Post by Okwes on Apr 14, 2008 13:46:38 GMT -5
Sun April 13, 2008 `We're part of Oklahoma history'
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Hatuk Hill of Sasakwa prays before the start of the Society to Preserve
Indigenous Rights and Indigenous Traditions parade Saturday in downtown
Oklahoma City. newsok.com/article/3229280
<http://newsok.com/article/3229280>
<http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php> By Matt Dinger
Jubilation and outrage marked festivities at an American Indian parade
Saturday in downtown Oklahoma City.
The Society to Preserve Indigenous Rights and Indigenous Traditions
hosted the parade, which kicked off about 9 a.m. at the corner of Reno
and S Hudson avenues.
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Traditional music played and a prayer was spoken before the trek began.
Drivers with tribal affiliations attached to their vehicles honked their
horns and cheered.
Others walked the length of the parade carrying handmade signs bearing
slogans such as "Frybread Power" and "Dawes Commission + land run =
organized theft."
But the parade was really a celebration of American Indian heritage,
event organizer and SPIRIT spokeswoman Brenda Golden
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ON> said.
`We were here first'The parade featured a diverse group including
juvenile lacrosse teams and hip-hop musicians.
Golden
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ON> estimated at least half the 39 recognized Oklahoma tribes were
represented in the parade, which was timed to occur before Land Run
re-enactments take place.
"We're having our parade first because we were here before the Land
Run," Golden
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ON> said.
The main goal of the organization is education, she said. Members want
to have a tribal spokesman on the textbook committee for Oklahoma
schools and to end Land Run re-enactments, which they consider
offensive.
"We can't change history, but what we can say is that we were here first
and that they ran over us," she said.
Richard Whitman
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RSON> , 59, an American Indian activist and artist, brought his
grandchildren with him. Their knowledge of their ancestors is his
primary concern.
"History is told for us ... We're not part of the national
narrative," he said. "We're part of Oklahoma history ... "
The parade ended at the Land Run statue in Bricktown, where some lay on
the ground under the bronzed horse hooves, symbolizing how the Land Run
trampled their people, Golden
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ON> said.
"In some ways, we feel homeless in our own homeland," Whitman
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RSON> said.
SPIRIT will be at the Capitol April 22 delivering a signed resolution to
the governor addressing Land Run re-enactments and American Indian
depictions in schools.
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08_QD74M0N.jpg]
Hatuk Hill of Sasakwa prays before the start of the Society to Preserve
Indigenous Rights and Indigenous Traditions parade Saturday in downtown
Oklahoma City. newsok.com/article/3229280
<http://newsok.com/article/3229280>
<http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php> By Matt Dinger
Jubilation and outrage marked festivities at an American Indian parade
Saturday in downtown Oklahoma City.
The Society to Preserve Indigenous Rights and Indigenous Traditions
hosted the parade, which kicked off about 9 a.m. at the corner of Reno
and S Hudson avenues.
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Traditional music played and a prayer was spoken before the trek began.
Drivers with tribal affiliations attached to their vehicles honked their
horns and cheered.
Others walked the length of the parade carrying handmade signs bearing
slogans such as "Frybread Power" and "Dawes Commission + land run =
organized theft."
But the parade was really a celebration of American Indian heritage,
event organizer and SPIRIT spokeswoman Brenda Golden
<http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Brenda+Golden&CATEGORY=PERS\
ON> said.
`We were here first'The parade featured a diverse group including
juvenile lacrosse teams and hip-hop musicians.
Golden
<http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Brenda+Golden&CATEGORY=PERS\
ON> estimated at least half the 39 recognized Oklahoma tribes were
represented in the parade, which was timed to occur before Land Run
re-enactments take place.
"We're having our parade first because we were here before the Land
Run," Golden
<http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Brenda+Golden&CATEGORY=PERS\
ON> said.
The main goal of the organization is education, she said. Members want
to have a tribal spokesman on the textbook committee for Oklahoma
schools and to end Land Run re-enactments, which they consider
offensive.
"We can't change history, but what we can say is that we were here first
and that they ran over us," she said.
Richard Whitman
<http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Richard+Whitman&CATEGORY=PE\
RSON> , 59, an American Indian activist and artist, brought his
grandchildren with him. Their knowledge of their ancestors is his
primary concern.
"History is told for us ... We're not part of the national
narrative," he said. "We're part of Oklahoma history ... "
The parade ended at the Land Run statue in Bricktown, where some lay on
the ground under the bronzed horse hooves, symbolizing how the Land Run
trampled their people, Golden
<http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Brenda+Golden&CATEGORY=PERS\
ON> said.
"In some ways, we feel homeless in our own homeland," Whitman
<http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Richard+Whitman&CATEGORY=PE\
RSON> said.
SPIRIT will be at the Capitol April 22 delivering a signed resolution to
the governor addressing Land Run re-enactments and American Indian
depictions in schools.