Jodi Rave reposted a notice from Brock Auctions:
UPDATE: AUCTION CANCELLED ON DIRECTION OF OWNERS' REPRESENTATIVE.Chase Iron Eyes, Rosalie Little Thunder and others appeared with host Karl Gehrke earlier today on Dakota Midday, the flagship program on Bill Janklow's idea of public radio.
Ruth Moon's story in the RCJ.
I went looking for the geology of the area: nothing yet; it is similar to the Jemez Caldera in New Mexico.
The authors of this 1997 ethnohistory piece could find no prior tribal mention before the Lakota assumed primary control around 1750 after acquiring the horse in 1742.
An interesting intersection with the cancellation is this release from the Union Nations Special Rapporteur, James Anaya.
There is evolving development in Kimberly Craven’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court: her 52-page petition for writ of certiorari in the appeal of the Cobell settlement was filed with the court on August 20.
It took me a little while to read the "1997 ethnohistory piece" but when I got the text bumped up some it was ok.
ReplyDeleteI had heard most of the stories either told to me or read in one place or another. Still it gives me a better understanding of what the actual history of the Black Hills is in regards to the Lakota, Dakota, and Dakota nations.
I now understand that the Sioux were only the last of the great Indian nations to occupy the hills. They were in effect squatters on the land just like the whites that came after them. I'm not saying that they weren't treated bad, they sure as hell were. What I am saying is that If time has any meaning the United States as a whole has occupied the Black Hills for about the same amount of time that the Sioux did.
I found it interesting that the different nations saw the hills in roughly the same way. The tallest places became where they met and meditated, talked about the news from the preceding year, and made both war and piece.
Also of interest to me was the fact that they took parts of their spirituality from those that occupied the land before them sometimes adding to it but most of the time just using new words. I now understand how they in effect crossbred the native spirituality with religion when that came along. I had been having trouble with that for twenty years.
Right now I think more of the native spirituality then any of the religions. I have heard and seen things that couldn't be explained any other way. Seeing people that are not there, hearing drums when the nearest place is over ten miles away, things like that. And no it wasn't good weed it was as real as it gets.
This should be required reading for everyone. Not just the white people that think they know everything about Indians, but also all the natives who have been told the same stories over and over again about where they came from and how they got there. We all could use a little bit of truth in our reading material.
Will that happen? Its not likely, the distrust has been festering on both sides for over a hundred years and we tend to drag that dead horse along with us where ever we go. That's sad.
I live on a culturally rich native highway called Pass Creek. It runs from south to north to the Big White River and covers about thirty miles all together. There have been many archeological sites dug and looked at on this creek but there has never been any Sioux artifacts found that date back more then two hundred and fifty years. There were signs of all the tribes that the piece talked about before the Sioux but not the Sioux.
This Blindman has had his eyes opened just a little today.
Thank you for your insights, Bill: there is so much left for me to learn, too. I just drove the Bad River Road: it just reached up and drew me into the way it unfolds onto the Badlands Wall when words so often fail to describe.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes to you.
Chase Iron Eyes released this video to bring people up to speed.
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ReplyDeleteUpdate on Pe' Sla: Buffalo Post.
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