President George W. Bush's apparent lack of understanding on tribal sovereignty is examined by Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, executive director and co-founder of the non-profit Turtle Island Project in Munising, Michigan.
This video was made as Hubbard made two presentations on September 24, 2008 during the third annual UNITED Conference at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.
This video is about infamous comments about Native American Tribal Sovereignty made by President George W. Bush on August 6, 2004 at the UNITY conference in Washington D.C.
President Bush was asked the tribal sovereignty question by Mark Trahant, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Page Editor, a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe in Idaho and former president of the Native American Journalists Association.
Bush answered the question but that answer was so bizarre it caused journalists to laugh:
"Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign," President Bush said. "You've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity."
The conference involved about 7,500 journalists of color from the Native American Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Asian-American Journalists Association
Hubbard said it's funny, scary and sad that President George W. Bush doesn't understand the important issue of Native American tribal sovereignty.
The Turtle Island Project thanks Democracy Now for the use of their video of President Bush's remarks on tribal sovereignty.
Democracy Now:
http://www.democracynow.org
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Related Links:
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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. (WBCWS)
PO Box 227
Mission, S.D.
57555
http://www.wbcws.org
For more info on the WBCWS:
Javier H. Alegree
Public Relations Specialist
Media and Education
(605) 856-2317
(605) 856-2494 (fax)
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Official website of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe - Sicangu Lakota
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/
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Northern Michigan University (NMU)
http://www.nmu.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Michigan_University
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NMU Center for Native American Studies:
Center for Native American Studies
Northern Michigan University
1401 Presque Isle Avenue
Marquette, MI
49855
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies
(906) 227-1397
(906) 227-1396 (fax)
e-mail:
nasa@nmu.edu
April Lindala, Director
112F Whitman Hall
Grace Chaillier
NMU Adjunct Assistant Professor
Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux
112G Whitman Hall
(906) 227-1390
Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED):
Northern Michigan University
September 21-23, 2008
UNITED links:
http://www.nmu.edu/UNITED
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/2008Schedule.shtml
http://webb.nmu.edu/Webb/PDFs/UNITED/UNITED_2008.pdf
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/GD989.shtml
Organizers:
Dr. Judith Puncochar
NMU Professor
906-227-1366
e-mail:
jpuncoch @nmu
(close above gap to email Dr. Puncochar)
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Turtle Island Project
Munising, Michigan
Co-founders:
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard
Rev. Dr. George Cairns
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http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
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Anishinaabe News:
NMU Native American student-run newspaper
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/Resources/NAS/...
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Democracy Now:
http://www.democracynow.org
More from Democracy Now on President Bush comments on Native American Tribal Sovereignty:
Watch following video first minute - then at 27 minutes into the 1 hour video, you'll see Jesse Jackson joking about comment and then interview with the reporter who asked Bush the question
Video & Audio - several formats (do right click "save as"):
http://www.archive.org/details/dn2004-0810_vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5xVRXLgLxw
Stories:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/186171_bushtribes13.html
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushvideos/v/bushismtribal.htm
White House Press Release: What Bush meant to say if he'd stuck to his script:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040806-1.html
Book "Pagans in the Promised Land" by Steven T. Newcomb (2008):
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/archive/28405454.html
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/archive/28407494.html
http://www.indypendent.org/2008/04/25/discoverer-delusions
Lakota Sioux & Rosebud Reservation:
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosebud_Indian_Reservation
Native American Religious Freedom Act (1978)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Religious_Freedom_Act
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anybody who gives himself A TITLE- establishing his authority. superiority over you & gives you directions- thats dependence not sovereignty-slimy religious pimp of women/children into marriage- for a LARGE FEE FROM GOV - our TAXES
lmollot 10 months ago
OH OH- ANYBODY who- 1-gives himself being different/superior to others- 2- makes promises of healing -3- takes money- what work do religious businessmen do anyways- that mothers & grandmothers dont ALREADY do- & for free- all non-profits are hoax-just look at history- vid franklin coverup- boystown schools-women shelters let religious men access/abuse vulnerable women in their own living shelter-"helpers" create dependence & block equality LAWS which wd result in people not needing charities
lmollot 10 months ago
DAWES ACT OF 1887 split native mothers clan communal farms& gave to individual indian men-this genocided the matriarchy clan-based native nations- this "made the native woman as subjugated by 1 man as the white pioneer woman is"-gov can then order the isolated man to do whatever-go to war-lose farm to bank-push alcohol,cig,drugs-couple-based=more births=to be exploited by orphanages who kidnap native children from mothers-who lack a big grandmothers clan group-return longhouse
lmollot 10 months ago
run native sovern man run7 lol, wow some times it is to hard to just stop from laughing7 hey you are born at least leave us with a smile, keep running the show boss/massa....7
MAWgCEN 1 year ago
@MrIsaacJacob
We agree - Mr. Jacob
Also fyi - breaking news issue please support our friends defending sacred Eagle Rock in Michigan
Check Indian Country Today newspaper website - and Earth Healing TV on youtube
MunisingWhiteHorse 1 year ago
I want soveriegnty,i am native american in the sense that i was born here,is it really a question of race,i signed no document giving the government power over me,i will run to the hills
verdemanthe1 2 years ago
Quoted from 60 Minutes...
Prescott Bush, George W's grandfather, and a band of Bonesmen, robbed the grave of Geronimo, took the skull and some personal relics of the Apache chief and brought them back to the tomb, says Robbins. There is still a glass case, Bonesmen tell me, within the tomb that displays a skull that they all refer to as Geronimo.
OJulienLA 3 years ago
Do we REALLY believe that Bush is that stupid? According to multiple sources his grandfather, Prescott Bush, stole Geromino's skull and it's still being used in 'The Tomb' of Skull & Bones at Yale University. NAGPRA? TREATIES? This is just one more example of Bush playing stupid while the U.S. government continues to support the American Genocide right under our noses... and Bush and his mob are profiting off of the decimation of an entire culture! Forgive him? He knows EXACTLY what he does!
OJulienLA 3 years ago
Wow is all I can right peace!
PrinceNamor777 3 years ago
Few of my friends went to this Conference and loved the energy...
The Great Spirit is at work, thank you MunisingWhiteHorse for this clip~
Utka9 3 years ago