Official Indian Resistance Day Thread

[DuctapeFatwa]

And best wishes for a safe, peaceful and revolutionary Indian Resistance Day to all!

[Terwilliger]

1. I hope that all the Indigenous People of the US are well...

and see a positive future for themselves.

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. Amen! And to Indigenous People of all places, and their descendants

Now watch those madcap Irish hijack the thread.

[roughsatori]

3. Erin Go Braugh to indigenous and digenous people everywhere

[Bandit]

4. It is too little too late. They have after all been "Discovered"

We all need to do some resisting and one way is by bringing to White America's attention that "People" were here long before Columbus "Discovered" America. Kind of like Bush* "Discovering" the US Treasury.

[Dob Bole]

5. Irony: Is it proper that I exist, or not?

My father is white. So if America had not been "discovered," I wouldn't exist.

[DuctapeFatwa]

7. OK so maybe you wouldn't exist but you'd have less body hair

Priorities, man, priorities!

[Dob Bole]

8. Hmm...I wouldn't have to shave....

awesome. lol

[Capn Sunshine]

6. Well then maybe we can free Leonard Peltier

he's paid his dues for a crime he was only tangentially connected with.

We all owe the native peoples a huge debt of gratitude for their contibution of all their fucking land to our country.

Maybe some day there will be sufficient outrage at the handling and malfeasance of Native American Trust funds.

Or maybe we will give the Lakota people back the land that we promised them in the treaty they signed with us. Hey, who knew it had gold and oil in it?

Maybe we will honor just ONE of the some 1,520 treaties we have signed with the Native Americans. So far our record is perfect: we have broken every single one.

[DuctapeFatwa]

9. Or maybe the southern tribes will continue reclaiming the continent :)

And bring the other interpretation of Chief Seattle's words into clear focus for all those pale grandparents learning Spanish from their grandchildren

[Bridget Burke]

13. In Mexico, this is "El Dia de la Raza"

Or "The Day of the Race"--the day to commemorate the origin of the Mestizo. It's not a celebration of Columbus. (Cortez is certainly NOT revered in Mexico.)

And, yes, population movement will "continue reclaiming the continent". Some of the European settlers were more efficient in wiping out the natives but the imbalance is being redressed.

[DuctapeFatwa]

12. http://www.freepeltier.org/

nt

[xJlM]

27. Peltier will never be released

The FBI botched the first case they made of the Pine Ridge shootings, and Leonard Peltier was the convenient scapegoat they hung the second case on. Very sad story... http://www.dickshovel.com/Aim.Pine.html

[arcane1]

10. may I be the (not quite) first to say...

Columbus was a fucking asshole

[DuctapeFatwa]

11. The One True Fry Bread Recipe

1 C flour
1 t baking powder
1/4 C powdered milk
1/4 t salt
warm water

Mix it all up, add the water, a bit at a time. Throw some flour on a board, table, whatever. Knead till it's not sticky any more, all smooth. Cover it up and leave it alone for an hour. Then make little balls and pat them down - just like you were making thick flour tortillas. They should be about a third of an inch thick.

Heat up your oil, corn, veggie, peanut, whatever. Throw em in, fry till brown, flip over, brown other side, take out, put it on paper towels to drain, lift fry bread to mouth level, open mouth, insert fry bread, use teeth to bite.

[AntiCoup2K4]

14. Hey, no talking about Fry Bread!

It's right before lunch here and I'm hungry damn it!

[sybylla]

15. Fry Bread Power!

Love Fry Bread. Think I'll make some for supper on this day formerly known as that other day that no one really wants to mention anymore unless they get it off of work.

[Brewman_Jax]

16. Merry Indian Resistance Day to you!

I like that! Thanks!

P.S. It's a working day for me, and I don't mind a bit!

[Pastiche423]

17. Peaceful Indian Resistance Day!

Thank you for posting this.

[Chovexani]

18. Peace to indigenous peoples everywhere

Solidarity is the only way.

[Astarho]

19. Happy Indian Resistance day!

Best wishes for all those ouyt there preserving their cultures.

Now if only I could get some piki bread.

[Eloriel]

20. All my relations.

Great thread.

Eloriel

[frank frankly]

21. peace out, sisters and brothers

much love

[RobertSeattle]

22. Indian?

Shouldn't it be "Offical People who were in what is now called North America before the Europeans Arrived Resistance Day"?

[DuctapeFatwa]

28. No, "Indian" is a perpetual reminder that Columbus was stupid

And a possibly very lucrative trademark infringement suit from a certain large country in South Asia...

[Zorra]

23. Ho!

Always carry your passport, and duct tape to fix your car.

[ozone_man]

26. Hey!

From storyteller Wolfsong (Vermont), rest in peace.

Happy Indian Resistance Day!

[Darranar]

24. Excellent thread!

n/t

[sistersofmercy]

25. Cheers for Indian Resistance Day!

[Terwilliger]

29. kick

[librechik]

30. Mitakuye Oyasin

Ho, Hechitu yedo. Tahunska Tanka, he miyedo.


Ya Ta Hey

[shepard]

32. We are all relatives

Allacross our universe we are all relatives.

[number6]

31. may natives resist occupation everywhere !!!