All Indian Nations have a story of the conquest. For many Western Tribes, like the Apache and the Sioux, the story includes tenacious resistance to European advances and a bitter defeat. For some Eastern tribes, like those historically known, controversially, as the Five Civilized Tribes – the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole – […]
The Honor of the Mascot, or A Team by Any Other Name
Indian Country Today reports Some Native American plaintiffs in the long-running dispute against the proprietors of the Washington Redskins’ football name and logo want the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case. Here is a question: Would Indians be mascots if they’d won? Before we consider an answer to that question, let’s first shoot off […]
Have We Ever Steered You Wrong?
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