{"id":3139,"date":"2013-08-01T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2013-08-01T18:30:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T22:30:46","slug":"injun-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/injun-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"INJUN SUMMER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MNN. July 31, 2013.<\/strong> Settlers\u2019 version<\/span>:\u00a0 As John T. McCutcheon wrote: <\/b>Injun summer is when all the homesick Injuns come back to play; long ago there used to be millions around here. Reg’lar <\/b>\u2014not <\/b>\u00a0cigar store Injuns. Don’t be skeered<\/b>\u2014<\/b>hain’t none around here now. They all went away and died. Every year, their sperrits come back across the hazy misty fields out yonder, marchin’ along an’ dancin’ in the sunlight. Them tepees kind o’ look like corn shocks. That smoky smell in the air is the campfires a-burnin’ and their pipes a-goin’. Th’ Injuns are hoppin’ ’round ’em\u2026 Tonight when the moon is hangin’ over the hill an’ the harvest fields is all swimmin’ in the moonlight, an’ you can see the Injuns and the tepees\u2026 When the leaves turn red is jest another sign o’ redskins, when an old Injun sperrit gits tired dancin’ an’ goes up an’ squats on a leaf t’rest. Once’n a while a leaf gives way under some fat old Injun ghost and comes floatin’ down to the ground. That’s the war paint rubbed off’n an Injun ghost. Soon all the Injuns’ll go marchin’ away agin, back to the happy huntin’ ground.<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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Government\u2019s version<\/span><\/b>: Oh, oh. Let’s start a flare-up so we can kill or arrest them. Give \u2018em a criminal record! The Indigenous want everything that we stole from them. Their land, resources, money. International law supports them. The Indigenous demand respect for their\u00a0 sovereignty, all resource revenues, decent communities, release their people from prisons, and full control of their ever growing $375 trillion Indian Trust Fund. Our corporate banker bosses told us to ignore them. They say, \u201cIt\u2019s not logical for us to give them back what we stole! We\u2019ll control the \u201cIndian Summer\u201d of protests by our old, but more aggressive, genocide program. We\u2019ll beef up security, safeguard critical transportation infrastructure and super arm the police. We\u2018ll crack down on their trade or business that gives them any economic advantages or a voice. Our corporate media won\u2019t cover anything unless it\u2019s negative.\u201d<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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Indigenous version<\/span><\/b>: <\/b>Hot summer days. The pow wow trail. Canada’s Indigenous population is growing faster than the general population, increasing by 20.1% from 2001 to 2006. Drumming, corn soup and bannock makes our women fertile. Especially the M\u00e9tis, with an increase of 33.3% between 2001 and 2006. The median age of the Indigenous population is less than 25 years, which is 15 years lower than the non-Indigenous. No slave gene exists in our <\/b>DNA. Only the freedom and talk back gene. Ya-hoo! As the Red Bull Singers remind us: \u201cDarling don\u2019t cry. We\u2019re going to leave the USA and take you home \u2026 \u201d\u00a0Red Bull Singers.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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