Myspace or yours?

Myspace seems like an ongoing cyber party. But could it be used for scientific purposes? Maybe we (people of indigenous descent) can use myspace to communicate to the rest of the world what the Un.States of Ame. has done to our world. We can talk and add pictures about our everyday lives, until the FBI shuts us down. Upload pictures of your rez and tell about everyone and anyone interested about tribal issues, problems, and battles. Will that work???

Climate Changes

The earth is hot, the earth is cold. When it comes to global warming theories, I am sold. Fossil fuels and consumerism isn’t the problem we’re constantly told. Well, I think it is! I must add in bold. I guess time will reveal the truth as our fate begins to unfold. We must face it, young and old. Maybe we weren’t meant to live this way. What’s with the obsession with gold, crude oil, and nik-naks. Our existance on the earth is similar to mold on the surface of bread. TOXIC. If people chose not to live within the confinements of modern American law, you find yourself in the can. And your life put on hold. People who live off the land are known as homeless. Science has become mad science when money is involved. When will a line be drawn? Should we A) Be a functional part of our local ecosystem, or B) Destroy it and sell it piece by piece??

Never Too Late

I don’t know the name of the type of technology involved but I have seen a lecture of a satillite’s ability to take a picture of a specific place on the earth and with the help of other tools, determine what is under the ground there. If it is true, this kind of technology is great for good and bad things. It can be used to locate raw resources such as metals and minerals, but it can also be used to locate unmarked burial sites. Most unmarked burial sites are of an indigenous nature. This kind of technological ability to locate burials can be valuable or devastating depending on who is using the tools. In one hand, knowing where the burials are located indigenous nations are able to declare territories of origin. On the other hand, people who practice the desecretion of indigenous burial grounds could have a “field day.” Indian Burial Rights vs. treasure hunters and grave robbers. what’s up widat??

Something About the Wetlands

The Haskell/Baker Wetlands or more commonly known, “Baker Wetlands,” has a multitude of important uses. Some of the easier recognizable functions of the wetlands can be described as a home to a diversified ecosystem and outdoor observations laboratory. To get into the complixities of that environment between 31st Street and the Wakarusa R., one could describe it as a sacred place of unmarked burials of the many children who were murdered and dumped. For many students who have been able to acquire information about the life of previous students, the wetlands becomes more than just an ecological sink of the Wakarusa Territory. It is a place reminding us of the people who struggled for life in a world of confusion and terror. On Haskell campus many stories are commonly told from veteran students to new arrivals of what happened here to distant relatives. Although every generation of freshman is a little more absorbed into the American Culture of Cities and its streets, we still practice an oral tradition. Only on campus will you hear true stories about the way this country has handled “the Indian problem.” Some stories include ‘a thousand missing Haskell students to this date. A lot of which are probably resting in the confines of those Baker Wetlands,’ and ‘the practice of Eugenics on Indigenous people which is a fancy word for genocide,’ or ’stories of the old Haskell jail, which used to be located behind Sequoyah Hall,’ and what about a story of Haskell being one of the only, if not the only, University with a cemetery of students who died at school.’ There is also the story of unrested souls activily scaring students at the dorms on campus. The wetlands is more than a home to diversified species risking their lives to dwell near 31st Street. It is a part of Haskell University and the Indigenous people whose remains are left unmarked and for now undisturbed.