Let's Talk Native with John Kane

Riots across America! Even in Buffalo! Peaceful protests haven't worked so the unheard are demanding to be heard! George Floyd's death has broken the restraints.

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Show dedicated in memory of Chaz Wheelock. What will be our legacy? Identity? Survival? Sustainability? Environment? We all leave something or someone behind. Some will follow a path we helped make and will take it further than we could.

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Casinos are set to reopen after a three month shutdown. What will the new gaming experience be like in the age of Covid-19? Will people flock to their favorite machines or table games? Or will health and safety concerns keep patrons away? Will masks and social distancing be required and smoking prohibited? What about the bars, restaurants and buffets?

Forced compliance with beliefs or behavior across an entire culture or people is a plague upon those people. This is Cultural Cognitive Dissonance!

How did Navajo territory become a hot spot for COVID-19? Church! In the first week of March, a large church gathering brought church leaders together from all over Navajo territory. From there they got infected and brought the disease to all corners of Navajo land. Church gatherings have caused major outbreaks all over the world. Neither the cause nor the cure has anything to do with divine intervention... but "belief" is certainly among the causes.

Ready or not, it's time to open the economy. Euphemisms abound as they "balance" economic impact against health and safety. Plus my thoughts on Ahmaud Arbery and why Kap took a knee.

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Between Hollywood, TV, history books, church and government we have struggled to cast off the identity that was imposed upon us and reclaim our own. The 70's saw the growth of the sovereignty movement with AIM and warrior societies. By the 90's, Native people were being defined by resistance. All this was about reclaiming our identity.

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It's MMIW Awareness Day! From the rape culture of the European invaders to the man-camps for the extractive industries; this combined with a culture of male dominance and racism and there's MMIW. And can we stop with the "Land O Lakes" crap already?

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A few Covid-19 numbers then a look at the seven deadly sins and how they define the US and its president. Then we look back at 1990 and the decade that followed. What lessons were learned?

This global pandemic and the utter failure of the United States to prepare for it or deal with it does not become some magic wand for change. It can, however, become the impetus for that change. The US education system has failed Native people! In this era of distanced learning from grade school to college, is this our opportunity to use this change in the delivery to change the content? Can we bring the resources from across Turtle Island to produce systems for us and by us?