Scoop’s Views

Never let what may be the great day in the lift of Geronimo, the late Apache chief. That day – September 4 – is today.

It was on that day when Captain Henry Lawton, who had command of B Troop, 4th Cavalry, which was based out of Fort Huachuca, Arizona. It was Lawson who had been tapped by General Nelson Miles to lead an expedition to capture, in typical cowboy fashion – dead or alive – the Apache chief the U.S. government considered a renegade: Geronimo.

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Words. Nothing but words is what it comes down to from U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) who is cheering about the U.S. Senate passing an apology, tacked on to the Indian Health Bill, that was approved last week.

Mere words, nothing else, yet Brownback thinks the forked tongue the White Man, let alone politicians, are known to have, is going to help restore the relationship between the United States and Native Americans. Don’t make me laugh.

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Any community operating under Home Rule works within specific parameters: that it is working pretty much independent of many laws that govern other areas of the state, though it is still part of the state. When it comes to gambling within a city, that city — and its residents, especially those who will be directly impacted, ought have a very large say in location, as well as the decision whether gambling is appropriate.

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Nike, it seems is doing something sort of unique: it’s doing target marketing to a specific segment of society.

Before you jump up and down, wanting to hit that comment button and tell me how stupid I am, telling me many companies already do that, listen to me. Okay?

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When it comes to ensuring people know exactly what I am, I just say injun. If I use the real name for my people, my tribe, my nation, no one but a handful of people in the U.S., and most likely, the world, would even know what I am talking about. Okay, maybe two handfuls, as some of the tribal elders know — and care.

Sometimes, though, there are the hard-headed clods who as, What’s injun? So I explain I am Aniyunwiya. In American, it means, principal people.

From the streets of Far Northeast Philadelphia,…

When I began fiddling with the SanDisk Cruzer, I found it has this “desktop” software, so you can encrypt the contents of the drive. That’s a nice idea, but since I have no idea what’s behind that encryption, and didn’t take time to hack it, I decided to simply wipe the drive and use it how I use all keyfobs: using my own encryption source. I didn’t wipe everything off the drive, though, until I played with the stuff that came as bonus features.

Long before 1492 when good ol’ Chris Columbus set sail on Wednesday, August 3, 1492, with the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, groups of people, collectively called in my-speak, injuns. I prefer the term injuns as opposed to terms in Newspeak, PC or politically correct terms such as “Native Americans” or whatever. Anyone born in the U.S. could claim to be “native American,” but then comes that issue of capitalization of the “N” in native. Since many folks don’t even speak properly, let alone know how to write a complete sentence, much less worry about punctuation, capitalization, and other petty issues, I prefer to stick with a word everyone can understand. Since I am an injun, I will use it. If you take offence, great. Offend yourself all you want.

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