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kolanuraven

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It is called the Declaration of Independence. It begins with “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.” Of course the people responsible for writing that document at the time (1776) were all were immigrants from Europe, and were all descendents of the Anglo and Saxon, Caucasian race. No American Indian, Hispanic, No African American, No Japanese American, etc. but more profoundly, No Women.

Under the Lie Slavery flourished, Race and gender discriminating was acceptable. The war against the Indigenous tribes of the new America continued. The late 1700’s brought the Articles of war into being, stating that women Children and the elderly would be protected from attack in the event of war. That did not stop John Sevier, and the Blount’s, of Tennessee, from raiding Indian villages and massacring whole villages while their warriors were away fighting for the U.S. military.

If you were not of the white race you had no civil rights, even after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, until The 1964 Civil rights Act was passed. Even then the Congress of the United States would not allow the American Indian to be included. These Indian, would not be allowed to enjoy all of the freedoms the Civil Rights Act endowed on all other races. We were subjected to the special “ Indian Civil rights Act “
That should be called the shame of this Nation. Under that Act, a white Non-Indian BIA teacher came here and molested 14 Indian Children. He got off scot free because there is no law against a White man molesting our Indian Children.

Then there began the adoption of Self Governance Acts. Those Acts carry all of their flowery language of professing to allow the Indian Tribes to govern themselves. It looks pretty on Paper but has had a devastating effect on Indian Tribes. What it really did was to give the Congress an out from their fiduciary trust responsibility to Indian Tribes and allow organized Crime and GOP lobbyist to establish Indian gaming on reservations without a vote of tribal members. It has allowed political influence peddling and politics to recruit corrupt official who stay in office and run corrupt governments subjecting the tribal members to suit their whims. Under these Acts< John McCain served on the Senate sub-committee on Indian affairs. He played prominent role in the drafting rules and regulations of the Gaming industry. When he opened up an investigation on the corruption of Indian Gaming and found out that it was a product of the GOP’s lobbyists who were involved he was gone like wildfire.

The game plan of the GOP and their so called beliefs of equality for all men were cleverly circumvented by forming classes of people and calling them the minority, the old divide and conquer tactic. No where was that tactic more noticeable that at the GOP Convention. All we saw was a sea of White faces. There were 37 Black people there somewhere, down from 133 four years ago. From the news media description of the VP choice address everyone saw something different. This is what I saw, a young woman with a family who apparently chose at a young age to become a wife, mother, “Hockey Mom”. Once she got a taste of politics that choice changed to being a politician. Her responsibility to family was relegated to her husband and older children. She described the only difference in a hockey mom and a Pit Bull being lipstick. I agree in her instance. She came off to me as being racist, demeaning the character of anyone who isn’t white, and her remarks were sarcastic and flippant. Her Claims of change in political stature were unsubstantiated.

She made remarks about Hillary Clinton, She is no Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton, has earned every thing that she claims a right to. She has been through the trenches and undergone the stress of being a woman in a Male world, and risen above it all nothing was handed to her on a silver platter. She made the mistake of going to disgruntled white Republicans for support and it ended up costing her the nomination for president. Again she has risen above the issue and is supporting the democratic nominee. Governor Palin, on the Other hand got her 15 minutes because she is Governor of Alaska, the state with all that oil. The gleam in John McCain’s eye is not because of the pretty young housewife, governor, but because he sees the control of all that oil going to the Grand Old Party’s big oil conglomerates. The choices this VP choice will make will depend on whatever suit her fancy at the moment. God forbid she should ever be put into the position of president.
 

SR

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Republican Natives react favorably to Palin VP selection
© Indian Country Today September 05, 2008. All Rights Reserved
Posted: September 05, 2008
by: Rob Capriccioso
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Photo courtesy Alaska Governors Office -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin enjoyed a traditional blanket toss in Barrow, Alaska June 30. Palin was announced as Sen. John McCain's Vice Presidential running mate Aug. 29. She is the first female Republican VP candidate in history.
WASHINGTON - As Gov. Sarah Palin worked overtime at the Republican National Convention to make her views better known, Native Republicans began to speak out on their admiration for the governor from Alaska.

''If she and Sen. McCain are elected, it would provide a basis for a stronger Indian policy,'' said W. Ron Allen, a member of the American Indians for McCain Coalition and chairman of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe.

''McCain has a strong background in Indian country and understands it quite well. ... and she has familial and Alaska Native insights that I think enhance the ticket's commitment to tribes.''

