An Indigenous Peoples' History of the US (SOAPBOX PODCAST 10/12/14)
For Indigenous Peoples' Day
It’s worth noting today, that the illegal/apartheid/colonial/zionist state of Israel took cues from the USA on how to “manage” their indigenous people: take more and more of their ancestral lands and confine them to smaller and smaller spaces: Even putting them in reservations with the barest amount of human services, dignity, and sustainability.
Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox
October 12, 2014
GUEST: Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
TOPIC: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the US
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW!
Cindy and Roxanne chat about the treacherous history of European colonialism in North America and the way forward to healing.
The history of the US Empire cannot be separated from the history of the Indigenous Peoples: to do so is denying that the "American Way" has always been genocidal at its roots and the idea that we can somehow "take our country back" is crazy-talk. It was never "our" country in the first place and just to what epoch in our short history do we want to return?
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has written a history of US Empire from the perspective of the Original People. The book is packed with damning facts, but written with the heart soul of a person who has been involved in Indigenous resistance and civil rights' movement for decades.
For as little as 14 cents a day ($50 yearly), you can support the work of Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox and SheeLilly!
Thanks for being a loyal reader of Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, we need your financial help if you are able.
We have different tiers of support: $5/month; $50/year, or $100 as a founding member.
Checks/money/orders/cash/etc can be snail-mailed to:
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, LLC
PO BOX 6264, VACAVILLE, CA 95696
PayPal: cindysheehanssoapbox@gmail.com
Good stuff, Cindy!
https://www.underscore.news/reporting/celebrated-spokane-activist-shot-at-new-mexico-protest
Protesters in New Mexico decorated an empty pedestal last week with signs demanding an end to the monument for a Spanish conquistador who orchestrated countless atrocities against Indigenous people.
The crowd – mostly made up of Pueblo people – was celebrating a Rio Arriba County decision to postpone the resurrection of a statue of Juan de Oñate removed in 2020 and demand that it never go up again.
That’s when a shot rang out.
A gunman wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat shot Jacob Johns, a Hopi Pueblo activist and muralist who lives in Spokane, Wash. Johns survived and is in stable condition, according to friends. The shooter, who Underscore News is choosing not to name to reduce the likelihood that stories about the incident result in his glorification, was apprehended by Pojoaque Pueblo Police later that day.
The conquistadors invaded New Mexico wearing metal helmets, and last Thursday, a gunman attacked peaceful Pueblo protesters in a red MAGA hat. Both were thwarted by Pueblo people. During the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Pueblos successfully chased out European settlers in response to Spanish colonial violence.
+--+
Its significance for Native Americans has more to do with the fact that it's the day the U.S. has celebrated Columbus, explained Cliff Matias, cultural director for the New York-based Redhawk Indigenous Arts Council.
“We celebrate our survival of Columbus and all that he brought,” he said.
Matias, whose Indigenous Nations are Taino and Kichwa, said a more suitable day to honor Native people would be the "summer solstice, which is a powerful day for Indigenous people all over the world. It might be some sort of day that we recognize generally correlating with our connection to the planet.”
+--+
Getting primed for Black Friday and Kill the Planet Daily DAY:
My old stomping grounds, El Paso, West Texass, Chihuahua, New Mexico, the WORLD.
Plymouth Rock, Juan de Onate, Orange Shirt Day -- A No-Thanks Thanksgiving
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/11/plymouth-rock-juan-de-onate-orange-shirt-day/
Thank you for this Cindy & for re-posting it again today.
As a proud born & bred OKIE myself, Dr Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a long-time Native & Oklahoma hero of mine for telling truth, fighting for justice & sharing good works throughout her lifetime. Just like another hero of mine named Cindy Sheehan. <3
Love Roxane's deeply researched "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the US" for its incisive analysis as well as all of her other history/political science books. My personal favorite of hers, though, is Roxanne's memoir "Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie" (1997) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Mike Davis (Foreword by) as her life reminds me so much of my own mother's time period & similar OKLA-part-native-farm life.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35309.Red_Dirt
See all the books by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz over her long activist/academic career listed at Goodreads > https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/19932.Roxanne_Dunbar_Ortiz
And see her profile here > Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz > Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward. She is a highly regarded writer, historian, speaker, and activist in the international Indigenous movement. Dunbar-Ortiz has written extensively on social justice issues, especially in relation to women's liberation and indigenous sovereignty. https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/directory/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/
For some reason her own website www.reddirtsite.com is refusing to open for me today with a danger warning ( ! ) & only returns an error when I click on it. Maybe one of you can get it to open?
p.s. I never use google & use duckduckgo which usually works with alternative or "banned" websites.