Native American Caucus at YearlyKos

I will be hosting the Native American Caucus at YearlyKos again this year on Thursday, Aug. 2 from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Rm 101A

http://www.yearlykosconvention.org/...

Our caucus will be a forum for the discussion of political, social and economic issues affecting the indigenous peoples of the United States, including their lack of political representation, economic deprivation, health care issues, and the on-going struggle for preservation of identity and cultural history

Lind (Navajo on DailyKos) is currently working with the Puente de Hozho school in Flagstaff, Arizona—a school dedicated to teaching the Navajo language to young Navajo and to keeping the language alive. Lind designed their website at puentedehozho.org. She also started SF Kossacks, a group of San Francisco Daily Kos readers who number almost 300 and meet regularly in the Bay Area.

I have also started a blog for this group: Native American Netroots  The blog is fully functional to join and post but still missing a lot of content.  I will be unable to work on it anymore until I get back from Chicago so please forgive all the white space.  I also don’t like the Flickr badge because the images are too small.  Does anyone have any code that will display one photo (150px wide) at a time but rotate thru a bunch of images that I have stored at Flickr?  The code would need to be compatible with Soapblox. (I need to email "pacified" and ask him also)

I would appreciate your help in passing this news onto other Kossacks that might be interested in participating in our caucus and in our blog.

Everyone is welcome, you don't have to have blood quantum to join us. ;)

I liked the ring of Native American Netroots and that's why I didn't go with American Indian, First Nations or Indigenous Peoples.

Please post below if you plan to attend our caucus.

•  I pledged last year

  to set a blog up for my N.A. Caucus but just couldn't take the first learning step.  I HAVE DONE IT...my first step with a blog. Forced to do it under the gun with YearlyKos looming and not much notice that I would in fact being hosting again.     Don't laugh..... and it costs dough.  'doh!  

  I will be setting up a blog for SFKossacks also and very soon.  I promise.

  by navajo on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 12:22:51 PM PDT

  •  I would go if I were to be there...

    and it is SO GOOD you are doing this...
    Bravo!

    This is an important step forward, and I hope you get huge support. Good luck!

    by la urracca on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 12:27:00 PM PDT

    •  Feel free to join our blog

      if you care about our issues.  The more voices the better.

      Click on my sig line

      by navajo on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 12:29:26 PM PDT

  •  I would be happy to contribute $$ ...

    ...to the project. E-mail me.

    by Meteor Blades on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 02:57:08 PM PDT

•  One of us will be there....

  I haven't looked at the schedule but Mr.Cat or I will be there.

  by SallyCat on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 12:26:05 PM PDT

  •  Thanks,

    Hoping I don't have crickets chirping...

    by navajo on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 12:27:39 PM PDT

    •  Reep! Reep! Reep!

      ... one cricket reporting for duty !

      Seriously, that was very calming last year when you did that, I really think it got me thru the rest of the conference.  

      by AmericanRiverCanyon on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 02:55:10 PM PDT

      •  Thanks ARC!

        And thank you for showing up last year and this year and at the Ykos fundraiser in San Francisco.  Your support is greatly appreciated!

        See you soon!

        by navajo on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 03:36:52 PM PDT

•  I wasn't planning on attending on Thursday...

  If I do go, I'll check you out...
  My great, great grandmother would insist.

  by Temmoku on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 01:02:32 PM PDT

  •  I would be delighted to meet you

    Do you know what tribe your great, great grandmother belonged to?

    by navajo on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 01:04:18 PM PDT

    •  Nope....

      I think she was a Cherry from Cherokee in Tennessee but that is a very common surname. I used to think she was "Cherie" seeing as he loved her very much, but that is all gone in historical records, just family lore now.

      by Temmoku on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 02:01:52 PM PDT

•  I will be there

  As one who works preserving Native American cultural material for a living, I would love to participate in your caucus, Navajo.

  By the way, there WILL be another tin foil hat contest, even if some find that sort of thing objectionable. It will be at the Arts Extravaganza Thursday after the keynote speeches. I hope you'll be able to stop in for some festive fun! :)

  by cosmic debris on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 01:59:45 PM PDT

  •  I am unaware of your

    work, what do you do?  And thanks for doing it!

    I look forward to seeing you and rez dogs couldn't keep me away from a tin foil hat contest.

    The complainers are getting a sound thrashing in the other thread. lol.

    by navajo on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 02:04:27 PM PDT

    •  I had to bite my tongue!

