Bad Eagle

On this interesting thread, I must ask, has anyone seen Zell Miller's new book, A National Party No More? Miller is an old Democrat from the deep South, a conservative Democrat Senator from Georgia. He believes that the Democratic party is severely splintered, and cannot accomplish what it needs to. He says the South represents a third of the Democratic party, and it is the fastest growing segment, but all of the Democratic candidates do poorly there, and presently are not even campaigning there. I mention this only because of the interesting discussion on the Democratic Party, and the fact that there are indeed conservatives within it. I for one have seen the national Indian nick-name issue as one created and foster by the liberal side, but that might not mean a conservative couldn't come along and think Indian sports names are inappropriate. Political labels are becoming blurred these days. That's really part of the liberal plan, however. Here's an article on the subject of the "melt-down" of political terminology.

Did anyone happen to catch it? Native America Calling (national Indian radio network) had UND's Eric Enno on as a guest, last Friday, September 5. It was a bit of a rush program, but I myself (David Yeagley), along with Doug George were guests. Obviously, the program was on Indian mascots, logos, monikers, etc., Elsie Meeks was one of the callers. Other than her, the call-ins were all white women. Now what does that tell you about this issue? It tells me it is a feminist issue. The fact that white female homosexuals are leaders in the anti-Indian warrior image movement should also indicate a lot to anyone paying attention. Jackie Goldberg, the California legislator who tried to make it illegal for any public institution in the state to use Indian names, is a career homosexual (last twenty years, anyway). She talked about her personal life on NPR a couple of weeks ago. I, as an Indian man, will simply not be told how to be an Indian, or a man, by white female homosexuals. Sorry. This is pushing equality beyond the meaning of the word. This is frustrated tyranny, hate, and prejudice on the part of these white females. One of the white women, however, thought Indians should simply charge a fee for the use of Indian images. She went into some detail. I've entertained such an idea, but, it would be terribly complex to implement, and then the image wouldn't be worth anything, psychologically. Maybe I'm wrong.

Thanks for the tips. I posted on Vastlane, trying to correct some basic errors. This Right Wing/Left Wing thing isn't really balanced at all. The Right Wing, the Republicans, the Conservatives, are not behind Indians at all. People are so incredibly wrong when they accuse me of being a Right Wing puppet. I'm living in my elderly Comanche mother's home, looking after her, her property, etc. It is exhausting. Where are my millions? Where are all my best sellers? What a groundless accusation, based on political prejudice alone. Star2city: I can't get into the site, so I haven't read the article you wanted me too. I know there is a Sioux woman in South Dakota who tried to work with many farmers to help them keep their land from being used for a multi-million dollar dam project. Same issues. Politicians, especially on the local and state level, are always construction driven. This is civilizations most basic enterprise, construction. Most expensive, most permanent, most powerful. It effects everyone. Highways, buildings, etc. Politicians give contracts to supporters. Simple as that. Companies want projects! Politicians want power and position. It's an exchange. We the people, Indian or white, live with this, with no recourse but our single vote at the polls. Also, I haven't visited ND because I can't just "visit." It takes a plane ticket. I have been in South Dakota, however. I speak for Young America's Foundation, which arranges engagements through campus student organizations. That's the only way I can travel anywhere. I am paid very little, in comparison to others. No, I say what I say, because I believe in what I'm saying. I do not have a successful career, as such. Were I a Left Wing anti-American, I really would be a millionaire, like those old AIMsters. But I think they have misled Indians. I'm trying to create a new path. That's all. There are lots of Indians like me, all over the country. Erik Enno is a shining example of self-respecting values, right there in UND. He's not in journalism, like me, otherwise, everyone would know about him, for sure. He has a tremendous message. My message is broader than just monikers and logos. I speak on weapons possession also, and on other topics. I maintain, however, that I am not a "professional" in the sense of the AIMsters, or white protesters. No one is behind me. I tell you, it would be a lot easier if there were. No school is behind me, no political party, and no newspaper. I publish what I can, when I can. Most of the time, on the internet, one is not paid.

It might be interesting to compare the GRH article with the original I posted on BadEagle.com: http://www.badeagle.com/cgi-bin/ib3/cgi-bi...t=ST;f=15;t=453 You can see that GFH edited out all the direct references to people of UND and the "roving Arikara" who writes for the GFH and supports the anti-logo. A likely story, but at least they printed something about Indians with a positive attitude. That's what we need.

