Monday, November 14, 2005
You know, I have always been leery of the term, "Indians" when describing Native Americans. Yet, even a worse term in relation to Native Americans is the phrase, "Native American Reservations". The land is reserved for the Native Americans like a table reserved for me at a restuarant because I called beforehand. It's incredible to think about the retardation that is going on in the world. Especially in America and its politics, ho-hum PC-ness of it all.
I was watching the Today show and they featured a Navajo Native American taking pictures of his land and producing a book called, "NavajoLand". And the photographs he is taking are very beautiful shots of nothingness, commonly known as the desert. While I know its bad to harp on people's cribs and all, I'm just saying that his reservation is nothing but a desert and anything associating with Native Americans (a.k.a. INDIANS) are deserts and lizards plus some buffalo and foxes. And neat little stones.
But no one really wondered about where the Native Americans were before the America came over from America : The Prelude (England). Native Americans had a bunch of nation-states all over North America.
The Pequots were around Connecticut. Oneida in New York area. Cherokee in Virginia (not the Jeep drivin' ones!). And a bunch others. And their homes are where they aren't. I mean, when are the Pequots coming out with the book "PequotLand" featuring the undisturbed landscape of Connecticut. Oh shit, never. Because the land is already disturbed! By the Puritans, no doubt. My bad, kimosabe.
So, the only place that are left to the Native Americans are the places that no "American" wants - the middle of nowhere deserts. Only good for mountain climbing, buying Navajo rugs, and suicide.
QED.
I was watching the Today show and they featured a Navajo Native American taking pictures of his land and producing a book called, "NavajoLand". And the photographs he is taking are very beautiful shots of nothingness, commonly known as the desert. While I know its bad to harp on people's cribs and all, I'm just saying that his reservation is nothing but a desert and anything associating with Native Americans (a.k.a. INDIANS) are deserts and lizards plus some buffalo and foxes. And neat little stones.
But no one really wondered about where the Native Americans were before the America came over from America : The Prelude (England). Native Americans had a bunch of nation-states all over North America.
The Pequots were around Connecticut. Oneida in New York area. Cherokee in Virginia (not the Jeep drivin' ones!). And a bunch others. And their homes are where they aren't. I mean, when are the Pequots coming out with the book "PequotLand" featuring the undisturbed landscape of Connecticut. Oh shit, never. Because the land is already disturbed! By the Puritans, no doubt. My bad, kimosabe.
So, the only place that are left to the Native Americans are the places that no "American" wants - the middle of nowhere deserts. Only good for mountain climbing, buying Navajo rugs, and suicide.
QED.
November 16, 2005 2:06 PM
Just stopping by to apoligize if you have been to Ryan's blog and commented and it didnt take. I fucked the comment system up. Sorry