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  1. March 4, 2012

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  2. November 27, 2011

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    The Building Blocks of America

    On September 8, 2000, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) formally apologized for the agency’s participation in the “ethnic cleansing” of Western tribes.

  3. November 27, 2011

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    Between Vision & Prophecy - Marc Adelman Nov 2011

    Part 1 – Ocean

    between vision and prophecy

    lies an ocean

    it stretches beyond sight

    it holds back perception

    with the greatness of it’s expanse.

    it cripples those not created for its depths

    with a power unbeknownst to anything natural

    that has ever existed above the drawn horizon.

    it is both lover & song of the sailor

    it betrays and seduces in both verse and chorus

    it is the substance of the mystic’s dream

    holding past and future in suspense and clarity.

    its power remained constant

    as emerging tribes of enlightened conquest

    garnered iron helmets forged in empirical fire,

    lifted their tribal flags on top of the bones

    and whispers of wisdom now deemed worthless.

    this ocean bares witness

    and will continue to rise and fall

    with the pale moon as it’s eternal partner in dance. 

    Part II Moon

    the crescent moon

    first in faded silhouette,

    as the burnt autumn red

    and caramel brown sunset

    kisses the hills brow,

    then blossoming in awe inspiring presence,

    this otherworldly mass, this ancient globe

    is held effortlessly in gravity’s spell.

    It continues to rise,

    radiating a peace

    foreign to the industry of day.

    It’s glowing heartbeat

    shits the rhythmic sway

    of the tree tops.

    the goddess

    silences the instruments of day

    while it calls all melodic choirs of night,

    all magical makers of night whispers and dreams,

    to blanket the world with the symphony

    of cricket bows and cicada swells.

    This thin crescent of reflected sunlight

    now shining a sliver of cool,

    almost languid and tangible light,

    heaven’s glow braking through a slit

    in nights fabric,

    shines down on both triumphant epitaph,

    and shameful, painful and aching death.

    It shines down on wisps of white,

    brown, green, and blue

    rotating in pristine and primordial silence.

    it’s watch is too distant, too remote

    to even catch a glimpse of

    chaos tearing at earths skin,

    striving like wild death

    to unseat the beating, bleeding heart

    held secretly within.

    Tags: Marc Adelman Poems

  4. November 27, 2011

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    Hummingbirds flying to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.

    The 18th Amendment prohibited the production, distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States and was widely supported by the American public when it went into effect in 1920.

    The temperance movement had popularized the belief that alcohol was the major cause of most personal and social problems and prohibition was seen as the solution to the nation’s poverty, crime, violence, and other ills. Upon ratification of the amendment, the famous evangelist Billy Sunday said that “The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs.”

    Since alcohol was to be banned and since it was seen as the cause of most, if not all, crime, some communities sold their jails.

    The nation was highly optimistic and the leading prohibitionist in the United States Congress confidently asserted that “There is as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.”

    The following are statistics detailing how much worse crime got:

    Police funding: INCREASED $11.4 Million

    Arrests for Prohibition Las Violations: INCREASED 102+%

    Arrests for Drunkenness and Disorderly Conduct: INCREASED 41%

    Arrests of Drunken Drivers: INCREASED 81%

    Thefts and Burglaries: INCREASED 9%

    Homicides, Assault, and Battery: INCREASED 13%

    Number of Federal Convicts: INCREASED 561%

    Federal Prison Population: INCREASED 366%

    Total Federal Expenditures on Penal Institutions: INCREASED 1,000%

    Tags: American Prohibition

  5. November 27, 2011

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    This graph looks at drugs, and press reports, in Britain. Using data from 2008, this infographic compares media coverage of drug deaths with the deaths themselves. As you can see, alcohol represented the second-highest amount of deaths, but was rarely reported on. By contrast, marijuana is third from the bottom, but there is greater furor over deaths related to cannabis. 

    This graph looks at drugs, and press reports, in Britain. Using data from 2008, this infographic compares media coverage of drug deaths with the deaths themselves. As you can see, alcohol represented the second-highest amount of deaths, but was rarely reported on. By contrast, marijuana is third from the bottom, but there is greater furor over deaths related to cannabis. 

  6. November 27, 2011

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    Modern Prohibition - Capitalism disguised in the spectre of morality

    Over 11 Million US citizens have been arrested for Marijuana related arrests from 1980 - 2010.

    Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers an estimated $10 billion annually and results in the arrest of more than 853,000 individuals per year — far more than the total number of arrestees for all violent crimes combined, including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

  7. November 27, 2011

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    What do the numbers point to?

    Over 2.4 million US solders have been killed or injured in US warfare since 1775.

    Over 5.4 million US people/families have filed for Foreclosure over the past 3 years. 

    Numbers can sometimes paint pictures words have difficult encapsulating.

    Tags: US Forclosures

  8. November 23, 2011

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    Excerpts from the essay written by Benjamin Franklin titled: “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” (1784)

    “Perhaps, if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality, we should find no people so rude, as to be without any rules of politeness; nor any so polite, as not to have some remains of rudeness.

    The Indian men, when young, are hunters and warriors, when old, counselors; for all their government is by counsel of the sages; there is no force, there are no prisons, no officers to compel obedience, or inflict punishment. Hence they generally study oratory, the best speaker having the most influence. The Indian women till the ground, dress the food, nurse and bring up the children, and preserve and hand down to posterity the memory of public transactions. These employments of men and women are accounted natural and honorable. Having few artificial wants, they have abundance of leisure for improvement by conversation. Our laborious manner of life, compared with theirs, they esteem slavish and base; and the learning, on which we value ourselves, they regard as frivolous and useless.”

