As a 73 year old woman, I find my "empathetic kinship" with all women, people of any other "non-white," racial or genetic heritage and, or "non-male" gender or sexual orientation. NONE of "us" asked to be born into body's and lives that would be considered "less than" by WHITE MALES.. And for too many years, our civilization has been less functional, and less successful . because we all were never given the opportunity to participate fully. Here we are 2024,,, still struggling.
This is a great introduction to Native American history which has often been ignored or downplayed in schools. When I was teaching American history and beginning a unit on Native Americans, a student quipped "heh heh, I thought 'we' killed them all." The student next to him responded, "No, I'm one." Some excellent new resources have become available in the last few years. I am adding this post to the list. https://jimbuie.substack.com/p/native-americans-struggled-for-us
This is not discussed in our schools & we should all be appalled that it took so long to allow those who owned the land which was stolen from them to be able to exercise their right to vote & their right to live a life with access to all that is granted to the rest of us!
It reminds me of the Movie Blazing Saddles at the end when they comment about allowing 'all the people' " Except the Irish...!" And then when called out on it... Then they relinquished and said all so the Irish... Seems either the idea was to exempt some groups or they overlooked it...! Yet she pointed out the Navajo code talkers, participating in WWII, and all so ( not stated ) yer the Cherokee ( Braves ) who joined and served in the U.S. American Military. They Served in WWII, Korea, and in Vietnam.
Depending on source, there are still approx. 150-175 Native American languages used today (as of 2023). I suggest you could get ahold of that notice, have it translated into Cherokee and/or any other native languages, and send that in to the distributing democratic office, with a request to distribute/update the notice to include the additional language(s) translation(s). Since they probably tried to choose either or both the most common by region or other similar criteria, along with limited resources and space. It's just a thought.
As a 73 year old woman, I find my "empathetic kinship" with all women, people of any other "non-white," racial or genetic heritage and, or "non-male" gender or sexual orientation. NONE of "us" asked to be born into body's and lives that would be considered "less than" by WHITE MALES.. And for too many years, our civilization has been less functional, and less successful . because we all were never given the opportunity to participate fully. Here we are 2024,,, still struggling.
This is a great introduction to Native American history which has often been ignored or downplayed in schools. When I was teaching American history and beginning a unit on Native Americans, a student quipped "heh heh, I thought 'we' killed them all." The student next to him responded, "No, I'm one." Some excellent new resources have become available in the last few years. I am adding this post to the list. https://jimbuie.substack.com/p/native-americans-struggled-for-us
This is not discussed in our schools & we should all be appalled that it took so long to allow those who owned the land which was stolen from them to be able to exercise their right to vote & their right to live a life with access to all that is granted to the rest of us!
In your last statement listing the native languages, why not Cherokee?
It reminds me of the Movie Blazing Saddles at the end when they comment about allowing 'all the people' " Except the Irish...!" And then when called out on it... Then they relinquished and said all so the Irish... Seems either the idea was to exempt some groups or they overlooked it...! Yet she pointed out the Navajo code talkers, participating in WWII, and all so ( not stated ) yer the Cherokee ( Braves ) who joined and served in the U.S. American Military. They Served in WWII, Korea, and in Vietnam.
Depending on source, there are still approx. 150-175 Native American languages used today (as of 2023). I suggest you could get ahold of that notice, have it translated into Cherokee and/or any other native languages, and send that in to the distributing democratic office, with a request to distribute/update the notice to include the additional language(s) translation(s). Since they probably tried to choose either or both the most common by region or other similar criteria, along with limited resources and space. It's just a thought.