Hidden America, Children of the Plains with Diane Sawyer.

Robin Roberts sits down with Diane Sawyer to talk about "Hidden America, Children of the Plains."

http://abcnews.go.com/2020

Thank you Diane for teaching our actors and anyone else in this country as to a place to start when wanting to help the poor people of the world.

Very little unsets me more than hearing about some actor or singer going to another country to do good, most of them have a camera crew tagging along with them.

While being pleased to see our television station going out to a real poverty stricken country ( Pine Ridge Reservation) one could not help notice an air of an (unknown looking down at the people).

I believe that, Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer both have native blood, one could easily tell that they do not as yet know this.

While helping, always remember the old proverb " Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a life time!"

Remember also that Pine Ridge is one of many recognized and non-recognized reservations in America and most of them could use our help.

Indigenous people of this country only need help with getting the tool to get out of poverty.

http://www.sachem-uncas.com/energy.html

If you think that I'm tuff, go to the real thing at.

http://tahtonka.com/issues.html

Indigenous people are also voters!

Alaskan Natives Speak Out After Obama Greenlights Oil Drilling Off Alaskan Coast.

http://www.alternet.org/water/152674

Mr. President, " Is this just another form of ( Smallpox Blanket)?

One cannot push this country down the road of relief from fossil fuel dependency while speaking in one part of this country and then push our indigenous people into elimination just to please big business in other parts of this country and expect respect from the people.

Colleen Swan a resident of Kivalina, Alaska, a largely Inupiat community shared some of her thoughts on the oil leases.

"They have not begun to even comprehend the meaning of an oil spill in our already fragile environment."

"The oil companies and the government who issues such permits will continue with business as usual and the oil companies will recover. They have reserves to fall back on. We don’t. Once we lose our livelihood, our subsistence way of life, it’s gone for a long, long time. The ocean will not recover as quickly as the oil companies and neither will the coastal communities."

Tell me a story?

Native American record keeping.

Many native tribes had many way of communicating and teaching their past.

This blog only writes about what is known about the Eastern Woodland American Natives, my people.

My people, the Pequot/Mohegan people used sign language, storytelling and pictures to help keep their ancestors alive in the minds and hearts of the people.

The use of signing was a challenge in the form of a living movie because each person would stand and teach a story taught to him or her of long ago, the children needed to pay close attention because they would be asked to take their turns.

A shame is that this art form is slowly being lost with this generation.

The elders would speak of times, standing between the fire and a wall, signing a story so that their shadow would reflect onto the wall as an attention getter of the very young, the idea was to make the story fun, interesting and at times ever scary.

Speaking, or storytelling, was also a good way of keeping the young minds remindful of their past and the ancestors, this was the way that I was taught by my grandfather and my elders.

Our women spent many hours making different size baskets for carrying food, wash, regalia making tools and even baby's around while working.

Each women would make picture stories on their baskets for ways of teaching the young while planting, washing, picking and cooking the food.

Mother Earth Power?

At last? A step or two forward for transmission line permitting.

http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Delivery_Transmission/At-last-A-step-or-two-forward-for-transmission-line-permitting-4058.html

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News and Events Grid Modernization Pilot Projects to Integrate Renewable Energy.

As a person that has been talking Alternative energy on the land of the electric transmission lines one must say, " It is about time!"

The land cannot be used for anything else except transmission of electricity, until now, as stated for many years on my alternative energy pages

http://www.sachem-uncas.com/energy.html

The land under the power lines should be completely covered with solar panels, the land along side of the power lines can be used for wind generators.

Another Columbus day has passed, oh well!

The top 5 misconceptions about Christopher Columbus.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44846249/ns/technology_and_science-science/

1. Columbus set out to prove the world was round.

If he did, he was about 2,000 years too late.

2. Columbus discovered America.

Fact, millions of humans already inhabited this land now called the Americas, having discovered it millennia before.

Also he claimed until his death, to have landed in Asia, even though most navigators knew he didn't.

3. Columbus introduced syphilis to Europe.

Good job Christopher!

4. Columbus died unknown in poverty.

Columbus way arrested years prior for tyranny and brutality toward native peoples of the Americas.

He died in severe pain.

So did Alexander the Great.

So did Adolf Hitler.

So did most of the brutally forceful conquers of the past.

5. Columbus did nothing significant.

While Columbus was wrong about most things, he was responsible for the subsequent genocide of native cultures and the rise of modernism, exploitation and annihilation of native cultures, and so on.

However, by far the best thing was helping big business get into our pockets on Columbus Day, time to buy appliances on sale and other things that have nothing to do with Christopher Columbus.

So much of what we say about Columbus is either wholly untrue or greatly exaggerated.