While there's something to said for maturity in getting along with other people, try being a conservative activist on any college campus, and see how long you last! I've done studies for Horowitz in Oklahoma. Most faculty are avid Democrats to start with. I mean 80% and upwards. Tenure gives these people the floor. Any opposed and untenured, are lost before they start. I plan to use the Enno example more in the future. His positive approach has clearly beaten the image of those petty professorial protesters, and all their professional hype. Enno's quiet, positive approach is light years ahead of them. Experience has shown me, however, that they will not rest. They will study ways to counter act Enno, and perhaps even work through subterfuge or sabotage. It happened to me at OSU-OKC. False fronts, false issues, false excuses. I didn't have tenure. I was dismissed after the very semester I started writing for David Horowitz.

I don't have tenure, as a professor, and I might feel differently if I did, but, it seems to me that tenure is the curse of the university. Nothing is more detrimental, stiffling, and crippling to everyone's thought, development, and freedom than is tenure. No other profession really has it. Only the university. People there on UND's faculty have permanent opportunity to protest, and security to boot. They can't be fired. This is a tyranny in university systems everywhere. UND is, however, a good example of a pestilential infection, which perpetuates itself. A professorship is a power position, no matter how small or how lowly the university. It is a legal matter, and hence its importance. The issues are national, and the professor quickly rises to notoriety because the professor is regarded as an intellectual authority. I think this sums it up. The professor's opinion is generally regarded as more accurate, more important, more right, than anyone else's. "Professor so-and-so says..." and that's the end of it, intellectually. This is a great error in American (and European) education. It is a scholastic left-over from the Dark Ages (Medieval period), actually, like the robes everyone wears upon graduation. It's a mind set. We all suffer from it.

Here's the article on Erik Enno: http://www.badeagle.com/cgi-bin/ib3/cgi-bi...t=ST;f=15;t=453 Feel free to comment.

Thanks for the responses. I've decided to prepare an article on Erik Enno. I will of course post it on BadEagle.com, but I will try to get it posted at FrontPageMagazine, where I still post, and American Enterprize, and elsewhere. I just think it's outstanding that an Indian would be a coach there at UND.

I understand there is an Indian basketball coach at UND. If this is so, what do students think of him? How does he relate to the Fighting Sioux? I'd be curious to know. How do other Indians relate to him? How does he fit into this picture? What about Indian student athletes there at UND? What is their opinion about the mascot issue, and about the Indian coach?

Beware of European commentary on Indians or whites. Europeans are most anxious to appear "better" than Americans, especially when it comes to treatment of races. They always cite America's treatment of Indians and Negros as crimes far exceeding anything every committed by those genteel Continental folk. (Never mind about Hitler, Stalin, etc., or even the British treatment of her own people, which was the cause of the birth of America in the first place.) Truth is, Europe is starting "tribes" of Lakota people over ther now. Look at http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:QXwi4...&hl=en&ie=UTF-8, and http://www.germanlakotafriends.de/ I have information from the Dakotas that shows Europeans marketing Indians. http://www.germanlakotafriends.de/wermel9.jpg I say to you white students, always remember that people in the world are just plain ENVIOUS of America, and all things American. Don't let them intimidate you. The accomplishments of your fathers are astounding. America is a fabulous achievement. It is not perfect, nor is anyone or anything. I tell you to love America. Learn to love a "country." It is part of the human instinct. Love always closes one eye to the faults, and concentrates on the beauty. As an American Indian, from a tribe (Comanche) known for conquest (or, at least for evicting everyone else from our hunting land, including other Indians), I salute America. I don't feel any less Comanche for so doing. I will admit, I have self-interest in mind in my American patriotism. America left to Indians more than any other government or race would have, given similar circumstances. First of all, no one else could have won out against the Indians. Secondly, if they did, they wouldn't have left one of us standing, let alone leave us actual land. America is the best bet Indians have at this point. I'm all for protecting and preserving America, because in so doing, I help sustain the best opportunities possible for Indians.

Here's an attempt to define Communism in practical terms, so everyone can see why I'm concerned that Indians would have any association with it. I find it difficult to separate Indian issues from the Communist encasing in which they've all been placed. http://www.badeagle.com/cgi-bin/ib3/cgi-bi...t=ST;f=15;t=405 Please comment, here, or on BadEagle.com

I don't know if you are aware of the Fighing Whites forum, at University of Northern Colorado. There is a fairly decent conversation going on at this point: http://pub18.ezboard.com/ffightingwhitesfr...picID=244.topic Have a look. It is Indian to Indian, but, as such, it might be useful. You recall, the UNC intramural basketball team (a few Indians and whites together) named their team The FIGHTING WHITES, as a rebuke to FIGHING SIOUX, or any other Indian mascot. They got huge success, and sell many Fighting White articles, but, I don't know that they made their point at all, in fact maybe the opposite. Anyway, thought it might be useful.

