical standards followed by daily newspapers and leading media outlets to those more congruent with social media-driven entertainment websites.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Strategic business decisions might very well be behind ICTMN’s recent editorial choices and, of course, it is at your complete discretion to run your operation in the best way you see fit—even if, from a journalistic standpoint, there have been moments of disappointment in seeing sensational headlines clearly geared toward boosting Web traffic, as well as posts with divisive, racial undertones that fall short of bringing clarity to some of the most important issues in Indian Country of our time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The most egregious example of irresponsible editorial judgment came to our attention today when ICTMN staff ran a post with this headline “Rate That Genocide: W<span style="color: #444444;">hich Was Worse, Slavery Or Treatment Of Native Americans.” The brief was based on a Vanity Fair <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2014/09/ethical-judgements-poll_slideshow_item6_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #9e2201; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">article</a>, and we feel we must respond expressing our concern.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Genocide is real and should never be compared or rated with other crimes against humanity. It should never be used to stir attention or generate social-media shares.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">At worst, your staff failed to understand the seriousness of the subject matter and used the unsettling headline to bate people to your site and drive up ICTMN Web traffic before directing them to <a href="http://vanityfair.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #9e2201; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">vanityfair.com</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">At best, your staff wanted to highlight the unfortunate Vanity Fair/60 Minutes poll that asked people to choose from slavery, the treatment of Native Americans, the Vietnam War, Iraq War and the bombing of Hiroshima in ranking “the biggest ethical misjudgment in U.S. history.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But even in a best-case scenario, ICTMN’s efforts would have fallen short of adding to the post valuable thought-driven context, a central part of our jobs as journalists. And even in a best-case scenario, there is no defense for the headline. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">ICTMN is one of the most visible online voices when it comes to Native America, which means sound newsroom judgment and following clear ethical guidelines should be considered your journalistic responsibility. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">We hold all news outlets accountable for unethical behavior, be it Native or non-Native. But it’s especially disheartening to see an outlet that says it aims to serve Native people show such a level of insensitivity. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Vanity Fair/60 Minutes poll was misguided and we are discussing a response to it as well. But we are addressing your misstep first, in part, because—and, we can’t stress this enough—the idea that an outlet that proclaims to serve Native people could be capable of such insensitivity is, in a word, disheartening. The editorial priorities at ICTMN have been trending in the wrong direction for far too long, and we are saddened that the pattern of irresponsibility has led to this moment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">We ask that Indian Country Today apologize for the headline and institute a sound policy of publishing correction logs when corrections are made to stories. We also encourage you to provide staff with journalism ethics trainings. We can help on this front.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">We realize our criticisms are strongly worded, but we are hopeful that you will take them in the spirit for which they are intended—to improve Native journalism. We would welcome a chance to discuss these issues with you and will offer any help we can to facilitate these changes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Again, as one of the most recognized brands in Indian Country, we would like to see a return to the values that once made your publication great. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Mary Hudetz, President</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Native American Journalists Association<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.naja.com/news/m.blog/509/naja-asks-indian-country-today-media-network-for-apology-following-headline" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-52936583810339453152014-08-07T03:31:00.000-07:002014-08-07T03:31:15.698-07:00Golden Eagle Close to Death Rescued by 11-year-old Boy (RESCUE PHOTOS)<b style="background-color: #353535; border: 0px; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Golden eagle was in grave condition, but officials said a young boy from Cody, Wyoming was able to rescue the bird by calling for help.</b><br style="background-color: #353535; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: #353535; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: #353535; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">County 10 news is reporting that, Preston Olson, 11, found the bird in his yard on Thursday.“We found him in our yard about six miles outside of Riverton,” Preston’s mom Heather told County 10 news. “We Googled what they eat and it’s all meat. My son gave him some raw chicken and water out of a big plastic bowl.” </span><br style="background-color: #353535; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: #353535; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: #353535; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">Stan Harter, a game and fish biologist, took the eagle to the Ironside Bird Rescue Center. “It gave us more fight up there than it did when I loaded it up here,” he said. “That boy was lucky it was so weak at the time, he could’ve been badly hurt.”</span><br style="background-color: #353535; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: #353535; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: #353535; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px;">The bird was treated for a bacterial infection called “Frounce.”</span><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeAxLMdKW6VrEJ2jJrGC4ijDwR9URTi5Ljek9DjeTxp_TjG66GBpj31hKkQRVW4wpvyYp3penMRhDgCegmDGQywZ-8-lgGdrluFIEKY5WACerlYUBjc2AMk4Y2wAgtA6t8h7kg-hEIBmOh/s1600/10568715_779451742075380_352664511_n.jpg" /><br /><br /><span style="background-color: #353535; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">“This eagle is only three months old and it only weighs 5 pounds, that’s half of what it should be,” Susan Ahalt told County 10. “The eagle could not eat because its mouth and throat was clogged with this bacteria,” she said. “I’m feeding it by tube four times a day with a high-calorie meal and giving it twice-daily medicine, that should kill the bacteria.” </span><img height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE-cZTrDF70IMQN3BBhWjFZfR-sN6ZUx1ZwkC39M5bvV9iuV-OnfD3mLKmGMaW7xsKw0oyB42sIHvrum3VR0kvCd0bcybRV2228uV0WmEUIwkvffbHF9rIaWXo-6ANfgGVP-mxxZkZmcYh/s640/10567942_779451338742087_990069261_n.jpg" width="640" /><br /><br /><br /><br style="background-color: #353535; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #353535; color: white; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The eagle was chasing her around the room and took three hours to calm down.“[It’s the] meanest eagle I’ve ever seen,” she said, laughing.</span><br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN4w-DMjtsZAWj1Jg_h1XX8lSWiCFBDoiW4dyfSGWCv07qtdJtp8-vW5pUjZArZ0h8w2R8C_3OPJNuTJsxFlqiQcqYPO5qXE3swP5JGeJE89gcT2W9rZY6qnRPIt0iEsrUU0Ytn_ZyPBX_/s1600/10570981_779451785408709_1873933234_n.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHpybpW1yh0YtZ1GDZPmCMH8dibjgiswDkIgeeWkyv_SQBUogDYd4I8aoLEhBrvDpdbcNSISVB_wd99j2UTU2CIIu4ftYYTwYYk-6kkm015Lx9rQOOSxrONlGo9NPVAp5jij6iPGpfTRR/s1600/10568055_779451488742072_298975735_n.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2014/08/golden-eagle-close-to-death-rescued-by.html" target="_blank">SOURCE OF STORY</a><br /><a href="http://county10.com/" target="_blank">SOURCE OF PHOTOS</a><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-4113505664069912772014-08-07T03:23:00.001-07:002014-08-07T03:23:10.931-07:00Tribes Can Now Arrest Non-Natives<div style="border: 0px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
On Friday, August 1, 27 members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Police received the power to arrest non-Natives on tribal land. “Up until now they could only hold and detain non-tribal members until the state police could come and make the arrest,” William Satti, director of public affairs for the Mashantucket Pequot Nation, said at a swearing-in ceremony heralding the event.</div>
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In preparation, the tribal police were certified by the Police Officer Standards and Training Council, which will increase the presence of personnel in the area and will complement the state and local police forces in eastern Connecticut.</div>
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A bill was enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives stating that a law enforcement unit of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe and the Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut has the same enforcement powers as the State Police and local police departments. On May 28, a comparable agreement had been executed with the Mohegan Tribal Nation.</div>
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“It's a special day, a big deal day,” Dora B. Schriro, Commissioner of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, said. “The Connecticut State Police and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Police Department will partner, enhancing safety and security in the region.”</div>
