Ward Churchill revisit - yt farcical shadowban
aint none in suggs .....
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-ward-churchill-notoriety-tour
The Ward Churchill Notoriety Tour
by Matt Labash, National Correspondent
| April 25, 2005 12:00 AM
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ON A LATE MARCH EVENING in the Mission District, the line stretches down the block. Hopefuls are anxious to make the cut at $10 a head; the auditorium in the Women's Building only seats 400. It's an explosively colorful structure featuring murals of warrior poets and others who've been lodged in the tread of the jackboot of oppression, like Audre Lorde and Rigoberta Menchu.
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Churchill, it seems, likes to play at being dangerous, then gets miffed when people take him at his word. Whether he regards the overthrow of a totalitarian maniac like Saddam Hussein as the above-mentioned "usurpation of rights" warranting a call to arms isn't entirely clear, though I doubt it. But what is, as I look down on the rhapsodic crowd, is that the row of guys in chicken heads are all clucking in unison while Churchill affects his revolutionary pose. It's enough to recall the words of Austrian satirist Karl Kraus, who said, "The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience, so they believe they are as clever as he."
THE NEXT DAY, we're set to meet at the 10th Annual Anarchist Book Fair in Golden Gate Park. Only a cynic would suggest Churchill's full-time controversialism is a marketing gimmick to move product (he's addressing the anarchists for love, not money). Still, material wealth can be an unfortunate byproduct of the work. At the vending table at last night's event, one of the AK Press employees told me Churchill's "Chickens" book had nearly hit 100 on Amazon.com--"It was ahead of Stephen King's new novel!"
https://occult-world.com/churchill-ward/
Churchill, Ward
Lux Ferre March 14, 2022
Churchill, Ward (1947– ) – A Creek/Cherokee Métis (part Native American) and professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado. A prolific author about Native American issues, especially in relation to Euro-Americans, Churchill is a fierce critic of “white shamanism” as taught by “plastic medicine people” to “wannabe Indians” (a practice he also labels “spiritual hucksterism”). He sees the appropriation of Native American religious traditions and identities as a form of intellectual or spiritual theft parallel to that of the taking of the Black Hills and its gold in the late 19th century. Churchill’s books, especially Fantasies of the Master Race (1992) and Indians Are Us? (1994), have provided much of the terminology used by opponents of “appropriation” by neo-shamans. His criticism of such practices and groups should be read in the context of his wider critique of U.S. hegemony and continuing colonialism.
SOURCE:
Historical Dictionary of Shamanism by Graham Harvey and Robert J. Wallis 2007
BOOKS FOR YOU TO READ IN OUR LIBRARY:
A Little Bit of Shamanism : An Introduction to Shamanic Journeying – Ana Campos
Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World into Being – Alberto Villoldo
Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us about Love and Life – Don José Ruiz
A Shaman’s Guide to Deep Beauty : Connecting with the Mojo of the Universe – Francis Rico
Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality – Michael Harner
The Teachings of Don Juan : A Yaqui Way of Knowledge – Carlos Castaneda
In the Shadow of the Shaman – Amber Wolfe
The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan – Carmen Blacker
Vodou Shaman: The Haitian Way of Healing and Power – Ross Heaven
The Hollow Bone: A Field Guide to Shamanism – Colleen Deatsman
Jaguar in the Body, Butterfly in the Heart: The Real-life Initiation of an Everyday Shaman – Ya’Acov Darling Khan
Healing States: A Journey Into the World of Spiritual Healing and Shamanism – Alberto Villoldo, Stanley Krippner
The Shamanic Journey: A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Shamanism – Paul Francis
A Shamans Tale : Path to Spirit Consciousness – Richard L. Alaniz
Hallucinogens and Shamanism – Michael J. Harner
Patients, Doctors and Healers: Medical Worlds among the Mapuche in Southern Chile – Dorthe Brogård Kristensen
Cherokee Medicine Man: The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer – Robert J. Conley
Advanced Shamanism: The Practice of Conscious Transformation – James Endredy
Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche – Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Shamanism for the age of science: Awakening the energy body – Kenneth Smith
The Archaeology of Shamanism – Neil Price
Visual Magick – Jan Fries
Historical Dictionary of Shamanism – Graham Harvey, Robert J. Wallis
.. he attended a reopen of expanded altbookstore in Buffalo last year ...
https://www.buffalorising.com/2022/08/groundbreaking-ceremony-burning-books/
w pic of their urban farming book display
an Oberlin graduate
https://allthatsinteresting.com/smallpox-blankets
Inside The Tangled History Of Colonists Giving Smallpox Blankets To Indigenous Americans
By Kaleena Fraga | Checked By Adam Farley
Published July 26, 2022
the last few lines do no service to the overall quality of the info:
They burned their homes, massacred their people, and didn’t follow their own treaties.
