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An opinion piece on the recent Tucson book banning, or what ever you want to call it.
Banning books by Native American authors is at best very poor judgement. Sherman Alexie, Winona La Duke, Scott Momaday and others is sad.
''Rethinking Coilumbus'' has been part of the curriculum for 20 years.
Why do you think that they banned it? Could it be that it showed a different light on the ''Conquest of the Americans''?
Exactly what are they trying to prove by removing (banning) books by Native American authores?
#1 - Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:23 PM ESTI can believe it, tzia. It's scary, and it's getting worse with every news report that I read or hear.
Yup, it's true tzia. Really a sad chapter in our history.
Another challenge of survival for the natives.
Is there web access to these books? Any free viewing publications for us po folk?
In other words, any way we can keep the literature and knowledge in circulation for all to see and impossible for the few of hatred to hide.
Just wondering. A-ho!!!
SA, I don' know if there is web access but public libraries carry them.
screaminmimi, it does seem to be getting worse. I've read all the books by NA authors and have yet to find anything that should not be taught in school.
#2 - Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:49 PM ESTI think what is getting lost in all this is that what is being discussed is history. We cannot learn from history if it is politically incised. Let's just give both sides of the story, analyze it, learn from it, and make a better future.
#3 - Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:21 PM ESTsky dog, yes we better learn from history, if not you know the old saying.
Thanks for visiting.
Those that do not learn the lessons of the past or ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
When you walk into the museum at Dachau, J. Santayana's quote is the first thing you see.
This is just another step in the conversion of America into a Fascistform of government. All one has to do is to look back in history when the brown shirts in Germany did when the Nazis burn books this is just a up dated version of this despicable action.
#4 - Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:22 PM ESTIronic that they would ban books by Native American authors. Must be afraid that true history will be available to schools kids.
thanks for visiting Ed.
Just think in a generation or two, all our kids will be saying "What native Americans? We got here first!"
*shakes head*
Actually daMamma the NA's population is increasing dispite what was done to eliminate us. Hopefully it will keep increasing. I have two children, four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren...I'm trying to keep us from disappearing.
Thanks for visiting. Waanakiwin (peace)
when i heard about Tucson banning ethnic studies in school I was infuriated. Why? I mean COME ON what is more American than Native American history, and culture??? Banning these ethnic studies, and closing off children from the truths, and the history that surrounds them is downright wrong, and disturbing. I really hope this move gets the heck sued out of it, tho I thought the courts had already ruled against this book, and study ban, when it surfaced in 2010? Maybe that was Phoenix.
That part aside I do think the truth of columbus needs to be shown, and taught. For one thing, he was a gruesome murderer, and enslaver, which led to the extinction of a entire group of Natives(I forgot the name of the civilization). Second columbus was not the first european to found North America, Leifr Eiríksson landed in the area of Newfoundland 500 years before columbus. Why are we still celebrating a genocidal tyrant?
#5 - Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:14 AM ESTColumbus and Native American Studies are just collateral damage, the intended target was Mexican American and Latino Studies. Can't have classes that inform people about their own cultural heritage if they are a people to be vilified as being the product of Illegal Immigration. Nope this is just an over broad because they really only had anti-Latino programs in mind, but new that if they singled out one race or religion it would easily be overturned in the courts.
the intended target was Mexican American and Latino Studies. Can't have classes that inform people about their own cultural heritage if they are a people to be vilified as being the product of Illegal Immigration. Nope this is just an over broad because they really only had anti-Latino programs in mind,
^^^ How strange. But it makes sense, in the long run. Classes and programs cut or abolished, so the next generations (particularly the young) loose the initiative in heritage pride or preservations. The people being treated like nothing leads to them feeling like nothing, so the will to aspire declines except for a blind hope of living, by way of church(control) or "traffic"(chaos). Either way, the latinos look bad and the accusation of illegal immagration is proven correct.
All without an expense war. Figuratively speaking, but you know what I mean. This would make it easier to keep the Natives down also, wether it's meant to or not. I think it is, but that's just me talking.
Intrestingly enough though. I hope there's a way to beat this.
ngp, the true history of Columbus is really not something that the history books show. As you stated he was a murderer and enslaved thousands of NA's.. Reading the papal bulls from the Vatican regarding NA's is disgusting.
Thanks for stopping by.
Relaint, thanks for stopping by. I feel that they did have NA's in mind, simply for the reason that you stated. Only one would be overturned in the court, this way by naming both they killed two birds with one stone. No matter what their intention it is disgusting.
SA thanks for visiting. They have tried for hundreds of years to ''assimilate'' (read kill us off)us one way or the other. This is just another try at it.
Waanakiwin (peace)
Sadly, this story has tentacles that reach farther than just the Native Americans.
The dodo @!$%# crazy TParty want to undo and redo, rewrite history of all the diverse minorities that are an integral part of our nation.
They want the history of our nation to be nothing but a rose-colored picture of happy thoughts instead of the the agony and anguish that our nation did go through, had to go through to become a nation for all. They want to obliviate all mention of any anything that is not white, male, fundamentalist evangelical and wealthy.
Our nation was founded by Santa Claus when he and his reindeer flew into the land of the little elves. He made friends with Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan and everybody lived happily ever after painting smiley faces on balloons. The End.
Isn't that what really happened?
Pathetic isn't it?
#6 - Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:03 AM ESTEmmadadog, that is true, but in many instances the history that is taught now is a whitewashed version. Little is mentioned of NA's and their cointributions.
Waanakiwin (peace)
This plays quite well with Texas taking Jefferson out of history books, and Tennessee removing any reference to slavery in their history books.
Yup, rose colored glasses of a lovely history. Just what we don't need.
Yup, keep whitewashing history and soon the history taught will be total fiction. Not that it isn't pretty much that now.
Pretty sad to hear about. The explanation is pretty lame, any idea about any groups or Tuscon residents fighting this having any success?
#8 - Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:37 PM ESTI just read an article where some of the teachers are fighting it. In 24 hours they received over 10,000 people on board with them.
Other then that I haven't heard anything else.
Thanks for visiting niijii
#9 - Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:07 PM ESTThat sounds good, I'd like to keep my eye on this.
2 - 4 - 8 - I like those numbers and still an eye too. Must be the good living and wild rice. :o)
Very disturbing. We seem to be engaged in a battle between indoctrination and education around the country these days. If the sane among us prevail, education will triumph in the end, I think. I hope...
#10 - Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:49 PM ESTThanks for stopping by HollyK. I'm with you on this. Let's hope that education wins in the end.
Waanakiwin niijii
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