She was bad, but she was good, too. Anything else . [inaudible] my biggest concern is how do you deal with that when you go out and combat, but how do you every day keep going and not let that ruin your life . While youre in there . Afterwards . Youve got to get home. Its one of those things they dont like down upon but they dont encourage you to seek mental help. When we get back, heres their situation. One day he might be overseas killing bad guys and 24 hours after that hes had our. No one knows when he leaves. No one knows when it comes back. The first thing you want to do is go have a bust and all that deployment the newly saved up and make some young grow rich. Jan girl rich. [laughter] but yeah, just getting help. Youre not stop for doing it. You have to let them know that. But definitely get help. It is going through something. Alcoholism is a big contributor to the suicide. I was selfmedicating for years. I remember waking up at 6 00 in the morning and drinking all the way until 4 00 in the morning, a big title of jack daniels. Another guy whos tattooed on me died. We were at a sniper party and cause me to decide and its like dude coming of a problem. No, im good, man. He came back in my dreams after the Suicide Attempt any site dude coming you need to stop. Thats what i didnt quit, but really calm down drastically in didnt let it control different thoughts and emotions of what not. Alcohol is a big thing in our community. Using it in excess of getting help. Do that. I would do that. You across rifles. [inaudible] whats up with that . Two years ago to this day. Who is your instructor down there . I was at the one in arkansas. Big guy. Big nose, always a pepper romance with the big dip in all the time. I forget his name. Hes like a walkin refrigerator or Something Like that. Thats a good guy, man. I went to the one in banning. By spotter went to sell it. I did decision high. Extreme longrange. After i went out, and went to israeli sniper school, finland and estonia. I wish i did. We had one of our guys, he got out three months ago came from 101st, went right before the last appointment and his 2012 had a chance to go. [inaudible] are your sniper to . Obviously. Anybody else . Area appears, asking. Haskins is fair, still. And this guy from texas, always has a dip in his mouth. It wasnt me, was it . Kind of talk like this all the time. Doesnt open his mouth at her. Thats like everybody. That describes everybody in the army. Eos in may because every time i get to the range i would light up a cigarette. Everyone there smoke. You ever not have a cigarette in your mouth . Do you ever not have a tip in your mouth . I bet he said something else. Anybody else . Lets get it started. It got shut down because big army hasnt taken any more. To go to battalion . All those budget cuts. When they take now we have in excess of infantrymen that has serious hills so we cant keep filling them up. Are you a fan . I plan to try to go selection when they take me. Yeah, go for it, man. Ive got a bad memory loss, man. I have to see a phase. I never forget a face, that names. I forgot the name we just talked about. Peers. Youre laughing. Im being serious. Are you ready to sign some books . Definitely. Lets do it, man. Okay, yup, thought it. [inaudible] thank you for coming out in all the midst of this rain. Usually rain deters people. Thank you for coming out. [inaudible] everybody to get started here . Thanks for waiting so patiently. Cspan is here recording so were very excited to have them here. And the director of rep artworks come a rep artworks, longtime independent bookstore inalbuquer albuquerque and for 30 years weve been hosting otters in supporting a lot of local endeavors. We are very pleased to have our partnership with the southwest indian polytechnic institute. We are here live in a Lovely Library and a very pleased to have you all here today. Given the state of our Current Events in our country and the fact that trees are still being disregarded and the desecration of the cultures still going on were very honored to have those two authors today talk about the various myths about native american culture. They are a very timely book. Other transplanted his all the real indians died off and 20 other myths about native americans is taking the country by storm. He mightve heard that locally. They grow up in oklahoma. She is the daughter. Enacted in the International Indigenous movement that is a lifetime social justice advocate. Ortiz tied in the new establishment of the American Studies Program with ethnic ids. There is the resistance, a history of new mexico in the recent book, and it changes peoples history of the United States. The confederate tribes, an awardwinning journalist and columnist in the country today. This is her first book he achieves a writer and researcher of indigenous studies and currently a researcher says he had collar at the center for world indigenous teddies. She also lives in california and san clemente, california. [applause] things to book works and Amanda Sutton and most of all the students and faculty who are here and staff. This is a very Important Institution in albuquerque. So dena and i are going to beach read a myth. You get two out of 21 hopefully that will make you want to read the others. I am starting off with myth number nine team. That is what is the problem with thinking that indian women as princesses or . Anyone ever heard that one . It is essential to acknowledge the diversity among Indigenous Women in the United States. They are citizens hundreds of distinct native nations that have particular cultural practices, language is and precolonial history as well as experiences under the united t states colonialism. Some lived in reduced portions of their nation original territory on reservations. The reservations to which the ancestors were moved and that is most of the Indigenous People from east of the mississippi were forcibly