Your Animism

A little while ago I was able to have a short visit with kavika. We have met in person before, and this was the second time we got to meet,,,,Kavika is a gem, a brother and someone who lets me ask him all sorsta questions, but never makes me feel like a fool. This last time we met I bent his ear...

Sock-puppets

...from our conversation on the Moderators Group front page discussion... We have a rule about sock-puppets in place. Now however we have experience and probably have a better understanding why we have that rule in place. A sock puppet is nearly always destructive to a site, manipulative, and...

Satirical Pieces

We seem to be having an influx of satirical pieces either wrote or seeded to our front page. Imo it detracts from our credibility when we have the FP with a couple or more outlandish satire pieces that are presented as real news. I'm wondering how this should be handled, or if it is alright and...

Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O'Donovan - Crossing Muddy Waters

Baby's gone and I don't know why She let out this morning Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky She left me without warningSooner than the dogs could bark Faster than the sun rose Down to the banks on an old mule car She took a flatboat 'cross the shallowLeft me in my tears to drown She left a baby...

A proposition concerning the "F" word.

I would like to propose that anytime the words "Fuck you", "Fuck off", "go fuck yourself".... etc., always be considered a personal attack, and a COC violation.Thoughts?

Family Dog Protects Missing Child Until Found

A three-year-old boy is home safe after a seven-hour search and a happy ending. When rescuers had nearly given up, the family pet held on.Carson Urness and his golden retriever/german shepherd mix went missing from the Cooperstown, North Dakota family farm around 7:30 Monday night. Between a...

What is Baiting?

An article for discussing and maybe coming to some conclussions about how to define baiting.From the Merriam-Webster dictionary...1baitverb \bt\: to put a piece of food on (a hook) or in (a trap) in order to attract and catch fish or animals: to try to make (someone) angry by using criticism or...

Thank You Uncle Kavika!

Thank You Kavika; really man, I can't hardly tell ya how special it is:~)I shared your story about what a dreamcatcher is, with Crystal, and Gary, and kato. Crystal just barely remembers hers from childhood, they lost track of them at a young age.That is part of the reason why this is so...

Rez Radio: Indian Tribes Gain Sovereignty Over the Airwaves

It's appropriately below freezing at 8 p.m. on a Thursday night in Northern Minnesota. The only lights still on in tiny Callaway, population 200, belong to the liquor store, which features slot machines and toaster oven pizza, and the gas station, which also has slots, and fried chicken,...

Adopting Native American Children

Ten years ago my wife Arlene and I adopted two Native American (Cheyenne) and Hispanic children; brother and sister. They were older than youraverageadopted kids at ages 10 and 11 and we had fostered them for about a year before that. We had many kids in our home over the years from a wide...