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I just caught wind of this upcoming march on Facebook and don’t mind giving press to our nation’s most forgotten minority and my indigenous brothers. Besides, it’s a group that I can support that will give the drum circle and other Native rituals the respect and dignity that they deserve. Unlike some of the Kemo Sabe poseurs out there who pretend to be “Native” just so they can look cool in front of CNN or their equally ignorant comrades.
Without further ado, I will turn this over to my Ojibwa and Potawatomi brother Franklin A. Cornstalk, Jr (100% full blood. Or so he tells me)
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(From their Facebook fan page. I will do the punctuation editing.)
Join us today as we prepare to March on Washington on July 4th in the summer of 2012. It is time that our voices are heard. Want to be heard? Sign up, make plans to be there and request all of your tribal members to join us show this country real power
The first of its kind, we are not invisible people and with your tribal support we can debunk the policy makers in DC who lambaste us with rhetoric. Maybe this can be the beginning of a political power base for all of the First Nations people in this great country as We MARCH peacefully, on the Fourth of July weekend,2012 to find the solution to the release of our politically held brother, Leonard Peltier, along with many other sociological ills perpetuated on us. Traditionalists be stirred, we have to spring forth a new voice in the twenty first century so our children’s children will see by our actions that free will is the thing. Want to be heard? Sign up, make plans to be there and request all of your tribal members to join and show this country real power. like the Mississippi!!!
Ho Miigwetch
Franklin A. Cornstalk Jr (Ojibwa, potawatomi, and Ottawa) full blood!
My name is Franklin Cornstalk and I created this group. As the number of members grow they all will have questions,inquiries from members who are not on Facebook and be able to point them to an administrator who can provide pertinent info. Here is my phone number and email address to this end: 207-807-6920, n email: neemewinanong46@yahoo.com I will have a brochure-info packets to mail out
Ho miigwetch!
Hi, it’s Guy again. As soon as there is an official web site and more information, I will be passing it on.
Here is their Facebook site: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Redman-March-on-Washington-2012-Offical-Site/174530335921722?sk=info
Gakina Awiiya
Where is Crazy Horse when you really need him?
Speed the plow.
I followed the link and would like to know more about the event. You probably have more support than you know from non-Natives like myself. Please update us with info on how to further the cause.
I must regretfully decline to attend this event. I have already seen more GD indians than I really want to.
So its not racist to talk about protecting “red” interests?
GW – According to the Rules of PC – it is only racist to talk about protecting “white” interests.
Groups that discuss “white” interests are — as you’ll know if you go read their websites — generally neo-Fascist, neo-KKK, etc. It’s a code word — something that in other contexts you would readily recognize. If you feel at home there, then go commune with your people.
I don’t like the term, I don’t use the term “red” for NDNs, but I’m not going to crticize GF for doing so as a member of the group.
Would it soothe your Euro egos if we Indians just complied and called it “legal residents'” rights? No wait, that might be considered the truth and we know about your allergic reaction to that concept. Hell, our interests are right up there with what you “conservatives” espouse in your rhetoric. Self sufficiency, self determination and independence from government assistance. Or are your principles a “whites only” privilege? Like you conservatives, we Indians are also concerned about illegal immigration. Its been a huge concern of ours .since 1492.
Actually, I found the Custer post quite funny. Megwiich junior.
One other thing, the members of our many nations and tribes also share your “conservatives” disdain for eminent domain and for the intrusive nature of the Federal Government. I believe that my people have some firsthand experience of being forcibly removed from our rightful abodes at the barrel of a gun and left in some ransacked area that the Feds deem livable. I believe you Euros call them reservations.
Like you conservatives, we don’t really care for oppressive laws and regulations either. Especially when it comes to hunting and fishing. Frankly, it was our land first and we had some respect for it without trying to pass laws and the like. I would dare say some of the Indian methods of fishing, farming and hunting are a lot more environmentally friendly than the waste, disease and pollution that the Euros have brought here. If memory serves me correct, it was a member of the Sononoce Pawtuxet tribe named Tisquantum, or who you Euros know as Sqaunto, that taught the pilgrims how to farm and fish on the land that they dubbed “the New World.” Otherwise, the poor English bastards would have starved to death and became human ice pops if it wasn’t for their generous nature. Now that I think about it, maybe Tisquantum should have left them English bastards for dead knowing what we know now about their true nature and their love of eminent domain.
Willis, if you want to engage in a debate with me about the origins of my tribe, the Anishaanabe, Ojibwa or what the bastard Canadians call us Chippewa, feel free and be prepared to get scalped. I actually know more about the subject than Gabriel San Roman.
You see AIM and a lot of Native activists aren’t looking for government handouts at all. In fact, many of the leaders of AIM and Native activists that I know (and I know a lot of them) despise the piss poor excuse of food (processed crap) that gets doled out to the people on the reservation. Many members of tribes that I know would rather grow their own food without interference from Uncle Sam and their “hang around the fort Indians” at BIA. So instead of looking at the “reds,” Indians or whatever the hell you want to call us with disdain (unlike some PC Euros with huge guilt complexes, I don’t care what you call my people), maybe you could learn a thing or two about our ways and try to implement them in your way of life.
Or maybe I was right after all. Your rhetoric is exclusively for white Euros only. The browns, blacks and reds be damned.