I heard Bellecourt was there at the Mills speech. If true, is just shows more irony. The life of someone like Mills is the antithesis of the life values of someone like Bellecourt, or so it would appear on the surface. American Negroes really made the name-calling issue into big business. If that's important to them, fine. But why must every other "ethnic" group follow their example, as if one size fits all? I call that racism par excellence. I say each must find its' own path. I don't believe in race-based coalitions. This is actually passe at this point. I don't think there is anyone who disrespects Mills for anything. I know Erik Enno, one of the UND basketball coaches, talked with him at length, privately. Enno is an ex-Marine also. They totally disagree with one another, yet, they respect each other. This is life. This is what happens sometimes. People get on different tracks.

Don

I've been given to understand that Bridges has planned a week long festival of anti-mascot celebration, with the same ol' speakers lined up again. Only Billy Mills is new to the UND protest market. But, he is a great Sioux man, and it is piquantly ironic that he should come there and lend his reputation to such an askewed cause. I'm not able to find anything in print about this festival If anyone knows of anything, please let me know. All I have learned is from word of mouth. I'd like to see something in print. Thanks.

Okay. Fact is, Mills is against Indian mascots, logos, names, etc., used by athetic teams. He speaks on it throughout the country, like all the other professional activists. Just look up his name on Yahoo.com, and you can see his involvement. I am pointing out the irony of his advocacy of the "warrior" image, and at the same time making a federal case out of "name-calling." I see the name issue as very immature and subversive, though it is disguised as a grand, noble issue. It is petty and unbecomes a man of strength. You can bet your bottom dollar he will speak against the "Fighting Sioux." That's why he is coming to UND, and that's why Bridges is bringing him.

Olympian Billy Mills is coming to Grand Forks, ND! April 1, 2003 @ 7:00 PM UND Memorial Union Ballroom

"I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving." -- Billy Mills This is the man who was offended when a airline steward referred to him as "Chief." Mills the "warrior" will be at UND on April 1st. Well, I'm glad to see my "Warrior" image is catching on. The Indian warrior image is the strongest image we have going for us. I've been advocating it as a political position for a few years now. Feminists and feminis-led Indian males have all opposed it, but I initiated it and have advocated it on FrontPageMagazine and now on my own website, BadEagle.com. Warriors don't cry about name calling. That's an American Negro political custom since the '60's. That's not an Indian thing. Indian mascot names and logos are not degrading or demeaning. That is a psycholgocial illusion, projected on to Indians by mistaken white leftists, using and misleading Indians into a degraded, cry-baby, weakling position. This is anything but warriorhood. Let's see what Mr. Mills has to say about the warrior image, "The Fighting Sioux." Anyone taking bets?

The "name" issue is derived from the Negro issue. All politically correct surface issues derive from the of quest political professionals to play with names for the American Negro. Most of you probably can't remember, but, before the late 60's and 70's, "black" was positively the most offensive, hurtful thing you could ever say to a Negro person. But that was changed, and changed again. One can always claim something is offensive. Always. This is no real argument or foundation for law, in itself. It's been a long and profitable enterprise, changing names to suit whims and trumped up charges. It is all cutting edge (i.e., superficial) socialism. America is replete with it. Its is tragic, and represents the triumph of wimp-ism and the junvenile mind. This naivete has been exploited by the anti-America communists, which are strong in the north country up there. If you think I'm wrong, look them up on the net. Communists did not disappear with the dissolution of the USSR. They are alive and well, and morever are high-wavers of the American flag, all in the name of equality. We are all alike, no one is different, better, or to be preferred to anyone else. There are no achievers (but greedy, power-crazed communist leaders). We are all one big happy family. Ask Hillary. So, back to the Indian name, Indians want to be called Indian, in non-Indian circles. In our own circles, we often prefer our own tribal names, from our own languages, but then, no one else would know whom we're talking about. We really are separate peoples, you know. But, if the communists say "Indian" is offensive, and teach young Indians that it is offensive, they succeed in making a riot, which is their goal. Now, if you don't think my ideas are a threat to the ani-Americans, BadEagle.com was hacked last Thursday. The server company called it a "security exploit." All my forums are lost, and I can add nothing new on the site. I can't even blog, or add a new article. What would you think happened, and why? This battle for America is real, and more serious than you might think. I suggest everyone understand political issues as a contest between freedom and tyranny. Sometimes it seems that tyranny is inevitable when we're dealing with a huge society. We can't have a say in everything. All kinds of decisions are made all the time, of which we know nothing. Yet, we are held responsible to abide by the law, regardless. I say, look into it. Give it your best shot. Indifference, presumption of superiority, will cost you your freedom. Never make the mistake of assuming you don't have enemies. I mean deadly enemies. That's exactly what they want you to think. Let them call you paranoid. Then sue them for falsely accusing you of mental deficiency, or denigrating your disadvantaged condition. Throw it in their face. Ah-ho!