      I was gonna say something nasty about the grumpers over there. I'm hoping Eddie will see it and lay a loud one! hee hee

      I'm an art conservator/museum consultant specializing in ethnographic and archaeological materials. I'm actually going to be working on a project while in Chicago I'd love to tell you about, but I'll save that for in person.

      See ya soon, Navajo!

      by cosmic debris on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 02:08:15 PM PDT

      •  Wow, your work sounds so interesting

        I can't wait to hear about it.

        Do you have any show and tell you could bring to our meeting?  

        Any dogs?  

        Any ponies?

        by navajo on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 02:49:20 PM PDT

        •  Sorry, late getting back

          I had non computer related stuff to do. I can bring photographs relating to my work on my lap top to show and I have a book I worked on I can share - NAGPRA/repatriation related, that might be of interest.

          by cosmic debris on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 03:32:34 PM PDT

          •  Yes, please.

            You can have as much time as you want.

            Looking forward to it!

            by navajo on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 03:58:57 PM PDT

      •  Getting grumpy with the grumpers...

        What'd I miss?  Lemme at 'em!  Point me to 'em.  Gotta link?  They're toast, the grumpy little grumping grumps.  

        by Eddie Haskell on Tue Jul 31, 2007 at 11:43:46 AM PDT

        •  Linky goodness just for you

          Them grumpers called us tinfoilies jackasses!!

          The NOIVE!!

          Eddie, I'm sure sorry you won't make it this time, but you will be with us in snarky spirit. I'll be sure to take lots of choice photos to share, and maybe even some video.

          Be good and be bad, as always!

          by cosmic debris on Tue Jul 31, 2007 at 12:53:45 PM PDT

•  Anybody know if Meteor Blades will be at YKos?

  Just a suggestion navajo, but Meteor would be a draw if you had him committed to show for the caucus.

  by martianchronic on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 02:33:38 PM PDT

  •  He is not attending

    I already tried that.

    He is #5 user id on our new blog tho.

    I have given him front page admin powers and told him he can post when ever he wants.

    by navajo on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 02:47:33 PM PDT

  •  I won't be at Yearly Kos ...

    ...but the draw shouldn't be personalities but rather issues critical to Indians, many of which are the same, though sometimes inflected differently, as are critical to other Americans.

    I hope people attend in large numbers with that in mind.

    by Meteor Blades on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 02:55:22 PM PDT

    •  I agree, of course. Ideally.

      But speaking as a filthy pragmatist, your celebrity could have been a useful tool.

      Sorry to hear you won't be in Chicago.

      by martianchronic on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 03:28:06 PM PDT

    •  No??

      I am pouting now. : (  I so much wanted to meet you MB.

      pout, pout, pout, full lower lip out!

      by cosmic debris on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 03:43:55 PM PDT

      •  Sorry. n/t

        by Meteor Blades on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 09:52:38 PM PDT

    •  You know, it strikes me that I owe you an apology.

      It must be weird and unpleasant to find strangers -- well, I'm a stranger, maybe not navajo -- discussing your potential utility as an object of celebrity, even in service of a good cause.

      I'm sorry, that was thoughtless of me.

      by martianchronic on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 04:10:24 PM PDT

      •  No apology needed. n/t

        by Meteor Blades on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 04:31:49 PM PDT

•  Sorry I won't be there

  as it is ceremony time for me.  But will register on the site and contribute once summer ceremonies, pow-wows are past and work gets back to normal.  

  by SarahLee on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 03:38:36 PM PDT

  •  Thanks SarahLee

    I made you an admin.  Looking forward to your posts.
    How did your prayer go?  I drank water for you.

    by navajo on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 03:42:06 PM PDT

    •  Must be what helped

      I was never thirsty or hungry - but boy did I try to send out messages for chap stick!  

      No great insights, but in its own weirdness several friends who also did hanbleca had similar experiences... of "nothingness"  

      by SarahLee on Mon Jul 30, 2007 at 04:53:50 PM PDT

      •  lol on the chapstick and

        very nice contribution at our new blog.  This is precisely what I intended it for.

        Excellent!

        by navajo on Tue Jul 31, 2007 at 09:40:39 PM PDT

•  I just saw your blog!

  Awesome!

  I'll get an account & join. Way cool, way cool.

  by Winter Rabbit on Thu Aug 02, 2007 at 06:02:14 PM PDT