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Our first line of defense
Men of ethics and strength look at a problem and they see the fix and work tirelessly to achieve it. Sometimes it takes decades to change the system, but once the change is in place, once the mechanism exists to directly address the problem, the work of the strong and ethical is…
How did discourse ever get this intractably polarized?
One of the curious things about an activist is the demand leveled almost immediately if you should disagree with their assertions, however hyperbolic and reality hostile these assertions. You realize such a mind is not opened to reasoned correction so you have learned the hard…
An encroachment on the right to vote
There is little significant debate over elections, executive power, and absolutely no debate about Project 2025 and its election goals. What we do hear is the Save Act and other election changes are about returning “balance:” the presidency against the bureaucracy, election…
Make things that express the source of your Indian pain
Hello Relatives. There is plenty to write about concerning the state of Northern Plains Indian art. So if you are a young Indian artist what are you moved to do with your dream? You have been filled with the spirit of creating things, a gift from the universe. So what do you do…
Red Feather Comix
(Red Feather Comix is a weekly strip focusing on a young married couple, Mary and John) Last week we saw John protesting Mary’s chain smoking. I talked about how I sketched out Mary and John and then had my AI buddy, Kola, do the drawing. I do not have the time or the energy…
STM looks like they are in top form
HOT SPRINGS—Even at 0-2, the Hot Springs Bison are a solid football team, and even more so at home at Woodward Field. Unfortunately, their opponent last Friday evening were the St Thomas More Cavaliers, down from Rapid City, and the defending state champions. STM has lost some…
The way it was
N. Scott Momaday was perhaps the most gifted Native writer of all time, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn in 1968. A member of the Kiowa Nation, Momaday’s plots were often narrow or thin, but his wordsmith ability was lyrical and unmatched in its capacity to…
NSN gearing up for Black Hills Pow Wow
Residents of the Black Hills are thrilled to have those 100 degree temperatures gone for the year. Now temperatures are in a comfortable mid-seventies range. Surprisingly, we have had ample rain this summer to combat the extreme temperatures and little to no snow over last…
Grouchy and gratuities
One time Grouchy and his brother and some other Indian guys helped a rich French artist down in Arizona move their art collection, and all the helpers got fifty bucks for helping. But when the French guy was alone with Grouchy and his brother he gave us another $50 gratuity. That…