Volume 16 , Issue 43

NW Okie's Journey

Is it real or . . . plastic? I am talking about the duck stuck in the frozen Weaselskin creek at the north end of Vallecito Reservoir? It is plastic!

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Walking With Sadie

As NW Okie loves Winter and Snow, so do I, the little black Sadie Pug. I find it energizing and reverberating with gaiety and laughter. Below is another NW Okie digital photograph that was taken with her Canon eos rebel SL1, with a 75-300 zoom lens.

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What Have We Done To/For Native Americans?

The following information is transcribed from The Indian Advocate, date 1 January 1904, page 3 thru 6, asking it's readers, "What are the Indians today? What have we done for them?"

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Indian Contract Schools, Conspiracy Unmasked

In the 1 October 1896, The Indian Advocate, page 117 thru 120, we find this mention of Indian Contract Schools and the controversy surrounding them. The true history of warfare on the Catholic Indian schools.

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1905 Emigrants For the South

According to The Seattle Republican, dated Friday, 27 January 1905, page 3, there was this mention of "Emigrants for the South." Back then there was an effort on foot to direct immigration southward. The steady stream of immigrants which had bro years been pouring into the United States had located in the larger cities, adding greatly to the slum population.

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1862 Native of American Tragedy Forgotten

On December 26, 1862 in Mankato, Minnesota. President Lincoln ordered the largest mass hanging in American History, and public Hanging of thirty-eight Sioux and Mixed Blood Indians. Their Crime . . . Uprising against the towns when they were not paid money or given rations for their land sold to the government.

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