tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post9166532825491634713..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Observing Indigenous Peoples DayKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-34716677282865682672017-10-16T13:41:22.252-04:002017-10-16T13:41:22.252-04:00If statistical projections of future climate aren&...If statistical projections of future climate aren't debatable ... then we aren't dealing with science, but instead, just dogma -- what Galileo and other early scientists encountered in the middle ages.Jamienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-46437663999992173042017-10-10T10:34:47.089-04:002017-10-10T10:34:47.089-04:00Great idea, Jay, for indigenous heroes' statue...Great idea, Jay, for indigenous heroes' statues to replace those being torn down. I nominate Tecumseh, who forged an alliance of aboriginal communities to fight against settler incursion. (Another thing I learned in my research for this post is how even the iconic Mount Rushmore itself was chiselled on stolen land.)<br /><br />I've been interested in indigenous history ever since my Oklahoma university days when I got to know many Indians (they don't object to this terminology, by the way) personally.<br /><br />Recommended reading: Killers of the Flower Moon, a recent bestseller, about the murders of Osage Indians who got momentarily rich - and robbed, and murdered - when oil was discovered on their land in the 1920s.Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-9373640901577506502017-10-09T11:30:56.455-04:002017-10-09T11:30:56.455-04:00Here's an idea for a monument to the people we...Here's an idea for a monument to the people we squashed underfoot while taking everything from them––their land, their culture, their future. Set down in our nation's capital a long, curved wall of granite like the Vietnam Memorial. Maybe facing that same memorial. Then get me a stone cutter who will chisel Karen's post on it, word for word, exactly in the middle of the great wall. On both sides of her post, chisel the names of as many aboriginals as we dare remember killing over the centuries. The stone cutter may run out of space for those names. Let the generations visit this Aboriginal Memorial as a corrective to just about every other monument in D.C.––and in our heads.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.com