Comments on: Mardi Gras Indians

By: Lil Doug

Lil Doug — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:47:22 +0000

Ya know,
If she is Native American, my wife is half, then she has a legitimate gripe. But, that’s where things are going these days. I know people don’t keep up much the smaller LA Universities, but, Northeastern is changing it’s mascot, “The Indians”, to god knows what. Now can you imagine the upset people there would be if they found “Tigers” or “Jaguars” offensive. Why wouldn’t the Mardi Gras Indians be next ones the chopping block? I think the only reason it took this long is that most people outsite LA. know nothing about them. What do y’all think?

By: Summer Whiterock

Summer Whiterock — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:52:25 +0000

well i am pretty much not suprised at all the comments being posted. and yet i have to agree with what was said about the people claiming to be native american, and yet when they say the tribe its always cherokee or sioux.There are many more tribes than just those. what i was told by my grandma who is 96 years old that the white men or whatever the race was would rape the indian women to get them pregnant. and in my ancestral background i have some either german or irish in the bloodline from my ancestors. to me it seems like people dont even know the facts at all, when it comes to native americans. and all native americans have bows & arrows and scalp the white people. may i ask a question for all you people to answer. Do you really know what a redskin really is?? redskin comes from when the white people selling the scalps of women and children and the “redskin part comes from having the skin being red from the blood, people i dont know what kind would buy these “souvenirs”. i really dont know about how you guys portray a native american to look like? Like the Washington Redskins mascot? i just hate the sterotype labels on native americans.
My name is summer whiterock, i am Shoshone-Pauite, i am seventeen years old and i live on a reservation. and i read up on stuff like this. i mean what else can i say??

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:03:22 +0000

I just found this blog while trying to see if there was any news about the Mardi Gras Indians coming out this year. My usual routine MG morning is to walk up to the Wild Magnolia’s bar to watch chiefs come together and see who is prettiest. Then I head down later in the afternoon under the overpass by Claiborne to see the downtown MG Indians. Super Sunday always makes it onto my calendar as well.

I was glad to find the info about the Wild Magnolias (thanks Loki). I skimmed through the whole posting frenzy and have just one observation to add.

I was in Angola during their Carnival a few years ago (Angola, the country in Africa; not Angola, the Prison). I was floored when I saw a group in a parade that reminded me of the Mardi Gras Indians! They didn’t have full feathers and weren’t mimicing Native American tribes, but a few elements of the costumes were striking.

I would have to dig it up the photo a box at home, but I could do that if anyone was intersted.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:43:05 +0000

God is good he loves us even if we’re black or white,or a different color. He even gives us a second chance.Don’t blow your only chance to get into heaven .Your beautiful in gods eyes .If your lonely just pray, your not alone.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:00:08 +0000

I’m over here with my ear to the floor listening for buffalo.

Gizmo has world problems, complaining, howling and learning

how to bark or something close to it, whines mostly, beneath the bed room floo’!

Laurie

By: John

John — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:36:34 +0000

Rayna- Learn to spell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiricahua

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:45:39 +0000

Any island out there they needed a boat or a raft

or a dingy to get there in order to settle it in the the first place.

Laurie

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:40:35 +0000

She is yellow!!

My dog has one vote for governor!

How about your turtle, and your hamster?

If the Australian Aborigines are 40,000 plus years old

whose to say they haven’t been here!

Any one have an Australian Aborigine star zodiac; I’m trying to

find out whether I’m a kangaroo or a boomarang?

Hey guys, drop the native part just say American,

watch their faces contort a li’l.

Laurie

By: Ann

Ann — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:35:28 +0000

I totally think the island peoples were far more mobile than they are given credit for. They can make boats and settle Tahiti and Easter Island – but we’re supposed to believe they didn’t make it from Hawaii to California!?! puh-leeze! I also can accept the idea of the Japanese and Chinese getting here before the Spanish as well – they were fabulous seafarers and techogeeks before they shut themselves from the world. I also believe there was contact between the indigenous peoples of Central and South America and Africa. The whole Eurocentric presentation of history is a load of hooey!

If I was still registered in Louisiana, I’d vote for your dog – as long as it was yellow! :-)

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 01:42:38 +0000

What’s the latest on the Chinese, Polynesisiansians or other eastern peoples

gettin’ here first, boats were made out of wood and the bones would be completely gone by now?!

The Puppy is here!!!

Yep, I said a puppy!!!

She had a puppy in her first litter too.

My dog doesn’t have litters; all of the scientific knowledge is Wrong!

I was the first American!

I’ve been reeincarnated so many times that I can’t remember it or prove it yet.

My dog’s running for governor!

Laurie