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Chief of Police William Dittman said the tribal police will now have jurisdiction on felonies anywhere in the state of Connecticut, and will have the same powers as any municipal police department in the state, improving the safety and the risk factor for both the officers and the public. “At this point, we now have many more officers on duty than we ever had state officers on duty,” he said. Dittman, who recently underwent surgery for cancer, celebrated his first day back on the job with the ceremony.</div>
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Captain Katie Tougas, of the MPTPD, said many of the tribal police officers have already spent years in law enforcement. “I think that it will be very successful, and I think there will be a lot less stress. They have been waiting for this for a long time. I’ve been there 20 years, and it’s been a long time coming.”</div>
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“We are pleased that we have finalized this historic piece of legislation by signing this MOA today with the State of Connecticut. As a Tribal Nation, we fully believe that the strong government-to-government relationship that both the tribe and the state maintain is key in our everyday interactions,” said Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Chairman Rodney Butler.</div>
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Connecticut Chief State’s Attorney Kevin Kane, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Chairman Rodney Butler, and Commissioner of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Dora B. Schriro, sign the Memorandum of Agreement allowing the tribe’s police force to assume all duties enjoyed by municipal forces. (Christina Rose)</div>
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When the casinos first opened, the towns of Ledyard and North Stonington worried about the impact the casinos would have on their towns. Concerns of prostitution and burglaries were feared but according to studies those problems never materialized. Crime did increase, but only in keeping with the population growth. According to a report issued by Harvard, the number of crimes per 1,000 residents actually declined.</div>
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Tougas said the casinos have worked hard to forge a good working relationship with the towns. “I believe we try to work together. With all the cuts in the area, having any amount of increased law enforcement should be beneficial,” she said.</div>
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Things seem better now than they were in previous years, and Tougas said the Connecticut State Police have done an excellent job in the casinos. “The difference now is that these are guys who will be here every day and will know everything that’s going on; it will be consistent.”</div>
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Connecticut Chief State’s Attorney Kevin Kane, said, “This is a really big step. It sets up a formalized relationship, a structure. It is the perfect way to go about letting the tribe and the state protect the safety of the community, the people, the public, of everybody here—and doing this in an equal and fair manner.</div>
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“It is an agreement that respects the authority of both sovereigns, here in the state of Connecticut and the Mashantucket Tribal Nation. Everybody has come a long way,” Kane said.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />All Native Americans have had those encounters -- meeting a stranger of a different race who reacts to Indian-ness with a predictable comment about your racial makeup, or a common misconception about Indians, or a (probably false) story about his or her grandmother. It's weird, it's sometimes offensive, it's sometimes oddly touching. </div>
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This list turns the tables, offering the NDN side of the conversation. Use carefully. Thanks goes to Last Real Indians for posting this one to<a href="https://www.facebook.com/lastrealindians/posts/730103427011290" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">their Facebook page</a>. </div>
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Top 10 Things Natives Should Say to White Folks</div>
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10. How much white are you?</div>
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9. I'm part white myself, you know.</div>
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8. I learned all your people's ways in the Boy Scouts.</div>
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7. My great-great-grandmother was a full-blooded white American Princess.</div>
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6. Funny, you don't look white.</div>
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5. I'm not racist, my best friend is white!</div>
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4. Do you live in a covered wagon?</div>
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3. What's the meaning behind the square dance?</div>
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2. Can I touch your facial hair?</div>
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1. Hey, can I take your picture?</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-91535302668692372322014-06-23T07:45:00.004-07:002014-06-23T07:50:30.922-07:00 21 Celebs You Didn’t Know Were Native American<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Museo, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
<img alt="NativeAmericanCollage" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhh_fUTSGCHHfTtltvHfpD-w9ukABWZv4xmlKvSg7y3rqYUd0xliV2ZU1Nc3Y3MN10ifFaX1W8CmrbTH6va8mhjhU0c0xPWTOqhREXLMJzunty3vmY7W010jDCrguv6iiAc_qjhvN63beMo0mlrc2ZwEYSVIu3hGREFXAOI80jS7lfOx-HX31MOnekM9gZYCIvDwVI=" /><br /><br /><br /><br />November is Native American Heritage Month, when the United States officially celebrates the culture and traditions of Native American people. With more than five million people of Native American descent living in the United States, it’s no surprise that many famous people (or their ancestors) in the arts and entertainment industries are members of one of the many tribes on record.</div>
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Researching ancestry and claiming official enrollment in a Native American tribe can be a challenging process. While investigating what famous people claim Native American blood, it’s clear that you have to go on self-reporting, for the most part. It’s pretty widely known that Elvis was directly descended from the Cherokee Nation, for instance (and who was going to argue with Elvis, anyway?). Other celebrities who claim Native American origin have caused more controversy. Cher, for instance, said that she had 1/16 Cherokee blood after releasing her single, “Half Breed,” in the 1970s. Her claims were widely disputed, and her choice to wear a typical Native American headdress while performing the song on <em>Sonny and Cher</em> didn’t win anyone over.</div>
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There are many actors and musicians whose Native American ancestry may be less obvious. Jimi Hendrix, Tori Amos, and Chuck Norris were surprises to me. So was Angelina Jolie, for that matter. It didn’t really occur to me to wonder where these people were from, or from whom they were descended, so there ethnicity isn’t shocking. I’d just never considered it.</div>
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My favorite Native American cinematic experience was <em>Smoke Signals</em>, one of my favorites movies, based on Sherman Alexie’s book <em>Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.</em> It’s hard to believe the book was published 20 years ago this summer, but the dates don’t lie, I guess.<br />
“When <em>The Lone Ranger</em> was published, I was being fêted by the publishing world while I was back living on the rez, after college,” Alexie told the <em>New Yorker</em>. “I was called ‘one of the major lyric voices of our time’ while I was sleeping in a U.S. Army surplus bed in the unfinished basement bedroom in my family’s government-built house.”</div>
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This quote from Alexie’s book sums up everything I’d hope wouldn’t happen to people of Native American descent in Hollywood or anywhere.</div>
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<em>“… but I know somebody must be thinking about us because if they weren’t we’d just disappear just like those Indians who used to climb the pueblos. Those Indians disappeared with food still cooking in the pot and air waiting to be breathed and they turned into birds or dust or the blue of the sky or the yellow of the sun. There they were and suddenly they were forgotten for just a second and for just a second nobody thought about them and then they were gone.”</em></div>
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The history and contributions of the people are far too rich to forget. Let’s take a look at 21 celebrities you may not have known were Native American.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Museo, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 24px;">Angelina Jolie</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is a one-hour documentary about the 1920s Hominy Indians football team that defeated the defending National Football champions, New York Giants in 1927.</b></div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There was an All-Native American Professional Football team in Oklahoma during the 1920's and early '30's. Consisting entirely of Native blood to form a team called 'The Hominy Indians'. </span><br style="font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Twenty-two different tribes were represented, some played for one game, some for years. </span><br style="font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Founded and financed by two Osage brothers, Ira and Otto Hamilton. They had a 22 game winning streak and had the chance of a lifetime to play against the World Champions, the New York Giants, in 1927. John Levi, was their star player and then coach. Jim Thorpe called him the greatest athlete he had ever seen. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What happens during the pre-game speech by the Coach to inspire this team to dig deep is a speech so motivating that it will be used in locker rooms for generations to come. This is their story.</span><br style="font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><b style="border: 0px; font-family: tahoma, georgia, 'century gothic', Arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">- Written by Executive Producer Celia Xavier </b></span><br />
