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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVideo of Deb Haaland being sworn in as Secretary of the Interior, in full Tribal Dress...
....and moccasins:
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malaise
(270,719 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Just love, love, love that this wonderful woman has been sworn in!
Neema
(1,151 posts)spanone
(136,237 posts)GPV
(72,423 posts)Sucha NastyWoman
(2,770 posts)3catwoman3
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mopinko
(70,715 posts)love the whole outfit.
Wounded Bear
(59,056 posts)pazzyanne
(6,562 posts)Cobalt Violet
(9,906 posts)Geechie
(874 posts)[link:https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/first-nations-ribbon-skirts/|]
Ribbon skirts are historical and traditional clothing that honour First Nations heritage and help represent causes like missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Theyre considered an expression of history, resilience and character, but arent necessarily only for ceremonies like powwows, events and funerals.
I have an every day ribbon skirt, said Ketchemonia-Cote. I wear it when I go to town, I wear it into the post office, I wear it into the hospital.
I want people to see me wearing my ribbon skirt. Im proud of my ribbon skirt.
Said to have its roots in the 18th century, the symbol of womanhood tells a story of adaptation and survival showing that tribal communities have adopted western culture and made it their own.
Geechie
(874 posts)[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/11912032|]
Why Haaland's appointment is SO important. On so many levels courtesy of my favorite living historian, Heather Cox Richardson
efhmc
(14,766 posts)of them and of culture in a very fashionable way.
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Ziggysmom
(3,461 posts)Evolve Dammit
(17,097 posts)burrowowl
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Brother Buzz
(36,569 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)...."conservatives". He was a good man and a good American. Not perfect, but who is?
Plus, he was instrumental in getting Richard Nixon to resign.
Brother Buzz
(36,569 posts)His Conservatism was rooted in that states rights thingy. He was pissed that eastern money would open mines out west, exploit and trash the land, then pull up their tent stakes and leave town in the middle of the night, leaving the states to mitigate the toxic mess.
Times are a little better these days, but not by a whole lot. Secretary of the Interior Haaland is in a position to right a bunch of the wrongs and move forward.
George II
(67,782 posts)....republican these days.
Brother Buzz
(36,569 posts)Oh wait, he's no longer a republican!
In the spring of 2007, McCloskey announced that he had changed his party affiliation to the Democratic Party. In an email and letter to the Tracy Press, McCloskey stressed that the "new brand of Republicanism" had finally led him to abandon the party that he had joined in 1948. He followed this up with an op-ed column in which he explained that "Disagreement (with party leadership) turned into disgust" and "I finally concluded that it was fraud for me to remain a member of this modern Republican Party", although it was a "decision not easily taken."
Here's his "I say a pox on them and their values" letter:
McCloskey Leaves Republican Party
The Contra Costa Times
Monday 16 April 2007
McCloskeys have been Republicans in California since 1859, the year before Lincoln's election. My great grandfather, John Henry McCloskey, orphaned in the great Irish potato famine of 1843, came to California in 1853 as a boy of 16, and joined the party just before the Civil War.
By 1890 he and my grandfather, both farmers, made up two of the twelve members of the Republican Central Committee of Merced County. My father's most memorable expletive came when I was a boy of 10 or 11: "That damn Roosevelt is trying to pack the Supreme Court!"
I registered Republican in 1948 after reaching the age of 21. We were the party of civil rights, of free choice for women and fiscal responsibility. Since Teddy Roosevelt, we had favored environmental protection, and most of all we stood for fiscal responsibility, honesty, ethics and limited government intrusion into our personal lives and choices. We accepted that one the duties of wealth was to pay a higher rate of income tax, and that the estates of the wealthy should contribute to the national treasury in reasonable measure.
I was proud to serve with Republicans like Gerry Ford, the first George Bush and Bob Dole.
In 1994, however, Newt Gingrich brought a new kind of Republicanism to power, and the election of George W. Bush in 2000 has led to wholly new concept of governance. The bureaucracy has mushroomed in size and power. The budget deficits have become astronomical. Our historical separation of church and state has been blurred. We have seen a succession of ethical scandals, congressmen taking bribes, and abuse of power by both the Republican House leadership and the highest appointees of the White House.
The single cardinal principle of political science, that power corrupts, has come to apply not only to Republican leaders like Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney and John Doolittle, but to a succession of White House officials and appointees. The stench of Jack Abramoff has permeated much of the Washington Republican establishment.
The Justice Department, guardian of of our rule of law, has been compromised. It's third ranking official, a graduate of Pat Robertson's dubious law school, has taken the 5th Amendment.
