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“What are you wearing?” I asked.“What?” he responded. He surveyed his chest. “This?” He then gripped a thin gold chain on his neck.“No. Your hat, man,” I said. “What does it mean?”“Oh, I don’t know. Nothing,” he responded. “It just matched my shoes.”“Ah, OK. … Hey, I’m...
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is due all people. These are the principles I hope Secretary of State John Kerry remembers as he participates at the 43rd session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States and meets with Guatemalan President...
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One of the television talking heads really hurt my feelings in a report the other night on Edward Snowden, the traitorous hero or heroic traitor who leaked the existence of PRISM, wholesale collection of data from the servers of various major players on the Internet. Not...
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The visions of my father, Isaac Curley Sr., come and go with each passing month and season. My father was born on March 25, 1922 and raised on the Navajo reservation. His home was a hogan, the family subsisted upon livestock, no modern conveniences and news was gathered...
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Lindy Waters (Kiowa/Cherokee) was a former stand out collegiate basketball player, but you won’t hear him talk too much about that. Today his life is consumed as a father of four, administrator at the University of Oklahoma, and Indian community advocate. His son Lindy III...
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One bright summer afternoon in 2001 my 7 year-old son and I were standing on an overlook taking in the awesome and powerful beauty of the Lower Yellowstone Falls located in the Yellowstone National Park. Prior to stopping we enjoyed the breathtaking scenery of the mountains...
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The U.S. acknowledgment of massive Internet and telephone spying operations is a surprise only to those who do not remember history.
The Black Panthers and the New Left of the 1960s were spied on by "COINTELPRO," a secret program created by the Federal Bureau of...
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