Table of Contents
I. Youth in Seneca Indian Country, Geneva (Kanadesaga), Finger Lakes Region of New York
**What My Grandfather’s 1906 U.S. American History Textbook Said About The Indians
**The White Male, Formally Educated Scholars Who Taught Us Our History
**What My 1953-54 Seventh Grade New York History Textbook Said About the Iroquois Indians
II. The Long [...]
There is a deeply uncomfortable but clearly structural explanation for the pattern of historic U.S. war-making that continues to this very moment. US Americans, people like you and me, are addicted to insatiable consumption that makes the American Way Of Life totally dependent upon massive exploitation of others and their resources, and the earth herself.
The [...]
Monday, June 17, 1991
Learning of Aristide’s 1990 election and US efforts via Jimmy Carter to defeat him
Before lunch, we met with Father Antoine Adrien, a former priest in Brooklyn, New York, a current priest in Haiti, and currently a member of the Committee to Honor and Respect the Constitution and a close personal associate [...]
The great Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull resisted forced settlement on reservations in the 1870s. In 1877, after he defeated General Custer at Little Bighorn, he decided to migrate to Canada. He had mixed feelings about such migration as he pronounced the following words:
“Behold my brothers, the Spring has come; the earth has received the [...]
Growing up in the U.S. American culture seriously conditions us into its key features of individualism, acquisitiveness, and competitiveness. For how much longer we will be able to survive in our politics of selfishness and plunder one can only wonder?
A new book by social epidemiologist, Richard Wilkinson, The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick [...]