Apparently it is true: organizations hold the power. The individual is nothing, usless, of course, he is a liberal being denied his right to eat snake feces, have Clintonian sexual relations with an animal, all in the name of cultural preservation and freedom of religion, or some other aggrandized, self-idolizing, solipsistic practice. Groups win. Numbers win. We conservatives simply must learn to operate this way. The communists (get it? commune-ists, groupies, numbers game) have the upper hand, by far. They are years ahead. America is in for some radical surgery, or we shall change as a nation into something other that what we have been. That simply has to be in the wrong direction.

Just got a speaking engagement at Pennsylvannia State University, December 5. Isn't that where Doreen Yellowbird just was, like on Novemeber 2? What an irony. Well, she is Arikara, and Arikara are not known for being great fans of the Sioux, either, like the Chippewa (Ojibwe), and most of the other faculty there at UND. I don't think there is a Sioux on the faculty, correct me if I'm wrong. Well, historically, no one was a fan of the Comanche! We were everyone's enemy. Well, how else do you build the greatest hunting empire in the history of the continent? We did it in three generations. I posted an article about this, on Young America's Foundation called "Nation Building Comanche Style." It was posted also on ProjectUSA, but has since been archived. Have a look. My point, Indians are not known for working together, or uniting in a common cause. We don't really think of ourselves as a "race," like others do. We are individual tribes of people, with different cultures, and different languages. If we thought "race," we would have united long ago, and there would never have been anything but a "Red" America. Believe me! The modern efforts to unite us are basically political in nature. Indian leaders have been "liberalized" at the communist oriented educational institutions of America, most of which institutions don't even realize their role in this. These Indians think "race," and think that all Indians agree, and unite. Those that don't are a pestilential annoyance, like me, I suppose. I try to be a realist. Indians will never unite. America is here to stay. I say roll with it.

Both of the Dakota states hold the last vestiges of American Romanticism. These states are a vortex of history, the closing history of the wild west, really. There is a mystique beyond computation. I don't know that you'll ever be other that, or that you should in any way want to be. The Dakotas, and Arizona are the big historical draws for the old West days. I speak of national imagery, in the American psyche as a whole. Still, I wonder why there aren't any obscenity laws. Is this not true? It would only take a simple bill in the House, then the Senate could immediately ratify it. Simple process. I think this would squelch the public vulgarities quite quickly.

Good Grief! I can't believe what you just quoted. I think it's obscenity, and not free speech. Here's why. I used to be a social worker, in grimy old New Haven, Connecticut. This was after my Yale religion degree. I was a resident counselor in a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children. My group was kids ages 11-15. Tough group. There was a language rule in all our residence units. No swearing, no four-letter words, no vulgarity, etc. There is a simple reason for this. It isn't about free speech in a youngster. It's about self-control. These kids came to us out-of-control. One of the very first steps in regaining self-control is control over one's own words. This is a psychological law, believe me. In other words, there is such a thing as obscenity, and foul speech. This is why people use it. It makes an impression. It is effective. It is a constant knocking over of the whol hierarchy of language values. A quick, nasty four letter word knocks over the whole tower of dignity, or self-control. Obsecenity is an indulgence of somekind, basically. Free speech? Sounds like some of these people behave like my emotionally disturbed children. Hope this makes sense. In the matter of the protests to the Fighting Sioux name, those that decry the obscenities it supposedly provokes should realize that the Fighting Sioux name has nothing to do with it. There's really a disconntect up there somewhere. Help me put a finger on it. I'm not sure what exactly's going on.

I saw pictures of the offensive and infamous T-Shirts that were so highly publicized a year ago. Indians (the department up there) made sure I saw them. No one addressed the real issue. Why are there no obscenity laws in North Dakota? And why was this not brought out? And why do the people in charge not work for such laws, for that is the solution, not removing the name. When I was on Hannity & Colmes last year with Russell Means, he lamented such behavior as the reason for removing mascots. This misses the issue. Indian warrior images are great lessons in courage and bravery, what we all need. That juvenile college freshmen behavior should be allowed to destroy such a mighty accomplishment of our Indian warrior image is truly racisim!