American Indian Boarding School in the 1800’s BoardersA string of stolen children, scared, confused, snake, capped with flying penguins.Led to stools, stripped, dusted,and shaved, paving the way:institutional erasure.Sacked, sad, desked, rapped,slapped — and worse.So much worse. Unwilling orphans cry for parents.Unheard pleas echo lifetimes. From the Law Librarians of Congress website: In 2021, Canada passed…
Category: Native Americans
Happy Michigan Indian Day!
I did not know such a holiday has existed since 1974, but now that I do, I have it in my phone calendar and can be prepared for next year with a post. Turtle Talk’s post shows how Tribes have been hard at work governing and protecting people, places, and natural resources in the State…
MI Supreme Court Overturns Line 5 Permit. YES!!!!!!!!!!! News from Turtle Talk and Oil & Water Don’t Mix
ALSO from Oil & Water Don’t Mix Last night, the Michigan Supreme Court did something Enbridge didn’t think was coming and vacated approval of the Line 5 oil tunnel. The justices didn’t split hairs. They found the tunnel has no state siting approval that’s required under federal law. And they held that before any state agency…
#FF — Unshakable Bodhisattva
Unshakable Bodhisattva While Canadian soldiers were being sent abroad by their government in WWII to fight fascism, at home, agents were stealing babies from Indigenous families. Little Buffy was shipped south, to a white family in America, to have the Indian scrubbed from her. After double university degrees, Buffy returned to her reservation and was…
from Turtle Talk — REDress Project at University of Michigan
Art Can Speak Volumes Where Words Fail
FFF 62 — Enbridge Line 5 developments
click on link to take you to a page with various live cams trained on Mackinac Straits area Today I’ve learned about two big developments in the fight against Canada’s Enbridge building a tunnel around their decrepit oil pipelines running under the Straits of Mackinac, where 21% of the world’s fresh water resides. The first,…
from Turtle Talk: Historical States’ Land Grabs from Native American Tribes continues (my title)
“More Than Morrill: The Intertwined History of Indian Land Dispossession, Arizona Statehood, and University Enrichment,” by Teresa M. Miguel-Stearns, Samantha Ginsberg, and Kristen Cook
