Mr. Isham, the striking thing to me is the way you avoid answering questions at all and immediately go on the attack on a personal level. You could easily defend MKP by describing it and allaying many fears. Instead we are left with the impression that the news reports are accurate. That it really is overwhelmingly whites playing NDN by doing goofy things like going nude in the woods and shaving each other.
Obviously what they do is not even remotely Native in any way. In fact it is a white stereotyped caricature of either generic NDN or faux Lakota. (And I'm still not sure why an Ojibwe turns to faux Lakota rather than Ojibwe ways.) This is far from criticizing "every little thing." This is exposing the whole of what they do, not minor details. Nuage is spiritual colonialism, and that is what you take part in when do faux ceremonies and defend their actions. What you are doing is about as colonized a mindset as possible.
You went out of your way to attack teachers. I have to conclude this was directed at me as a professor. (You can see who I am and what I do simply by looking up my thread, so I won't waste time on that.)
And then you attack the idea of "keyboard warriors."
You ignore that I'm just one of several thousand members, both Native and non-Native.
You ignore, or maybe you didn't know, that some of our members are in tribal gov'ts, both rez and Canadian reserves.
You ignore, or maybe you didn't know, that some members in here have worked with or are AIM members.
You ignore, or maybe you didn't know, that some members in here have counseled Native prisoners.
You ignore, or maybe you didn't know, that more than a few members have taken part in "real life" non-internet non-digital protests.
That includes members who faced threats from their protests. We've had Nuage fraud supporters stalk us or our family members or friends. I was at a protest against fraud Harley Reagan where his German bodyguard tried to break into the car to get to the Native woman who was protesting.
And for some reason your attack on teachers as colonizers ignores the fact that Dallas Chief Eagle, endorser of MKP, is primarily a teacher at public schools. You yourself are a college student.
If you know your history at all, you know that Natives have been using "mainstream" schools to preserve Native ways since the 1930s. Kill the Indian Save the Man was officially repudiated at that time, and the first bicultural and bilingual education begun. It was far from complete or easily done. But are you seriously claiming the likes of Vine Deloria and Robert Warrior were just colonized puppets?
I'm still waiting to see if you will actually discuss MKP instead of the personal smears.
