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Towards the end of the 19 th century the Native peoples of America were in a pretty rough spot. Before white settlers had arrived in the 17 th century they had spread out from coast to coast, representing numerous tribes, each with their own unique legends, customs, and cultures, but as settlers moved west, they experienced tragedy. Frontier settlers and the U.S. government would actively take land from the Natives, relocating them and violating treatises with the tribes the whole way, with Nat...

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 06:05 UTC "We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes." This is Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene. His selfish gene theory, he remarked in 1989, "has become textbook orthodoxy," because it is merely "a logical outgrowth of orthodox Neo-Darwinism, but expressed as a novel image." The image is misleading. Dawkins doesnt literally believe that genes are selfish entities with a will to replicate themselves. If they...

The Myth of Human Progress Clive Hamilton in his “Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change” describes a dark relief that comes from accepting that “catastrophic climate change is virtually certain.” This obliteration of “false hopes,” he says, requires an intellectual knowledge and an emotional knowledge. The first is attainable. The second, because it means that those we love, including our children, are almost certainly doomed to insecurity, ...

Forum, Jan. 16: What the conviction of Trump in the Senate could achieve Published: 1/15/2021 10:00:04 PM Modified: 1/15/2021 10:00:03 PM What the conviction of Trump in the Senate could achieve I write in response to Bill Donahue’s thoughtful letter (“Don’t give Trump a platform,” Dec. 15), which suggests that the Senate dismiss the article of impeachment “on the grounds that Donald Trump will not be in office anymore.” That would mean Trump “will no longer have a platform in Co...

Published: 1/11/2021 10:00:26 PM Modified: 1/11/2021 10:00:04 PM Attack on Capitol left me feeling violated, vulnerable I wept at my desk as I saw the events of Wednesday, Jan. 6, unfold at our Capitol, the symbol for a democratic style of government around the world. It has been more 200 years since our country experienced something like this, the War of 1812. I believe the United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth and I felt personally attacked, violated and vulnerable. One pa...

Forum, Jan. 8: Attack on the US Capitol will be Trump’s legacy Published: 1/7/2021 10:00:26 PM Modified: 1/7/2021 10:00:13 PM Attack on the US Capitol will be Trump’s legacy On Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump finally ended up where he has always belonged — on the trash heap of history. His inciting of the attack on the Capitol by his legion of willfully ignorant goons will be his lasting legacy, such as it is. Trump is over. Of course, he will have tens of millions of dollars that he has bi...

Wounded Knee Massacre and the Toy Soldier: A “George Floyd Moment” By: Ken Hamilton While at the American Veterans Monument at Niagara Falls in city’s Hyde Park, Allegheny Seneca Indian and community activist Paul Winnie stands in front of one of the eight small monuments dedicated to American warriors who have been awarded a Medal of Honor for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.” That particular monument in which Winnie sadly ...

Context For much of the United States’ period of westward expansion, white settlers’ attempts to claim plots of land were met with fierce and sometimes violent resistance from indigenous peoples. This resistance intensified in the latter half of the 19th century as the U.S. federal government repeatedly signed and violated treaties with various Plains tribal leaders. Most prominent among these were the Sioux Indians, of which the Lakota are a subgroup. The Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 est...

Dec 28, 2020 | Filed in News & Features On December 29, 1890, the United States Army killed 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Frank Waln, an award-winning Lakota music artist from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, discusses the 130th anniversary of the massacre and Native representation in the U.S. education system. In this op-ed, Frank Waln, an award-winning Sicangu Lakota hip-hop artist and music producer from the Roseb...

The first Ghost Dance developed in 1869 around the dreamer Wodziwob (died c. 1872) and in 1871–73 spread to California and Oregon tribes; it soon died out or was transformed into other cults. The second derived from Wovoka (c. 1856–1932), whose father, Tavibo, had assisted Wodziwob. Wovoka had been influenced by Presbyterians on whose ranch he worked, by Mormons, and by the Indian Shaker Church. During a solar eclipse in January 1889, he had a vision of dying, speaking with God in heaven, a...