Palin, the first female Republican vice presidential candidate is married to Todd Palin, who is of Yup'ik Eskimo descent. Their five children are also of Alaska Native heritage.

''I am delighted by her selection,'' said Jana McKeag, a co-chair of American Indians for McCain Coalition who attended the convention. ''I think she brings a fresh face to the party, and she's a go getter. She's always looking at how to fix things. And we still have a lot of things out there in Indian country that need to be fixed.''

Added McKeag, a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma: ''We need strong leadership for this country that is familiar with Indian country. Both Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin can hit the ground running.''

Indian supporters of the McCain/Palin ticket said they were pleased to have not one, but two, candidates running from states with large Native constituencies. The senator from Arizona presided over the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee for several years, while Palin leads a state that contains more than 225 of the 560-plus federally-recognized tribes in the U.S.

Talk amongst Indian RNC attendees also centered on tribal history involving President Richard Nixon, whose initiative on Native economic development was operated largely through his vice president's office.

On specific tribal issues, especially healthcare improvement, Republican Indians were quick to say that McCain and Palin could bring change - and blamed certain Democrats for lack of action in recent times.

GOP attendees of the convention said they see the main holdup to getting the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act passed this year as being Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is not happy with the pro-life provisions of the bill.

McCain has long expressed his support for the reauthorization of IHCIA and insiders with the McCain camp said Palin, too, likely supports the bill.

''Speaker Pelosi should get passed politics to see that the bill really helps Native Americans on so many levels,'' McKeag said. ''I think that's exactly what Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin would do.''

RNC Indian attendees also said they were happy with Palin's leadership in her state on rural energy issues and noted her positive relationship with members of the National Congress of American Indians.

When asked if Republicans thought Palin will be an asset in getting out Native voters for the senator from Arizona, Allen said, ''It won't hurt, I can tell you that. I would think that it would strengthen McCain's platform of tribal self-governance and empowerment. I would perceive that her contribution to the team would strengthen tribes' perspectives.''

Asked the same question, McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds offered the following statement: ''John McCain has a strong record of working with the tribes, and Gov. Palin will be a strong partner in his mission of reforming Washington.''

Despite strong Indian support at the convention, Palin has drawn concern from some Alaska Natives, especially on issues surrounding an initiative to stop development of the Pebble Mine adjacent to the Bristol Bay fishing grounds, which is a prime area for both commercial and subsistence salmon fishing.

''Her public position on that issue undoubtedly had an effect on the defeat of that initiative, an initiative supported by many of the region's Inupiat and Yup'ik Alaska Natives,'' said Carl Shepro, a political science professor at the University of Alaska.

While McKeag and other RNC attendees were confident that Palin could help turn out the Native vote, Shepro and others expressed skepticism.

''I think that Sen. McCain picked her for a couple of reasons, probably neither related to the Indian vote: First, she is very far to the right on social and economic issues and second she is anti-abortion/pro-life and both positions mean she enjoys a great deal of support from the religious right,'' he said.

Matt Tomaskin, a member of the Yakama Nation who attended all four days of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, said that Todd Palin is ''kind of a distant two degrees from the main line.''

''I think it would be a different story if the governor herself was tribal,'' Tomaskin said, adding that he didn't think the McCain camp purposely picked a vice president who might be attractive to some Native voters.

''It's probably just an afterthought [for the McCain camp] that her husband is Indian,'' Tomaskin said. ''To me, it's a non-issue. I can't see tribal members running to the polls just because her husband is tribal.''

Palin has talked positively of her husband and children's heritage in the past. When running for governor in October 2006, she wrote a letter addressed to rural voters, saying she ''so very much appreciates Alaska's First People, their proud heritage and diverse cultures so abundant in the communities throughout our state.''

''I personally feel the language, stories, and traditions of Alaska Native cultures are a national treasure to be nourished and held close to our hearts,'' Palin added. ''It is our rural lifestyle and diverse cultural heritage that distinguishes Alaska from the rest of the world and makes it our wonderful home.''

She wrote, too, that her family has been ''blessed'' by learning Yup'ik traditions and stories from Helena Andree, her children's great-grandmother and a one-time Bristol Bay Native Corporation Elder of the Year. The Palins named their oldest daughter Bristol in honor of the region many of their family members still call home.

Palin also promised to support tribal economic development and fishing subsistence issues, noting that her family has fished commercially in Bristol Bay for decades.

In terms of education policy, Palin said she supports teaching traditional culture and languages in schools. ''A strong sense of identity will keep kids in school until they become strong adults equipped to thrive in today's world,'' she wrote.

