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The Sacred Buffalo Vision Book Review

Bob Juneau — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:16:32 +0100

Book Review
“The Sacred Buffalo Vision” by Bob Juneau and Robert C. Juneau The book provides a panoramic view, 1860-2012, Indian-written history in Montana from the Indian’s point of view. The intent is to tell the Political History of how the White Men got on the Blackfeet Reservation. For the first time the conspiracy theory is laid bare behind the illegal practices that led to genocide and extermination of the Indians in Montana Territory. The text has been res...

War Against the Weak pg.282

Bob Juneau — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:13:56 +0100

When Lehmann's fascist publishing house released a series of race
cards, that is, popular trading cards depicting racial profiles-from the
Tamils of India to the primitive Baskirs of the Ural Mountains-their
availability was fondly reported in Eugenical News. Fascinated with the
novelty, Eugenical News suggested, however, that the cards could be
improved if the pictures would reveal more body features. German race
cards, just like many baseball cards, came ten to a package. In May of
1...

War Against the Weak

Bob Juneau — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:10:57 +0100

Hitler's arrival on the eugenic scene changed the entire partnership
between German and American eugenicists. America had shown
Germany the way during the first two decades of the twentieth century,
treating the struggling German movement with both parental fascination
and Nordic admiration. But when Hitler emerged in 1924, the relationship
quickly shifted to an equal partnership. National Socialism promised a
sweeping hereditary revolution, establishing dictatorial racial procedures
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Tiffany Waters

Bob Juneau — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:09:30 +0100

Simply stated, the US government developed blood quantum,
defined as the 'degree' of blood one biologically possesses of a
certain 'race' or ethnic group, to facilitate the cultural eradication
of Native people and dismantle traditional modes of life. However,
Ward Churchill claims "to tighten or even adhere to quantum requirements...
is to engage in a sort of autogenocide by definitional/statistical extermination"
(Churchill, 1998: n.p.). In short, if Native nations continue to a...

Ward Churchill

Bob Juneau — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:07:08 +0100

Native America is at a crossroads. If the present hegemony of IRA-style
governance is maintained and allowed to continue its giveaway program
in terms of American Indian resources and national rights, the future looks
bleak indeed. Remaining on the course sketched above can result only in
the permanent reduction of American Indian sovereignty and self-governance
to, at best, the level of very minor components within the overall U.S.
governmental/political appartus. In the case of ...

Patricia Nelson Limerick

Bob Juneau — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:56:06 +0100

Set the blood quantum at one-quarter, hold to it as a rigid definition of Indians,
let intermarriage proceed as it [has] for centuries, and eventually Indians will
be defined out of existence. When that happens, the federal government will
be freed of its persistent "Indian problem."
-Patricia Nelson Limerick

The Sacred Horses

Heidi Rockwell — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:35:22 +0100

The Sacred Horses

Years ago on the great earth roamed a herd of beautiful sacred horses. They were very happy and loved each other. They were great warriors hunters and the spirits gave them many gifts and talents. They were prosperous and they had the best the earth had to give. The land was plentiful, they wanted for nothing and they had great light.

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I Wonder

Heidi Rockwell — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:29:10 +0100

As a little girl my father told me stories, about my great great great grandmother that was a Blackfoot. Maybe she was greater than that. I dearly wished that I could have met her in my lifetime. I do not have any documentation, only the stories.

I have been drawn to my ancestors through my dreams and I attended quite a few tribe meetings in my native state of Ohio. I can not describe the feelings in my heart when I was there except joy. I enjoy reading the stories an...

Custer Died For Your Sins quote

Bob Juneau — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:48:32 +0100

Scalping, introduced prior to the French and Indian War by the

English,*confirmed the suspicion that Indians

*Notice, for example the following proclamation:

Given at the Council Chamber in Boston this third day of

November 1755 in the twenty-ninth year of the Reign

of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the

Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland,

King Defender of the Faith.

By His Honour's Command...

