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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Native Americans’
January 26th, 2016 - 10:47 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Massacres in Indian Country .. same as the West Bank?
October 22nd, 2015 - 8:18 am § in Misc.
The First People Take Power in Canada
‘Harper awoke a sleeping giant’: First Nations break election records Monday’s election was historic for Canada’s First Nations community, which saw 10 indigenous MPs elected. CTVNEWS.CA[...]
September 28th, 2015 - 9:01 am § in Misc.
Obama vs. Jackson
As we take down the confederate flag, lets give Jackson his due as founder of the republican Party Eight years ago a Clinton backer, complained that Obama was “usurping the historic Democratic Party, dating back to the age of Andrew Jackson, by rejecting its historic electoral core: white workers[...]
July 22nd, 2015 - 12:39 pm § in America
Replace Andrew Jackson, a man of many unattractive qualities and a poor president, on the twenty dollar bill.
Ben Bernanke’s Blog: DUMP JACKSON OFF OF THE $20 Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, would qualify as among the greatest of our founders for his contributions to achieving American independence and creating the Constitution alone. In addition to those accomplishments, however, H[...]
July 13th, 2015 - 11:16 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: What is missing from this picture celebrating Andrew Jackson?
With all the self congratulations due in South Carolina, I will not be impressed until we all see the evil of a mural like this that somehow erases slavery from our memory along with Jefferson Davis Day and cotillions of white bells dressed like slave mistresses. According to my brother in law, Will[...]
July 12th, 2015 - 8:04 am § in Misc.
Seattle Should Recognize the Duwamish People!
Where is The Seattle City Council? Last year the City Council voted to rename “Columbus Day” after that well known American tribe the “Indyje-nus”as in Indigenous Peoples Day.” Other than an unneeded, politically correct insult to Italian Americans, this mouthful[...]
May 4th, 2015 - 10:23 am § in Jews
May 4: Papacy authorizes the beginning of slavery in the new world
In 1493, following Columbus’ landing in the New World, the Borgia pope Pope Alexander VI gave ownership of the American peoples to Spain in a bull called Inter Caetera. A document called the requerimiento was read to American Indians (who could not understand the colonisers’ la[...]