Native Opinion Episode 217
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EPISODE SUMMARY:
More covereage of Covid–19 inside of Indian Country. CBS news FINALY decides to cover the effects of corona virus on Indian Reservations. Also, what effect is Covid having on Truck drivers in the United States?
The Native Opinion theme song “Honor The People” is by Casper Loma Da Wa. FIND THE SONG AND MORE OF HIS MUSIC HERE:
LINKS IN THIS EPISODE
Meet the people feeding their Native elders in Minneapolis during COVID–19
COVID–19: Survival in the time of scarcity is what we as Native people do best
Mashpee Wampanoag Termination: Time to expose federal Indian law
Land O’Lakes Removing Native American Woman From Packaging After 92 Years
How Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus ‘Checks’ Averaging $1.7 Million
* DAKOTA 38 + 2 DOCUMENTARY **
**In the spring of 2005, Jim Miller, a Native spiritual leader and Vietnam veteran, found himself in a dream riding on horseback across the great plains of South Dakota. Just before he awoke, he arrived at a riverbank in Minnesota and saw 38 of his Dakota ancestors hanged. At the time, Jim knew nothing of the largest mass execution in United States history, ordered by Abraham Lincoln on December 26, 1862. “When you have dreams, you know when they come from the creator… As any recovered alcoholic, I made believe that I didn’t get it. I tried to put it out of my mind, yet it’s one of those dreams that bothers you night and day.”
Now, four years later, embracing the message of the dream, Jim and a group of riders retrace the 330-mile route of his dream on horseback from Lower Brule, South Dakota to Mankato, Minnesota to arrive at the hanging site on the anniversary of the execution. “We can’t blame the wasichus anymore. We’re doing it to ourselves. We’re selling drugs. We’re killing our own people. That’s what this ride is about, is healing.” This is the story of their journey- the blizzards they endure, the Native and Non-Native communities that house and feed them along the way, and the dark history they are beginning to wipe away.**
Kutupitush! (Thank You!) for listening!