DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine%CC%81" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diné</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohnRedhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRedhouse</span></a> 'Fifty Years Ago: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uprising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uprising</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a>'</p><p>By John Redhouse, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, May 24, 2024</p><p>"On this <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MemorialDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MemorialDay</span></a> weekend, we must also remember and honor the many native <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> warriors such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LarryCasuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LarryCasuse</span></a> and other brave indigenous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in fighting for the lives and future of red people and nations on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurtleIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TurtleIsland</span></a> and throughout the Western Hemisphere—the red quarter of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>. </p><p>"In the course of our long, hard, and bloody struggle for survival, since 1492, we are here only because our ancestors fought for our right to live and exist as first people and nations in the Americas.</p><p>"As an aging but still surviving veteran of the intense bordertown wars in Gallup and Farmington in the 1970s, I will remember always great warriors such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HerbBlatchford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HerbBlatchford</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RobertNakaidinae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertNakaidinae</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FredJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FredJohnson</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LucyKeeswood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LucyKeeswood</span></a>, and many, many more courageous fighters of that era including the late great Lorenzo LeValdo and Taft Scott who were also very much a part of the 1974 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Totah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Totah</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Navajo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> campaign."</p><p>Read more (includes images of newspaper articles):<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/05/dine-john-redhouse-fifty-years-ago.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/05</span><span class="invisible">/dine-john-redhouse-fifty-years-ago.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a></p>