I found the following article this morning

...and my few drops of Choctaw and Cherokee demand that I post this link, especially in light of all the other insanity over the last few days.

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Native Americans Criticize Bush's Silence

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Grandma Josey and me, 1958


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I know nothing of Native American ways for any connection with that world was severed when my great-grandmother passed away, and it simply wasn't discussed back then in The Deep South.

All I remember about Grandma Josey is that she smoked a pipe like a man.

My mother and grandmother thought it was gauche...

and that was the end of that.


Pretty much sums up a lot of things, doesn't it?