How About a Little Recogntion for our Hosts

To honor our original hosts for feasts of thanksgiving, whether they celebrated with the Spanish explorers in the Southwest or the Pilgrims out East, here's a variety of Native American links:

News and Views by Native American Students can be found at Rez Net

Brown Chick is a more personal blog by a Native American student who writes: “Plea to liberal/cool white people: Please do not flee the country. I am Native American and do not have the option of moving to another country to escape Bush and his neonazi Republican minions. This, in the deepest sense possible, is my country. And so we need cool white people here more than ever. Please don't leave, please don't give up. Fight!!!!!!

Plea to Bush's neonazi Republican minions: Go back to where you came from. And if you're Native American, you need to have some sense bitchslapped into you. I will gladly oblige.”

Reflections of an Outlaw Indian Lawyer has an interesting story about Ronald Reagan who is, let us give thanks on this day of thanks, still dead.

Finally, check out Blue Corn Comic Books for some interesting art work and story lines.

(The above links and comments are courtesy of Atrios.)

For extensive information and links related to New Mexico's native tribes, check out New Mexico's Pueblo Indians, a website by San Juan Pueblo/Hopi native, Bernadett Charley Gallegos.

And we can't forget the Spanish thanksgiving feasters who preceded the Pilgrims by up to a half century. Click here to read about the various claims for the FIRST thanksgiving, from the banks of the Rio Grande to St. Augustine and Jacksonville, Florida.