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[...] ) 1. a proposition stated or put forward for consideration In the ninth week of Little House / Wounded Knee, the Ingalls brave some blizzards and Indians weather two Shakespearean tragedies. Sound [...]

[...] (n) 1. a proposition stated or put forward for consideration In the first week of Little House/Wounded Knee, Indian nations are like gas molecules and melon-sized gold nuggets are apparently lying all [...]

[...] . You can read more about the various branches of Anishinabe people here. The Massacre at Wounded Knee Creek The last two chapters of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee follow Sitting Bull of the [...]

[...] (n) 1. a proposition stated or put forward for consideration In the fourth week of Little House/Wounded Knee, freed blacks have to wait a lot and we see the best and worst of white settler behavior. [...]

[...] ;ll focus on just a couple passages. A main theme of this book is that pretty much all the white settlers dislike and/or fear Indians. This is reinforced at every turn by Author Laura’s [...]

[...] some later. That being said, the lack of any humanization of Indians indicates that to most white settlers, the Native inhabitants just don’t matter. Out of sight, out of mind. The Ingalls are [...]

[...] seek to settle in the Black Hills. But when gold was discovered there in 1872, hundreds of white settlers forced their way in. Their presence was used as justification for why the Indians “ [...]

[...] (p.143) Red Cloud let it be known loud and clear that he would sign no peace treaty until the white settlers removed themselves from Lakota land. “If the Great Father kept white men out of my [...]

[...] of conflict with the US, they were included in a list of Plains tribes to be exiled to Indian Territory (aka Oklahoma). Though they protested, a troop of soldiers marched them southward anyway. By [...]

[...] , KS, Joshua’s group actually passes right through Oklahoma (which was then all Indian Territory) and the Osage land where the Ingalls squatted back in Little House on the Prairie. ( [...]

[...] to Laura. “They are going to cover these prairies with trees, all the way from Canada to Indian Territory. It’s all mapped out in the land offices, where the trees ought to be, and you can’t get [...]

[...] to Laura. “They are going to cover these prairies with trees, all the way from Canada to Indian Territory. It’s all mapped out in the land offices, where the trees ought to be, and you can’t get [...]

[...] /Indians, who were caught between worlds as their two sides faced off. Tune in next week for Wounded Knee Ch. 4 & 5 and I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly. Comment here: Little House / Wounded [...]

[...] of Laura and Omakayas progress throughout the books. Tune in next week for Wounded Knee Ch. 15 & 16 and The Long Winter (LH #6). Comment here: Little House / [...]

[...] perfect truthful antidote to Ann Rinaldi’s fake stuff. Difficult truth > easy lies. Wounded Knee Ch. 17 In this chapter of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, we pick up with the Chiricahua [...]

[...] has moved to De Smet with his brother, Royal, to file for a homestead. (More on him later.) Wounded Knee Ch. 15: Standing Bear Becomes a Person Original Ponca territory (top spike of the dark green [...]

[...] 3 & 4, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Gettysburg Address. Comment here: Little House/Wounded Knee: Week 2, Broken Promises [...]

[...] added). In addition to the genocide of millions of people (which I read about in Little House/Wounded Knee) the advent of European colonization also caused the decimation of native ecosystems to [...]

[...] for: Wounded Knee, Chapter 2 and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Comment here: Little House/Wounded Knee: Week 1, Molecules and Melons [...]

[...] ;sis (n) 1. a proposition stated or put forward for consideration In the third week of Little House/Wounded Knee, the entire continent is in uproar as two totally separate wars go on in two totally [...]

[...] more about Navajos past and present. Comment here: Little House/Wounded Knee: A note about Native peoples [...]

[...] as a whole. (p.123) To me, this passage sums up a lot of my feelings on the topic of Native peoples — they were (and ARE!) an integral part of our human family. Sadly much of their ancient [...]

[...] wayyyyyyy outweighed by the repeated and un-contradicted negative and violent depictions of Native peoples. Anyway. Let this be the decider – if you are planning on reading these books with your [...]

[...] commented that despite all the death and oppression that has been unleashed on Native peoples here, “the people survive.” I was struck over and over again at the incredible [...]

[...] By Rebekah on thesjs - the·sis (n) 1. a proposition stated or put forward for consideration Today a friend shared this story about a kind of compassion I don’t see much. An outspoken [...]

[...] By Rebekah on thesjs - the·sis (n) 1. a proposition stated or put forward for consideration Today I read Job 6-9, and I am mainly struck by the stuff Job gets away with saying to/about God! [...]

[...] By Rebekah on thesjs - the·sis (n) 1. a proposition stated or put forward for consideration Today in Chronological Bible-Reading Land — the epic conclusion to the story of Israel’s great [...]

[...] By Rebekah on thesjs - the·sis (n) 1. a proposition stated or put forward for consideration Today I was listening to my “audio cathedral” playlist on iTunes (yes, I’m a total church choir [...]

[...] ;m reading). It gives a pretty decent overview of some of the context and events of the Wounded Knee massacre. I’d give it like 3 stars out of 5. (None of the white villains are as evil as [...]

[...] up the bodies, many were frozen in grotesque shapes. It seems to me that the Wounded Knee Massacre was a summary — a tipping point — a microcosm — of everything that had [...]

[...] of non-natives act as though all Indians and tribes ceased to exist after 1890, when the Wounded Knee Massacre took place — that many of us have trapped Indians in the 19th century in our heads. [...]

[...] prep school where Natives can get a great education; Wounded Knee Creek, the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre, where the surviving soldiers from Little Bighorn mowed down women and children who were [...]

[...]  – minstrel shows are normal, Ma hating Indians is normal, a mayor denigrating Indigenous peoples at a public event is normal – tells us a lot about the inherentness and ubiquity of [...]

[...] addition to the Homestead Act of 1863, under which the land that had been taken from Indigenous peoples was given in 160-acre sections to settlers provided that they would farm and “ [...]

[...] of what Minnesota was like for both white/Anglo/American/settlers and Anishinabe and other Indigenous peoples. And, of course, it’s extra delightful to explore all these different types of life with [...]

[...] onto the 4.5-million-acre Uintah and Ouray Reservation, which is the second largest Indian Reservation and is located in northeastern Utah. The Southern Ute Indian Tribe numbers just over 1,000 [...]

[...] … you have no following, no power, no control, and no right to any control. You are on an Indian reservation merely at the sufferance of the government. You are fed by the government, clothed by the [...]

[...] . Yes, it’s been over a week since I got back from my trip to visit the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. And no, you haven’t missed anything — I haven’t written about it yet. In all [...]