Boy sent home from school for dressing as Jesus

[wez]

Yeah.. but those red bastards who run that outfit just spent it all on firewater.

 

And several schools.. several health clinics.. water treatment facilities.. houses.. lawsuits to reinstate treaties to net walleyes in Mille Lacs.. old folks homes where anyone over a certain age can live there if they want for free, just paying utilities..

 

 

Come a long way on a deck of cards and slot machines..

[RoyalOrleans]

And several schools.. several health clinics.. water treatment facilities.. houses.. lawsuits to reinstate treaties to net walleyes in Mille Lacs.. old folks homes where anyone over a certain age can live there if they want for free, just paying utilities..

 

 

Come a long way on a deck of cards and slot machines..

 

All that on the Reservation?

 

Mille Lacs and that whole area is beautiful this time of the year.

[ImWithStupid]

And several schools.. several health clinics.. water treatment facilities.. houses.. lawsuits to reinstate treaties to net walleyes in Mille Lacs.. old folks homes where anyone over a certain age can live there if they want for free, just paying utilities..

 

 

Come a long way on a deck of cards and slot machines..

 

I thought the Federal Government paid for all the "red man's" basic facilities. If not, I won't bother playin' the Native American card to get a handout when the "give to the minority society" surfices, since my grandmother was half Cheyenne.

[wez]

I thought the Federal Government paid for all the "red man's" basic facilities. If not, I won't bother playin' the Native American card to get a handout when the "give to the minority society" surfices, since my grandmother was half Cheyenne.

 

Hell no... place made Harlem look like Beverly Hills 20 short years ago..

 

 

They stole their land, culture, and genocided them to near extinction.. Lemme try to find an article here... We just read one for a class and actually went up to the rez a few weeks ago..

[ImWithStupid]

Hell no... place made Harlem look like Beverly Hills 20 short years ago..

 

 

They stole their land, culture, and genocided them to near extinction..

 

Oh, I see. I know what a reservation looks like, you mean that since the Casino paid for stuff this was better.

 

If anyone wants to see what our lives will be like if we go to far to a socialist society where the federal government provides for us, just has to visit a reservation without a casino.

[wez]

Healing a Wounded Past

Centuries of genocide, cultural destruction and prejudice have left Native Americans an ongoing legacy of serious health problems. Indian nurses can play a crucial role in helping patients begin the process of healing from historical trauma.

 

By Louise Kaegi

 

 

 

Lea Warrington, RN, BSN, gives a presentation on historical trauma to nursing students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

 

"Just being born American Indian brought me into the legacy of harm and poor health," asserts Roxanne Struthers, RN, PhD, CTN, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing in Minneapolis and president-elect of the National Alaska Native American Indian Nurses Association (NANAINA).

 

"I have seen in my family the effects of disease-TB and other epidemics with no resistance and little or no treatment. And not only disease [but also cultural loss]. My mother's first language was Ojibwe; she was beaten when she spoke it, then her only language, at a rural reservation school. Later, she would not allow us to speak it at home. Now as a nurse, all the diseases I encounter every day [in Indian patients]-alcoholism, drug dependence, diabetes, overeating-I see as parallel to my own life. Some younger nurses may not be as aware of this at first, but it will resonate when they hear the history."

 

 

 

John Lowe, RN, PhD

"That's when I started to see-and later I started to hear more," recollects Lillian Rice, a Forest County Potawotami Tribe Native practitioner and alcohol/drug counselor, born in backwoods Star Lake, Wis., and now living in Minneapolis. Then only 17 years old (in 1949), she linked the negative behavior of a close family member sinking into alcoholism with what she had heard earlier as a child from her grandmother. The grandmother had told of TB epidemics and children's deaths, of scarlet fever quarantining with confiscation of Native ceremonial paraphernalia, of relocation without treatment or recompense, of going back home and finding the old estate burnt down by the U.S. government. Other family members brought forth painful memories from boarding school days of horsewhipping and humiliation.

 

"That's when I decided to become a healer," says Rice, who leads women's sweat lodges and women's spiritual gatherings. "After raising my five children and getting into chemical dependency work, I made a decision with a promise to the Great Spirit to be there for [indian] women in honor of my grandmother."

[wez]

If you are Native and born into a Native family, your community's past is a part of who you are," attests John Lowe, RN, PhD, a faculty member at Florida Atlantic University's College of Nursing in Boca Raton and a researcher/designer of Native American teen interventions to prevent and reverse substance abuse and reduce HIV/AIDS risk. "I was raised in a Cherokee farming community in the Southeast and went to school there," he says. "My father, now 80, would have had to go to boarding school, so he didn't go to any school. He was needed on the farm and his parents did not want their kids taken away. [i used to wonder,] why didn't my father have the problems we see so often [in Indian communities], such as alcoholism and diabetes? Why was he OK? When I went away to attend a college nursing program in the 1970s, I took with me that vision of my father. He knew who he was: Cherokee, with traditions, values and beliefs. He faced many barriers, but something within him was very grounded and centered, and that kept him OK. If we [as nurses] could understand it, that is what we should promote."

