Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with Chief Seattle’s Duwamish Tribe at the Duwamish Longhouse . Sing, dance & drum at 1-3pm with Duwamish heritage group “Singing Feet”- winner of a 2012 Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award. Chief Seattle’s Speech film at 11am. Princess Angeline film [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Native Americans’
October 9th, 2014 - 10:18 am § in The Ave Scene
Celebrate 11 October ..Day BEFORE Columbus Day .. with The Duwamish People
September 15th, 2014 - 10:41 am § in America, The Ave Scene
A Tragedy At Discovery Park
Re: 2014 Seafair Indian Days Powwow Cancelled Dear Friends, On behalf of the UIATF Board and staff, we regret to inform our United Indians community that the 2014 Seafair Powwow will not be held this year. After careful consideration of many factors we have determined that United Indians does not ha[...]
June 24th, 2014 - 9:08 am § in Misc.
Gun Raffles Spread: From South Carolina to New York and Now WASTATE
Former Redskins Player Running for Office Hopes to Sway Voters with Gun Giveaway Sunday, I wrote about the KKK in my sister’s home state of South Carolina, one huge reason I am glad not to live there. Well, maybe I misjudged, fetid politics from the confederacy seems to be spilling over to m[...]
February 22nd, 2014 - 10:25 am § in The Ave Scene
Marina Fire in La Conner
This video of voyeurs at the fire at Shelter Bay is very disturbing. Worse may be coming. I think Shelter Bay is leased from the Swinomish People. This raises a LOT of questions? What sort of lease is there? Whose fire department answered the call?[...]
November 4th, 2013 - 1:54 pm § in Hypocrisy
Atheists Acting Badly
I am an atheist. Why would I ever want to insult others like this? The people in this video, sadly, are behaving in a manner I can only call “Christian.” T he ugliness of evangelism is not limited to believers. Atheists, raised in this culture can be equally hateful. Readmore about athei[...]
Elections 2014: Is Reichert vulnerable?
Is it too soon to begin thinking about getting rid of Reichert? THE Ave has suggested that the new eighth is NOT Tea Party Land.[...]
Sequencing Sasquatch!
Researchers at Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology in Switzerland are asking yeti enthusiasts or anyone with samples thought to be from the creature alternatively known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch to share them for DNA analysis as part of the Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project, [...]
Rosh Hoshana: First Jew and First Puppy
Genetic study confirms: First dogs came from East Asia Researchers at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology say they have found further proof that the wolf ancestors of today’s domesticated dogs can be traced to southern East Asia — findings that run counter to theories placi[...]
The Jewish Ancestors of Colorado’s Indians
from Xinhua News Mesa Verde Indians descended from Jewish ancestors The idea that Native Americans are descendents of the “lost tribes” is a fundamental part of Mormonism and intrinsic to a lot of British and American ideas about the relationship of ancient Israel to the idealistic v[...]
How White Men Count Coup
Arrogance of The White Man I ran across a story a few days ago that reminded me of the amazing arrogance of my American brothers and why I have always insisted on being called a Jew rather than a “Whiteman.” The story was told by a local historian in a small town, lets call it […][...]