Author | Lightnews

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 4h

ICYMI: Post editorials advance Bezos’ financial interests, omit conflicts
open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

Post editorials advance Bezos’ financial interests, omit conflicts

A report by NPR revealed that “[o]n at least three occasions in the past two weeks, an official [Washington] Post editorial has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest wi...

open.substack.com

7 40 100

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Paul Murphy - 🐸 > 👑 @paulmurphyetc.bsky.social · 4h

Fellow PA Citizens.

Don’t forget to vote “Yes” to retain the 3 Liberal PA Supreme Court members on Tuesday!

Don’t give Trumpists a win.

Kthx.

2 1

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 21h

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children."

REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old."

FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 22h

this is insane.

www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

620 6.5K 16K

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

Two new polls out today for NYC mayor (including a Fox News poll) and both polls show Mamdani up 16 points. He is ahead on every major issue including crime. And in two way race with just Cuomo he beats him soundly. Let's do this NYC voters.

52 370 1.7K

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

Alcoholism, suicide, and domestic violence rose. This was the legacy of the Carlisle Indian School.

1 2 10

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

If Indians tried to go into industrial labor, they often faced discrimination on the shop floor. If they went back home, they had often forgotten much of the language, had no work there, and could not engage in their people’s traditional work norms even if they wanted to.

1 2 5

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

None of this created a labor system by which the kids would thrive as adults. The schools created adults torn between two cultures and often accepted by neither. Some became pretty successful. Most remained impoverished.

1 1 8

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

Jim Thorpe, to give one example, was starved and abused by the farmer who he worked for, so he ran away and eventually ended up back at Carlisle.

1 2 9

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

Sure, some kids were treated with respect and gained mentors that would help them survive in a white society after they became adults. Others starved, raped, or murdered the kids.

1 1 8

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

So the kids were contracted out to white families, usually on farms but sometimes as helpers in stores or other enterprises. There, anything could happen.

1 2 6

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

Boys worked in manufacturing, often supposedly learning trades in leather, wood, or metal. Girls leaned housework and domestic manufacturing. During the summer, school was not in session.

1 2 6

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

When young children were sent to the school, a life of hard labor under the clock began in an attempt to separate them from any sense of the ways of working they had from their heritage, which according to whites was not real work anyway.

1 1 6

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

Not so different from the Tuskegee Institute, the idea was to create little agricultural and manufacturing laborers who would play low-level roles in an American economy as defined by white supremacy as everything else in the country.

1 2 7

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

Again, work was at the center of all this. In fact, its full title was the Carlisle Industrial Indian School.

1 1 7

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

Did it matter that the reservations were largely very poor and dry land not given to Midwest-style agriculture? Of course not. What mattered was that Natives stayed on the reservation, stopped hunting, and renounced all their religious ceremonies.

1 2 8

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

Converting to Christianity was essential, as was learning English, dressing like whites, getting haircuts like whites, and a lot of manual labor. So was farming in a way approved by white Americans. Jeffersonian agrarianism was the way to go.

1 1 6

Joel T. Patterson @joelpatt.bsky.social · 3h

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

Converting to Christianity was essential, as was learning English, dressing like whites, getting haircuts like whites, and a lot of manual labor. So was farming in a way approved by white Americans. Jeffersonian agrarianism was the way to go.

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

In this, he had a mission–“Kill the Indian in him and save the man” as he notoriously stated. And how was the man to be saved? He would have to renounce everything about being Native.

1 1 6

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

Following this experiment, Pratt was given permission to engage this on a large-scale. He went to the U.S. military instillation at Carlisle, Pennsylvania and started the notorious Carlisle Indian School in 1879.

1 1 7

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

Meanwhile, Pratt wouldn’t let these people, many of whom were some of the fiercest warriors of peoples such as the Kiowa and Comanche, major tribal leaders, from seeing their families or engaging in any of their traditions.

1 1 7

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

Pratt had powerful allies in all this, including Harriet Beecher Stowe. Of course, Natives resisted–everything from trying to escape to cutting up their white clothes. The violence of the U.S. military was the gentle reminder of who was in charge.

1 1 6

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

So Pratt was given the opportunity to go to Fort Marion, Florida, where many Natives were being held prisoner and engage in what might charitably be called Americanization campaigns but what really should be considered cultural genocide.

1 1 7

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

So he wanted to hold Natives as prisoners rather than just murder them in a state of war. Pratt was highly intrigued by the idea of retraining Indians to be as white as possible. Grant was too.

1 1 7

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

The idea for Carlisle came from Richard Henry Pratt, one of the great villains of American history. Much to the consternation of his old friends William Tecumseh Sherman and Phil Sheridan, President Grant wanted to pursue a peace policy with Native peoples as much as possible.

1 1 8

Reposted by Joel T. Patterson

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3h

For white Protestant America, farming land was the truest form of work and all the way back into the early colonial era, they had framed their contempt for the tribes in terms of work and “waste,” especially focusing on what they considered lazy Indian men.

1 2 9