    Tags: Ben Franklin Native Americans

  9. November 23, 2011

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    Anowarkowa

    Anowarkowa

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  10. November 23, 2011

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    Hah-nu-nah - The Iroquois Creation Story

    In the faraway days of this floating island there grew one stately tree that branched beyond the range of vision. Perpetually laden with fruit and blossoms, the air was fragrant with its perfume, and the people gathered to its shade where councils were held. 

    One day the Great Ruler said to his people: We will make a new place where another people may grow. Under our council tree is a great cloud sea which calls for our help. It is lonesome. It knows no rest and calls for light. We will talk to it. The roots of our council tree point to it and will show the way.” 

    Having commanded that the tree be uprooted, the Great Ruler peered into the depths where the roots had guided, and summoning Ata-en-sic, who was with child, bade her look down. Ata-en-sic saw nothing, but the Great Ruler knew that the sea voice was calling, and bidding her carry its life, wrapped around her a great ray of light and sent her down to the cloud sea. 

    Dazzled by the descending light enveloping Ata-en-sic, there was great consternation among the animals and birds inhabiting the cloud sea, and they counseled in alarm. 

    “If it falls it may destroy us,” they cried. 

    “Where can it rest?” asked the Duck. 

    “Only the oeh-da (earth) can hold it,” said the Beaver, “the oeh-da which lies at the bottom of our waters, and I will bring it.” The Beaver went down but never returned. Then the Duck ventured, but soon its dead body floated to the surface. 

    Many of the divers had tried and failed when the Muskrat, knowing the way, volunteered to obtain it and soon returned bearing a small portion in his paw. “But it is heavy,” said he, “and will grow fast. Who will bear it?” 

    The Turtle was willing, and the oeh-da was placed on his hard shell. 

    Having received a resting place for the light, the water birds, guided by its glow, flew upward, and receiving the woman on their widespread wings, bore her down to the Turtle’s back. 

    And Hah-nu-nah, the Turtle, became the Earth Bearer. When he stirs, the seas rise in great waves, and when restless and violent, earthquakes yawn and devour. 

    The oeh-da grew rapidly and had become an island when Ata-en-sic, hearing voices under her heart, one soft and soothing, the other loud and contentious, knew that her mission to people the island was nearing. 

    Tags: The Iroquois Creation Story Hah-nu-nah

  11. November 23, 2011

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    Turtle Island

    According to Iroquois oral history, Sky Woman fell down to the earth when it was covered with water. Various animals tried to swim to the bottom of the ocean to bring back dirt to create land. Muskrat succeeded in gathering dirt, which was placed on the back of a turtle, which grew into the land known today as North America. In the Seneca language, the mythical turtle is called Hah-nu-nah, while the name for an everyday turtle is ha-no-wa.

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    Tags: Turtle Island Anowarkowa Hah-nu-nah

  12. November 23, 2011

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    U.S. soldiers pose over a mass grave trench with some of the 300 bodies of innocent Native American Lakota Sioux, two-thirds women and children, massacred at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation. One of the few survivors of the massacre was a baby girl, found 4 days after the massacre, lying beneath her mothers dead frozen body, her mother having protected her in death as she had in life. The baby girl, having survived the massacre and the blizzard with temperatures at 40 below zero, was then abducted by Brigadier General Colby as a trophy of the massacre, in his own words “a most interesting Indian relic”.

    U.S. soldiers pose over a mass grave trench with some of the 300 bodies of innocent Native American Lakota Sioux, two-thirds women and children, massacred at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation. One of the few survivors of the massacre was a baby girl, found 4 days after the massacre, lying beneath her mothers dead frozen body, her mother having protected her in death as she had in life. The baby girl, having survived the massacre and the blizzard with temperatures at 40 below zero, was then abducted by Brigadier General Colby as a trophy of the massacre, in his own words “a most interesting Indian relic”.

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    Tags: Battle of Wounded Knee Native American Genocide

  13. November 23, 2011

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    Anowarkowa - Common Native American name for the continent now called North America.

    Anowarkowa - Common Native American name for the continent now called North America.

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  14. November 23, 2011

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    Scientists from the University of Arizona, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Smithsonian Institution have used carbon-dating technology to determine the age of a controversial parchment that might be the first-ever map of North America. In a paper to be published in the August 2002 issue of the journal Radiocarbon, the scientists conclude that the so-called “Vinland Map” parchment dates to approximately 1434 A.D., or nearly 60 years before Christopher Columbus set foot in the West Indies.

    Scientists from the University of Arizona, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Smithsonian Institution have used carbon-dating technology to determine the age of a controversial parchment that might be the first-ever map of North America. In a paper to be published in the August 2002 issue of the journal Radiocarbon, the scientists conclude that the so-called “Vinland Map” parchment dates to approximately 1434 A.D., or nearly 60 years before Christopher Columbus set foot in the West Indies.

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  15. November 23, 2011

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    Naming of this Country

    Historians tell us that when Columbus discovered our land, he didn’t believe that he had found a new continent; he simply believed that he had found an unexplored part of the continent of Asia. He even believed this until his death in 1506.

    Meanwhile, another explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, made four voyages to this land, beginning in 1497. He realized that this was a new, unknown land and simply called it the “New World,” and never suggested giving it his name or any other name for that matter.

    Yet America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, and under strange circumstances. It seems that Vespucci wrote many letters to his friends describing the New World. A dishonest author was said to have gotten hold of some of these letters, rewritten them, and published them in a book.

    This book found its way into the hands of a German map maker, who decided to call this new land after Amerigo. It would be Americus or America on his new map. He decided on America since that was the feminine form of the name, just as Europe and Asia are feminine names as well.

    Other map makers followed this German’s lead, and America was born.

    Amerigo Vespucci died without ever knowing that this land was named after him.

    Tags: Amerigo Vespucci Christopher Columbus

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