RedClout unloads on a Madison (S.D.) Daily Leader editorial that criticizes the choice of the Standing Rock Sioux to spend $4.1 million of stimulus money on construction of a local airport, a project that reportedly will create about 150 jobs. If the non-Natives who don’t know any Indians are never thinking about them, the ones […]
The Code Talkers Are Passing
Three of the Navajo Code Talkers, all in their eighties, have died in the past two weeks. Read about John Brown Jr., Thomas Claw, and Willie K. Begay. Read about Code Talker Sam Tso, very much still with us, whom we met in Lukachukai, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation back in March. And today being […]
Memorial Day
Talihina, Oklahoma: Dallas Street, 6 a.m. JD
Sam’s Amusements
At Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Capitol of the Cherokee Nation: Coming to a town near you in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas 1. Setting Up 2. Base Camp: Indian Village RV Park 3. Carnival 4. Winding Down, Closing Down The Cast April Apodaca Barry Weddleton Becky Surber Brian Bishop Dan Peek Debra Miller Jack Branam Jacob […]
“Rough Justice”
This released from the Indian Trust ListServ today: WASHINGTON, May 11 — A federal appeals court was told today that it should offer 500,000 Native Americans some form of “rough justice” as a result of the federal government’s acknowledged mismanagement of their trust accounts. Attorney Dennis M. Gingold, who represents the Indians in a 13-year-old […]