Let's Talk Native with John Kane

The truth I hold self-evident is that the war for independence was not about all men being equal. This war was fought over the greed of a colonial aristocracy bent on their own expansion of wealth. That wealth could only come with new appropriation of lands which required the genocide of Native peoples and the expansion of slavery. Both of which Great Britain was obstructing. This was the "tyranny" these British colonists were willing to kill their countrymen over.

Who is defending Native to Native trade? Eric White seems to be alone on this one. The Yakima Nation defended and submitted briefs for one of its wholesalers. Where is the Seneca Nation for Eric? Where are all the nations Eric supplies that maybe at risk for inventory?

Ed Schindler is back! We talk about hate, resistance and real learning.

I was told our people are too dependent on government programs to talk about "Decolonization." Well? You are talking about it wrong then. We need to decolonize our minds first and remember that we have solutions to problems.

The only reparations for Native people is Decolonization.

Michele-Elise Burnett joins me to talk about bringing a Native show to Artpark after 40 years.

I hit on our identity again asserting that maintaining it is critical to our survival.

It was bound to happen. The long arm of Facebook finally caught up to me and locked me down for a day. But I'm back with one of my least favorite topics: The Cayuga.

Mark Charles joins us for the show. Charles is running for the US presidency and trying to become the first Navajo president of the US. We tackle the obvious assimilation issue, his use of history and the cognitive dissonance of assimilation.

Racism demonstrated by individuals is easy to react to but that's not creates white privilege; systemic racism does. We'll talk about both. We see it in privilege of the wealthy, elite of the Hamptons in their sense of power to dictate to the Shinnecock, but we see it even more in the power they wield in the political and governing systems. We see condescending dismissive attitudes in courts, legislatures and even with our own paid lawyers. This is systemic racism and it's much more difficult to confront but still needs to be!

A couple days ago it was the 95th anniversary of the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. Before it was called "Genocide", it was called "Denationalization." This was the process of stripping away the national or cultural character of a people and imposing the character of another upon them. Declared me a citizen, my ass! I am Onkwehonwe!