Blackfeet 2415 Claims Are the Patent-In-Fee Lands of White Ranchers And Glacier County

Bob Juneau — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:26:49 +0100

The Blackfeet Forced Patent claims cover 293,000 acres of the grazing and farm lands of the reservation that were stooen by white men in 1918-1922, and are the subject of THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS EXTENTSION HEARINGS, Monday, December 17, 1979, U.S. Senate, Select Committee on Indian Affairs, Washington D.C. The 2415 Indian claims program and Public Law 96-217, Section 2, were laws passed by Congress to establish title to Indian lands. Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Department of th...

2415 Indian Claims forgotten in the cash claims of the Cobell Case

Bob Juneau — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:54:18 +0100

The "confessions" of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs to Congress in 1979 to complicity in the Forced Patents of Indian Trust lands did not translate into the removal of white patent-in-fee landowners from the reservation by government condemnation payments. President Reagan basically told the Congress to shove their 96-217, section 2 law where the sun don't shine, and there it has remained. The tribal chairmen were scared back to the reservation leaving the Indian allotte...

Lies My Teacher Told Me quotes

Bob Juneau — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:52:54 +0100

A reader who I infer is part-Indian wrote: ...

"Slow Death Measures" genocide by the Montana border-whites of the Blackfeet Indians

Bob Juneau — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:00:28 +0100

The United Nations definition of genocide includes physical genocide of which we are familiar in the massacre of Heavy Runner's band, small pox epidemics, whiskey trade, starvation of 600 Blackfeet Indians in the winter of 1883-1884, and the many murders of Indians by whites. Less well known are the "Slow Death Measures" genocides employed by the border-whites today to starve the Indians into the sale of allotted lands and the mass robbery of allotted lands of 500,000 acres of the best reserv...

Original Meanings quote

Bob Juneau — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:18:32 +0100

"I was retained by the law firm of Goodwin, Proctor, & Hoar to work on Oneida Indian Nation v. New York, a case concerned with the original meaning of the Articles of Confederation."

-Original Meanings Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove pg.X

Native American Postcolonial Psychology-IPSD part 1

Bob Juneau — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:52:38 +0100

Successful clinical interventions are not possible in a Native American setting unless the provider or agency is cognizant of the sociohistorical factors that have had a devastating effect on the dynamics of the Native American family. Beginning in the late 1800s, the U.S. government implemented policies whose effect was the systematic destruction of the Native American family system under the guise of educating Native Americans in order to assimilate them as painlessly as possible into...

Native American Postcolonial Psychology-IPSD part 2

Bob Juneau — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:49:03 +0100

Once a group of people have been assaulted in a genocidal fashion, there are psychological ramifications. With the victim's complete loss of power comes despair, and the psyche reacts by internalizing what appears to be genuine power-the power of the oppressor. The internalizing process begins when Native American people internalize the oppressor, which is merely a caricature of the power actually taken from Native American people. At this point, the self-worth of the indivi...

Native American Postcolonial Psychology-IPSD part 3

Bob Juneau — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:45:38 +0100

Intergenerational Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Most of the literature on intergenerational transmission of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has emerged from research done with victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Many of the dynamics in effect in the Jewish experience are similar to those of the Native American experience, with the crucial exception that the world has not acknowledged the Holocaust of native people in this hemisphere. This lack of acknowledgment remains one ...

Native American Postcolonial Psychology-IPSD part 4

Bob Juneau — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:41:52 +0100

The normal developmental tasks of growing up were mutilated beyond recognition by the traumas of loss and grief, danger and fear, hatred and choas"(1990, p.81). If these traumas are not resolved in the lifetime of the person suffering such upheaval, it is unthinkable that the person will not fall into some type of dysfunctional behavior that will then become the learning environment for their children. Once these children grow up with fear, rage, danger, and grief as the norm, it ...

question???

James Pedigo — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:25:29 +0100

Anyone have any information on a man by the name of ManyGuns? First name may have been Sam.

Native American Postcolonial Psychology quotes

Bob Juneau — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:43:53 +0100

The important thing is the way you let go of a bad spirit, so it does not come back on you.

-Native American Postcolonial Psychology pg.94

However, although some anthropological research has been conducted in this century, only since the 1970s has the problem been addressed seriously by the Indian Health Service (IHS) and other health care providers.

-Native American Postcolonial Psychology pg.95

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