Please dont say its so. Obama ok'd Off Shore Oil Drilling.?
Democrats stand for the issues important to American Indians. Tribal governments know what it means to meet the unmet needs of their citizens with unmet resources -- providing care and services to those less fortunate.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/109102/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-40.aspx
I originally was asked to sit in on a discussion for Native Americans and GOTV issues (Get Out the Vote) issues on a non-partisan objective view. Wes Boyd, a fellow ex-dot commer, came to Incline Village. My Tribal Chairman had me attend as he had other diplomatic scenarios to attend to at the Tribe. Wes was one of the speakers and was willing to present and table a community discussion about Barack Obama. MoveOn.org does a great campaign and has a wonderful website to release information about issues. And I was glad to give him a pamphlet copy of "Native Issues facing Indian County".
Anyone else from El Dorado County, Sacramento, Amador, or Placer County going to any of the Obama gatherings?
If so, Love to get together some of us from ndn groups with you.
It is both one and the same.. as many of the tribes are misspelled and mispronounced. Such as Navajo is really a name given by federal popularity (commonly in ndn country we say Din'e - and some would spell Dine).. but we know what it means. So no one is too bent out of shape for calling ndns "First Americans".. honestly I dont know a Tribal elder anywhere who calls themselves "First Americans" .
But we get the gesture from the campaign.
"Obama was adopted as an honorary member into the family within the Crow tribe that inhabited the reservation - who gave the presidential candidate a new name and new parents."
"Awe Kooda bilaxpak Kuuxshish" was the honorary name given to Obama meaning, "one who helps people throughout the land."
My first gathering of Barack Obama and his rising was at a point in 2004. In a meeting back in the indigenous lands of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada & California. At Incline Village. A visioning meeing. Where they asked then Chairman Brian Wallace to attend a political gatheirng of folks. I was sent in his stead. (since then I have moved from the Washoe Tribal Administration and moved to my families tribe, the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Rancheria. Now I currently have moved off-rez and live in El Dorado Hills, California)
Seeing about posting some graphics and other peripheral thoughts on Native Americans this blog. I created this graphic in under 5 minutes, so have fun with it and suggest more from me.
