Well Christmas is over and the New Year has started just in time to get pre-prepared for Christmas 2024. Are you ready?
Well Tubularsock is going to advise that you go out and buy
Trace Hentz’s new book ALMOST DEAD INDIANS.
Here is the amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR5KB27Y
Tubularsock has read Trace’s new book and can not help but recommend it highly.
If you haven’t kept up with the Indian movement in the U.S. you need to read this book. It centers on the tragic history of the INDIAN ADOPTION PROJECTS in the U.S. and makes clear just how screwed up the racist actions of the government and religious organizations have been for decades.
Though it did make Tubularsock angry, it is not a new emotion for Tubularsock. But it also helped to fill in many spaces in Tubularsock’s knowledge of specific policies of adoption and our government’s role and how the government conducted itself. (not well)
But along with this narrative there are plenty of interesting stories and information which enliven the entire read.
So get yourself a copy and buy one as a gift for a friend so you can give the impression that you are an intelligent being passing out knowledge. Clever, YES?
Tubularsock 
The old Batster has not read this. but years ago read an enlightening book about the Indian story called BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, by Dee Brown. The Batt has also visited the Wounded Knee site and there are bad vibes and bad spirits there. If Whites had paid attention to Indian environmental practices we might still have a buffalo or two running through our yards but we wouldn’t be predicting the end of life on earth as we know it.
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SO TRUE Batt!
And it appears that “WE” as a culture seems to be speeding up the process of our own destruction.
So ………. Happy New Year!
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Our Indigenous people have had a rotten deal here too. Most recently, our former Attorney General, (an Indigenous woman) was bullied by our P.M. then she quit when he tried to strong arm her to override her better judgement. That was the beginning of the end for Canada’s “Rule of Law”. When government messes with the judiciary you know it’s getting bad.
Leslie
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Leslie welcome into the new year with Tubularsock!
Well, glad to see that it is still business as usual for our neighbors up north somewhere.
The “Rule of Law” when run by “outlaws” doesn’t live up to our movie image of democracy.
Time to burn it all down, CALL IN THE TRUCKERS!
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Keep on trucking – for sure.
Leslie
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woo hoo – thank you thank you thank you – it’s not a hard read but hard to put down – and I wrote it!
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LT. Oh so YOU are the one that wrote it!
It WAS hard to put down for sure!
And thank you!
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Ooh! I don’t remember seeing a book recommendation from you before. You probably have posted a lot, though, I imagine. I know something about the “adoption”(kidnapping) practices of the US, too, but definitely not all. I started reading Trevor Noah’s book–Born a Crime–and was responding with my usual outrage, like you, to it…. and it was happening in South Africa, not the US, so I can’t imagine the unacceptable levels of blood pressure events that may occur with Almost Dead Indians.
I will note the title, though, for future reading. After I’ve recovered from Trevor Noah talking about his upbringing. He’s biracial, and when he was a kid, he, his mother, and his Swiss/German father would do things like take walks together…. except it was illegal, of course, for them to 1. be together or [gasp–OH MY GOD] 2. have had a child together, so the father would walk way ahead or way behind, as if he didn’t know them, because otherwise they’d all be in a world of sh** if the Dutch Darth Vaders of South Africa discovered they were an actual family.
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SB, Tubularsock thanks you once again for your comment. It is always good to read your thoughts.
Tubularsock has recommend books to read in the past but not very often. Yet, never an entire blog on one. But every moment is a new moment sooooo . . .
Tubularsock hasn’t read Trevor’s book but has followed South African politics and their societal problems.
Tubularsock has also had more direct personal connection with adoption so the issue is always interesting.
And as always, as we approach WW3, have a nice day.
…Tube
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I remember that about you and your daughter. Same with me, being adopted.
And, as you say, on we go toward WWIII, la la la, hidey-ho!
🙂
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