Smoke Signals

I liked the movie a lot, it is amazing how different it was with out stopping to go to my other classes. The movie came off stronger then when I was in high school, I know I am still in high school but it's different when you are with a more mature audience. It's kind of funny though that I have seen the movie for the past three years. Every year in high school I have seen it. I plan to see it again my senior year. Then I will have seen it every year in high school.

John T. William's

I just watched the dash camera video of John T. William's shotting. All I can say is WTF (where the fire which may not make since but I do not like to swear). I was originally going to blog about the excessive force the police used against protesters and then I saw to video. Oh my goodness. I do believe that there was so much excessiveness that I cannot even describe it. I remember going every week to Pike Place and seeing John carve. My mom who works for Seattle Parks and Recreation remembers having to clean up the shavings from his wood carving. Another part of my knowing or John is that my mom's ex-boyfriend is from the same tribe as him. I remember as a child going to the reservation up in Canada and eating his mom's homemade blackberry pie and freshly BBQ'd seal meat. That was the good times. I also remember fishing up there and eating it fresh. I am so astonished at how brutal our police has become. Please tell me how you all feel about this.

Colbert VS Alexie 2008 Pt. 1

Colbert VS Alexie <- Video link.
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Alright you know you have an excellent speaker when you can stump Steven Colbert. I like Colbert to a degree but I don't care for how rude he is. My mom made the point that he is rude to everyone. Anyways I got a kick at how no matter what Colbert said Alexie had a come back.

I thought it was entertaining that Alexie was able to get Colbert with the fact that Columbus was in front of his hotel room. With Colbert there seems to be a need to have psychological warfare to even have a chance on his show. Honestly I think Colbert had his butt handed to him. He finally concedes and says that Alexie and himself shouldn't be fighting but in reality I think he doesn't have any come backs.

Now the Anglo's forgiving the Native Americans was a little wack but funny because then there was a come back. I like I said think Colbert got his butt handed to him. Alexie hit Colbert with a left hook saying that they forgave Anglo's for small pox. Then Colbert tried to slap Alexie with asking for the blakcets to be returned but dry cleaned.

I thought it was interesting when Colbert brought up spirit voices. I believe that we all have them in our own way but a wolf like Colbert assumes. I think not. Then again Alexie feels the need to correct Colbert's assumption of everyone having a wolf spirit voice by saying he has an the spirit voice of a squirrel. We all have a voice of our own and it shows it's self in different ways you just need to listen to it.

Another thing that stuck out to me the assumption that all Native American's can talk to animals. That got to because we all make assumptions about different races. We assume that anyone of hespanic race is a hard labor worker or a maid. We assume that all Asian's are smart and tech oriented. We assume that whites are rich. We assume African-American's deal drugs. We assume Muslims are terrorists and opressive towrds women. The list goes on. You may not agree with these view but it happends everywhere. WE ALL MAKE SOME SORT OF ASSUMPTION ABOUT PEOPLE.

Good ol Ted

I like how Sherman Alexie portrayed Ted. I say this because people like Ted actually exist. I know some of them. They are very odd. They are as wide eyed as Ted where they want to be Native American. They crave it. I think if there was a shroom that could make them go though the process of be coming an Indian. I know that being a mix of Mexican and white I see people who think they were mex in a past life and it matters now.

Absolutely True Diary of a Sexy Indian

The reason I used that as my title was because when ever I try to say the title of the book to quickly that's what end's up coming out of my mouth. Is it because when I think of the word Indian I think of CSI...Cool Sexy Indian or Crazy Sexy Indian. That is my most predominant memory of a Pow wow. Kinda sad huh? Over all I thought the book was okay. I mean I did like it but it wasn't something I would normally read. I tried to read it in Jr. High school but I ended up not liking it after a chapter or two. I was also kinda turned off when all anyone could talk about the book was the fact that he talked about masturbation. I quick page or so on it and that is all I heard about from family and friends. I found that most annoying. Live and learn? Sigh. Why do we seem to obsess about sex so much?