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by Robert Running Fisher Upham
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Our weekender tote bags are chic and perfect for a day out on the town, a staycation, or a weekend getaway. The tote is crafted with soft, spun poly-poplin fabric and features double-stitched seams for added durability. The 1" thick cotton handles are perfect for carrying the bag by hand or over your shoulder. This is a must-have for the summer.
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Dakota 38
“If they don’t like it, let them eat grass,” were the words of the trader in charge of rationing out the food to the Indians . As a concession to lands ceded or agreed upon for white settlement, the U.S. Government made a promise of money and food to the Dakota families, who by this time were both farming and hunting on a greatly reduced land base. In 1862, after a couple of very bad winters followed by crop failures and shortages of game, the people were starving. Food stored in government warehouses piled up while the accompanying money was delayed, and that which was rationed out was often spoiled. When one of the mothers commented that the meat was spoiled, the reply “..eat grass” was overheard by an Indian who understood English. This brought anger to the families. As the families continued to starve, an incident happened over eggs and a farmer. This incident caused a death, and led to the Dakota Sioux Uprising that left almost 600 soldiers and settler...
Robert “Running Fisher” Upham is a mixed-blood Indian, (enrolled member of Lake Traverse Sioux, community member by blood from Salish, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, and Pend Oreille tribes). He has a history of social justice activism combined with being a chronicler and artist. At age 32 , he walked across the United States with American Indian Movement founder Dennis Banks. He produced a winter count on elk hide in support of the freedom of Leonard Peltier as part of that walk. In 1998, at age 36, he led a 35-mile march about genocidal legal practices in Indian Country. The march was from Denver to Boulder, to the headquarters of one of the institutions that has failed to change these practices. In 2014, his cousin requested that he...
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