I didn't know about this, but it doesn't surprise me, given the history of US policy towards Native Americans.

Sterilization of Native American Women

This might also explain a little bit of the current (well, in the past couple of decades) reluctance of physicians to tie tubes. I have heard from so many women who wanted their tubes tied, only to be ( Read more... )

So I was saying to The Young Idea at lunch today, "Wait until you get to the Civil War."  (This prompted by a review in Newsweek of the Library of America's The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It.)

She responded to me, "Mom, why is it in school we always hear about slavery and the Civil War, and that kind of stuff, but we never ( Read more... )

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From the very awesome Indian Comics Irregular, which is put out by Rob Schmidt, one of the folks behind the comic Peace Party.

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Indian Comics Irregular #176

It used to be that anyone--Anthony Quinn, Rock Hudson, Audrey Hepburn--could play an Indian. But if you thought the era of actors in "redface" ( Read more... )

badger2305 let us know that Paula Gunn Allen is gone.

To you women, Paula Gunn Allen is important.

To you writers, Paula Gunn Allen is important.

To you people of color, Paula Gunn Allen is important.

This is one of the things she said.


Because she is dead, we must not fall silent. There is still work to be done.

Anyone here ever read any Sherman Alexie? He's a Native American writer and film maker. If he were white, he'd be famous, I have a feeling. I mean midwestern household name famous, Parade magazine famous. But he's Indian, and what Anglos might term a bit sassy.

During an interview--that's posted on Planet Sick Boy, of all places, he offers ( Read more... )

Well, it's International Blog Against Racism Week ( Read more... )