Super hype right now because they’re putting beautiful, trailblazing actress Anna May Wong on a limited-edition quarter, making her the first Asian-American ever featured on U.S. currency.
On this day, 20 October 1877, this drawing was published in Illustrated London News depicting starving people awaiting famine relief in Bangalore, India. During the famine of 1873-4, there were few or even no deaths, as the British Governor, Richard Temple, organised a swift relief effort. However he was strongly criticised by British officials at the time for spending too much. So when the famine of 1876 struck, he would not repeat his earlier “mistake”. While Indians were starving, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of food were exported to England, and only meagre relief was provided. Around 5.5 million people died in what many historians describe as an act of genocide. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2113950245456781/?type=3
Adventures Into Weird Worlds #12_November 1952_Bill Everett cover art
Find the Pin and Pick It Up, The Monster!, A creature from an underground civilization is sent as a scout to determine the weaknesses of the surface world, but none of the surface dwellers are afraid of his monstrous form, as he expected. Lost in the Graveyard. Professional Secret text story. Throw Another Coal on the Fire, Missing… One Head
I ask everyone to read this and keep it in mind. What Rosalie Whirlwind Soldier and other children went through in boarding schools is horrific. In addition, some children were taken from their families and adopted out to white families. The families were told no one wanted the children, but this seldom was true. In some cases, the families may have had the best of intentions, but by raising the children outside of their culture and pushing the family’s values on the children, the families traumatized these children.
These atrocities led to the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act. This act allows Native American and Alaska Natives to control the foster care placement of children from their tribes. Its goal is to prevent cultural genocide.
But this act is in danger. The same SCOTUS that went against countless cases of precedent and dealt a blow to tribal sovereignty this year will decide in Haaland v. Brackeen whether ICWA will be upheld.
Even if there weren’t the history of the boarding schools, Native Americans and Alaska Natives are supposed to have sovereignty. That means that they should have the rights of any country. It would be ludricous for America to tell France they have to consult America about foster care placement of French children in France. If America tried to make a court decision about that, France would laugh at us, and if we attempted to go over seas to enforce that decision, it would be seen as an act of war. The SCOTUS has no right to tell sovereign tribes that they have no control over placement of children from their tribes.
