Hey America: it's time to wake up and smell the Tsingtao!
The reading of the Declaration of Independence by members of the reporting staff at NPR on the 4th of July gets me every time. Past on-air personalities, some now correspondents at the pearly gates, also read for this decades-old feature. The tears stream down my face right up to the line that begins:
When those words were being written, thousands of cultures inhabited a continent that seemed to keep growing huge ripe plums just waiting for Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton and the rest to pick and pick and pick and pick. Already, the Chesapeake Bay estuary had been mostly denuded of native vegetation, not to mention of its former human inhabitants.
Enslaved people tilled the fields and built the infrastructure, the ancestors of the Lakota and other Siouan groups that had been forced westward out of North Carolina generations earlier, traded with the Spanish and French while forging their own alliances (and marriages) with other indigenous peoples.
In 2018 the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has passed resolutions condemning what they say are abuses of the General Mining Law of 1872 passed to pay Civil War debt leading to the Custer Expedition's discovery of gold in the Black Hills and South Dakota State Senator Neal Tapio is saying he believes the people living in Oyate communities are victims of "incest and molestation" that lead to federal dependence, despair and high suicide rates.
Under Denny Daugaard's flatline economy all of South Dakota looks like that to me so The Dakota Progressive recruited him to get into the race for the state's lone US House seat. He was urged to run as an unaffiliated or third party principled conservative in the November general election splitting the earth hater vote and delivering the win for Democrat Tim Bjorkman. TDP convinced him to buy an advert at Dakota War College to keep pestilent plague Pat Powers off his case.
Had he stayed out of the earth hater primary polls in the race would likely be within the margin of error instead of the predicted lopsided showing for Howdy Doody Dusty Johnson. Tapio would have split Republican voters just like he is doing in the primary and his extreme views on race seemed the perfect foil for the eventual earth hater nominee who has no plan at all. Sen. Tapio might be sleazy enough to abandon the SDGOP after he loses then register to win a nomination for some race as a Constitution Party candidate.
Much of the road map to restoring treaty lands to the tribal nations trapped in South Dakota and other red states has already been drawn.
Every federal department and agency already recognize Native America as the 51st State. While the Palestinian homeland looks like holes in the slice of Swiss cheese analogous to the illegal Israeli state, progress toward resolutions of Native trust disputes would have far more political traction after tribes secede from the States in which they reside and then be ratified to form one State, the 51st, sans contiguous borders with two Senators and two House members as there are an estimated 2.5 million indigenous living on reservations.
It's time for the State of South Dakota to abandon Bear Butte State Park that it claimed through colonization and remand it to the tribes for governance so they can restore its name to Mato Paha and for the US Park Service to add the name Mahto Tipila to Devils Tower National Monument.
The South Dakota Democratic Party should advocate for paying the tribes and settling the Black Hills Claim, dissolving the Black Hills National Forest, moving management of the land from the US Department of Agriculture into the Department of Interior; and, in cooperation with Bureau of Indian Affairs Division of Forestry and Wildfire Management rewild it and rename it Okawita Paha National Monument eventually becoming part of the Greater Missouri Basin National Wildlife Refuge. Mato Paha (Bear Butte), the associated national grasslands and the Sioux Ranger District of the Custer/Gallatin National Forest should be included in the move.
The United States Constitution is the finest instrument ever created by the human hand. The Preamble is the body, the Bill of Rights is the neck, the Amendments are the strings. It is a fluid universal execution of human and civil rights.
It’s time for all Americans to enjoy the protection of law by being part of one nation: erase the artificial borders and grant Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to all the people of North America…Mexico, Central America, Canada, even the Caribbean if they’ll have us.
I'm not a New World Order guy, don't support the North American Union (god bless you. please, mr. roddenberry) and I believe the US Constitution is a big enough canvas in order to paint a more perfect masterpiece, a big enough score for all to sing. No violence. No more drug wars.
Read Alaska’s constitution some time. The last states ratified are the most egalitarian. Let’s debate it then draft a dream referendum to be delivered by and for the people of Mexico to dissolve their constitution and petition for Statehood as our 52nd State. Quebec could be the 53rd and Cuba, the 54th.
The United States is the Hamiltonian Empire Thomas Jefferson warned us about. Resistance is futile.
Sí, se puede.
The reading of the Declaration of Independence by members of the reporting staff at NPR on the 4th of July gets me every time. Past on-air personalities, some now correspondents at the pearly gates, also read for this decades-old feature. The tears stream down my face right up to the line that begins:
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare…That’s when it hits me right between the eyes.
