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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFirst Lady Jill Biden gifted a blanket by the Navajo Nation.
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Lakota Man
@LakotaMan1
First Lady Jill Biden gifted a blanket by the Navajo Nation. The highest honor an Indigenous community can ever bestowto a non-Native ally
bahboo
(16,307 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)to $5,000 and older blankets have sold for up to one million!
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=value+of+a+navajo+blanket&ia=web
Skittles
(153,104 posts)and those blankets are SUPER WARM
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Quite an honor.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)The Navajoes have been noted weavers since forever. They really put their heart and their culture into them.
Quite the honor.
Tanuki
(14,914 posts)..."Dottie Lizer, wife of Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer, listed a range of issues she and Nez have been working on, including education and financial literacy, and efforts to protect Navajo children and families, cultural teachings and the tribe's language.
It is an honor to support and work with a spiritual woman leader who shares the values of harmony, faith and compassion with each of us, said Dottie Lizer.
President Jonathan Nez later noted that the Navajo word for compassion, joobaii sounds a lot like Joe Biden....(more)
wryter2000
(46,023 posts)Look at that gorgeous blanket
LakeArenal
(28,798 posts)Or can she take it home?
Edit: Seems more like fine art than blanket.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Or into their museum later?
mopinko
(69,982 posts)otherwise, it stay w the rest of the gifts.
LakeArenal
(28,798 posts)sheshe2
(83,633 posts)They obviously respect her and her husband.
That was not given lightly.
niyad
(113,021 posts)canetoad
(17,135 posts)K&R
NBachers
(17,080 posts)and it's colored perfectly for her.
MontanaMama
(23,294 posts)Im curious how the gift giving, emoluments laws apply to this. I want her to have and enjoy this beaut gift!
mopinko
(69,982 posts)but she can keep it if she pays the treasury the fair market value. pretty sure.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Bayard
(21,999 posts)Very traditional, but not hand-woven. Expensive, and warm wool.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Link to tweet
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Ricky Davila
@TheRickyDavila
The Navajo Nation gifted First Lady Dr. Jill Biden w/ a special tribal hand crafted Pendleton blanket today, the highest of honors from Indigenous communities to non-native allies. She was visiting Window Rock. Our First Lady yall. 💙🇺🇸
Maxtrust
(8 posts)reminds me of something that happened a many years ago
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,418 posts)Native American leaders ask Trump to apologize for 'shameful' Wounded Knee remarks
President Donald Trump made the remarks while criticizing Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
ByRoey Hadar
January 14, 2019, 5:56 PM
5 min read
Native American leaders are calling on President Donald Trump to apologize for comments he made on Twitter invoking the Wounded Knee Massacre and the Battle of Little Bighorn that he made while attacking Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday.
Trump made fun of an Instagram video Warren released on New Year's Eve in which she drank a beer on camera. He tweeted, If Elizabeth Warren, often referred to by me as Pocahontas, did this commercial from Bighorn or Wounded Knee instead of her kitchen, with her husband dressed in full Indian garb, it would have been a smash!
The National Congress of American Indians condemned the remarks, saying the memory of the two events, in which hundreds of Native Americans were killed by U.S. Army soldiers, should not be used as a rhetorical punch line.
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the casual and callous use of these events as part of a political attack. Hundreds of Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people lost their lives at the hands of the invading U.S. Army during these events, and their memories should not be desecrated as a rhetorical punch line, Jefferson Keel, the NCAIs president, said in a statement released Monday.
More:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/native-american-leaders-trump-apologize-shameful-wounded-knee/story?id=60374772
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You undoubtedly noted he chose the spot right under the portrait of Andrew Jackson as the place for his official photos to commemorate the meeting with the Native American veterans, so crudely arranged.
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The Trail of Tears The Indian Removals
Not everyone was included in the new Jacksonian Democracy. There was no initiative from Jacksonian Democrats to include women in political life or to combat slavery. But, it was the NATIVE AMERICAN who suffered most from Andrew Jackson's vision of America. Jackson, both as a military leader and as President, pursued a policy of removing INDIAN TRIBES from their ANCESTRAL LANDS. This relocation would make room for SETTLERS and often for SPECULATORS who made large profits from the purchase and sale of land.
According to legend, a Cherokee rose, the state flower of Georgia, grew in every spot a tear fell on the Trail of Tears. Today the flowers grow along many of the trails that the Native Americans took West.
Indian policy caused the President little political trouble because his primary supporters were from the southern and western states and generally favored a plan to remove all the Indian tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River. While Jackson and other politicians put a very positive and favorable spin on Indian removal in their speeches, the removals were in fact often brutal. There was little the Indians could do to defend themselves. In 1832, a group of about a thousand SAC AND FOX INDIANS led by CHIEF BLACK HAWK returned to Illinois, but militia members easily drove them back across the Mississippi. The Seminole resistance in Florida was more formidable, resulting in a war that began under CHIEF OSCEOLA and lasted into the 1840s.
More:
https://www.ushistory.org/us/24f.asp
Kid Berwyn
(14,789 posts)The lowest of the low.
How American Racism Influenced Hitler
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler
Judi Lynn
(160,418 posts)Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Or she will give it to another museum.
That is what is supposed to be done with gifts of this significance.
Not like a trump. who would have tried to keep it or sell it.