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Tishomingo in 1836 lived on the place in Lee county, known in 1870 as the Larkin Gambrell place, and was the chief of that district. From map sent me in 1904 by Miss Janie Agnew, Bethany, Lee county, Miss., and by one or more members of Larkin Gambrell’s family I learn that Tishomingo’s house was on S. W. 1-4, Sec. 13, Town 7, Range 5, Lee Co., Miss.; Larkin Gambrell’s home in 1849 was on N. W. 1-4 of same section.</div>
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From Edwin G. Thomas, May 10, 1880:</div>
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“In 1834, before I moved to Pikeville, I made a trip through the Indian nation. I first made my way to Cotton Gin, on the east side of the Tombigby, across which was the Indian nation. By night of one of the days when traveling in the Chicksaw nation, we reached the settlement of an Indian, Tishomingo. On this day we were guided by an Indian, and passed several Indian huts. Some Indians run their horses by us during the day—drunk. The guide talked with the sober Indian, and learned that they had been at a trading place and gotten spirits. Tishomingo lived on the south side of a traveled road running a little north of east. He had a right smart sized farm and a good many negroes. He had a large spring across the road from his house, and below, a few hundred yards, there was a natural rock bridge, the branch running under it. The distance from the T. C. Stuart mission was 35 or 40 miles.” </blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #f2f0ee;"> Tishomingo was then (1836) a hundred years old, his wife seventy or eighty, and his mother (who lived with him) one hundred and twenty. He had been living at that place sixty one years. He had come from the Chickasaw Old Fields. </span><br />
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The Creeks and Chickasaws had had a fight sixty-one years before. The Creeks came to the Chickasaw Old Fields and killed the Chickasaws, and the latter scattered out from this place, which had been up to that time the head-quarters of their tribe. </div>
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Tishomingo was a good, clever man, and very infiuential. The chief seems to have possessed some property in 1834; for we are told that in that year, Edwin G. Thomas, traveled in the Chickasaw Nation and that Tishomingo “had a right smart size farm and a good many negroes.”</div>
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In personal appearance the chief was big, tall, and rawboned,<br />
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“I have heard Brother [T. C.] Stuart and the first settlers speak in high terms of Tishomingo, as a noble-spirited chief, distinguished for his high sense of honor and virtue.”” In one of the treaties he is spoken of by the Chickasaws “as their old and beloved chief.”</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #f2f0ee;">Narrative of Berry Hodges, Union county, Miss., June 8, 1880:.</span><br />
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“While I was living near Ripley I visited the neighborhood of Tishomingo. Tennessee wagoners got me to sell their stock to the Indians, because I understood their language. I found no whites in Tishomingo’s neighborhood. Tishomingo was a noted Indian, an old man, very old. I saw him at Ripley several times. The Indians knew me very well. At Indians’ houses men would lie on bear-skins, covered with blankets if they had them. Their eating was poor stuff. I have eaten tom-fulla (hominy) beat and boiled, a little lye dropped in it, and turned a little sour) with Tishomingo. Tom-fulla was a common diet among the Indians.” </blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #f2f0ee;"> Tishoming died at Little Rock, Ark., on his way to the Territory, and was buried there. It is supposed that he died about 1841. A county in Mississippi and a town in the Indian Territory perpetuate the name of this old minco.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.natchezbelle.org/ahgp-ms/chiefs/chiefs4.htm" target="_blank">Source</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-59084459595858704802014-06-23T06:24:00.002-07:002014-06-23T06:53:45.591-07:00Sitting Bull<img src="http://dausonstimpsongagnon.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/sitting-bull.jpg" style="-webkit-user-select: none;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-8009603015483238982014-06-22T16:57:00.002-07:002014-06-22T16:57:41.224-07:00FIRST NATIONS LEADERS URGE NATIVES AND NON-NATIVES TO UNITE AGAINST NORTHERN GATEWAY<img alt="A Protest sign hangs from a building in the town of Kitimat, British Columbia, April 12, 2014. Residents of the town voted against the Northern Gateway pipeline project in a blow to Enbridge Inc's efforts to expedite the flow of crude from Canada's landlocked oil sands to high-paying markets in Asia. Photo taken April 12, 2014." height="359" src="http://redpowermedia.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/gateway-enbridge17rb1.jpg?w=800" width="640" /><br />
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Shaking with anger, their voices trembling with emotion, native leaders brought the conference to a standstill Tuesday as they spoke of their dismay over the decision – and of their commitment to fight to stop the project from ever getting built.</div>
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“Pretty shocking … it’s a tough, tough piece of news,” said Wigvilhba Wakas, a hereditary chief of the Heiltsuk Nation.</div>
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“We see this all over the world, where corporate interests are overriding the interests of the people,” said Guujaaw, past president of the Council of Haida Nation and one of the top political leaders among native people in B.C.</div>
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“It’s way out of control and it’s probably going to take decisions like this for people to stand up [together]. I think this is a test of humanity now to stand up and fight back,” he said.</div>
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Wickaninish, former president of the Nuu-Chah-nulth Tribal Coucil, said the federal government had made “an ominous decision” that he hoped would unite native and non-native people in a common cause, as the battle over Clayoquot Sound did in his traditional territory on Vancouver Island, where mass arrests stopped logging near Tofino.</div>
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“This is not just an Indian fight … it’s all the people,” he said.</div>
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Wahmeesh, vice-President of the Nuu-Chah-nulth, said he felt an emotional blow when he heard the decision, which spread around the conference as participants read the news bulletins on their smartphones.</div>
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“My heart kind of sank, like I’d lost somebody. Like a death in the family,” he said.</div>
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Wahmeesh said he was going to return to the Nuu-Chah-nulth, a large collection of 14 tribes on the west coast of Vancouver Island, for an urgent meeting on the pipeline project. And he promised that the chiefs would be united in pledging support to those tribes along the pipeline route across Northern B.C.</div>
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“This is probably the biggest decision this government will ever make in my lifetime [affecting First Nations],” he said, struggling to find a way to describe the magnitude of the decision.</div>
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Wahmeesh echoed those who urged a coalition between native and non-native people to fight the pipeline.</div>
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“We’ll stand together as Canadians,” he said.</div>
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Margaret Edgars, an elder from the Haida Nation, was in tears as she spoke to the gathering of scientists and native leaders from Alaska, B.C., Washington, Oregon and California who had gathered for a conference to discuss the resurgence of sea otters on the West Coast.</div>
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“I was hurt a bit when I heard it,” she said of the news of Ottawa’s support for the project. “But with everyone speaking out about it here I’m feeling a little stronger. … I think we’ve had enough of what they’re doing. It’s time to stand together united. … We have to continue with the fight.”</div>
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After Alaskan delegates had reminded the gathering of the long, enduring impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Ms. Edgars said tankers pose too great a risk to coastal B.C.</div>
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art&beautyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09813269631343450348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-16594434999124837682014-06-22T16:50:00.003-07:002014-06-22T16:50:50.795-07:00The Chickasaw Migration Story<img src="http://dcd1idayz8l8p.cloudfront.net/uploads/production/document/picture/462/main/480x270-Chikasa-and-Chata.jpg" height="360" width="640" /><br />
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The Chickasaws and Choctaws once were one people, according to the Chickasaw migration story. This understanding is common to the accounts of English trader James Adair in 1775 and the 20th century Chickasaw activist, Jess Humes.</div>
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There are other versions in between. They all involve people making a lengthy journey from the west, following a sacred leaning pole, and a complication that resolves when the people split into two groups.</div>
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In the Chickasaw versions, one group stays put at the behest of a leader named Chata. The other, much smaller group, follows his twin brother, Chikasa, as they continue heading east. Was this a simple yet profound difference of opinion on this one matter? A case of sibling rivalry? Or had the seeds for the split already been planted, possibly through differences among clans?</div>
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Before these highly spiritual people separated, a prophet may have foreseen the eventual warfare between them, and warned that it would be caused by a greedy and hateful alien race. Such a premonition would have added even more distress to the parting.</div>
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Whatever, that moment of separation marked the emergence of two distinct peoples. Before they split up, the migrants had a name we will never know. Afterward, they adopted the names of their respective leaders and became the Choctaws and Chickasaws.</div>
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When the division occurred is a mystery that will never be solved. But the point is that the break up was permanent.</div>
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art&beautyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09813269631343450348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-82696513386591562032014-06-22T15:34:00.000-07:002014-06-22T15:34:00.917-07:0010 of the Cutest Kids in Pow Wow Regalia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some breaches of etiquette are simply considered disrespectful while others may result in the offender being removed from the arena. Here are some tips to make sure your behavior is appropriate and your visit is memorable.</div>
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It is not appropriate to wear hats, swimsuits, extremely short skirts or shorts or halter tops. Do not wear T-shirts or other items of clothing with profanity or inappropriate slogans.</div>
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If you plan to participate in dances that are open to the public, keep in mind that some tribes require women to wear a shawl or cover their shoulders.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Always listen to the master of ceremonies or announcer</strong></div>
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“The MC will tell you when you can photograph [and] he will tell you when you can dance,” said Leonard Anthony, a Navajo gourd dancer and MC. “Usually visitors or outsiders can dance during the inter-tribal dance, but you need to listen for an announcement before you participate.”<br /></div>
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If you’re a spectator, do not sit here.</div>
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“A first-time visitor looks for the best seats possible,” said Dennis Zotigh, cultural specialist at the National Museum of the American Indian. “The seats closest to the arena seem to be the best seats, but that’s because the dancers stand up and immediately begin dancing.”</div>
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A blessing is performed ahead of time and your actions should show respect for this religious and sacred ceremony.</div>
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“It’s like going to a church,” Anthony said. “If you’re going to a pow wow, you need to honor where the dances came from, the traditions and story behind them.”</div>
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The blessing that takes place beforehand sets the tone of the event and sanctifies the area, Zotigh said. Although the blessing is usually not open to the public, its spiritual nature should be taken seriously.</div>
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“Our elders have taught us not to dance or sing with negative karma,” he said. “That karma will expand and affect others.”</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do not bring alcohol, drugs or firearms to a pow wow</strong></div>
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An exception is tobacco used for blessings or as gifts. Smoking is considered disrespectful, Zotigh said.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow protocol and common sense when it comes to taking photographs</strong></div>
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Never shoot photos during prayers, gourd dances or flag songs, or when the Master of Ceremonies has prohibited it. Additional rules apply in specific circumstances, Zotigh said. For example, spectators should not take photos of dancers in regalia without first asking permission.</div>
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“This is especially true for professional photographers standing in the arena,” he said. “Often dancers are wearing something special or personally spiritual to them. A lot of</div>
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dancers don’t like their beadwork photographed because someone can see that and copy the design.”</div>
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Another rule of thumb is to never shoot photos of a dancer being initiated or receiving a plume or feather. Doing so can disrupt the spiritual process, Anthony said.</div>
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“There’s a prayer being said for that person and by taking pictures, you’re disrupting the connection,” he said.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pow wows are colorful and high-energy events</strong></div>
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Spectators should have fun but also keep in mind that participants are not simply entertainers. Especially during contest pow wows, dancers, singers and drummers may be performing for money.</div>
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“There are individuals who do this as a way of life,” Zotigh said. “They take it seriously because it’s their income.”</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Finally, be flexible</strong></div>
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“I think the main rule of every pow wow is that each one is different,” Zotigh said. “There is no standardization. Do as the host committee directs you to do. It may be against what you’ve been taught, but if you’re a visitor, do what they want.”</div>
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As younger participants join pow wows, some of the old rules are changing.</div>
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“The old rules are being redefined each year,” he said. “Things are changing, so be flexible with it.”<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/03/29/pow-wow-etiquette-10-rules-follow-and-out-arena-154195?page=0%2C2" target="_blank">Source</a></div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">J. D. Challenger</b> was born in Oklahoma and his artistic talent was obvious from a very early age. Although he took his gift seriously as he developed it, he was also very humble about it. He was quoted as saying, "The thing I do best is paint. I prefer to look at it as 'not me' doing it, I'm just the instrument... The Creator, the brush, the paint, and then me."<br />
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In order to be in the good company of other artists, he moved to Taos, New Mexico which is known as a mecca for artistic spirits and for it's beautiful landscapes. It was here that J.D. started his career doing just that - painting landscapes. But privately, he felt compelled to learn about and do paintings of Native Americans. These paintings he kept secret though because he was afraid of offending a people that he greatly admired.<br />
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One day however, when he was witnessing a Ghost Dance scene being made for a movie, J.D. Challenger had a spiritual revelation of what was to become his life's mission. He became convinced that he was to paint the story of the Native Americans. After being encouraged by his wife, Denise, to show his work to his Native American friends, he received their blessing and was told by a holy man, "There has to be a messenger and he doesn't have to be one of our People. The Creator chooses His own messengers. Your path is to tell our story and educate people about the past and about what is still happening today."<br />
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From then on, he painted his portraits of the Native Americans whose past and present was rich in heritage and traditions. His goal was to paint the truth and each portrait had it's own story to tell. Sometimes the story would be one filled with anger as there was much anger felt about the injustices that had been done to the first peoples of North America by the European explorers and later the founders of the Government of the United States.<br />
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But through it all, J.D. Challenger just considered himself to be the messenger of these amazing stories. As you enjoy his paintings, you will also see for yourself, the vivid details of their stories as they unfold before you.<br />
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<b>The magic of the Drum and its relation to Mother Earth's heartbeat
moves one's consciousness into the inner worlds of vision, experience,
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It is often a time and place for Medicine Wheel teachings, of power
animals and spirit guides of inner reflection and connection or
re-connection to those things that really matter.
