He has done nothing for which an Indian ought to be ashamed. He has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came, year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it. The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and took at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal.

An Indian who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat [sic] up by the wolves. The white men are bad school-masters; they carry false looks, and deal in false actions; they smile in the face of the poor Indian to cheat him; they shake them by the hand to gain their confidence, to make them drunk, to deceive them, and ruin our wives. We told them to let us alone; but they followed on and beset our paths, and they coiled themselves among us like the snake. They poisoned us by their touch. We were not safe. We lived in danger. We were becoming like them, hypocrites and liars, adulterers, lazy drones, all talkers, and no workers.

#Movies

Just streamed a movie that I've never seen before.

It's called #WomanWalksAhead starring #JessicaChastain doing what she does so well, playing a brave, rebellious & independent #woman, who in this case portrays a female painter named #CarolineWelden, who in real life befriended & painted a portrait of #SittingBull. the #Sioux chief, before he was killed in a confrontation w/the US soldiers to were attempting to arrest him.

The portrayal of his relationship w/Ms. Weldon & the circumstances of his death in the movie are fictional but the white American genocidal actions against #NativeAmerican people, as represented in the film, have been well proven & documented by history.

I'm going to buy the #DVD of this movie.

How the #UnitedStates Tried to Crush #NativeAmerican #Matriarchies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLUYHLNeSkM

Before #colonization, many #Indigenous societies had egalitarian social structures, with #women holding power in ways that challenge everything we think we know. It's a history largely left out of the narrative. So why was this history revised?

We've processed 1,022 of over 20,000 photos that were flagged by the Department of Defense as being too #DEI. Some are already deleted but we are working to archive as many as we can!

Browse what we've collated so far at https://resistance-toolkit.com/dei-images

In other news.

> Trump Removes Navajo Shelly Lowe as Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/trump-removes-navajo-shelly-lowe-as-chair-of-the-national-endowment-for-the-humanities

“Native Americans' Reverent Relationship with Birds” presentation in Napa

When: 03/13/25 at 7 pm

Charlie Toledo presents “Native Americans' Reverent Relationship with Birds” at the April Napa Solano Audubon meeting. Birds play a significant role in Native American cultures, used for food, medicine, art and ceremony. Toledo will share her knowledge of birds and the roles they play in California Native American cultures.

Where: The event will be held in person at Napa Valley Lutheran Church, 1796 Elm St., Napa, California

#birds #birding #NativeAmericanHeritage #NativeAmerican #Nature #ThrowbackThursday

Zoom link also available. Info: napasolanobirds.org.

The chair of the National Endowment for the #Humanities, Shelly C. Lowe, left her position on Wednesday “at the direction of President #Trump,” the agency said.

Lowe, a scholar of higher education & the first #NativeAmerican to lead the agency, was nominated by former President Joseph R. #Biden Jr. in Oct 2021 & confirmed by the Senate in Feb 2022. Michael McDonald, the agency’s general council, was named its acting chairman on Wednesday.

#NEH #WhiteSupremacy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/arts/national-endowment-humanities-trump-shelly-lowe.html?smid=url-share

Today in Labor History March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam failed in Los Angeles, California, killing 431 people. It is the second deadliest disaster in California, after the 1906 earthquake, and one of the worst U.S. civil engineering disasters ever. A defective foundation and design flaws caused the failure. Yet, the inquest absolved chief engineer, William Mulholland, of all criminal responsibility, and he continued to earn a salary from the Bureau of Public Works (though his career was effectively ended). The authorities continued to find the remains of victims of the flood until the mid-1950s. Many of the victims were washed out to sea. Some washed ashore as far south as Mexico. Mulholland was also the designer of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sucks water from the Owens Valley and is a major cause of the depletion of the fragile Mono Lake. As its water levels continues to decline, it threatens the world’s second largest gull rookery, home to up to 50,000 birds. The aqueduct’s construction, and the shady methods Mulholland used to acquire the water rights, led to the California Water Wars between L.A. County and Owens Valley farmers. Many of those same Anglo farmers (or their predecessors) usurped the land from Piute people during the 1863 Owens Valley Indian War, which was precipitated, in part, by the vast loss of human and cattle lives, and the displacements, caused by the Megaflood of 1861, which inundated much of the West, from Idaho and Oregon, down to northern Baja California. The corruption related to the construction of the aqueduct has been portrayed in the film Chinatown, and in the nonfiction book, “Cadillac Desert.”

