Let's Talk Native with John Kane

LTN #587 10/29/24; Joe Biden's Apology by John Kane

I didn't produce an LTN podcast this week but I did a special two hour broadcast in Washington DC on WPFW for Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday.

Almost ten years after the school's name change, the Lancaster little league football team still has "Redskins" embedded in their program.

These are my words on the subject, the day and what we should be demanding.

The slogan never should have been "Every Child Matters!" That was like responding to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter." We should have used "Native Children Matter" or "Our Children Matter." But the final report from the Interior Department on Residential Schools suggest our children didn't and still don't matter to government officials. The sad part is, we aren't showing much concern for Deb Haaland's whitewash of this American Genocide either.

Political Misfits call me on Haaland's final report.

The Jim Thorpe Longest Run stretched from New York City to Los Angeles and from May 24th to July 19th of 1984. Ross John Sr. joins us to talk about his experience as one of the runners and Ross John Jr. joins to talk about a program this year from May to July to run and commemorate the 40th Anniversary

Tekarontake joins me for a broadcast from Akwesasne to discuss a land claims settlement proposed by frauds.

Noel Bass joins me again three years after producing a short film on the incredible people tackling the suicide epidemic on the Pine Ridge Reservation with a full length documentary covering the issue.

Much of what is deemed "law" in the US is not an actual product of the legislative system. The creation of "legal doctrine" requires no actual law. Courts, the Supreme Court in particular has somehow become vested with a power to legislate from the bench and allow their written opinions to gain the force of law.

This program challenges three legal doctrines that have no basis in either rule of law or the US Constitution. They represent pure authoritarian rule.