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The Drum takes us to that special place where we can reconnect to those
things that truly matter to our spirits, minds, emotions and body.
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In other words, Spiritual and Physical integrity follows nerve, blood
flows according to deepest cell needs, our spirits are fed, we are in
rhythm with the Earth Mother.
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When you hear the rhythm of the group drumming and contribute your beat,
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ever asked why, when you see the old pictures of their ancestors, not
too many of the older people had gray hair? Or why their hair was so
long? Or why even the men had such healthy hair?<br />
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The answer is pretty simple and applies to every aspect of their life,
which us as American Indians and Alaska Natives who we are. As a people,
our ancestors saw their hair as a part of their identity. It was an
embodiment of how they lived, just like everything that surrounded them.
They gave respect to everything in nature, as you probably already know
from history lessons.<br />
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For one they never used all these so-called “modern” hair care gadgets
and products on their hair. They took pride in their hair and different
hair styles represented different things in their life. Their hair was
of great spiritual importance to them, and they took great pride in it.
They had many natural hair care practices that kept their hair strong,
thick, shiny and long. These include herbs, roots, teas, oils and
infusions. Some of these are as follows:
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<b>1. Aloe Vera</b><br />
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Aloe Vera is a great natural moisturizer that was used in every day
Native life for protecting the hair and the body from the sun and other
harsh weather conditions, and also keeping the hair soft and silky. This
was one of the main ways that they used to keep their hair healthy.
Aloes are also edible and very good immune boosters and toxic cleansers.
They also ate this in their daily life to help them stay fit. These are
just a few of the benefits of using aloe vera, but for an even longer
list of uses… there is a pretty good article here that list some 40
different uses. Although that article is pretty current, it seems that
many Native Americans were already with familiar with many of them.<br />
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<b>2. Saw Palmetto</b><br />
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This herb is Indigenous to the Native lands and it formed part of their
nutritional diets and also has very good medicinal value. The fruit Saw
Palmetto is a scarlet red berry; they would dry it in the sun for days
then grind it and infuse it into tinctures, teas and ointments which
were applied to their hair to help strengthen it and also prevent scaly
scalp – dandruff. Saw Palmetto also has properties that suppress the
hormone that causes baldness, so taking it orally and as a topical
application is one of the ways the Native Americans hair was kept so
beautiful.
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<b>3. Stinging Nettle </b><br />
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Most male pattern baldness is caused by testosterone being converted
into DHT. The Stinging Nettle has been found to have properties that
stop testosterone from being converted into DHT; this is the hormone
which is responsible for hair loss in many men and some women. This
plant grows wild and in abundance in America. The Native Americans used
it a lot which is why you don’t see too many Native Americans with hair
loss problems or having to get hair transplants. Since it grows in the
wild, they would just hand pick it, (of course paying attention to the
stinging, because it has a spiny stem) and infuse it into oils to
moisturize their hair. They would also brew it as a tea for drinking.
Stinging Nettle has K, B, and C vitamins and it also has a lot of amino
acids and iron. Amino acids help with protein formation in your body
and the hair needs protein to grow strong and healthy. Vitamin B and C
are also important for healthy hair.
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<b>4. Washing & Protective Styling</b><br />
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They didn’t wash their hair and mess with their hair everyday so this
allowed their hair to relax which is very important for hair growth. If
you are constantly messing with your hair can hinder the growth. Their
hair is also always braided. This is a form of protective styling that
helps to keep your hands out of your hair. They would take it out and
dress and decorate their hair for different occasions but, you would
normally see one big braid or a French braid in most Native Americans
hair and this helped to protect their hair.
This is another one of those simple things that can have a pretty
drastic influence on healthy hair that so many people overlook, yet many
Native Americans have been aware of it for centuries. When visiting a
hair doctor, or getting a consultation at one of the companies that
specialize in hair loss and hair restoration like Bosley Medical… aside
from genetic and pattern baldness, time and time again that hair loss is
often caused by people “exhausting” their hair by doing too much to it
too often.
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<b><i>Danielle Ta'Sheena Finn, Lakota Hunkpapa and Assiniboine Sioux
from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (Courtesy Danielle Ta’Sheena Finn) </i></b></div>
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<b>5. Rosemary</b><br />
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This spice is known worldwide and used in many culinary delights; just
like many other spices Rosemary has great benefits for the hair. It
helps to promote hair growth by stimulating blood circulation in your
scalp thus allowing the hair follicles to breathe and function well.
Rosemary has also been known to reduce early graying. The herb was
infused in oil, and the oil was rubbed into the scalp and then roots,
and then the rest of the hair.
Apart from the Native Americans, every part of the world has plants with
natural properties that are medicinal and good for their health and
once we realize that as humans we will value what we have and use what
we have naturally growing around us to prevent us from the many common
diseases that were unheard of back in the day.<br /><br />
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<br /><br />Native American Indian Facts</h1>
The purpose of this site is to provide interesting facts about Native
American Indians. On the pages of this site you will discover
information on numerous American
Indian tribes including where they lived, their history, culture, how
they lived, their jewelry, and who their famous warriors and chiefs
were. We will cover tribes
from all the main American Indian geographic locations including the
Southeast, Southwest, Northeast, Northwest Coast, Great Basin, Great
Plains, Plateau, and California. We will be adding pages about such
tribes as the Apache, Zuni, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Shinnecock, and the
Hopi.
