In what is now long tradition, we present for Thanksgiving the death prayer of Old Lodge Skins, which comes at the close of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger (who himself died in 2014). Then he commenced to pray to the Everywhere Spirit in the same stentorian voice, never sniveling but bold and free.
I’ve got Little Big Man in my Audible library, still haven’t listened but will. Happy Thanksgiving, Sarge. Keep fighting the good fight. It’s dark out there.
I’m an avid reader, sometimes up to 30 or so books a year. (Thanks, Evelyn Woods speed reading course while in college.) My tastes in books run in cycles. For several years, it was historical novels and biographies about the mountain men. Talk about “proud, brave, and vengeful.” We Americans, despite what we are now, come from a hardy and tough stock.
The conflict in those books always centered around the terrain, weather, wild life, and the Indians. Especially the Indians. Their level of brutality vastly exceeds even Hamas. There is no equal in the modern world.
American Indians were a mass of contradictions. Courageous and cruel. Smart but superstitious. Wise and foolish. Free but slave-holders. Wyly and innocent. What they’ve become as wards of the state is heart breaking.
Old Lodge Skins was a great man and a great communicator. There is danger in demonizing Europeans, though. Elizabeth Custer wrote four books about her life on the frontier that are first-hand accounts of the tribes encountered. Laura Ingalls Wilder was widely condemned for her depiction of life on the prairie. In 2018, the American Library Association decided to remove Wilder’s name from a children’s literature award, citing her “anti-Native and anti-Black sentiments” in her work. The demonization of Dr. Spock and JK Rowling shows us that mankind is still controlled by stupidity and mob sentiments.
One of my favourite reads is/was "Hanta Yo - Ruth Bebe Hill" available free from various internet libraries.
The description of Lakota tribal life is amazing. Ruth lived with the tribe for some time and her story, whilst presented as fiction, is apparently very close to fact.
Best described as 'Historical Faction".
13th Warrior :
Viking prayer:
"Lo, there do I see my father.
Lo, there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers.
Lo, there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning.
Lo, they do call to me.
They bid me take my place among them in the halls of Valhalla where the brave may live forever."
Muslim prayer: ""Merciful Father, I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But, at this moment, I beg only to live the next few minutes well. ... For all we ought to have thought and have not thought, all we ought to have said and have not said, all we ought to have done and have not done, I pray thee, God, for forgiveness."
..and then you go out and fight till one of you is defeated, not really caring which one.
I’ve got Little Big Man in my Audible library, still haven’t listened but will. Happy Thanksgiving, Sarge. Keep fighting the good fight. It’s dark out there.
I’m an avid reader, sometimes up to 30 or so books a year. (Thanks, Evelyn Woods speed reading course while in college.) My tastes in books run in cycles. For several years, it was historical novels and biographies about the mountain men. Talk about “proud, brave, and vengeful.” We Americans, despite what we are now, come from a hardy and tough stock.
The conflict in those books always centered around the terrain, weather, wild life, and the Indians. Especially the Indians. Their level of brutality vastly exceeds even Hamas. There is no equal in the modern world.
American Indians were a mass of contradictions. Courageous and cruel. Smart but superstitious. Wise and foolish. Free but slave-holders. Wyly and innocent. What they’ve become as wards of the state is heart breaking.
Old Lodge Skins was a great man and a great communicator. There is danger in demonizing Europeans, though. Elizabeth Custer wrote four books about her life on the frontier that are first-hand accounts of the tribes encountered. Laura Ingalls Wilder was widely condemned for her depiction of life on the prairie. In 2018, the American Library Association decided to remove Wilder’s name from a children’s literature award, citing her “anti-Native and anti-Black sentiments” in her work. The demonization of Dr. Spock and JK Rowling shows us that mankind is still controlled by stupidity and mob sentiments.
It is not 'the mob' that condemned Wilder or Rowling. It was a very special, insulated elite who are hostile to anything White and normal.
This post, and the reading of it, has been for several years now been a Thanksgiving tradition for me.
Thank you, sir. And a happy Thanksgiving to you.
I read Little Big Man while in HS - one of my favorite books about a man’s journey through life. “That was the end of my gunfighter days...”
One of my favourite reads is/was "Hanta Yo - Ruth Bebe Hill" available free from various internet libraries.
The description of Lakota tribal life is amazing. Ruth lived with the tribe for some time and her story, whilst presented as fiction, is apparently very close to fact.
Best described as 'Historical Faction".
13th Warrior :
Viking prayer:
"Lo, there do I see my father.
Lo, there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers.
Lo, there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning.
Lo, they do call to me.
They bid me take my place among them in the halls of Valhalla where the brave may live forever."
Muslim prayer: ""Merciful Father, I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But, at this moment, I beg only to live the next few minutes well. ... For all we ought to have thought and have not thought, all we ought to have said and have not said, all we ought to have done and have not done, I pray thee, God, for forgiveness."
..and then you go out and fight till one of you is defeated, not really caring which one.
Amen.