Tim Giago: R-word just as insulting as the N-word

[Waya]

http://indianz.com/News/2006/017185.asp

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1. interesting article you got there

its amazing, how the pyramid of terminology is set up, isn't it?

[DemBones DemBones]

2. Andy Rooney said Indians have no culture, no art, no music?

The man needs some education!

Perhaps his memory is failing him; it's hard to imagine anyone who's been in the news business as long as he has never learning anything about Native American culture.

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3. when I was overseas a few years ago

I ran into a big fat white man from Texas. He told me he was a history teacher. I told him I was a historian myself but my field of emphasis for study is in Native American Studies. This bigot said to me that there was not anything to "learn" in this field of study.

I just walked away and thought to myself how things have not changed much, especially in Texas. And to think, this man is a history teacher?

No wonder so few people in the USA know so very little about our native peoples! Just wait until they wake up someday only to find that that shadow of a relative that no one ever talked about was in fact a mixed-blood or even a full-blood indigenous person from America.

[Mabus]

4. I know what you mean

About fifteen years ago we (my then-boyfriend and I) were asked to help entertain a visiting professor. We decided to take him to Haskell's Graduation pow-wow. The visiting prof was very disappointed when we got to the Haskell campus and people were driving cars. He had expected the campus to be full of Indians dressed in full regalia and riding horses.

About 17 years ago there was a town hall forum where several participants suggested that the way to help the Lawrence community understand Indian culture was to teach the Indian language at the local schools. The main advocate of this solution was distressed to find out that not all of us spoke the same language.