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Throughout this site you will find links to sites that have beautiful
handmade traditional native American jewelry and gifts for sale.
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It is generally believed that humans migrated to America from Eurasia
over 12,000 years ago. This migration was made possible by a land bridge
named Beringia that use
to connect America to Eurasia across what is now the Bering Strait. It
is believed that three distinct waves of migration took place across
this land bridge. These
prehistoric people eventually populated the Americas and formed hundreds
of distinct tribes each having their own unique traditions and
languages.
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Below you will find a list of several facts about the indigenous people
of America. The other pages of this site contain even more interesting
information.
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Interesting Facts About Native American Indians</h2>
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<li>The term "Indian" originated with Christopher Columbus. He thought
that he had reached the East Indies when he landed in America and
therefore named the inhabitants Indians.</li>
<li>European settlers to America brought with them diseases to which the
Native Americans had no resistance. These diseases killed millions of
Indians and resulted in a huge population decline.</li>
<li>Europeans brought many animals to the Americas which the indigenous people had never seen, including cattle, sheep, and pigs.</li>
<li>Horses had been hunted to extinction by the early settlers of the
Americas thousands of years before the Europeans arrived. The
reintroduction of the horse by the
Europeans had an incredible impact on the American Indians. They
utilized the horse for travel, hunting, and warfare.</li>
<li>Numerous conflicts occurred between the American Indians and European settlers before the
<a href="http://www.american-revolutionary-war-facts.com/"> American Revolutionary War </a>
, and after the Revolution between the Native Americans and the U.S.
government. These conflicts have been named the American Indian Wars.</li>
<li>In 1890 the last major battle between Native American Indians and
U.S. soldiers occurred. It was called the Battle of Wounded Knee and
occurred near the Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Approximately
three hundred Sioux Indians were slaughtered.</li>
<li>In 1838 one of the most horrible events in American history
occurred. This event was a forced relocation of thousands of Indians
from their homelands to areas west of the Mississippi River. This march,
named the "Trail of Tears", resulted in the death of thousands of
Native Americans from numerous tribes including the Cherokee,
Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw. Most of the deaths were the result of
disease and exposure to the extremely cold weather.</li>
<li>Benjamin Franklin learned a lot about democracy by observing the
Iroquois Indians. The Iroquois had a chief who ruled only as long as the
tribes supported his
decisions. The Iroquois were a union of several tribes that had in place
limits to power held in place by checks and balances, one of the corner
stones of democracy
for the United States of America.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://native-american-indian-facts.com/" target="_blank">Source</a></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-11779473092820888232014-06-22T13:53:00.000-07:002014-06-22T13:53:06.898-07:00Arizona to Rally Against Native American Mascots; De-chief Wahoo Rally at Arizona Diamondbacks game in Phoenix, Arizona<img class="featured-image" src="http://eonm.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/10177340_10152358349338446_7619134527547317798_n-720x310.jpg" /><br /><br /><br />
Phoenix, AZ – Arizona to Rally Against Native American Mascots, a
group of Arizonians who advocate for<br /><br /> the elimination of Native American
mascots in pro-sports mascots and logos, will hold a rally calling on
the <br /><br />MLB’s Cleveland team and their fans to “de-chief” their merchandise
of the grotesque caricature, Chief <br /><br />Wahoo. The De-chief Wahoo Rally takes
place at the Arizona Diamondbacks vs Cleveland Indians baseball <br /><br />games
on Tuesday June 24, 2014 and Wednesday June 25, 2014 from 5:00PM to
7:30PM at Chase Field <br /><br />in Phoenix, Arizona.<br />
<br />De-chiefing is a movement whereby fans of the Major League Baseball
team, the Cleveland Indians, remove <br /><br />the Chief Wahoo logo from their
merchandise as a way to show solidarity towards the efforts of Native
<br /><br />Americans who have been calling on the MLB team to retire the logo since
the 1960’s. Professional sport <br /><br />teams with Native mascots and logos,
such as Chief Wahoo and the Redskins, promote stereotypes of <br /><br />Native
Americans and enable people to believe that Native Americans either are
non-existent or only exist as <br /><br />a cartoon or romanticized mascot, not as
real human beings.<br />
<br />The United States Patent and Trademark Office declared, on June 18,
2014, six trademarks for the <br /><br />Washington NFL franchise of the name
“Redskins” must be cancelled. The term “Redskins” was established <br /><br />as
disparaging of Native Americans. The lead plaintiff in the case
Blackhorse v. Pro Football, Inc. is Amanda <br /><br />Blackhorse who is leading the
group Arizona to Rally Against Native American Mascots along with other
<br /><br />organizers.<br />
<br />
<br />Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, a group of Native parents and
their allies from across the country, <br /><br />support the efforts of the group
Arizona to Rally Against Native American Mascots and the two rallies to
<br /><br />take place next week. In April 2014, EONM called on Nike, Inc. to stop
selling products that feature the <br /><br />Cleveland Indians’ mascot Chief Wahoo
by holding a local protest at the Nike World Headquarters in <br /><br />Beaverton,
Oregon and launched a social media campaign to trend the #Dechief
hashtag.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://eonm.org/2014/06/arizonadechiefrally/" target="_blank">Source</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-81693170335848101662014-06-22T11:49:00.001-07:002014-06-22T11:49:29.448-07:00Indian Fry Bread and Indian Tacos - Preparation Instructions<img height="426" src="http://static.thepioneerwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2011/10/6262122802_8968bbaabf_o.jpg" width="640" /><br />
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For today’s State Fair Recipe, I’m going to show you how to make Indian Fry Bread, a Native American quick bread that’s fried and served either on its own, drizzled with honey, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, or topped with ground beef and other taco ingredients.</div>
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In the second part of the post, I’m going to go ahead and show you what the fry bread looks like as a base for Indian Tacos. However, the fry bread in the Indian Taco photos is not the right fry bread. It’s the wrong fry bread. It’s the wrong fry bread because I messed it up. But I’d already made the taco toppings and was running out of time, so I went ahead and finished the tacos, planning to make a better batch of fry bread later.</div>
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And that’s what I did. So basically, the fry bread and the tacos were made on different days. And more importantly: the day I made the tacos, I was wearing black leggings. The day I made the right fry bread, I was wearing jeans. Important distinction. Didn’t want to leave anything out.</div>
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First, here’s the fry bread. There are so many different recipes and methods and if you’re looking for the authentic, 100% correct way to make Indian Fry Bread, you don’t want to rely on me. Others can show you the way much better than I can.</div>
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But it really is a cinch once you get the hang of it. And it’s so, so, so, so good.</div>
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THE FRY BREAD</h6>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6262118512/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3986 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3986" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6116/6262118512_4be28db280_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Add flour to a bowl.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6261594699/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3988 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3988" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6162/6261594699_f7ac76b55f_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Then add baking powder.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6262119040/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3989 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3989" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6040/6262119040_03b6cd8447_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Some recipes call for yeast, and some don’t have any leavening at all. But the baking powder seems to work best for me.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6261595143/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3991 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3991" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6048/6261595143_4fd83f3ca3_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Now just stir the flour mixture together…</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6262119464/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3992 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3992" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6220/6262119464_19fc87c1fe_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>While you slowly drizzle in some milk.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6262119616/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3993 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3993" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6047/6262119616_02d699001d_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Give it a stir for a little longer to incorporate the milk as much as possible…</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6261595941/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3996 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3996" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6098/6261595941_8e5fd07e5a_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Then slowly drizzle in about 1/2 cup of water as you continue to stir gently.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6261596249/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3998 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3998" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6218/6261596249_46e4cdd4bd_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Stop just when it comes together; don’t stir the heck out of it. And add more water if you need to—just enough to make it finally come together.