wizardmarks wrote:
>
> Many Crows wrote:
> >
> > DAVID CHRISTENSON wrote:
> >
> > > "On the other hand it seems bizarre to me that natural features that were
> > > ignored for decades while the highway plan was on the back burner suddenly
> > > became revered for their historic and religious significance when the heavy
> > > machinery finally revved up. Very bizarre."
> >
> > Robert replies:
> >
> > Suppose information came to your attention about your family, information
> > thought to be totally lost.
> >
> In about 1990-91, I had occasion to do some histerical
> research about Phillips neighborhood for a series in the
> Alley Newspaper. I wanted to do some research on the
> Mdwakanton (sp.?) Dakota, who, according to American History
> "the o-fficial version", signed off on the
> 1805 Treaty with Zebulon Pike as rep. for the feds. I went
> over to the State Historical Society and sat down with a man
> whose name I no longer remember.
> I was pretty disappointed in his perspective on the Dakota
> People. I asked him about the 7 council fires of the
> Dakota, the Mdwakanton being one. (There are the Sisseton,
> the Yankton, etc.) His reply, and I quote, "There is no
> evidence of seven council fires, they didn't exist." Hello?
> Earth to Historical Society.
> My point with this palaver is to say that the general and
> even some very specific belief system of MN Anglos
> discredits information from Indians about their own
> history. My reason for so saying would be rather flimsy
> were it not for the fact that we know where Sisseton is. We
> know where Yankton is. Those place names are Dakota words,
> but the towns got the place names because that is where the
> Yankton gathered, etc.
> Denial is more than just a river in Egypt.
> WizardMarks, Central
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