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
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.
The conventional wisdom is that the voters need to get to know Barack better. Maybe so. But what about the other guy? How much do voters really know about John McCain? Is the real McCain just that affable, straight-talking, moderately conservative war hero?
McCain crossed the line this week when he said that Obama “would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.” It was a lousy comment, tantamount to calling Barack a traitor, and McCain should apologize for it.
And now his Rovian-style campaign has put up a terribly disingenuous ad criticizing Barack for not visiting our wounded troops in Germany, showing just how desperate McCain really is.
McCain is one of those guys who never has to pay much of a price for his missteps and foul-ups and bad behavior. Just imagine the firestorm of outrage and criticism that would have descended on Obama if he had made the kind of factual mistakes that McCain has repeatedly made in this campaign.(Or if Barack had had the temerity to even remotely suggest that John McCain would consider being disloyal to his country for political reasons?)
We have a monumental double standard here.
Read more here:
"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)