removed, now oklahoma. About half the native population live and work at any one time in urban areas. There is no one voice among natives because there is no such thing as a culturally and racially monolithic native woman. And never has been. Keeping that in mind, i am now going to talk about a lot of generality. Keep in mind this is the diversity. This is exactly the problem. Although they have changed over time, there is nearly monolithic one ethnic group or one racial category rather than nation, culture is, they produced the binary of the ian princess and the squad which described the native womens bodies then theres that is. The counterparts for male natives are romanticized warrior of course pocahontas and not mythologize figure persist in the movie and the hollywood movies. Pocahontas is always portrayed as beautiful and depicted as having and have a more european and other native people and having a petite but shapelyapelo body. They sometimes border on child and given the original pocahontas was a child when she met john smith. The common stereotype and other native womens scott albeit not categorized as princess of portrayed as compliance and helpful from the government spies such as lewis and clark. And explorers. They are portrayed as daughters of tribal chiefs. They h submit the pocahontas helps to perpetuate despite values because these are her community to become a christian and this insinuates that christianity is better than the traditional indigenous religion. That is that the pocahontas because the method of promoting sierra centric values and norms and as a tool of colonialism. On the other side of the binary, the usage of has fallen into disrepute with multiculturalism, but is still ubiquitous in old hollywood western and television all the time as well as Historical Documents there are so still around a thousand official names in the United States in which the term squaw squad is used. It remains an active stereotype of women even when the term itself is not used anymore in literature, movies and histories, even when being made in the now. We see the image of a surrogate drudge, a very dark silent figure is doing all the heavy lifting in indigenous settings with males engaged in warfare or having lay around while women dl the work or follow a distance behind the men. But the Indian Princess and the squaw constitute a basis stereotype meant to render whites superior twoway pager or quote european values. The precolonial rule since of e dataset women. With 100 societies in north america, depending whether the particular nation with agricultural base or reliant on seafaring or fishing and very widely different areas that is the arctic of the desert or transhuman like the buffalo people or harvesters of wild rice, acorn, dairies, not another food and medicines. The rules of the turkey in muskogee women of the eastern half of north america in to canada, the women of the pueblo and hope the city state and not the women and what is now the u. S. Southwest have been Much Research and found to be remarkable when compared with w womens roles in western europe on the eve of columbus and infamous appearance in the americas. In the agricultural society, women were the creators of seed and hybrid and planted their crops. Men participated in attending and the harvesting. Each of these nations had their virtue arms of government, but their common bases, food b production, corn, beans and squash, many varieties and colors were similar as for their communal relations. Whether women were also architects, builders, men were stonecutters and weavers. These very matrilineal societies in which women controlled directly or ceremonially the distribution of land use and food. Womens roles in governance. Some were probably strongest among the show day, the federation of the mohawk or dog of seneca nation. Certainty of lineages controlled the choice of male representatives for their clients in governing council. I shouldnt say in the past 10 because its still the way it is. The representatives, but the women who chose been had their right to speak in the council in when the chosen male representative was too young for an experience to be a fact is, the women might step in and participate in the council on his behalf. Mothers held the power to recall unsatisfied or your representatives. Charles c. Mann, the author of 1491 new revelations of the a americas before columbus called this government structure of feminists. The dream of freedom, solidarity and equity was the precolonial north america was trampled on by spanish, french and oppressive colonial regimes. But only the british had developed institutions of settler colonialist before colonies in north america. They had developed these methods and practices and the conquest and subjugation of the irish, pushing Small Farmers off their land to be replaced by commercially oriented settlers, both anglo and thought. Or something of the comment to develop sheet production deprives communities that the word, streams and wildlife they depended upon. So what you have is a lot of surplus people, a large disgruntled landless and jobless population persuaded to take the arduous oneway journey to british outposts on the Atlantic Coast of north america. This then was the start of british settler colonialism in north america. Then in new zealand and australia and of course canada, north america appeared exporting the surplus people with land and wealth if they could best in the deeply rooted civilization already they are. They brought with them the picture go coulter under roman and christian mother and practices. A level of subordination of women unknown in north america but inherent to the culture conquest and settlement whichis was based on violence in the violation of native women. Indigenous women had continued to bear the brunt of colonial violent specifically violence. Both within families and byncren settler predators