CHRISTMAS SONGS
oops meant to schedule this for tomorrow! Not sure how to undo it! Lots of music today!!
I listen to Christmas music all year long except for the month of December. Working in a department store for many years and listening to bad music for two months eight or more hours a day…mostly I only like traditional and pretty much hate the modern stuff. Fucking hate BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE….SANTA BABY…ROCKIN’ AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE by Brenda Lee?? AAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
Here’s a new song by Aimee Mann though!
What I look for in Christmas music is the emotion and Bob Segar sounds like he means it!
then I found this…
JOHNNY CASH
Never mind Simon and Garfunkel…Johnny Cash sings every syllable like he actually means it….as he often did. This video takes a bit to start
BOBBIE GENTRY
I grew up listening to Bobbie Gentry…long before Britney Spears people could really sing!!!
And then there is this with my true love Johnny Cash
Enjoy!
ANNA MAE AQUASH 22/WOVOKA/SLAUGHTER OOPS I MEAN BATTLE OF WOUNDED KNEE
All excerpts are in italics and from THE UNQUIET GRAVE by Steve Hendricks.
WOW!!!! Finally on CHAPTER 3…
In 1890, after the last of the nomadic Indians had been confined to reservations, there arose among the Paiutes of Nevada a new religion.
Its Prophet, Wovoka, said God knew his children were suffering and He was prepared to return them to Eden. All He required was that they live peacefully, work hard, and perform a dance, the ghost dance, which God had taught Wovoka.
The Indian Bureau, predecessor of the BIA, permitted the faith to spread (by golly that sure is nice for man to allow the WORD OF GOD to be spread) peaceful living and hard work were precisely what were wanted of the Indian. But as the religion crept eastward, it mutated. the ghost dance soon promised not merely an earthly Eden for Indians but also the annihilation of whites. (A perfect example of how corrupted the bible is today. Mankind no matter the race feels compelled to “help” God clarify His meaning!)
In its turn to militancy, the religion acquired an amulet: the ghost dance shirt, which , when worn by a person of faith, was said to make him impervious to gunfire.
On Pine Ridge the Oglalas called the superintendent Young Man Afraid of Indians. Addled by the dancers’ chants, Young Man Afraid wrote the army, “Indians are dancing in the snow and are wild and crazy….we need protection and we need it now.”
So General Nelson Miles seizes the dancer’s headmen Sitting Bull. There is gunfire and Sitting Bull is killed along with thirteen others. General Miles then rounds up all of the ghost dancing bands except one.
...led by a chief named Big Foot, whose group had been swollen with the survivors of Sitting Bull’s dancers In late December the Seventh Cavalry intercepted Big Foot in the Badlands. The Cavalrymen marched the few hundred Lakotas to Wounded Knee Creek where the next day, December 29, 1890, Colonel James Forsyth had them encircled. Forsyth mounted Hotchkiss machine guns on the surrounding hilltops and demanded the Indians weapons. the tense surrender of guns was barely underway when a shot was fired.
Neither the shooter nor his motive will ever be known, but his shot was followed by a bloodletting the likes of which the Plains had never seen.
The cavaliers loosed their Hotchkisses on the Indians…Abdomens and skulls were exploded like so many watermelons. The bullets severed limbs like leaves from trees, Great pools of blood seeped over the snow as men and women, infants and the infirm fell in heaps. what the big guns missed, scores of carbines picked off. Long after the Indians stopped firing, the soldiers continued. Fleeing children were pursued for miles through frozen creekbeds before being shot in the back. The ghostdance shirts offered a thin defense against Manifest Destiny
The Army said the mass grave it dug the next day held 146 Lakotas, of whom 44 were women and 18 children. One of the muirdered was Big Foot. the army reported another 51 Indians wounded, 7 of whom eventually died, the Lakotas said their dead numbered more like 3590.
On the cavalry’s side, the army claimed 25, killed and 39 wounded. Most (perhaps all) were killed by their comrades’ crossfire.
The army said then-and says now- that what happened at Wounded Knee was a pitched battle among equals, and it awarded twenty Congressional Medals of Honor to the Seventh for bravery at the “Slaughter Battle of Wounded Knee.”
In 1975, Senator James Abourezk of South Dakota proposed that the government compensate the heirs of the massacre’s victimes with a niggardly $3,000 apiece-a total burdenon the treasury of about %600,000. the army fought the bill, and Congress sided with the army. The press gave the matter the smallest blip of attention,and the nation left the Indians to their open wound.
What can you expect Indians are not white….. CEO’s who have stolen trillions from the people are rewarded with a few more trillion!! Not because of racism no siree!! (just ask dem white folks over at alt.native.)
On a more serious note. The mass grave at Wounded Knee should belong to the Indians whose ancestors reside there. To me a dead body is a dead body and the soul no longer lingers in it. But I think that the Indians believe something different and it hurts them to have their ancestors are disturbed. Can you imagine how many white people visit the grave site with a mean spirit and to gloat? White people should only be allowed to visit if they are a guest.
ANNA MAE AQUASH 18/THE CONROYS/THE NATIVE AMERICAN EMBASSY
All excerpts are in italics and are from THE UNQUIET GRAVE by Steve Hendricks.
I just got off the phone with a friend of mine and I really do need to put up that page about Indians and racism. I keep rewriting it. I have a lot to say as I travel a lot and meet people from from all socioeconomic backgrounds. I don’t stay in my circle of five friends that all think the way I do!
