I would like to know from
Posted By: Lurker on 2006-06-13
In Reply to: Ward Churchill. - Lila
what blog or book or article you gleaned this information. Some of it I know not to be true. Some of it I know nothing about at all. As an aside, I really really try to parse my words so as not to offend anyone personally. It is not productive, ergo.... I do not believe that I am the only American Indian who believes Churchill may very well have indigenous blood. As far as AIM goes, I would suggest you read In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Mathiesson who is a well respected educator. AIM, the FBI, the BIA, and the incidents at Pine Ridge (which was really only a small part of a much larger corruption) has probably been one of the most misunderstood episodes in recent times. Mr. Mathiesson's book was in publishing litigation hell for 8 years before being coming into print due to the fact that there were those (FBI/BIA) who did not want the curtain pulled on that time period. It diametrically opposes what was said about AIM. Also, Neither Wolf Nor Dog by Kent Nerburn and anything by Vine DeLoria, Jr. or John Trudell. The last book I read by Churchill was Kill the Indian, Save the Man. This catchy phrase was engraved in stone above the front door on the boarding school where my father was taken as a child. Breaking up families was a priority for obvious reasons and kids were literally taken from their homes and shipped off to boarding schools. I found this book to be quite accurate and in agreement with what I have been told by my father and other boarding school survivors. It is for that reason I have defended Churchill's scholarship. I believe I have said all along I believe he should apologize for his remarks and that I also don't believe he represents all American Indians any more than Ann Coulter represents all conservatives. Is he an Indian?? I don't know. Many many American Indians are not on any list anywhere. The Dawes List is quite incomplete and if you went the boarding school route you were not on it...the idea being that the Indian-ness would be beat out of you and you would be adopted by a good white Christian family who certainly did not want you identified as an Indian. This was especially true in the Northeast United States and Eastern Canada. Like you, I really don't care about a lot of things discussed on this board. I don't care if Churchill is really and Indian or not, whether he really said this or that. I don't believe he is a danger to himself or others. He is just another guy with unpopular (in some circles) opinions and a big mouth. I can tell you for an absolute fact that many American Indian men who have grown up on reservations without hope, in poverty, with broken promises and dreams have nothing left but their anger. Remember that history is always written in the words of the victor. The books I mentioned above are eye openers and they are not about the past; they are about the present. Aho.
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