There are many pipe origin stories. Here are only parts of one: "Devil’s Tower,” the general location that is believed to be where the White Buffalo Calf Woman brought the Calf Pipe to the Lakota and Sweet Medicine was given the Four Arrows for the Cheyenne, is really named Bear Lodge.
A stone monolith looms over the plains of northeastern Wyoming, its summit standing 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River. People have been drawn here since ancient times, and the rock has many names. Mato Tipila. Bear Lodge. Grey Horn Butte. Aloft-on-a-Rock. Ghost Mountain.
Most, however, know it as Devils Tower.
However, white settlers had to assert domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others as with everything else they did, and gave arguably one of the most sacred sites to those two tribes a satanic connotation .
It was also an act of deceit. Who’d ever imagine the Calf Pipe and the Four Arrows were given to the Lakota and the Cheyenne at some place called “Devil’s Tower?” It seems to me, that Republicans and the Dominant Culture appealing to their own willful ignorance as a false appeal to their own mistaken authority is a sad standard, not to mention appalling in light of what they apply their god-complex-politics to. Here’s a polite reminder about the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
ARTICLE 5. The aforesaid Indian nations do hereby recognize and acknowledge the following tracts of country, included within the metes and boundaries hereinafter designated, as their respective territories, viz;
The territory of the Sioux or Dahcotah Nation, commencing the mouth of the White Earth River, on the Missouri River; thence in a southwesterly direction to the forks of the Platte River; thence up the north fork of the Platte River to a point known as the Red Buts, or where the road leaves the river; thence along the range of mountains known as the Black Hills, to the head-waters of Heart River; thence down Heart River to its mouth; and thence down the Missouri River to the place of beginning.
And the last polite reminder is, remembering ceremonial pipes are or have been a world wide phenomemon, the Religious Right Fascists who advise Tr*mp would never allow him to smoke a pipe - even if it would make the Prince of Peace return.
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And then we have Elizabeth Warren. You know I watched her making a speech for Hillary, I said I think she's losing all the male vote for Hillary Clinton. It was brutal. It was mean and angry. Elizabeth Warren, who had a rough day last week trying to prove her heritage. She had a rough day. She had a good suggestion, though, about easing world tensions. The world is quite tense. Some of this stuff happened over the last 20 years but it didn't, so we're going to solve the problem. But she said that Rex Tillerson and I should sit down with the leaders of Iran and North Korea and smoke a peace pipe."