tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post4274975562339455545..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: The White Man's Last StandUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-35408446413577530492009-06-12T02:03:15.492-04:002009-06-12T02:03:15.492-04:00As a westerner, I am familiar with so much of this...As a westerner, I am familiar with so much of this as a cultural iconography.<br /><br />The more modern equilvalent I recall is the uncomfortable conversation with my parents (b. '27) about the Japanese internements, when I learned of them in HS in the '70s. Parents agreed NOW they were wrong, but tried to convey the panic of the time. <br /><br />Oh, how too familiar in the easy panic of the '00s.<br /><br />I visited Manzanar for the first time this summer. It's a FABULOUS historic site and anyone who goes there and is not move by the contemplation of injustice, is no American.IThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09605163506396013904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-72396342625376531692009-06-11T22:38:34.495-04:002009-06-11T22:38:34.495-04:00I know Charles Russell, my mother's favorite. ...I know Charles Russell, my mother's favorite. We had a reproduction of one of his works in our house when I was growing up. <br />In my boyhood, cowboy art was wildly popular in Texas. The Amon-Carter Museum in Fort Worth was originally built to showcase the big cowboy classics; Remington, Russell, and Schreyvogel. Until it turned into a broader collection of American art, all that cowboy stuff would bore me. I'd ditch the parents and head for the Kimbell or the modern art museum.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-90442695729940163472009-06-11T13:42:47.810-04:002009-06-11T13:42:47.810-04:00This waterhole is mine, mine, mine!
And there'...This waterhole is mine, mine, mine!<br /><br />And there's <a href="http://www.sidrmuseum.org/45.html" rel="nofollow">Charles M. Russell</a>.<br /><br />Some years ago, I remember visiting the Denver Museum of Art with its large collection of the paintings of the West.<br /><br /><i>The Western Conquest myth does not stand up to evidence, is implausible, and is arguably very harmful to others and to those who believe in it.</i><br /><br />Indeed!June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-7164333683517443922009-06-11T12:13:15.306-04:002009-06-11T12:13:15.306-04:00I just finished reading My Life Among the Piutes b...I just finished reading <i>My Life Among the Piutes</i> by Sarah Winnemucca (available without cost online at ( http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/winnemucca/piutes/piutes.html )- an unvarnished and unpolished first-person account of Sarah's life. I was horrified at some of the bloody and faithless acts on the part of settlers and the government that took place in the very mountains and deserts I call home.<br /><br />When are people going to learn that words become bullets? This is historically true whether these words are in the form of hate speech against Native Americans, Jews, Blacks, Gays, women, etc.<br /><br />Jesus knew what he was talking about when he said...<br /><br /><i>"You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, 'You shall not murder'; and 'whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.' But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to the council; and if you say, 'You fool,' you will be liable to the hell of fire."</i> - Matthew 5:21, 22Rick+https://www.blogger.com/profile/03322574092020268536noreply@blogger.com