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6262120454/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3999 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3999" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6226/6262120454_731eeea731_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>And now. This really makes a difference. Cover the bowl with a dish towel and let it sit for 30 minutes…45 if you have it. This really makes a difference in how the dough handles, and how it fries up, which I learned the hard way the other day when I made fry bread and it didn’t turn out as well.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6262120602/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_4001 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_4001" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6049/6262120602_24414542fd_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>This also makes a difference. With my other batch of fry bread (the one I made the other day) one of the mistakes I made was using canola oil to fry the bread. But it just didn’t do the trick like Crisco. (And confession: I didn’t quite have enough Crisco so I topped it off with some lard. Yes, I said lard.)</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6261596685/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_4002 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_4002" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6215/6261596685_30bf093a6f_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>When you’re ready, grab a little bunch of dough.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6262121478/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_4014 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_4014" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6031/6262121478_8a7c85f57e_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Using your fingers, begin pressing in the center of the ball and continue to press, stretching slightly as you go. I like the texture of the fry bread using this method much better than if I use a rolling pin…but it could be because with the rolling pin I always tend to roll it out a little thin. I like the lumpiness of pressing it. But I’m weird and don’t know anything.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6261597597/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_4018 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_4018" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6044/6261597597_8f996b84e4_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Fry them on one side until golden brown, about a minute or so (make sure your grease is hot enough)…then carefully turn them over (I use tongs so the oil won’t splash) and continue frying them for about 30 to 45 seconds.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6262121884/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_4021 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_4021" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6151/6262121884_b51e34509b_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Remove them from the pan…</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6262121762/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_4019 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_4019" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6054/6262121762_c58445e658_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>And let them drain on paper towels.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6262122064/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_4022 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_4022" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6218/6262122064_db554de50c_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>If you want a bigger piece, just start with a larger ball of dough.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6261598423/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_4024 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_4024" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6106/6261598423_ae28ecc8bd_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Mmmm. Good one. This’ll make a nice taco, man.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6261598697/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_4028 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_4028" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6224/6261598697_b124c577bd_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Plenty of surface area for all those ingredients!</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6261598885/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_4033 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_4033" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6110/6261598885_200af2f86b_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Just drain them on paper towels until you need them.</div>
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Now, here’s what you can do from here:</div>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eat them as they are. Simple and yummy.<br />Drizzle on honey.<br />Mix softened butter and honey together and spread it on.<br />Sprinkle on lots of cinnamon sugar.<br />Sift on lots of powdered sugar.</em></div>
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Or you can make Indian Tacos!</div>
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INDIAN TACOS</h6>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6248250402/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3393 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3393" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6154/6248250402_782826b2ab_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>FLASHBACK: This was my fry bread a few days ago. It tasted really good. It was just missing a little bit of puffiness/texture. I didn’t let the dough sit and rest, and I think I messed with it too much. Oh, and I used less baking powder.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6248253034/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3350 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3350" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6158/6248253034_562774cbaa_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>I’d fried up a bunch of ground beef the day before (I do this sometimes. Habit of mine.) so when I heated it up I added in some different seasonings: cumin, chili powder, salt, pepper. You can add some Mexican red sauce, too, to make it drippy and saucy and wonderful.</div>
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I didn’t do that, though. I was too busy wandering around in the smoldering aftermath of my freaky fry bread.</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6247729257/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3390 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3390" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6151/6247729257_2ebaa37d7b_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Then I chopped up some lettuce…</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6247728547/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3391 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3391" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6060/6247728547_172011c515_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>Some tomato…</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6248255728/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3400 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3400" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6059/6248255728_616cdcecf5_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>And piled on the meat…</div>
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<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pioneerwoman/6248255324/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="TPW_3405 by Ree Drummond / The Pioneer Woman, on Flickr"><img alt="TPW_3405" class="width_630 frame-img" height="420" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6151/6248255324_7d62b5d99d_z.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 14px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="630" /></a>The lettuce…(and here’s where you imagine all of this happening on top of one of those golden brown puffy things at the beginning of this post.)</div>
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Now, it does look like the fry bread is thin and crisper here, but really, they were soft enough to fold. And shove in my mouth. So scrumptious.</div>
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Here’s the handy printable for the fry bread. Feel free to weigh in with your own fry bread experiences—would love to hear your tips!</div>
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Recipe</div>
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Ingredients</h4>
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Stir together flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Stir with a fork as you pour in the milk; keep stirring for a bit to get it to come together as much as possible. Add just enough water (about 1/4 to 1/2 cup) to get it to come together. Cover the bowl with a dish towel and let it sit for 35 to 45 minutes to rest.</div>
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When you're ready to make the fry bread, heat about 1 to 2 inches shortening/lard in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Grab a plum-sized piece of dough (or larger if you want larger fry bread) and press it into a circle with your fingers: place it on a clean surface and begin pressing in the center and work your way out, stretching it as you go.</div>
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When the circle is about 4 to 7 inches (however big you want it) carefully drape it into the skillet. Allow it to fry on one side until golden brown, about 1 minute, then carefully flip it to the other side using tongs. Fry it for another 30 to 45 seconds.</div>
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Remove the fry bread to a paper towel-lined plate and allow it to drain while you fry the other pieces.</div>
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Serve warm!</div>
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Because, although Europeans had their own form of snowshoes, Native Americans are lauded for inventing the most efficient and diverse.</div>
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Because “White Man Time will give you stomach cancer.”</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Letting you know why this is completely and utterly wrong.</strong></div>
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Naturally, a Native American will give you a better run down as to why this is fantastically repugnant.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Find unique ways to flirt while remaining traditional.</strong></div>
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Let’s face it: the potato dance is an art form and a fine way to hit on someone at a pow wow.</div>
