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Monday, June 24, 2002 |
"Reason to Fear - The Cultural Defense Of Hooty Croy"
On the night of July 17, 1978 dozens of Northern California police officers
engaged in a gun battle with five Native American who had a single .22
rifle. More than a hundred shots were fired. Three were wounded. One police
officer was killed. After spending eight years on death row for first degree
murder, Patrick "Hooty" Croy, of Shasta Karok decent, was granted a retrial
and eventually acquitted. His new defense team, headed by J. Tony Serra,
argued Croy acted in self defense and gave supporting evidence of the
genocide against California Native Americans that has continued since the
1850's. This strategy, known as the cultural defense was used to explain why
Croy feared for his life when he returned fire.
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2 QUOTES OF THE DAY
"Dialogue is a free flow of meaning among people in communication. A key
difference between dialogue and ordinary conversation is that in the latter,
people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their
views as they try to convince others to change. In dialogue, however, a
person may prefer a cetain position, but he or she is ready to listen to
others with sufficient sympathy and interest to understand the meaning of
others' positions properly, and is also ready to change his or her point of
view if there is good reason to do so."
-- David Bohm, famed colleague of Albert Einstein
"Dialogue implies a very deep change in how the mind works. It is essential
that each participant suspend his or her point of view, while also holding
other points of view in a suspended form and giving full attention to what
they mean. In doing so, each participant has to suspend his or her own
tacit infrastructure of ideas. Freedom from the tacit infrastructure of
ideas, worldview, and so forth, brings about the true spirit of dialogue."
-- Leroy Little Bear, former Director of Native Studies at Harvard
Rhino here:
Although Denzel Washington recently won an Oscar for his performance in the
movie, "Training Day", I thought he clearly deserved it the previous year
for his role in "Hurricane". In my opinion his multi level performance in
the solitary confinement scene alone deserved the Oscar. Okay I'm a big fan.
If you've never seen the movie, "Remember The Titans", I recommend renting
it. This is a powerful true story of dialog between unlikely allies. It's
also another wonderful performance by Denzel, portraying an African American
footbal coach working with a more experienced Anglo coach to get their
racially tense team members to stop fighting each other and win some games.
Turns out, Herman Boone, the man the movie was written about was
half-Cherokee. His mother was born on a reservation in North Carolina and
he's now coaching at Haskel Indian Nations University in Lawrence Kansas.
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Friday, June 21, 2002 - The Lawrence Journal, Lawrence, Kansas
By Chuck Woodling, Sports Editor
Three years ago, Herman Boone was just another retired high school football
coach, well known in Virginia but nowhere else. Then the movie "Remember the
Titans" came out and Boone's 15 minutes of fame have to be measured by a
calendar. "It's been two years and my requests for speaking engagements have
doubled," Boone told me during an interview on the Haskell Indian Nations
University campus. "I've been to 104 cities. The only state I haven't been
to is Arkansas. I've been in Michigan 21 times and I'll be going back."
Who is Herman Boone? Back in 1971, when Boone was in his mid-30s, the school
board in Alexandria, Va., was forced to integrate an all-black school with
an all-white school. Boone was brought in from South Carolina to be the
football team's head coach over Bill Yoast, a coach with more seniority and
a strong local following. How Boone and Yoast worked together to mold a
group of angry, unfocused youths into a winning team is the theme of
"Remember the Titans."
The movie isn't fiction. "Our character of Boone is certainly based on the
real man," director Boaz Yakin said. "He was strongly involved in the civil
rights movement and has always been incredibly strong-willed. He came in
like a bull in a china shop. He broke down everyone's defenses and was able
to accomplish what someone more political wouldn't have been able to."
Boone hasn't descended on the Haskel Indian Nations University campus like a
bull in a china shop, yet his relentless energy has been evident as he has
prepared his team for the first Native American All-Star football game on
Saturday night at Haskell Stadium. ...So, you ask, why has Herman Boone come
halfway across the country to coach in a Native American all-star football
game? Truth to tell he probably wouldn't be here if he hadn't run into a man
named Dominic Bramante about a year ago. Bramante coaches at Riverside
Indian School in Anadarko, Okla., and when Bramante learned that Boone was
half-Cherokee, that his mother was born on a reservation in North Carolina,
Bramante applied some pressure...
For the complete article, go to:
http://www.ljworld.com/section/sportslead/story/96960
Reprinted under the Fair Use doctrine of international copyright
law ( http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html ). All
copyrights belong to original publisher.
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