When those words were being written, thousands of cultures inhabited a continent that seemed to keep growing huge ripe plums just waiting for Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton and the rest to pick and pick and pick and pick. Already, the Chesapeake Bay estuary had been mostly denuded of native vegetation, not to mention of its former human inhabitants.
Enslaved people tilled the fields and built the infrastructure, the ancestors of the Lakota and other Siouan groups that had been forced westward out of North Carolina generations earlier, traded with the Spanish and French while forging their own alliances (and marriages) with other indigenous peoples.
Or consider what today we would call the ethnic cleansing of Cherokee land in the early nineteenth century – an act of state-sanctioned forced migration known as the “Trail of Tears.” When the US Supreme Court ruled in 1832 that the Cherokee were in fact a sovereign nation, then-President Andrew Jackson simply ignored it. [America’s Founders vs. Trump]So, we’ve come a long way, init?
In 2018 the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has passed resolutions condemning what they say are abuses of the General Mining Law of 1872 passed to pay Civil War debt leading to the Custer Expedition's discovery of gold in the Black Hills and South Dakota State Senator Neal Tapio is saying he believes the people living in Oyate communities are victims of "incest and molestation" that lead to federal dependence, despair and high suicide rates.
Under Denny Daugaard's flatline economy all of South Dakota looks like that to me so The Dakota Progressive recruited him to get into the race for the state's lone US House seat. He was urged to run as an unaffiliated or third party principled conservative in the November general election splitting the earth hater vote and delivering the win for Democrat Tim Bjorkman. TDP convinced him to buy an advert at Dakota War College to keep pestilent plague Pat Powers off his case.
Had he stayed out of the earth hater primary polls in the race would likely be within the margin of error instead of the predicted lopsided showing for Howdy Doody Dusty Johnson. Tapio would have split Republican voters just like he is doing in the primary and his extreme views on race seemed the perfect foil for the eventual earth hater nominee who has no plan at all. Sen. Tapio might be sleazy enough to abandon the SDGOP after he loses then register to win a nomination for some race as a Constitution Party candidate.
Much of the road map to restoring treaty lands to the tribal nations trapped in South Dakota and other red states has already been drawn.
Every federal department and agency already recognize Native America as the 51st State. While the Palestinian homeland looks like holes in the slice of Swiss cheese analogous to the illegal Israeli state, progress toward resolutions of Native trust disputes would have far more political traction after tribes secede from the States in which they reside and then be ratified to form one State, the 51st, sans contiguous borders with two Senators and two House members as there are an estimated 2.5 million indigenous living on reservations.
It's time for the State of South Dakota to abandon Bear Butte State Park that it claimed through colonization and remand it to the tribes for governance so they can restore its name to Mato Paha and for the US Park Service to add the name Mahto Tipila to Devils Tower National Monument.
The South Dakota Democratic Party should advocate for paying the tribes and settling the Black Hills Claim, dissolving the Black Hills National Forest, moving management of the land from the US Department of Agriculture into the Department of Interior; and, in cooperation with Bureau of Indian Affairs Division of Forestry and Wildfire Management rewild it and rename it Okawita Paha National Monument eventually becoming part of the Greater Missouri Basin National Wildlife Refuge. Mato Paha (Bear Butte), the associated national grasslands and the Sioux Ranger District of the Custer/Gallatin National Forest should be included in the move.
The United States Constitution is the finest instrument ever created by the human hand. The Preamble is the body, the Bill of Rights is the neck, the Amendments are the strings. It is a fluid universal execution of human and civil rights.
It’s time for all Americans to enjoy the protection of law by being part of one nation: erase the artificial borders and grant Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to all the people of North America…Mexico, Central America, Canada, even the Caribbean if they’ll have us.
I'm not a New World Order guy, don't support the North American Union (god bless you. please, mr. roddenberry) and I believe the US Constitution is a big enough canvas in order to paint a more perfect masterpiece, a big enough score for all to sing. No violence. No more drug wars.
Read Alaska’s constitution some time. The last states ratified are the most egalitarian. Let’s debate it then draft a dream referendum to be delivered by and for the people of Mexico to dissolve their constitution and petition for Statehood as our 52nd State. Quebec could be the 53rd and Cuba, the 54th.
The United States is the Hamiltonian Empire Thomas Jefferson warned us about. Resistance is futile.
Sí, se puede.
Pope Condemns the Church's Culture of Abuse/Cover-Up https://t.co/3VeFQZQHa4 it’s just empty words unless he liquidates the treasuries and melts the golden goblets and gives restitution to the victims they devastated especially Natives South Dakota. It’s a Zacchaeus moment— stevehickey (@stevehickey) June 1, 2018
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