In a weekend class today, the professor, to show the apalling racism that indians have to live with, passed around a letter he was emailed about an ad in ‘a south dakota newspaper last year’ that detailed the beginning of ‘indian hunting season’ with warning signs of indian infestations. He also passed around, on the back, an ‘official’ newsreport about some indian congressman looking into it with a hatecrimes group or something. No newspaper name, no date, no byline, no markings of a real story at all.
Just try typing Indian Hunting Season into Google(except use quotes where I have underlines).
You will find that the flyer was real, but not a newspaper advertisement(unless you count it being reprinted for illustrative purposes in a tribal paper). And Sen Ben Nighthorse Campbell was the legislator.
Snooooopy: When a wino can’t afford liquor, they buy a can of lysol, punch a hole in it with a nail, and mix it with water to drink. You get drunk, but brain damage, also.
FTR, I DID question it’s veracity, but was promptly attacked by the other students in the class because “it doesn’t matter if it DID happen, it matters that it MIGHT” and “You’re white! You don’t KNOW racism! You don’t know if it happened!”
I just got through reading the link that samclem provided and that was simply disgusting. While I can certainly believe that some worthless piece of vomit printed up some of the flyers I cannot believe that any SD newspapers would have printed it.
I lived in Rapid City, which is just north of the Pine Ridge Reservation, for the past 3 years and went to school with several Indian activists. If the flyer would have been published: 1. I would have heard about it from one of my friends; 2. the media would have certainly shouted about it loud and clear especially with the tensions on Pine Ridge due to Whiteclay; 3. There would be a loud and highly publisized lawsuit brought against the newspaper by any number of civil rights groups.