If the Shoe Fits...Wear it in Good Health...
iasooner...This One's 4 U, My Friend...
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Thanks Ma'am ! There are a lot of Sooner fans up here (those folks that appreciate watching a Great football team instead of watching the corn harvest)
Good to know, ia...I don't recall your mentioning that...Thought you might be one of the Rare Few, and sometimes, it's Lonely, at the top.
As you probably well know, OUr off-season leisure activities, here, in the cradle of Sooner Football, are watching paint dry, and watching grass grow...Your corn harvest sounds like a definite upgrade!
I stay in Texas. I'm a Sooner thanks to President Jackson's "Indian Removal Act " of 1830. I don't know whether to thank or condemn him.
My g-g-great grandparents were herded from Morgan County, Alabama to Haskell County, Oklahoma (Choctaw land) on the "Trail Where They Cried" ("Trail of Tears"). And no, I'm not Choctaw. My white Arkansas mother migrated from Sevier County, Arkansas to Haskell County, Oklahoma where she found my father.
I cannot remember the whole thing without looking it up but when I was in grade school in TUL we were taught the 'whole list' of tribes represented and it started "Choctaw, Chickasaw..."
Since my family moved to Miama I've learned there are seven major tribes headquartered there that all are in the Casino binness now and there are 'Minor tribes' that no one have much heard of (Modoc is one).
Since my family moved to Miama I've learned there are seven major tribes headquartered there that all are in the Casino binness now and there are 'Minor tribes' that no one have much heard of (Modoc is one).
That's about how far I got with it, too, ia...Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Creek were fairly easy...All 'C' Words, but the fifth, of the 5 Civilized Tribes, always eluded me...Seminoles. I had to stop and think about that one...
I was gonna type Cherokee but forgot the Creek & Noles...
I grew up with and had many good times with 'Native American' friends back then
I grew up with and had many good times with 'Native American' friends back then
Me, too...Started to school with several Cheyenne-Arapaho...They still lived in Teepees, along the Washita River. True Story!
We were all just Americans in those days...
Calgon take me away !
Calgon take me away !
I lived in Oklahoma due to Eve getting Adam kicked out of the garden.
Don't know whether to thank or condemn her.
Don't know whether to thank or condemn her.
The "tribes" are Nations. "Tribe" comes from white man. Native American is one born in the Americas. Anyone. "War Chief" comes from Hollywood.
I would never address a Comanche brother, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Blackfeet, Navajo, Kiowa, Umatilla, Lumbee, Fort Sill Apache and Apache as Native American. Not even a Crow or Flathead.
I would never address a Comanche brother, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Blackfeet, Navajo, Kiowa, Umatilla, Lumbee, Fort Sill Apache and Apache as Native American. Not even a Crow or Flathead.
iasooner, I can't answer that one. I know the Osage and Chickasaw lands are pretty big geographically. Good subject. I'll study.
My public education at Taft Elementary in Lawton taught me what I am. Years later, Genelex Labs in Seattle confirmed. Our public education system doesn't seem to teach us we're Native Oklahomans and Native Americans anymore.
My public education at Taft Elementary in Lawton taught me what I am. Years later, Genelex Labs in Seattle confirmed. Our public education system doesn't seem to teach us we're Native Oklahomans and Native Americans anymore.
My Friends were named Whiteshield, Standingwater, Lone Elk, Pewo, Big Foot, Howling Water, Old Crow, Scabby, and other more descriptive names. No one was made fun of, or was 'Bullied' about, those names. Their names were different. Their skin was a different color, but they were our Classmates. They were our Friends. Life was simpler, then...
100%-ers are actually pretty hard to come by. I know legions of Choctaw et al who's cards state less than 100% blood and many much, much less than 100%. American Indians are a vanishing breed. The US is indeed a melting pot.
War Chief is from Hollywood??? Joe Medicine Crow would have liked to discuss that with you if he were alive today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Medicine_Crow
"Medicine Crow completed all four tasks required to become a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him (counting coup), taking an enemy's weapon, leading a successful war party, and stealing an enemy's horse."
Crow died Apr. 3, 2016. "War chief" comes from Hollywood. Who knows beside Crow may have adopted such a title.
So Hollywood wrote the Constitution of the Iroquois Nation?
http://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/ssi/iroquois/simple/4.shtml
"many Native American societies of the Great Plains during the preconquest era embraced the concept of a war chief (e.g., toyopki to the Kiowas; blotahunka among the Oglala Sioux) and constructed a cultural order that reinforced a military tradition"
http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.war.052
There are holes in the presentations here but who am I to argue? White man always knows best.
I like holes, especially blueberry donut kind
Sorry; only a fraction of a whole... and/or this:
Sorry; only a fraction of a whole... and/or this:
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So someone tell me please, do you see & hear Rock & Roll only or does the link continue to another song... (did I do it correctly) ??
I was thinking the same thing! Lota guys peeing on your rug, man. They peed on your rug!
I was thinking the same thing! Lota guys peeing on your rug, man. They peed on your rug!
That's been a common occurrence as time goes by
Well, that's just not right, man. You need to send a clear message that this aggression will not stand. Senior started this post for you, and as you took note, they peed on your rug.