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November 15th, 2016 - 10:38 am § in Environment

What Standing Rock is all about

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October 10th, 2016 - 11:47 am § in The Ave Scene

Seattle’s less than celebratory day

From The Seattle Times: Monday, Oct. 10, is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Seattle, which the city has been celebrating since 2014. Here are a few events happening around the area: 1. United Indians of All Tribes Foundation celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day Monday, Oct. 10, with three events. A cel[...]

July 1st, 2016 - 8:19 am § in Misc.

Native Americans protest Redskins’ name

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June 7th, 2016 - 1:09 pm § in The Ave Scene

150th Anniversary of the death of Chief Seattle

Chief Seattle .. he is buried across the Sound. This statue of the Chief sits in Downtown Seattle, under the monorail. Four roads intersect around the tiny plot of concrete and grass beneath the statue. Cars and trucks spew fumes and only a daring pedestrian would try to cross the street to look c[...]

April 22nd, 2016 - 12:20 pm § in America

Why Ethnic identity and race are NOT the same things.

There is no DNA test to prove you’re Native American’   By Linda Geddes “People think there is a DNA test to prove you are Native American. There isn’t” DNA testing is changing how Native Americans think about tribal membership. Yet anthropologist Kim Tallbear…  tells Linda Gedde[...]

March 5th, 2016 - 7:51 am § in Israel/Palestine, Jews, Misc.

A Member of the First People of Canada Argues For The rights of Jews to Israel

Why is this important? It is important to indigenous people because we cannot allow the argument that conquerors can become indigenous. If we, as other indigenous people, allow that argument to be made, then we are delegitimising our own rights.   If conquerors can become indigenous, then the whit[...]

February 8th, 2016 - 1:29 am § in America, The Ave Scene

Feb 8 .. a day of ignomy. Does the United States still make treaties with Indian tribes?

No.  Congress ended treaty-making with Indian tribes in 1871. At the end of the treaty era, Native American tribes still controlled one-tenth of the contiguous 48 states, or about one-fourth of the land between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. In  1832 when United States Supreme Court rule[...]

January 26th, 2016 - 10:47 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.

Massacres in Indian Country .. same as the West Bank?

A few says ago, an Israeli woman was viciously killed in her home in a settlement at Beit Horon. This map makes me think of similar stories from the American frontier of Comanche, Apache, Lakota, Puyallup  massacres of American pioneers.   Even here in Seattle, Chief Leschi was tried in absentia a[...]

January 9th, 2016 - 11:56 am § in Misc.

The people of Oregon speak against the Bundies

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January 6th, 2016 - 11:31 am § in Misc.

The Original Oregon Seige

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