 

 

These Native American health practitioners are describing historical trauma. Although of recent coinage as a term, its devastating effects on the physical and mental health of American Indians and Alaska Natives have been documented for decades. Native healers, with their feeling for root causes, have tapped traditional spiritual resources to help put their families and communities back on a path to recovery. Now, working right in the mainstream of Western health science, leading Indian health professionals and researchers have given the concept a scientific name and a place for testing in their disciplines. The literature is now packed with empirical clinical evidence and qualitative data. Promising new models of care are emerging.

 

And today at the front lines, strategically positioned to put these models into practice, are Indian nurses. Their recognition of who they are and what they do has inspired a call to action for Native nurses: to recognize the critical role they can play in helping their people begin the process of healing from the harms of historical trauma.

 

More here..

 

http://www.minoritynurse.com/features/health/05-12-04c.html

[wez]

Oh, I see. I know what a reservation looks like, you mean that since the Casino paid for stuff this was better.

 

If anyone wants to see what our lives will be like if we go to far to a socialist society where the federal government provides for us, just has to visit a reservation without a casino.

 

 

Yes, and what makes it even better is their culture actually values cooperation, respect for nature, respect for all people, and elders..

 

Rather than a few pr cks living large.. they take care of each other. I envy their culture in many ways. The last thing they want or ever wanted in this life was for some government to "take care of them".. Still hard for them to adjust to western culture to this day.. Work to them is/was hunting, fishing, gathering, growing, building, living, surviving.. the way it should be.

[Ahhlee]

My pops just bought a timeshare on Mille Lacs. I'm looking forward to using it one day.

 

Then I can be one of the many big-legged, winterized and flannel clad women losing her hard earned cash at the casino.

 

Good thing I like Steve Miller.

[wez]

All that on the Reservation?

 

Mille Lacs and that whole area is beautiful this time of the year.

 

Sh t.. didn't see your post before.. Yep.. not all on Mille Lacs though...

 

 

District I on Mille Lacs Lake near the city of Onamia, where the Mille Lacs Band Government Center and Grand Casino Mille Lacs are located and where the largest concentration of Mille Lacs Band members live

 

Districts II and IIa near the cities of McGregor and Isle

 

District III near the city of Hinckley, where Grand Casino Hinckley is located

 

Actually own a bank in Onamia too..

 

 

 

It is beautiful all year..Folks just sold their cabin in Isle last year.. sucks.. Loved it.. Had it 20 years..Right in one of the Twin Bays.. Awsome lake...

 

 

 

My pops just bought a timeshare on Mille Lacs. I'm looking forward to using it one day.

 

Then I can be one of the many big-legged, winterized and flannel clad women losing her hard earned cash at the casino.

 

Good thing I like Steve Miller.

 

 

 

Sweet!!! Lucky you..

 

 

Oh yeah... Steve Miller.. good stuff with or without Steve Miller..

[RoyalOrleans]

Then I can be one of the many big-legged, winterized and flannel clad women losing her hard earned cash at the casino.

 

Good thing I like Steve Miller.

 

When you do, give me a call.

 

Robert Plant says that big legged women ain't got no soul, but RO says you can find that soul tweence the legs.

[hugo]

The Indians were basically a bunch of commies. Good thing we killed most of 'em.

[wez]

The Indians were basically a bunch of commies. Good thing we killed most of 'em.

 

 

 

Hahahaha.. I'd like to see you try to survive without other peoples help in one way or another.. You need someone else to give you a job... You need others to buy your sh t... You need others to grow food... You need someone to manufacture your preperation H... You need someone to brew your Budwiser and tube up your Vienna sausage..

 

 

You aint the rugged individualist you dream you are.. Commie pig.

[Ahhlee]

When you do, give me a call.

 

Robert Plant says that big legged women ain't got no soul, but RO says you can find that soul tweence the legs.

 

 

Jackpot!

 

Bless you for seeing past my big legs, flannel shirt and thermal underpants to see the true beauty that lies within me....

 

My vagina.

 

Hell yeah I can call you. We'll party like rock stars at the cabin, drink shnapps and eat walleye until we puke. It'll be magical.

[hugo]

Hahahaha.. I'd like to see you try to survive without other peoples help in one way or another.. You need someone else to give you a job... You need others to buy your sh t... You need others to grow food... You need someone to manufacture your preperation H... You need someone to brew your Budwiser and tube up your Vienna sausage..

 

 

You aint the rugged individualist you dream you are.. Commie pig.

 

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

[wez]

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

 

Adam Smith was a total dumbass who lacked the foresight to factor in such things as love, compassion, cooperation, honesty, sustainability, and the New World Order scum who own the Federal Reserve as they seek to control the Earth and everyone in it through wars, assassinations, murder, indentured servitude, hate, manipulation of currency and clandestine infiltration of governments the world over. ~ wez

[RoyalOrleans]

Adam Smith was a total dumbass who lacked the foresight to factor in such things as love, compassion, cooperation, honesty, sustainability, and the New World Order scum who own the Federal Reserve as they seek to control the Earth and everyone in it through wars, assassinations, murder, indentured servitude, hate, manipulation of currency and clandestine infiltration of governments the world over. ~ wez

 

Do you actually believe anything you say?