Land and Other Acknowledgments

All Sacred

From beloved Friend Starshine of Great Falls, MT, picture and comments from a #BlackLivesMatter protest in Great Falls. Shared with permission and with heartfelt appreciation for the gift of Zoom making it possible for Starshine to participate in NPYM activities without long travel:

Montana is 99+% white but a dozen African Americans showed up at this rally and spoke individually about what it is like to live here. Their messages were beautiful especially the one on "Patience, they just need time to absorb what we are saying." Then in an amazing display of respect without a
minister or an official but just a speaker said we will now be silent which held our crowd of 100+ TOTALLY SILENT for 8" 46'. My buddy is a Native American and has received harsh words even this week, "I'm not going to serve an Indian" even tho the speaker had a black skin! Blessings...

Protest Signs Say
All Lives Matter
and
All Sacred

Land Acknowledgment

RantWoman appreciates the practice common in the NW of acknowledging which native nations one's lives touch. RantWoman is around plenty of people who usually acknowledge unceded territory of the Duwamish and Coast Salish peoples. That is only one reason RantWoman sometimes instead acknowledges the peoples of the places her family came from, the Ute and the Dine and others from SW CO, the Crow, Dakota Sioux, Flathead, Blackfeet from MT and probably others members of the Rant Family have at least passed by frequently.

In that spirit, in the spirit of lifting up the voices of BIPOC themselves, two resources hard to find in any medium:

A Documentary called Idaho's Forgotten War. Use your search engines. In 1973, the Kootenai Nation of Northern ID briefly declared war on the US. There were no weapons involved beyond pens and time in officies and negotiations for tribal recognition. But the story is something different in the middle of #Pandemic

An item RantWoman hopes is available other ways than through the National Library of the blind and Physically Handicapped

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"Boots and saddles" :: or, Life in Dakota with General Custer DB10652

Custer, Elizabeth Bacon. Reading time: 9 hours, 57 minutes.
Read by Shirley Reynolds. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress

Thank you Oprah

RantMom now reports:

--reflecting on the sobering reality of having family documents relating to one's ancestors' history as slaves

--reflecting on how difficult it must be to live the Black experience every day.

--What it must be like to be parents needing to have "the talk" with their children.

RantWoman will now hold in Light and hope thoughts of these points translating into some everyday interactions. Shhh. No. Don't Shhhh. HOLD IN THE LIGHT.

One more aside: RantMom celebrates the fact that all three public high schools in Billings were able to hold full graduation ceremonies.