What's going on in Indian Country...

Fix your quoting. It's a pet peeve.

Can you tell me, how the characters are different?

 

Zahn was good in Longmire as Mathias. Graham Greene as Malachi was different and A Martinez role was good too, I thought he was Mexican indigenous didn't know he was Apache and Blackfeet. Major Dad as a bad guy was interesting too because as I was watching do that, he was a good guy doctor in This Is Us.

 

Me 'n Billie read all of Tony Hillerman's books about Leaphorn and Chee. The film is not even close. Pretty much like "The Shooter" adapted from Steven Hunter's book "Point Of Impact"!

 

My wife and I watched Longmire because “Vic” was great on Battlestar Galactica as Starbuck. The show we happened to watch just before starting Longmire was a BBC show set in Ireland called Ballykissangel. The last season featured a new priest, an Australian guy replacing the previous priest who had in turn replaced the priest from the first three seasons.

Watched two or three episodes of Longmire before figuring out that the priest from season six of Ballykissangel was Walt ********ing Longmire. Damn, that dude could act.

Major Dad as a heavy was a new one. Peter Weller as his older brother was great, too.

 

I didn't know Walt was Aussie until I googled. Vic was a but annoying. Like her crush on Walt was weird. Also he is not Peter Weller, he is Robocop. Always has been, always will be. Like you're remembering one actor from another show, the secretary at the police station was the grandma (Matt Sarasen's grandma) who is slowly losing her mind in Friday Night Lights.

 

Speaking of Indian Actors, this was a great point by Adam Beach about playing a Navajo in Windtalkers

 

I thought the Cheyenne beefed with the Crow not the Navajo. I thought thr Navajo people main rivals would have Apache and Puebla in the Southwest. I knew the Apache and Comanche hated each other to death.

 

Remote Indigenous tribe kills two loggers encroaching on their land in Peru
I'm worried about the backlash.

 

Oh shit my daughter is in a Peru this week!

 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/01/climate/klamath-dam-salmon

The largest dam removal project in the US is completed – a major win for Indigenous tribes

 

I’m posting this here even thought it’s kind of a dead thread in terms of ongoing discussion. I mean, it’s right there in the title, that this thread is for quick hits of news. Anyway….

Here’s the article that made me think of this

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/deb-haalands-legacy

What caught my attention is when he wrote that Dems haven’t paid much attention to Interior since Carter. I thought about that for a second, and I think I have a theory for why.

Reagan winning in 1980 was the biggest story, but that same year a handful of Western liberal Democrats got beat…IIRC it was Church, McGovern, and one or two others.

With that decimation of the Democratic Party in the noncoastal West, the parts of the country where Interior matters had almost no Democratic representation, and GOPs ideologically are opposed to the basic mission of Interior. So there was no constituency in Congress for an active, helpful Interior Department. And so it has been very underfunded for 40 years.

thoughts?

 

@The Devil's Architect what is the deal with these Lumbees that were recognized as a tribe?


https://www.threads.net/@npr/post/DFQlPvPP4Or?xmt=AQGz14yum6VbUpccyVZJul_ooSyywjThnentYR6rKGQY8MEppw

 

I'll always give the Lumbee credit for running off the Klan though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hayes_Pond

 

Leonard Peltier has been freed

 

I wonder of those of us at a physical and cultural distance will ever find out what really happened...

 

How can y’all mention this without adding that it was dramatized in Porky’s???

 

Didn't know that and welcome back!!

 

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6182455/2025/03/07/haskell-womens-basketball-trump-federal-cuts/