and increasingly sex traffickers. Incidents of has long been astronomical. The colonial use restrictions on indigenous policing authority on reservations yet another legacy of conquest and the doctrine of discovery and with the impairment of indigenous sovereignty. It opens the door for perpetratperpetrat ors of central violence to know there will be no consequences for their k actions. Under the u. S. Colonial system, jurisdiction for crimes committed on native plants fall to the federal authorities by legislation and major crime facts in 1880s. Because native justice can be applied only to reservation residents and then only for misdemeanors. One in three native women has been experienced attempted and the rate of Sexual Assault on native american women is more than twice the national averagei for five years after the publication of a scathing 2007 report by amnesty international, native american womens organizations including theon ic National Organization of women lobbied congress to add a new section to the 1994 violence against women act, addressing the special situation of native american women looking on reservations. Added provision would give native nation for jurisdiction in their police to arrest and prosecute nonnative man who enter reservation and commit any other violent crime. At the end of 2012, the republican dominated u. S. Congress to enact a reauthorization of the violence against women act because it included that provision. There have been renewed ever since it went through 1992 without anyone batting an eye. But there is so much outcry from women that in march 23rd teen that opposition was overcome and president barack obama signed the amended act back into love. It was definitely a victory for a little increase in the knowledge sovereignty, but it also had some limitations. It not total solution. Another difficulty for Indigenous People in general in the United States, but especially for women, joann parker points out that demand for demonstrable native authenticity, which really means to appear and act in a particular prescribed manner to be considered an authentic native woman. This demand on women within the indigenous communities is not only emotionally painful, but create inequalities and painf injustices associated with the u. S. Pager article order of racism. Sexism, and fundamentalism. Lonii overcoming internal colonization is critical to achieving t decolonization and self determination. Native women scholars in the forefront of exposing the issues and the decolonization, empowerment and activism, another native scholar describes and analyzes the various ways that many nonindigenous in some indigenous not indigenous men and women, sophisticated academics viewed native women. And so doing she asked those is the damages by colonialism and privacy as they limit the full about and have native women in Higher Education and prevent them from realizing provincial indigenous roles. Centuries of colonization and christianity also manifest in pager article practices within native american communities, chasing the traditional relations between women and men but the resulting violence. Sults other results pointed out our severe income gaps and internal factionalism which fall heavily on women of them is reducing health care predation. Women are not able to carry out their traditional responsibilities. Sp however, there are many positive changes that Indigenous Women are making in their lives, relationships and professional advance man. This is an part rooted in a key role that native women haveof played in the past 40 years of research in native resistance. This resurgence arose after the 1953 congressional resolution to terminate the treatybased legal existence of automated nation, an attempt to carry out a bloodless genocide to completeto the violent genocidal u. S. Army and other militia campaigns at the 19th century. Termination was superseded company to vigorous relocation program. Younger natives wouldd voluntarily abandon americas designated urban areas for some initial expenses paid. Does the u. S. Government believed would make forced dispersal unnecessarily also it was promised that it would have been if they didnt do it voluntarily. Immediately, people began to a organize in some of into possible or regress in the United Nation in the 1950s. In 1861, young relocated natives along with some who would not let the reservations are in themselves into the inner Tribal NationalIndian Youth Council founded in based here in all the perky and still going strong today with a mohawk intellectual hill in building the urbanization nationally and worried ampersand doing so in the southwest. At the same time, workshops were organized and thought to give equal numbers of young native women and men. Quite extraordinary. This is in the 1950s and early 60s. In 1964, organize support for the Ongoing Movement to protect treaty guaranteed fishing ranch of the yakima pali is another Indigenous People through the Pacific Northwest in which the leadership included the extraordinary amount of bennett. While local actions multiplied in native communities and nations during the 19th six days spectacular november 1969 and following 18 months occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco bay grabbed wide media attention. Native American Students and Community Members living in the bay area initiated an alliance known as indians of all tribes. Lage. From all over the continent radicalizing thousands especially native youth. They were impressive among them many others who had continued to organize in serve as role models in the early 21st century. Three years later in 1973 hundreds of militarized fbi and other federal and state other federal and state agencies around at wounded knee. A hamlet on the Pine Ridge Reservation in south dakota here and so begin to inhabit month half months each against the American Indian movement protesters and the tra