tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51589860682811645842012-02-16T01:58:27.877-06:00In Silent Racism: How Well-Meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide (2006), Barbara Trepagnier demonstrates how negative stereotypes and assumptions reproduce institutional racism, aka systemic racism. She describes, Racist/Not Racist, hides silent racism and color-blind racism. A continuum, More Racist/Less Racist, would expose subtle racism linked to racial injustice than outright bigotry.kbwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11674316457219600249noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158986068281164584.post-55349604035299337082010-10-17T08:15:00.001-05:002010-10-17T08:17:35.580-05:00

In 1987, Means ran for nomination of President of the United States under the Libertarian Party and attracted considerable support within the party. On December 20, 2007, Means announced the withdrawal by a small group of Lakota Sioux from all treaties with the United States government. www.russellmeans.com

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Its belated. Valentines Day is past. So chock it up as Indian Time. hehe.  However, no one is ever really ON TIME...unless u arrive at precisely the stroke of whatever time. ur always a bit early or a bit late. Indians just are honest about this and not anal like some "other" types... lol Peace! Love

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Her first book, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, an autobiography, became a national bestseller. Gloria Steinem said in a review that, "As one woman's journey, Mankiller opens the heart. As the history of a people, it informs the mind. Together, it teaches us that, as long as people like Wilma Mankiller carry the flame within them, centuries of ignorance and genocide can't extinguish the human

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Dear Friends, This is a reminder that the NAACP's petition drive to save the Community Relations Officer/Affirmative Action Officer position with the City of Carbondale is coming to a close, since the relevant City Council meeting occurs April 6, 2010. This blog doesn't allow me to attach copies of the petition documents (a petition sheet and cover sheet for registered voters and another for "

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NEWPORT, R.I. – Hundreds of prime acres are up for grabs in this waterfront city and its neighboring towns, valuable commodity on an island known for prized beaches, lavish homes and natural beauty. The 260 acres on Aquidneck Island were for decades owned by the U.S. Navy, which says it no longer needs the land and is moving to unload it. The island communities envision the property as untapped

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Because we are all "electrically" connected...  :)

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"Indigenous people often have classification systems that are often more fine-grained and more precise than what Western science knows about species and their territories." An example of local knowledge was shown by the Musqueam people of British Columbia in Canada, who have fished the local rivers for generations and describe the trout and the salmon as belonging to the same group. In 2003 they

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Very nice video by The Black Eyed Peas

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December 29, 1890  People were slaughtered for dancing the Ghost dance - (Click on this title to view the video) References for more information: ^ Liggett, Lorie (1998). "Wounded Knee Massacre - An Introduction". Bowling Green State University. http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/woundedknee/WKIntro.html. Retrieved 2007-03-02. ^ http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded.htm ^

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December 15, 1890: murdered by gunshot According to United States law (as expressed in the Treaty of 1868) the signatures of 3/4 of the adult males of the Sioux nation were required before land could be sold. Sitting Bull resisted. He "never signed a treaty to sell any portion of his people's inheritance, and he refused to acknowledge the right of other Indians to sell his undivided share of the

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Just twenty plants provide the majority of food plants eaten, yet there are thousands of other useful plants which have not reached mainstream attention.  You can find details of many of them here.

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the attempt to create ethnically homogeneous geographic areas through the deportation or forcible displacement of persons belonging to particular ethnic groups. Ethnic cleansing sometimes involves the removal of all physical vestiges of the targeted group through the destruction of monuments, cemeteries, and houses of worship.

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NativeVoices will host a Prayer Ceremony to remember our Cherokee and other Native American Ancestors who died during a period of ethnic cleansing by Andrew Jackson.  Around sixteen thousand natives were detained and then forced out of the Southeastern U. S. when gold was found on Cherokee property in 1829. Shelter #5 is reserved Saturday November 7, 2009 at the Trail of Tears Park 5-mi. NW of

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According to the 2000 Census, an estimated 400,000 Native Americans reside on reservation land. While some tribes have had success with gaming, only 40% of the 562 federally recognized tribes operate casinos. According to a 2007 survey by the U.S. Small Business Administration, only 1 percent of Native Americans own and operate a business. Native Americans rank at the bottom of nearly every

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Toxic coal power plants are ALWAYS  put into the neighborhoods of "undesirable citizens".

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The so-called sweat, which claimed two lives, took place during a five-day retreat in Sedona, Ariz., run by white self-help guru James Arthur Ray.  Ray’s Spiritual Warrior programs charges people almost $10,000 apiece. As this piece in Black Hills Today points out, traditional Native sweats are spiritual and the idea of charging for them is anathema. “It appears that once again greed interfered

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It’s an interesting contrast to the time when the original settlers observed their first Thanksgiving. When they did so, it was with less food, less security and less freedom than we have today. Now most people in the West have an almost embarrassing choice of food. And although we may have new concerns about national security, the West enjoys freedoms that are unparalleled in human history.

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Native Americans aren't the only ones these days concerned about living off the land - Listen in as Michael Pollan talks about supporting the development of a local food economy since food is needed by everyone, everywhere, every day via live streaming of the annual Bioneers conference. (also see: Local Food in Wikipedia)

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August 21, 2009 5:42 PMThe U.S. Parole Commission adopted the position of the FBI that anyone who may be implicated, even mistakenly, in the killings of its agents should never be paroled and should be left to die in prison, despite judicial determinations that the unrepentant FBI fabricated evidence and presented perjured testimony in Leonard Peltier's prosecution;There has been no reliable

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The market forces of globalization are invading the Amazon, hastening the demise of the forest and thwarting its most committed stewards. In the past three decades, hundreds of people have died in land wars; countless others endure fear and uncertainty, their lives threatened by those who profit from the theft of timber and land. In this Wild West frontier of guns, chain saws, and bulldozers,

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By I HAVE RETURNED!The Native American culture has slowly began to disappear from the minds of many Americans today. While we struggle to maintain our heritage in this new era, the more that has happened to contain the idea that we actually still exist.As I sit and watch television or read the paper, I see less and less about anything dealing with my nationality. It always seems that the only

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