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: The 1491s - Indians in the Ivy League - Humor. Video

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:46 PM EST
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The Native American students at Dartmouth and Yale have some fun.

A lot of pure Indian humor in some of the videos.

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Kavika

Indian humor, if you don't understand it laugh anyhow, it's the Indian way.

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Reply#1 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:47 PM EST
grump in NM

I liked the first one with the girl dancing and the one with the girl burning sage for her computer.

I was an Apple so one probably has to do that fairly often.

Thanks, Kavika.

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Reply#2 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:35 PM EST
Kavika

thanks for stopping by grump. The girl in the first one is from my tribe. The Red Lake Ojibwe, really proud of her.

Waanakiwin niijii

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#2.1 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:11 PM EST
grump in NM

Smart, can dance and she has a sense of humor and tradition. Can't ask for more from the young ones.

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#2.2 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:18 PM EST
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Grisham

Ha ha! Nice, Kav!

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Reply#3 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:39 PM EST
Kavika

Hi Grisham, yup I thought it was pretty cool.

waanakiwin niijii

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#3.1 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:12 PM EST
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Al-316

Pretty clever, gete niijii. The back ground music was cool, too.

Migwetch.

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Reply#4 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:57 PM EST
Kavika

Boozhoo niijii...thanks for stopping by. I always fix my comp by burning sage, and sometime burning the computer...LOL

Waanakiwin niijii

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#4.1 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:20 PM EST
Al-316

ROTFL

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#4.2 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:20 AM EST
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mstanley2265

Yeah, kids got it going on...and the deal with the laptop, way cool...question though I checked out another article while I was there, what is 'dragging skulls'. It was in the bus ride article.

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Reply#5 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:58 PM EST
Kavika

ms, it is a ceremony of the Ojibwe ''Dragging the Buffalo Skulls''...The other meanings that I'm aware of is ''staying low to the ground'' out of detection. I know that the younger generation has a lot of other meaning, but I'm not sure what they are.

Did you pick up on the one with the girl in the library with the book?

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#5.1 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:15 AM EST
mstanley2265

Yeah, doing the hand thing, take back and then when she got it the turn around thing. I'm not sure about that one, but I remember his mom doing that one time too.

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#5.2 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:34 AM EST
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Enoch-2699399

I tried sacrificing a virgin to my hard drive. Wal-Mart doesn't carry them in stock.

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Reply#6 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:16 AM EST
mstanley2265

You have to go to Hawaii, and then to a volcano...

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#6.1 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:33 AM EST
Kavika

LOL Enoch, thanks for stopping by niijii. K Mart is having a sale on them this Monday...

Stay away from the volcano's, they get really hot...

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#6.2 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:52 AM EST
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Atsidi

I get out of it that the NA's are big on sarcasm and dark humor. Happens to be my favorite kind. Good stuff.

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Reply#7 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:17 AM EST
Kavika

Thanks for stopping by Atsidi, you are correct, that and satire.

Waanakiwin

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#7.1 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:53 AM EST
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elpkidd

I really liked the one with the refrigerator, being able to find home wherever she goes is a great trait. And as a computer tech, burning sage over the laptop brought tears of laughter to my eyes. That's something I've wanted to try many times in the past.

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Reply#8 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:09 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for stopping by elpkidd. The refrigerator was a good one. The sage didn't do me any good with my computer, a hammer did a better job.

Waanakiwin

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#8.1 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:29 PM EST
G. H.

It was Sweetgrass, not Sage! So funny,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,when she lit it, my senses automatically brought up the scent! I could actually smell it! Never had that happen before! LOL :-)

Nookomis ♥

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#8.2 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:28 AM EST
Kavika

LOL Nookomis, you have a great sense of smell....LOL...

thanks for stopping by.

Waanakiwin niijii

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#8.3 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:50 AM EST
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tzia62

Loved these, they are so clever!!

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Reply#9 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:36 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for stopping by tzia..The kids really did a great job with the videos.

Waanakiwin niijii

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#9.1 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:38 PM EST
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G. H.

I liked the prayer song one too, where she received the answer she needed! :-)

Nookomis ♥

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Reply#10 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:30 AM EST
Kavika

Thanks for stopping by Nookomis, that was really good...LOL...These kids did a great job.

Waanakiwin niijii

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#10.1 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:38 AM EST
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screminmimi

I loved these, Kavika!

Was the girl with the library book a satirical take on being an "Indian giver?"

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Reply#11 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:49 AM EST
grump in NM

I didn't understand that one at all. Don't scalp me, mimi.

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#11.1 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:56 AM EST
Kavika

mimi, yup it was ''Indian giver''...LOL. They were classic Indian humor.

Thanks for visiting niijii.

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#11.2 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:41 AM EST
Kavika

grump, no worries I took mimi's tomohawk away...lol

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#11.3 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:51 AM EST
grump in NM

I have the feeling she would if would if she got the chance.

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#11.4 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:54 AM EST
Al-316

You bet she would. And she would do it really slow so you would enjoy it longer.

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#11.5 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:10 PM EST
Kavika

We are talking about scalping aren't we?....Have you two drifted off to some other meaning...LOL

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#11.6 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:42 PM EST
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