Also of note, the governor proclaimed June 10-13, 2007 as ''National Congress of American Indians Days'' in recognition of a conference held by NCAI in Anchorage.

Since the governor's campaign letter focused on Natives, Shepro said the governor has offered relatively little public comment on tribes. Some Indians and tribal advocates have been critical of her silence, especially given her Native family ties. They also noted that in her two years in office, the governor has not appointed any Native people to high-ranking positions within her administration.

But former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Northern Cheyenne Tribe, thinks that Palin could never have become governor of Alaska without the support of tribal constituencies, which, he said, shows her popularity among Alaska Natives.

''There's no question in my mind that she will be a great Indian country advocate,'' said Nighthorse Campbell, honorary co-chair of the American Indians for McCain Coalition.
 

loomixguy

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kolanuraven said:
It is called the Declaration of Independence. It begins with “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.” Of course the people responsible for writing that document at the time (1776) were all were immigrants from Europe, and were all descendents of the Anglo and Saxon, Caucasian race. No American Indian, Hispanic, No African American, No Japanese American, etc. but more profoundly, No Women.

Under the Lie Slavery flourished, Race and gender discriminating was acceptable. The war against the Indigenous tribes of the new America continued. The late 1700’s brought the Articles of war into being, stating that women Children and the elderly would be protected from attack in the event of war. That did not stop John Sevier, and the Blount’s, of Tennessee, from raiding Indian villages and massacring whole villages while their warriors were away fighting for the U.S. military.

If you were not of the white race you had no civil rights, even after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, until The 1964 Civil rights Act was passed. Even then the Congress of the United States would not allow the American Indian to be included. These Indian, would not be allowed to enjoy all of the freedoms the Civil Rights Act endowed on all other races. We were subjected to the special “ Indian Civil rights Act “
That should be called the shame of this Nation. Under that Act, a white Non-Indian BIA teacher came here and molested 14 Indian Children. He got off scot free because there is no law against a White man molesting our Indian Children.

Then there began the adoption of Self Governance Acts. Those Acts carry all of their flowery language of professing to allow the Indian Tribes to govern themselves. It looks pretty on Paper but has had a devastating effect on Indian Tribes. What it really did was to give the Congress an out from their fiduciary trust responsibility to Indian Tribes and allow organized Crime and GOP lobbyist to establish Indian gaming on reservations without a vote of tribal members. It has allowed political influence peddling and politics to recruit corrupt official who stay in office and run corrupt governments subjecting the tribal members to suit their whims. Under these Acts< John McCain served on the Senate sub-committee on Indian affairs. He played prominent role in the drafting rules and regulations of the Gaming industry. When he opened up an investigation on the corruption of Indian Gaming and found out that it was a product of the GOP’s lobbyists who were involved he was gone like wildfire.

The game plan of the GOP and their so called beliefs of equality for all men were cleverly circumvented by forming classes of people and calling them the minority, the old divide and conquer tactic. No where was that tactic more noticeable that at the GOP Convention. All we saw was a sea of White faces. There were 37 Black people there somewhere, down from 133 four years ago. From the news media description of the VP choice address everyone saw something different. This is what I saw, a young woman with a family who apparently chose at a young age to become a wife, mother, “Hockey Mom”. Once she got a taste of politics that choice changed to being a politician. Her responsibility to family was relegated to her husband and older children. She described the only difference in a hockey mom and a Pit Bull being lipstick. I agree in her instance. She came off to me as being racist, demeaning the character of anyone who isn’t white, and her remarks were sarcastic and flippant. Her Claims of change in political stature were unsubstantiated.

She made remarks about Hillary Clinton, She is no Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton, has earned every thing that she claims a right to. She has been through the trenches and undergone the stress of being a woman in a Male world, and risen above it all nothing was handed to her on a silver platter. She made the mistake of going to disgruntled white Republicans for support and it ended up costing her the nomination for president. Again she has risen above the issue and is supporting the democratic nominee. Governor Palin, on the Other hand got her 15 minutes because she is Governor of Alaska, the state with all that oil. The gleam in John McCain’s eye is not because of the pretty young housewife, governor, but because he sees the control of all that oil going to the Grand Old Party’s big oil conglomerates. The choices this VP choice will make will depend on whatever suit her fancy at the moment. God forbid she should ever be put into the position of president.

What is the source? Sounds like it could have been written by Leonard Peltier or Russell Means.
 
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