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Odds and Ends => Etcetera => Topic started by: amorYcohetes on November 21, 2010, 03:01:51 am
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Hey there, wondering if anyone here goes to this event (http://www.uaine.org/)? I've gone in past years, but not recently due to family health issues. I think this year I may get to some other stuff that the Mashpee Wamps are doing rather than the march. I am aware that the organizers are involved in some sectarian political stuff and there is controversy between them and the Mashpee Wampanoag (http://www.pilgrimhall.org/daymourn.htm) who originated the event. I do believe in the message of National Day of Mourning; wondering what the perspectives of people on this forum are.
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While I was looking around the net about this issue, I found a speech by another one of the Peters that I really liked and wanted to link here: Paula Peters' 2009 speech to the Massachusetts Mayflower Descendants Society (http://www.massmayflower.org/aboutus/peters.htm).
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I've visited the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC and got onto their mailing list somehow (under a typo'd name, LOL), and I saw in a recent e-newsletter they're linking a post on their blog by one of their employees, Dennis Zotigh, titled "Do American Indians Celebrate Thanksgiving? (http://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2013/11/do-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving.html)" which makes reference to the "National Day of Mourning" march in Plymouth. Mr. Zotigh's tribal affiliation is not from the New England area, however.
The essay seems to be making a wider circulation this year - I also saw A Tribe Called Red was linking it.
On another social media meme topic, Honor the Earth did a hilarious parody video (http://www.honorearth.org/_enbridge_seeks_indianwhisperer_in_a_dirtyscheme_to_push_its_oilagenda_on_native_people_stopthepipeline_nokxl?recruiter_id=3) upon discovering that Enbridge Oil Co. was seeking a consultant (http://www.simplyhired.com/job/spclst-tribal-comm-affairs-job/enbridge-inc/id2j65uyrm) "to provide stakeholder relations services at an advanced level, including planning and execution of Tribal public consultation programs for Enbridge projects" - English translation: trying to buy Native acceptance of the the tar sands pipelines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enbridge_Pipeline_System)! Looks like if you have a Twitter or Facebook account, you can help them spread the message against Keystone XL, etc this Tuesday, 12/02/14. It's on the page linked above about the video.