ES 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lakota Woman, Crow Dog, Medicine Man
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I have been around long enough to remember when there were signs that read no. Indians nor dogs allowed. i remember people saying , a good indian is a dead indian. Wherever anthros were digging up human remains from indian sites, we were threatening to dig up white graves to display white men"s skulls & bones in glass cases. Wherever there was an indian political trial, we showed up before the courthouse with our drums. Wherever we saw a bar with a sign no indians. Allowed, we sensitized the owners, sometimes quite forcefully (79) Anthropologists digging up indian remains; belief that body has to be buried properly to pass onto the afterlife; spiritual torture. We existed entirely without money, yet we ate, we traveled, and usually found a roof over our heads (79) Cheyenne saying, a nation is not dead until the hearts of its women are on the ground (80)