Men who have never felt the fear of combat, and who largely dodged military service in their youth, have led us into grievous wars in far off places with no thought of the diplomacy, grace and respect for other peoples and their cultures which has been an American trademark for at least the last two thirds of a century. We have lost the respect and affection of most of the world outside our borders. My son, Peter, one of the U.S. prosecutors at The Hague of the war crimes in Serbia and elsewhere, tells me that people of other countries no longer look at the country which countenances torture as a beacon for the world and the rule of law.
Earth Day, that bi-partisan concept of Gaylord Nelson in 1970, has become the focus of almost hatred by today's Republican leadership. Many still argue that global warming is a hoax, and that Bush has been right to demean and suppress the arguments of scientists at the E.P.A., Fish & Wildlife and U.S.Geological Survey.
I say a pox on them and their values.
Until the past few weeks, I had hoped that the party could right itself, returning to the values of the Eisenhowers, Fords and George H. W. Bush.
What finally turned me to despair, however, was listening to the reports, or watching on C-Span, a whole series of congressional oversight hearings on C-Span, held by old friends and colleagues like Pat Leahy, Henry Waxman, Norm Dicks, Nick Rahall, Danny Akaka and others, trying to learn the truth on the misdeeds and incompetence of the Bush Administration. Time after time I saw Republican Members of the House and Senate. speak out in scorn or derision about these exercises of Congress oversight responsibility being "witch-hunts" or partisan attempts to distort the actions of people like the head of the General Service Administration and the top political appointees in the Justice and Interior Departments. Disagreement turned into disgust.
I finally concluded that it was a fraud for me to remain a member of this modern Republican Party, that there were only a few like Chuck Hegel, Jack Warner, Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins I could respect.
Two of the best, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, and Jim Leach of Iowa, after years of battling for balance and sanity, were defeated last November, and it seems that every Republican presidential candidate is now vying for the support of the Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells rather than talking about a return to the values of the party I joined nearly 59 years ago. My favorite spokesmen have become Senators Jim Webb and Barack Obama.
And so it was, that while at the Woodland courthouse the other day, passing by the registrar's office, I filled out the form to re-register as a Democrat.
The issues Helen (McCloskey) and I care about most, public financing of elections, a reliable paper ballot trail, independent re-districting to replace gerrymandering, the right of a woman to choose not to bring a child into the world, a reversal of the old Proposition 13 and term limits which have so hurt California's once superb education system and the competence of our Legislature, are now almost universally opposed by California's elected Republicans, and the occasional attempts at reform by our Governor are looked on with grim disdain by most of them.
From Helen's and my standpoint, being farmers in Yolo County gives us the opportunity to work for purposes which were once Republican, but can no longer be found at Republican conventions and discussions.
I hope this answers your questions about the party and a government I have served in either civil or military service under ten presidents, five Republican and five Democrat ... I doubt it will be of much interest other than to our friends, but it has been a decision not easily taken.
Respectfully, Pete McCloskey
Fla Dem
(24,290 posts)onetexan
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flying_wahini
(6,867 posts)gademocrat7
(10,743 posts)Beautiful!
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(42,083 posts)MissB
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FelineOverlord
(3,641 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)mcar
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wnylib
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titanicdave
(429 posts)....she is,.... without a doubt,.... the TRUEST...AMERICAN...IN...OFFICE !!!!......"History"... is indeed... "made yet again"......
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BobTheSubgenius
(11,614 posts)Imagine the reaction if you even suggested this might one day happen 200 years ago. 100. 50.
RainCaster
(11,044 posts)I wish her all the best as she takes over this important role for our nation.
NBachers
(17,328 posts)LittleGirl
(8,299 posts)So happy its a native WOMAN!
March 18, 2021!
titanicdave
(429 posts)....she is,.... without a doubt,.... the TRUEST...AMERICAN...IN...OFFICE !!!!......"History"... is indeed... "made yet again"......
brer cat
(24,819 posts)I have no doubt that she is going to be a consequential Secretary.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Thank you President Biden for finally giving dignity & voice to Deb Haaland & her grand proud heritage.
Bravo !
Jay25
(417 posts)With so many evil, selfish, hateful asshats in positions of power. Im very happy Native Americans have someone personally aware of their plight in a position, of power to help make a difference.
DFW
(54,908 posts)Instead of like a European.
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Mickju
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Raine
(30,565 posts)trof
(54,268 posts)some of us...
most of us?
Stinky The Clown
(67,926 posts)This has been more than 600 hundred years in the making.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,774 posts)Wild blueberry
(6,766 posts)Thank you!
RainCaster
(11,044 posts)I may have said something before, not sure. This pumps me up, so I'm here, possibly again.
ailsagirl
(22,998 posts)sheshe2
(84,513 posts)Beautiful.
Roc2020
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IbogaProject
(2,944 posts)My eyes are wet w happiness. It just feels so good to have that department run by a native American. That she is smart and extremely competent is icing on an awesome cake.