Status Updates From Mammoths of the Great Plain...

"The thing your teachers may not have told you is how full of hope the late '60s were. Yes, there was violence. ... Plenty of people—good people—died in fishy ways; and plenty went to prison for things they almost certainly did not do. But the times were changing, and many of us thought we were building a new world in the shell of the old."
Painfully true. Deeply saddened that it all resulted in Reagan.

"There is more than one way to organize knowledge; and more than one way to formulate truth; and with time and patience, persistence and luck, justice can prevail."
the narrator's Lakota Grandmother, speaking a hopeful truth into being

"{The Lewis & Clark Expedition} was an epic journey," my grandmother said. "And they found many things which Indian people couldn't remember misplacing, such as the Rocky Mountains."
This is why Eleanor Arnason is unjustly unfamous.

1/11/2020
First ebook of the year
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Finally, nationstates provide hope, which Wallerstein argues may be their most effective form of control.

Their lives — made of dates and grades — seemed small and confined, like the neighborhoods hemmed in by houses and trees. Their plans seemed equally small: a college education, followed by a good job and marriage. Surely there was more to life than this. I wanted something larger, something as wide as the sky over Standing Rock, though I didn’t know what. So I read science fiction and dreamed.

White men are ingenious, especially when it comes to doing things that are unnatural.