Y’all Qaeda Militia Not Welcomed by Oregon Locals

Self-described “patriots,” members of a militia that is not exactly “well-regulated” (as the Second Amendment requires), occupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on January 2 for two stated reasons. They intended to keep Steven and Dwight Hammond from serving the minimum lawful sentence for arson on public land and to protect the citizens of Oregon from the tyranny of the federal government. They have now gotten some results.

First, Steven and Dwight Hammond released a statement through their family lawyer disavowing the support of the militia. Then they turned themselves in to serve their sentences, as required by the terms of their bonds. Dwight Hammond told the Associated Press that was going to happen and now it has.

Second, the descendants of the aboriginal owners of the dirt upon which the Malheur Wildlife Refuge sits (formerly the Malheur Indian Reservation)have held a press conference. It should be noted that if, as the militia claims, the land is not federal, then it is tribal. It’s unclear how the state could have a claim at all since the land belonged to the Paiutes, then was in federal trust for the Paiutes, and then the use of the land was designated as wildlife refuge when most of the Paiutes were removed to Washington Territory.

Those Paiutes who did not move still live on theBurns Paiute Reservation. On January 6, the Burns Paiute Tribal Council called a press conference.

 

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/01/07/yall-qaeda-militia-not-welcomed-oregon-locals-162986

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As long as someone else determines who we are, we are never in control of our own destiny.

When people learn that what is important to others is just as important as the things they consider important, then and only then will understanding be reached. When others determine who we are as a people, we will never be able to determine our own destiny. 

House Natural Resources Chairman calls Native American artifacts “bull crap”

WASHINGTON – House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) on Friday, July 10 dismissed the historical value of Native American artifacts as a basis for establishing national monuments, as first reported by Greenwire in a story about President Obama’s designation of three national monuments....Read more here.

 http://theonefeather.com/2015/07/congressional-house-chairman-calls-native-american-artifacts-bull-crap/

  

 

 


What are the powers to be afraid of?

One would think that in order to work on the behest of all the citizens of a state, the leader, the Governor, would talk with the citizens he is about to make a ruling against, and try to explain to those individuals why he is about to make said ruling, and give the parties of those groups a chance to open a dialogue with the, Governor to try to reach a solution. That was not the case.

Maine Governor Affirms and Rejects Tribal Sovereignty in New Executive Order.

The governor of Maine has rescinded a three year-old executive order that recognized the “special relationship” between the State of Maine and Indian tribes living there. The order created a consultation policy for tribal input before laws, rules and policies affecting them are passed.

Gov. Paul LePage’s new executive order on April 16, “An Order Respecting Joint Sovereignty and Interdependence,”......Read more at.

   http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/04/20/maine-governor-affirms-and-rejects-tribal-sovereignty-new-executive-order-160078

 

Kevin Gover Talks History Myths at TEDx: Columbus, Thanksgiving, and Imaginary Indians

Recently, Kevin Gover, director of the National Museum of the American Indian, gave a TEDx Talk about history myths.  

Recently, Kevin Gover, director of the National Museum of the American Indian, gave a TEDx Talk about history myths.

 

 

ICTMN Staff

12/19/15

Kevin Gover, Pawnee, began his TEDx Talk with the Christopher Columbus song “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”

“When you’re in elementary school, you don’t question what you’re learning, you assume the teacher knows everything,” he says. “So I know that Columbus discovered America in 1492.”

The Columbus myth is one of our “origin stories” he says, pointing out that a large painting of the discovery hangs in our nation’s capital. That painting hangs about 400 yards from where he works as the director of the National Museum of the American Indian.

“Think about how powerful that notion is, that Columbus discovered America. There was nothing here, there was nobody here until Columbus arrived,” he tells the crowd.

Gover goes on to discuss the First Thanksgiving myth and how Squanto learned English. The real Thanksgiving story continues about 50 years after that First Thanksgiving. “About 50 years later, there were new generations of Pilgrims, new generations of Wampanoags, and the Wampanoags had sold so much of their land to the Pilgrims that they had fallen into poverty themselves. And they lashed out, and there was a great conflagration known as King Philip’s War,” he says. “King Philip’s Warwas perhaps the most devastating war in the entire history of North America in terms of the percentage of people who were killed in this conflict. The tribes of New England were virtually wiped out. Those that weren’t wiped out were confined and no longer the powers they had once been.”

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/12/19/kevin-gover-talks-history-myths-tedx-columbus-thanksgiving-and-imaginary-indians-162674

 

Performance art challenges public's perception of indigenous stereotypes

It's a photo that was making the rounds on social media recently. The image is of a fully dressed Plains Indian — with headdress — sitting in a small roped off area on a busy sidewalk. 

A sign outside the velvet rope reads, "Please do not feed the stereotype". The twist? Everything artist Gregg Deal is wearing in the piece was mass produced in China.

It represents "the inept understanding Americans have, or westerners have, to what indigeneity is and what it isn't," Deal said. "So in essence, I'm a stereotype personified." 