On another note I put up this funny thing about the Hopi word Koyaanisqatsi on my Anna Mae 17 post and one of my friends sent me an e-mail that there is a movie by the same name. She says she watches it occasionally to remind herself what we can so easily become. My friends are afraid to post on the blog so they either call me up or e-mail me with comments.
Here is the movie I have not watched it yet but will when I am done with this post!
Tom Conroy was a BIA realty officer on Pine Ridge who was underpaying for land that he purchased in one instance there was a discrepancy of almost 26,000 dollars (170,000 today!) The GAO investigated him but of course he got away it. Here is the GAO report. Why bother spending the tax payers money for these investigations if they are going to ignore the wrong doing?
I wish Monica Charles had written something about what it was like being on the Trail of Broken Treaties….instead I will do a brief summary.
They expected their influence would be greatest on the eve of the election, but in fact the nation’s reporters and politicians were strewn about the country on campaigns and the Trailers only guaranteed themselves obscurity.
When Indian delegations came to Washington, the BIA exted them small courtesies, like helping find lodging and schedule meetings.
…Harrison Loesch forbade the BIA from helping them.
…just before their arrival the…National Park Service denied the Trailers a permit to hold religious services at the Iwo Jima memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. One of the flag bearers depicted in the iconic memorial was a Pima Indian named Ira Hayes.
The mood worsened when the first of the trailers arrived in Washington on November 1 and found they were to lodge in the cold basement of a ghetto church occupied by rats….After a miserable night, Trailers by the hundred decamped form the church to the BIA headquarters in Foggy Bottom and squatted there in the understandable theory that the building belonged to them.
Indians continued to arrive from around the country, and by day’s end, with the crowd in the BIA’s auditorium numbering a thousand, Loesch arranged for them to move temporarily to a roomier hall in the nearby Department of Labor. But the Trail’s leaders sensed that they had the BIA in a bind and agreed to go only if Loesch set up a meeting for them with the White House, which till then had snubbed the Trail.
The government would later say the Indians started the riot, which is how the story played in the news media, but the claim was not true.
Earlier in the day the Depart of the Interior had asked the D.C. police to clear the building at five o’clock. when the de’tente was reached, nobody thought to tell the police that the eviction was off…..
the would-be evictors were evicted in a few minutes. Several combatants on both sides were bloodied.
The Trailers, unjustly attacked and afraid of a second charge, heaped office furniture in front of every exit and fashioned weapons from broken-off table legs and envelope openers…
A deal was struck….and next morning would move to the Labor auditorium, where food and cots would await them.
…the door at Labor had been locked. The Indians feared a setup-maybe the labor auditorium was a decoy just to get them out of the BIA. They quickly reoccupied their bastion and strunga banner across the front that read NATIVE AMERICAN EMBASSY.
They were there to stay.
…”Perhaps only the BIA could have managed successive failures of this magnitude, ” historians Paul Smith and Robert Warrior wrote. ” The locked door was the result of a decision by a minor functionary who believed that only after everyone had left the BIA building could anyone enter the Labor Department.”
So there were negotations….didn’t work. the government cut the phone lines…ultimatums were issued…the Indians vandalized the building….pissed off the white folks…Finally…
…the White House promised to make a formal relpy to the Twenty Points and paid for the Trailers’ trip home, they would go. Nixons aides agreed and handed over $66,500 in small bills.
With the Indians out of the Native American Embassy, the reelected Nixonians gave the Twenty Points due consideration, duly declared them fanciful…..
Damn good thing whites are’nt racist…..something like this just might raise ones suspicions! Or apparently not.
Before vacating the BIA, the natives had backed a U-Haul to the building’s loading dock and packed it with ten tons of documents. ( Way to go!)
The stolen papers showed how the BIA was bamboozling Indians of their land and of royalties from land leases.
How shocking!
It turns out that the FBI had a mexican disguised as a Pueblo Indian spying on the Trailers.
…on Columbus Day, and anniversary Indians have long associated with infiltrationof their ranks, the D.C. police gave Arellano a medal for his outstanding covert work.
PENDLETON WHISKY….IT’S WHATS FOR BREAKFAST
BEST DAMN WHISKY
No, I’m not working today. In addition I have coffee eggs and potatoes! It’s a great day!
Johnny Cash on the stereo…
I dedicate this to Anna Mae Aquash.
Be you James Simon…AIM….FBI…anyone involved in her murder….
But getting back to the BEST DAMN WHISKY!
PENDLETON WHISKY is imported and bottled by Hood River Distillers (I would put a link there but it goes to a page where you have to swear you are over 21…).
PENDELTON WHISKY is made in association with the PENDLETON ROUND-UP in PENDELTON, Oregon.
The city of PENDELTON is also home of the PENDELTON WOOLEN MILLS (I must say the website is a fucking disappointment looks like a J.C.Penny or Sears catalog!)
Thank God for DREW’S BOOTS in Klamath Falls they have a website that looks like it wasn’t made by a bunch of manicured New Yorkers!
When my sister last visited me in Oregon she bought a bunch of stuff at Drew’s we (her son Frankie and I) practically had to lasso and hog-tie her to get her out of there!!!
JOHNNY CASH
I love Johnny Cash and grew up listening to him. One of my few regrets in life is that I never saw him in concert…yeah don’t remind me that I actually paid to see LA Guns…I am so ashamed!
This is now one of my favorite songs. I used to love Soundgarden and saw them in concert too!
Johnny Cash took this song and made it his own. It is way better than Soundgarden’s version but with all due respect they wrote it and without them we would not be able to listen to this
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