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Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
FEATURED ARTICLES
- Oklahoma AIM leader Michael Haney Dies, Native Times
- Cerebrating
on Columbus and his legacy, Indian Country Today
THE QUOTE:
"The longest undeclared war in history is the war against
American Indians."
- - Michael
Stephen Haney (1948-2005)
THE HISTORY: October 12th
1492 -- In the New World: Christopher
Columbus, lost & confused,
runs aground in the West Indies & is discovered by the Arawaks. The arrival
of Columbus & his men signals the start of the European invasion of the Americas.
In the next 25 years all 50,000 Arawaks had died or been shipped out as slaves.
1970 -- Beatnik & American Spiritual Teacher, Stephen
Gaskin,
and 350 of Haight Ashbury's finest seekers, set out from The Family Dog Rock
Hall at San Francisco's Ocean Beach in a Caravan of Mandala painted school buses, committed to re-discovering America. (The Rhino was aboard)
1992 -- Rallies, protests & arrests throughout the Western
Hemisphere mark the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the European invasion of the Americas & genocide of its native peoples.
RHINO HERE:
The Rhino emerges with a few bits of info he believes worthy of
your attention. First is the passing of a really big Indian man with a
really big hunman heart: Michael Haney. In The Rhino's experience,
Michael was one of the most intellegent, passionate, fearless & funny of
the American Indian Movement activists. I had the privlidge of spending time
with him in both political & ceremonial settings and found him to be the
type of person I'd call a master key to personality; someone who could
converse effectively with senators, businessmen, Indian elderlies and Hell's
Angels. We lost a really good one, and way too early; he was just 57.
Rhino's Bottom Line is an essay by the Editor of Indian Country Today,
on the relevance of the controversial legacy of Cristobal Columbus in the year
2005.
And last, I hereby publish the best of the reported protest signs seen at the
recent anti-war demonstration in Washington, DC.
"WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE HIM A BLOW JOB
SO WE CAN HAVE HIM IMPEACHED?"
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Oklahoma AIM leader Michael Haney Dies
Haney was longtime member of group, also fought against the use of mascots
by Sam Lewin, Native Times, 10/11/05
TULSA OK - A longtime Indian activist from Oklahoma has passed away. Michael
Stephen Haney, Seminole/Lakota, died in a Tulsa hospital on Oct. 8 following
a lengthy illness. "He was a diabetic. He had been fighting diabetes
for years," his wife,
Cheri, told the Native American Times.
That wasn't the only thing Haney, who died at the age of 57, fought.
He was
active in the American Indian Movement, and joined the organization when
they
occupied Alcatraz Island in 1969. The leader of the National Coalition
Against Racism in Sports & Media, Haney remained a firebrand and
continued to
speak out on other Indian issues, including the use of Native American
mascots,
until his death.
"What I am saying is that after you have run the people that inhabited,
the
people that welcomed your ancestors to Illinois, teach you how to exist,
fed
you, the first welfare line in Illinois was your ancestors. We fed you.
We
offered you our resources. And in return you named Chief Illiniwek after
us. In
return, after you hunted the Mesquaki, Chief Blackhawk, after you hunted
the
Sauk and Fox people to their death like animals, hunted them, killed
man,
woman and children, then you named ice hockey teams after them and you
think we
should be satisfied," Haney said in opposing the University of Illinois'
"Chief Illiniwek" mascot. "I wonder why they call them
outside agitators. I am
from Oklahoma, but I wouldn't be from Oklahoma if your ancestors hadn't
run my
people out of Illinois."
MORE AT: http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&;article_id=7084
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Cerebrating on Columbus and his legacy
by: Editors Report / Indian Country Today / October 06, 2005
Fairly or not, Christopher Columbus continues to be the whipping-boy representation of all things evil with Western civilization. Staff of political life to some, tiresome to others, protests over the celebration of the admiral's day, Oct. 12, continues...
...Today - as we write - the last of the naturally free Indians in the hemisphere, the remote tribes of the Brazilian Amazon, are just meeting Columbus. In fact, the whole of the Amazon, incredibly reduced and destroyed just in the past 20 years, now finds the last remaining independent tribal groups of American Indians. The current rape of the Amazon is vintage Columbus. The rapid deforestation - the constant and axiomatic destruction of the natural world, so constant in the 500-year-old Columbus narrative - now has the Indians of the Rio Pardo river system of the state of Matto Grosso on the run. They are among the last to see the white man, and he comes into their sovereign and traditional lands at the point of a chain saw and rifle.
Modern Brazil, engulfed by the corrupting rules of the global economy, is unwilling or unable to stop the destruction. The loggers who are razing the Amazon consider the Indians ''pagan savages'' who don't have the capacity to properly exploit the land and its resources, who therefore should have no right to their traditional lands. Beyond Columbus, it is this pattern of exploitative philosophy and jurisprudence that tolerates, even mandates, the injurious and false taking of lands and properties based on a prejudiced religious argument that continues to suffocate the Native peoples of the Americas. The imposition of faith, of the denial of the right to a people's own spiritual lifeway and government, persists as well.
READ IT ALL AT: http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096411699
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