For more on the Megaflood of 1861, please read my article, “Worse Than the Big One”: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #flood #dam #mulholland #monolake #owensvalley #disaster #nativeamerican #indigenous #piute #ecology #chinatown #indianwar #habitatdestruction #books #nonfiction #author #writer #losangeles @bookstadon

Der illegale Einwanderer Trump
#trump #nativeamerican

Annoyance: Someone on zucksite posted a meme saying that all Hispanic/Latino people in the Americas and elsewhere should stop using the terms "Hispanic" and "Latino" and use #Native or #NativeAmerican instead.

I'm 100% down with this if Hispanic/Latino people make it clear that's what they want (or even if one person does). People's identities are almost totally up to them, IMO; I'll almost certainly call you what you want to be called. It's a pretty complex issue, though -- e.g., Mexico I think had the highest rate of mestizaje in the century or so after the conquests began, and it varies widely among other regions/nations; there have been a large number of Native pride and Native identity movements in the past 500 years throughout the Americas, and many Mexicans, at least, identify more strongly with their "European soul" (referencing Octavio Paz, there). Racism in Mexico is often tied to Native identity, language, and appearance, as well. This is not an issue I have a stake in except in wanting to support anyone who does. I'll look to the people with those identities and respect them.

Separate issue about the meme itself: It starts out saying "Hispanic means From #Spain, so..."

I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean that. The usage and definition I've seen of Hispanic is more like "having significant heritage connected to the Spanish (and Portuguese) conquests in the Americas." I've met one or two Spanish people who did not identify as Hispanic, for example (and others who did).

If the descendants of the conquests in the Americas choose to stop identifying as #Hispanic or #Latino, great. I'll support that 100%. However, I get annoyed when people try to push a narrative using a false premise.

Sha-kó-ka of the Mandan tribe by George Catlin, 1832

Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, July 18, 2015: "Members of the Native American Women Warriors, a Pueblo, Colorado-based association…" Further details: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015633463/.

Pecos' recorded history began around 800 AD when early inhabitants of the Rio Grande Valley moved into the upper Pecos Valley. They established fourteen small hamlets by 1100 AD, extending forty miles down the river to Anton Chico. #NewMexico #history #NativeAmerican #culture #heritage #daytrip

New Mexico National Monuments ...

Puye Cliff Dwellings is located about 40 minutes from Bandelier National Monument. People have inhabited the Pajarito Plateau for a very long time. #NativeAmerican #culture #heritage #indigenous #NewMexico #travel #daytrip

Puye Cliff Dwellings : New Mex...

Today in Labor History March 9, 1911: Frank Little and other free-speech fighters were released from jail in Fresno, California, where they had been fighting for the right to speak to and organize workers on public streets. Little was a Cherokee miner and IWW union organizer. He helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” 1917, he helped organize the Speculator Mine strike in Butte, Montana. Vigilantes broke into his boarding house, dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car, and then lynched him from a railroad trestle. Prior to Little’s assassination, Author Dashiell Hammett had been asked by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to murder him. Hammett declined.

Read my full bio of Frank Little here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #freespeech #indigenous #nativeamerican #cherokee #franklittle #civilrights #nonviolence #racism #vigilantes #lynching #author #writer #fiction #books @bookstadon

Powerful words coming from Natives Americans #america #nativeamerican #history #shortsfeed #native
https://youtube.com/shorts/1bEYQisa5gU?si=ur0LO_RAD7koD13V

“The long journey toward this recognition tells a larger story about imperiled Native American sacred sites in the eastern half of the United States and the challenges faced by those who wish to protect them,” wrote Stephen Warren, a professor of history and program coordinator of #NativeAmerican and #Indigenous Studies at the University of Iowa, in an op-ed for the Columbus Dispatch. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/unesco-world-heritage-designation-in-ohio-honors-indigenous-culture/
#UNESCO #WorldHeritageSites #Ohio #HopewellCeremonialEarthworks #Shawnee

Gathering of Nations is the largest pow-wow in North America, held annually on the #Powwow Grounds at Expo NM, in #Albuquerque. 565 tribes from the U.S. & 220 from Canada usually participate. Not sure if the Canadians will this year Coming up April 24-26, 2025 #NativeAmerican #NewMexico #culture

Gathering of Nations 2024

The Disney-ABC-Time-Warner-Microsoft machine -- exists only because we turn it on. If enough of us turn it off, it is gone. Think of it: It is in your power to plunge Bill Gates into poverty, to send Peter Jennings off to 'Good Morning, Saskatchewan,' to rid the world of Disney-licensed products, to see Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer reduced to talking only to each other. Disconnect now!
-- Michael Kelly (Editor-in-Chief, National Journal)

#Wisdom #Quotes #MichaelKelly #Microsoft

#Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah