Posted on 01/30/2009 5:04:16 PM PST by Sioux-san
It’s happened again. My most quoted article, “What’s Up With White Women?” has been cited in another new book: Michael Medved’s The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation (Crown, 2008).
I was tipped off by a friend who was reading the book. Here is what Medved wrote:
An American Indian academic and musician named David A. Yeagley (an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation) tells a sobering story about one of his students at Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City. A “tall and pretty” girl with amber hair and brown eyes, she spoke out in a class discussion about patriotism. “Look, Dr. Yeagley,” she declared, “I don’t see anything about my culture to be proud of. It’s all nothing. My race is just nothing.”
“Look at your culture,” she continued. “Look at American Indian tradition. Now I think that’s really great. You have something to be proud of. My culture is nothing.”
Concerning this unforgettable interchange, Professor Yeagley observed: “The Cheyenne people have a saying: A nation is never conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.
(Excerpt) Read more at badeagle.com ...
# 17 was meant for you
The entire article at http://www.badeagle.com/2001/05/18/whats-up-with-white-women/ is GREAT!!
- Traveler
I read that incident on Yeagley’s blog eight years ago. It’s only gotten worse since.
Thanks for this thread. I love the Bad Eagle website. You have ruined me now — I’ll get EVEN less work done reading it!!!
I grew up in Medicine Park Oklahoma, and my best friend was a Comanchee. We last saw each other when we were 15 years old, and she went away to a school on an Indian reservation. It broke my heart when she left, as she was like a sister to me.
We recently found each other again on the internet, and visited in person in Medicine Park last summer. She is MORE conservative than me (LOL).
Her son and many family members work for the Comanchee Nation. I actually thought she would be (we made contact again after 30 years) liberal, from the little contact we had after she left for the Indian school.
She surprised me, is still like a sister after all these years. I am very proud of her and her journey, and so thankful to have her in my life again.
She used to take me to POW WOWS when we were young. I have very fond memories of those years.
And spaceflight. And the Internet. And the machine gun. And penicillin. And the Magna Carta. And movable type. And SciFi.
Other than that, not much. Oh, and nukes.
On the down side, we invented the ACLU, gay pride parades, situational ethics, and AIDS welfare.
Shakes-beer?
lol
You should write Dr. Yeagley and tell him what you told me. It would make him happy, I think. I like to call him Rabbi Yeagley as he is quite knowledgeable about Judaism and respectful of the Hebrew roots in Christianity. His world view is unique — he takes a lot of flack from his brothers and sisters, but it doesn’t stop him from putting it out there.
Yep, and it’s truly sad to see.
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Agreed...There is nothing like a mass brutalization of a society to help nurture values.
I don’t eat tofu. Evil stuff that. :D)
Katrina's Hidden Race War
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Instead, a group of white residents, convinced that crime would arrive with the human exodus, sought to seal off the area, blocking the roads in and out of the neighborhood by dragging lumber and downed trees into the streets. They stockpiled handguns, assault rifles, shotguns and at least one Uzi and began patrolling the streets in pickup trucks and SUVs. The newly formed militia, a loose band of about fifteen to thirty residents, most of them men, all of them white, was looking for thieves, outlaws or, as one member put it, anyone who simply "didn't belong."
I think there are more than we realize. I saw a website a few months ago screaming about foreign aid packages passed by the Democrats. Why? Because more money should be spent on infrastructure and health care on the reservations. It discussed that Native Americans have the highest rate of military service of any ethnic group (and that the VA was better than the reservation healthcare, and that’s hard to do).
saw that...there may be more of that in our future
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