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Category Archives: Academic

Open Letter To NLON CG About BP Disaster Recovery

Hi there,
Could you pass this along to NLON Coast Guard, or perhaps get me the address for the suggestions? My idea is to dump many sunflower seeds onto the biggest pudding textures of the oil on the surface of the water. They’re likely to soak up not just the surface oils but also soak up [...]

Quoting Woody Guthrie

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good.
I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose.
Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing.
Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly
or too this [...]

We’re Not Really That Stupid; Are We?

Are we?

OPEN LETTER TO: the New London Day, Governor Rell and really all people inhabiting Mother Earth!
“A modern day island of Dr Moreau……”
–  mdnorwich,
Responding to an article about proposals making Plum Island biocontainment level 5 facility either a public recreation area, or selling off to the highest bidder.
Worse than that, mdnorwich.
That island will NEVER be [...]

Sometimes You War; Sometimes You Dialogue; Sometimes You Do Both.

“Sometimes it’s a good day to die, sometimes it’s a good day to have breakfast.” — Thomas Builds-the-Fire
College teacher Julie Jennings conveys the following breaking news:
“The 3-20-10 Providence Protest has sparked a dialogue with the game’s publisher. The game-maker is starting to consider Native pre-testing of the game. Julie Jennings would like [...]

‘Inglourious Basterds’ Was ‘Navajo Joe??’

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is Essentially a Spaghetti Western.
By Marc Frucht

Will we ever tire of consuming Spaghetti Westerns, and what does this do to the people of the Native American nations?

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This essay will show that the 1966 spaghetti western Navajo Joe has been copied and “cannibalized” all throughout its history including last year [...]

Steinbeck’s Tom Joad Had An Indigenous Point Of View, Huh?

If Tom Joad Isn’t an “Injun” He Sure Thinks Like One: Searching for Indigenous Thought In The Grapes of Wrath

Marc Frucht

“Steinbeck’s liberal mixture of native philosophy, [and] common-sense leftist politics, blue-collar radicalism, working-class characters, homespun folk wisdom, and digressive narrative form – all set to a bold, rhythmic style and nervy, raw dialogue [...]

Classical Guitar Lessons Online? No Way; Really?

Just so you know, online classical guitar lessons don’t actually “sux0r” as much as you would think.
Here’s a glimpse of some simple ones that should give you ideas of your own for teaching and/or taking lessons this way:

Hi ____,
How are things going with that part I of the Boceto?
Here are several youtubes of people doing [...]

4 ARRESTED IN SIT-IN OUTSIDE LIEBERMAN’S CT OFFICES

4 people were arrested, this morning during a sit-in in front of Senator Joseph Lieberman’s office in Hartford.  The arrestees were among 30 demonstrators who sought a public meeting with the Senator to confront him on his stance on healthcare reform while at the same time accepting donations from the health insurance industry.  Since 1989 [...]

How Much do You Know about the Deer Island Massacre?

334 years ago this month!!!

At the time of King Phillips war, with slave ships heading to Bermuda from all over New England, while there were many Colonial wars raging on everywhere, almost everyone from the Natick “praying Indian” families were rounded up and forcefully marched to Deer Island where they were surrounded by military in [...]

Republicans Gone Wild!

OPINION:

Can U even imagine looking back 2 a time when your parent forbade U meeting a President simply out of hatred/fear 4 his politics?

I thank G-d every day my mom & dad (both Republicans!) lacked hatred/fear and instead had the courage to teach my sister and me to think for ourselves. This hybrid [...]