Ethnographic Zoo is a performance piece created by Deal, the artist-in-residence at the Denver Art Museum. "The real ethnographic zoos that existed in museum in western culture, [were] basically taking brown people and putting them on display in western cities, gawking at, essentially, the 'other'," Deal said. 

Reaction to this latest work, Deal said, was mixed. "Some people laughed, some people were annoyed, some people walked by," Deal said. "One woman, which I have on video, got behind me and was pulling on the feathers on the headpiece."

So much of my work is based on indigenous identity, particularly as it exists in popular culture.
- Gregg Deal, artist

With fashion appropriated from indigenous cultures walking the runways and discussion of team mascots filling the airwaves, Deal said art has a unique ability to address the topic in a different way.

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Adam Sandler Finally Addresses Ridiculous Six Controversy

Filmaker Adam Sandler

Filmaker Adam Sandler

Lisa J. Ellwood

12/17/15

One week before Adam Sandler’s “The Ridiculous Six” officially debuted on Netflix on December 11, Adam Sandler finally talked about the Native actors who walked off his set in protest. Sandler’s remarks appear in an online video interview posted by the Washington Postthat was shot at the movie’s premiere in Hollywood.

Sandler said in the video, “I certainly didn’t want anyone to be offended… Once they see the movie we are making - it is so not trying to be hurtful. We were just trying to show how great American Indians are.”

However, despite the walk-offof the film’s cultural advisor, Native American actor Loren Anthony, and other extras last Spring, Sandler insists he has Netflix’s full support.

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/12/17/adam-sandler-finally-addresses-ridiculous-six-controversy-162815

 

Dollar General v. Choctaw: Cherry-picking Indian Sovereignty

The oral argument in Dollar General v. Choctaw Indians opened on an inauspicious note. The lawyer for Dollar General summarized and challenged the Choctaw argument that "when the Tribes entered the United States and were incorporated into this country, [civil jurisdiction] was understood to be an element of their sovereignty."                                                                                     The Dollar General lawyer denied the Choctaw position: "That is not correct." Moments later, responding to a question from Justice Ginsburg, the lawyer said, "Everyone agrees that the Tribes have a form of [civil jurisdiction] upon consent. They don't have it inherently."
One expects the opposing party to deny one's arguments. No surprise. The inauspicious note stems from the part of the Choctaw argument Dollar General didn't deny: namely, the notion that "the Tribes entered the United States and were incorporated into [the] country." Dollar General didn't deny that part of the Choctaw argument because it agrees with it.

US SUPREME COURT HEARS ARGUMENTS DOLLAR GENERAL CASE

As hundreds of Native people protested on the front steps of the United States Supreme Court, oral arguments were heard in Dollar General v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians(MBCI), which is arguably one of the most important Indian law cases to go before the high court in half a century.

The company is asking the Court to annul all civil jurisdiction over non-Indians on Indian lands, which has drawn outrage from tribes across the nation who spent decades and billions building their judicial systems and legal codes to address the jurisdictional “black holes” on Indian lands. Native women’s groups, including the National Indian Women’s Resource Center, have protested the case, who say that by removing all jurisdiction over non-Indians will give perpetrators and corporate bad actors an exemption for the crimes they commit on Indian lands.


Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/12/07/us-supreme-court-hears-arguments-dollar-general-case-162677

If you believe attempted genocide of America's Indigenous population ended in the late 1800's, think again

If you believe that America's attempts at genocide of the Indigenous population in this country ended in the late 1800's. Think again. America has, as recent as the latter portion of the 20th century, continued to in some way, shape, form, or fashion, made if difficult for the Indigenous population in America to thrive as a group of people. If you believe the previous statement of genocide is not true, here is evidence to substantiate the statement.

 

1976: Government admits forced sterilization of Indian Women

A study by the U.S. General Accounting Office finds that 4 of the 12 Indian Health Service regions sterilized 3,406 American Indian women without their permission between 1973 and 1976. The GAO finds that 36 women under age 21 had been forcibly sterilized during this period despite a court-ordered moratorium on sterilizations of women younger than 21.

Two years earlier, an independent study by Dr. Connie Pinkerton-Uri, Choctaw/Cherokee, found that one in four American Indian women had been sterilized without her consent. PInkerton-Uri’s research indicated that the Indian Health Service had “singled out full-blooded Indian women for sterilization procedures.”

THEME

 

Federal-Tribal Relations

REGION

California, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northeast, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Southeast, Southwest.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/543.html  

Appropriation train wreck. Miss Canada.

What The HELLLLLLLL?!?!?!?

What The HELLLLLLLL?!?!?!?

On our show, we try very hard to bring to light solid concrete examples where we try to demonstrate how our native culture is bastardized.  Here is one such example. This is Miss Canada. We don't know if she thinks she is being sensitive or elevating the First Nations people of Canada, We think Not! Maybe she had a brain fart and thinks she is Cher from the 1970's.  

In any case,  we as native Indigenous or first nations people are perfectly capable of of elevating our own culture and art properly. We do not need help from the "outside" to do so. Please Miss Canada...go sit back back down....