Chuck Trimble

February 13, 2013
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Chuck Trimble
     
January 01, 2013
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Chuck Trimble
Several weeks ago I was sent a link to a ominous report from the First Nations Strategic Policy Counsel, dated June-October 2012. It puzzles me that I haven’t read anything about it in Indianz.com or on other blogs, nor in any Native American news...
April 11, 2012
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Chuck Trimble
The Northwest Tribes have produced some of history’s greatest leaders, most notably Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. In modern times the most important leader ever to come out of the Northwest in Indian Affairs was Joseph R.
April 07, 2012
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Chuck Trimble
A March 28 article from the Associated Press told of problems at the Mashantucket Pequot
March 02, 2012
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Chuck Trimble
The price of gasoline at the pump is skyrocketing and is expected to flatten the upward trend on the stock market charts, thus maybe even stalling the economic recovery from the Republican recession of 2009 and 2010.
February 25, 2012
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Chuck Trimble
Since we’re in an era in which fact, truth and accuracy are of little importance, let me use conjecture to tell about something that happened at a recent reading by the author of a new book that relates personal stories of suffering in Indian...
January 21, 2012
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Chuck Trimble
The life story of Ponca Chief Standing Bear is one of courage, resistance, and great leadership.
December 17, 2011
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Chuck Trimble
We’ve been told for many years “don’t judge a book by its cover.” I would add to that, “don’t judge a book by its title either.”
November 30, 2011
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Chuck Trimble
In a letter to the editor of the Syracuse (New York) Post-Standard newspaper, attorney Carrie E.
September 18, 2011
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Chuck Trimble
We read and absorb as truth the accounts of idealistic observers like Thomas More, Amerigo Vespucci, Las Casas, Rousseau, and others who bolster our view of our ancestors. We paint our people as innocents, pristine in relationship with all of nature...
August 30, 2011
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Chuck Trimble
In my historical research I sometimes come across items of interest that I really can’t challenge, but that I don’t want to believe because they may tarnish my image or opinion of some great hero of mine.
August 12, 2011
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Chuck Trimble
Over recent years I have found myself in a position of seeming to defend Indian boarding schools against assertions that depict them as a combination of reform school, prison, gulag, and Nazi death camp.