5/20/17

  Windsor, Vermont 4 visits today

Windsor, Vermont
20 May 2017
Four visits to these Blog Postings.

For your visit to one of our blogs
At
Moiigans (Maïngan) News

Chief Homer St. Francis
of
 
the
  St. Francis Sokoki Band of the Abenaki
at
  Missisquoi
was a good friend of
my father (Shechaim Ziek)
and
Grandfather
  (Shechaim Tallfox)
A real true teaching Mentor American Natives Elder for me
and
so many others while we were growing up in Uncasvillage.

Indians at the 2016 voting booths. Who did you vote for?


Indians at the 2016 voting booths
Who did you vote for?
Far too many had a
50/50 shot at getting it right.
Most got it wrong.
 
Remember, he is not my president.
Activists hold signs as they protest in front of the White House
against the Keystone XL pipeline January 13, 2015, in Washington, D.C. 
Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Tribes Unite Across U.S. and Canada to Oppose Keystone XL in Declaration
It is intended as a message to President Donald Trump and may be sent to the United Nations.

MAY 17, 2017

Today (May 17), tribal leaders are gathering in Calgary, Alberta to sign a 16-page declaration against the Keystone XL Pipeline.

From the United States are the Great Sioux Nation and Ponca tribes and from Canada, the Blackfoot Confederacy. They will sign the “Declaration Opposing Oil Sand Expansion and the Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline” as a message to President Donald Trump, reports Native News Online.

"There is a historic union between first Americans in Canada and Native Americans in the United States," said Casey Camp-Horinek, a councilwoman with the Ponca tribe in Oklahoma, to The Associated Press. "Long before a border ever existed on a map, a fictitious line on a map, we were a united peoples in our approach to care of Mother Earth."

Pipeline opponents seemingly won the battle against the 1,179 mile-long pipeline in 2015 when former President Barack Obama rejected developer TransCanada’s permit application. However, Trump entered the White House January 20
and
 signed a presidential memorandum to repeal that just four days later.

With this declaration, indigenous people across North America want Trump to know why this pipeline is destructive to their culture, safety and history. The preamble reads, per Native News:


“We, The First People, were and remain the stewards of the land and with this Declaration renew our vow to carry that sacred obligation in defense of our Mother, the Earth, and all born of her body and nurtured at her breast who are no longer heard amidst the dissonance of industrialization and corporate domination.”

One of the declaration’s strongest demands revolves around treaty rights. Tribal leaders want consultation processes to change and require consent. Currently, companies such as TransCanada may include a Native American Relations Policy or Aboriginal Relations Policy (both of which TransCanada has), but a tribe’s rejection doesn’t factor in significantly. Tribal members might send this declaration to the United Nations, the AP reports.

Currently, the $8 billion pipeline is not guaranteed to happen. Groups have sued the federal government for the permit it issued TransCanada. In Nebraska, the project has still not been approved. Opponents have been preparing to build camps—similar to what was seen in North Dakota against the Dakota Access Pipeline—along the proposed pipeline route.

5/18/17

Why Indians cannot teach Indians?

Welcome to our visitor
from
Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Been there twice while in the service and enjoyed each trip.

I found the France people to be very friendly.


This visit was to this site.
"You cannot teach an old dog new tricks?"
05/16/17

Well at least someone
and
it took someone
from out of
'Indian Country'
to ask this question.
Why Indians cannot teach Indians?

O.K.
While not trying to be funny
and
never wish to insult anyone
not in need of an insult or two.

And

Taking information from your country.

Let's try to explain?

As you, know.

France does not have an official state religion, but an overwhelming majority of the country's inhabitants identify as Roman Catholic.

Islam and Protestantism are the country's second- and third-largest religions.

And

There are also high numbers of people who do not adhere to any religion.

So with that said,

How would you feel if a Roman Catholic Church in France was inundated with the Occult sacrificing goats on your altar?

Or

A group of Jewish people preaching the return of the Messiah in a France Mosques?

Or
If Native Americans came to all of your Protestant buildings, started a fire and danced around behind a Buffalo head at anyone of your ceremonies, like for instance, wedding or birth?
Again without meaning to insult.
Our people, with the exception of adoption, are not from India, we are of 'North and South America'.
In the days of our ancestors, walking from the East coast of the Mississippi river to ancestors west of the Mississippi river would be like walking from France to Russia.
Therefore, as you can see culture and ceremonies of the ancestors are bound to be different.
 

We never try to tell any religion how to do their ceremonies
and
we only wish for the same respect from our own brothers and sisters from across the Mississippi river.
Taw-but-ni
(Thank-you our friend from across the 'Big Pond')
for your question
and
we hope that you now understand.

 

5/17/17

Another day another V.A. doctor visit

 
Today I learned why so many
(Old Poops from the old Wars)
voter for #45

Would you believe that so many veterans from the Vietnam era back in time from older wars actually tell me that they voted for him "Because he is a billionaire and does not need the money?"

I tell you the TRUTH
Would I lie to you?
Another day another V.A. doctor visit

I am alive, my heart is working, and yes, I have one.

Weight great, lost 2" on my body however; no one seems to be concerned.

Sorry all of you Republican and Independent #45 followers, it looks like you will be putting up with me for at the very least 'Six more month until the next visit'

:-)

I started pointing to a few facts and get a cold shoulder because, and I quote, "I believe all of that phony crap going around!"

Today we talked for almost an hour because of an emergency that doctors had to handle.

We talked about wars, ships, radio and computer repair, alternative energy and more until one of them asked what is Obama going to do with all of that money.

I pointed at the photo of #45 on the wall and the room instantly went colder then the South Pole!

5/16/17

"You cannot teach an old dog new tricks?"


United Shades of America
 
Who said,
"You cannot teach an old dog new tricks?"
Oh Right,
I did.
:-(
People in country,
"No not Vietnam,
This Country."
Are you watching
(United Shades of America)?
Maybe you should.


Follow comedian and political gadfly W. Kamau Bell as he explores the far corners of our country and its various groups and subcultures.

The new one last night, we tape and watch with our diner,

the

'Ancestors of the Lakota people of South Dakota were of the a Matriarch Society.
Why is this so
'Earth Shattering you might ask?'

My major pet -peeve about

'Westerners visits' to our gatherings back in my time

the !970's and the 1980's

was when they acted like Creator gave them permission to teach us how to (correctly)

hold our gatherings, Paw-paus, meetings ceremonies and powwows!

Come to find out, their ancestors culture and ceremonies were like ours.
So
Who was 'Dead Wrong?

The young pups or our elders?
Well Duh!

Kamau Bell: Standing Rock changed how I see America

By W. Kamau Bell

Updated 3:12 PM ET, Sat May 13, 2017