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Listen, just don’t do it if you’re not qualified. It can<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/07/13/james-arthur-ray-released-prison-no-not-guy-who-killed-mlk-150407" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">end seriously bad</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Deep fry some dough.</strong></div>
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It’s not super healthy, but it’s super nostalgic and pretty delicious with honey and powdered sugar.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Not act terribly surprised when celebrities claim to be Native American.</strong></div>
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It happens a lot. (Brad Pitt claims to be Seminole and Cherokee.)</div>
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Because, well, without humor the past 521 years would’ve been a lot harder.</div>
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art&beautyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09813269631343450348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-9211000864528472062014-06-22T11:29:00.004-07:002014-06-22T11:29:58.107-07:00Trending in Indian Country: #PrezRezVisit Gained National Attention<img height="337" src="http://d1jrw5jterzxwu.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/article_media/president_barack_obama_and_first_lady_michelle_obama_visit_indian_country_in_nd_-_suzette_brewer1.jpg" width="640" /><br />
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On June 13, As President Barack Obama and the First Lady Michelle Obama made their way to visit the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota and meet with Tribal leaders, ICTMN and Indian country took the<a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23PrezRezVisit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#PrezRezVisit</a>hashtag Twitter Ball – and ran with it.</div>
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Shortly before President Obama was to land in North Dakota, the<a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23PrezRezVisit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#PrezRezVisit</a>hashtag had gained such steam and recognition,<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Washington Post</em>’s Abby Phillip<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/06/13/with-prezrezvisit-native-americans-express-cautious-hope-ahead-of-obamas-historic-visit-to-indian-country/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a>on the “cautious hope” Native Americans were expressing.</div>
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“[O]nline, Native Americans have been determined to keep the conversation alive. More than 5,000 tweets with the<a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23PrezRezVisit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#PrezRezVisit</a>hashtag have been sent out so far, after the trend was started Thursday by Indian Country Today correspondent Vincent Schilling,” Phillips wrote in<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Washington Post</em>.</div>
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RELATED:<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/12/obama-visits-indian-country-nd-follow-along-ictmns-twitter-155277" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">Obama Visits Indian County in ND, Follow Along With ICTMN’s Twitter</a></div>
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Immediately after posting of the tweet, Indian country and supporters jumped into action on<a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23PrezRezVisit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#PrezRezVisit</a>which only gained traction as the time for the President’s and First Lady’s arrival loomed closer. Within hours, the hashtag was trending in such places as Chicago, Philadelphia and Canada.</div>
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In addition to attention from<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Washington Post</em>, MSNBC’s Ed Show also dedicated a segment to Obama’s visit and the popularity of the<a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23PrezRezVisit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#PrezRezVisit</a>Hashtag.</div>
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Though President Obama was scheduled to appear earlier in the day as indicated on the White House Live Stream webpage, rumors that he would not speak until 6 p.m. ET prompted a lot of Indian time jokes.</div>
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In addition to the lighthearted teasing, others recognized Michelle Obama’s healthy Americans efforts:</div>
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There were many who were glad to see the culmination of efforts and the impressive showing of Indian country on social media and Twitter. While some took the time to criticize a few things that stood out to them like a lack of mainstream media coverage. Though the days events were covered by the Associated Press, CBS, Fox and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams dedicated a segment to the visit.</div>
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It's our weekly recap of the stories that mattered most in Indian country:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SIGN OF CHANGE:</strong>The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/18/patent-office-cancels-washington-redskins-trademark-155362" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">canceled six Federal trademark registrations for the Washington Redskins</a>. Though many observers see this as yet another sign that the writing is on the wall and the team will eventually have to change its name, a lawyer for the Redskins said publicly that there is<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/19/redskins-lawyer-claims-there-no-momentum-name-change-155396" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">"no momentum" among Native Americans</a>to change the name, a demonstrably false statement.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE FIRE THIS TIME:</strong>Firefighters are<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/20/navajos-assayii-lake-fire-heartbreaking-losses-and-how-help-155399" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">making headway against the Assayii Lake Fire</a>, but not before it gobbled up acre upon acre of sacred land in the Chuska Mountains between Gallup and Shiprock. The Assayii fire on the Navajo Nation had been 20 percent contained by Thursday June 19, as the blaze reached 13,450 acres, and 867 personnel battled the flames, according to InciWeb. But the victory is destined to be bittersweet.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A BETTER PLACE:</strong>The Taos Town Council voted to<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/17/kit-carson-park-taos-nm-be-renamed-red-willow-park-155348" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">re-name the park in the center of the community</a>from Kit Carson Park to Red Willow Park.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WRONG:</strong>Of a total of 1,322 Superfund sites as of June 5, 2014, nearly<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/17/532-superfund-sites-indian-country-155316" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">25 percent of them are in Indian country</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ABORIGINAL BALLER:</strong>When the San Antonio Spurs won the NBA Finals over the Miami Heat on Sunday night at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas, Patty Mills became the<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/16/did-you-know-patty-mills-just-became-first-australian-aboriginal-win-nba-title-155336" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">first Indigenous Australian player to win an NBA title</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NEW PLAN:</strong>In the wake of the visit by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota,<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/16/president-obama-follows-visit-strong-action-plan-indian-country-155315" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">the White House released an action plan</a>to help strengthen and sustain at least two of Obama’s biggest initiatives in Indian country: Education and Economic Development.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MUST-SEE MOVIE:</strong>The Chickasaw Nation is planning to make<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/17/movie-about-chickasaw-storyteller-te-ata-works-casting-call-info-155351" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">a film of the life of the groundbreaking entertainer Te Ata</a>, and is holding open casting calls actross the country.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SUE THE POLLUTERS:</strong>Hundreds of First Nations plan to<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/19/canada-approves-enbridge-pipeline-through-bc-first-nations-will-sue-155377" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">take the Canadian government to court over its approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline</a>from the Alberta oil sands through British Columbia to the Pacific Ocean.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PRAYERS FOR PROTECTION:</strong>Friday marked the beginning of three days of ceremonies and observances being held across Turtle Island for<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/20/national-sacred-places-prayer-days-begins-today-155413" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">2014 National Days of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places</a>.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TEAM CHOSEN:</strong>The Iroquois Nationals will<a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/20/lax-star-jeremy-thompson-playing-brothers-staying-black-road-155409" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">return to the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships</a>for the first time in eight years with a line-up that looks like a Thompson family reunion.</div>
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art&beautyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09813269631343450348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809619471787155386.post-77732302423661274192014-06-21T20:00:00.002-07:002014-06-21T20:00:19.426-07:00Zitkala-Ša Writer, editor,teacher, musican of the first Native American Opera<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Zitkala-Ša (Red Bird) 1876—1938. Writer, editor, teacher, musician, co-composer of the first Native American opera, political activist, founder of the National Council of American Indians - a lobby for the rights of Native Americans to American citizenship.<br /></h1>
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Zitkala-Sa was a Yankton Sioux woman. She was well educated and went on to become an accomplished author, musician and composer - she wrote the first American Indian opera, The Sun Opera, in 1913. She went on to work for the reform of Indian policies in the United States</h1>
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