In that way, the story of smallpox — and smallpox blankets — is just a small part of the larger legacy of white settlement in North America. Though infected blankets were possibly used just once, white colonists relied on other violent ways to conquer the continent.
from the middle:
Jeffrey Amherst Smallpox Blankets
Public DomainSir Jeffrey Amherst’s legacy is tied to smallpox blankets, although his role in their use is convoluted.
“We gave them two blankets and a handkerchief out of the smallpox hospital,” Captain William Trent, a militia captain, wrote in his journal. “I hope it will have the desired effect.”
Though Ecuyer and Trent seemed to have acted independently, their superiors had the same idea. Ecuyer’s superior, Colonel Henry Bouquet, told his superior, Sir Jeffery Amherst, about Fort Pitt’s smallpox outbreak on June 23. And Amherst mused in his July 7 response about harnessing the disease to fight back against the Indigenous Americans.
“Could it not be contrived to Send the Small Pox among those Disaffected Tribes of Indians?” Amherst wrote to Bouquet. “We must, on this occasion, Use Every Stratagem in our power to Reduce them.”
Bouquet agreed. On July 13, he replied, “I will try to inoculate the bastards with some blankets that may fall into their hands, and take care not to get the disease myself.”
Amherst responded a few days later, saying that Bouquet should try using the infected blankets “as well as try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execreble [sic] Race.”
However, it’s unclear if Bouquet instructed Ecuyer to use smallpox blankets a second time or if the original blankets impacted the Delaware warriors.
History Net notes that some 60 to 80 Indigenous Americans got sick and died around this time, but it’s possible they were infected by smallpox already circulating in the region. They could have also caught the disease after taking items from settlers who they killed and abducted.
But less than 100 years later, a more devastating wave of smallpox decimated Indigenous American tribes, killing as many as 150,000 in the Midwest. Did smallpox blankets have something to do with it?
Did Americans Use Disease As A Biological Weapon?
At the end of the 20th century, a historian named Ward L. Churchill claimed that the smallpox epidemic of 1837-1838, which wiped out tens of thousands of Indigenous Americans in North Dakota, had been started by the U.S. Army.
“The blankets had been gathered from a military infirmary in St. Louis, where troops infected with the disease were quarantined,” Churchill wrote in his 1997 book A Little Matter of Genocide.
Indigenous Medicine Man
Captain Samual Eastman/National Library of MedicineAn 1857 depiction of a Indigenous American medicine man caring for a member of his tribe.
“Although the medical practice of the day required the precise opposite procedure, Army doctors ordered the Mandans [tribe] to disperse once they exhibited signs of the infection. The result was a pandemic among the Plains Indian nations which claimed at least 125,000 lives.”
In other words, Churchill asserted that the U.S. government had used smallpox blankets intentionally to perpetrate a genocide of Indigenous Americans. But is it true?
Simply put, no. Churchill’s claim about the U.S. Army was later found to be fabricated, according to Salon. But smallpox did devastate Indigenous Americans in the 1830s.
According to History Net, the epidemic started when a steamboat called St. Peter’s stopped at Fort Clark, North Dakota, along the Missouri River. The boat had infected passengers, and the disease soon spread throughout the nearby tribes.
But contrary to Churchill’s claim, U.S. government officials actually sought to stem the epidemic. Thomas Brown, an assistant professor of sociology at Lamar University who helped discredit Churchill’s research, explained in a 2006 paper published by the University of Michigan that an Indian Bureau subagent named Joshua Pilcher, who was on the boat, suggested an aggressive vaccination program to combat the disease.
Though he worried that Indigenous Americans would distrust vaccines and blame them for otherwise unrelated deaths, Pilcher wrote to his superior, “If furnishd with the means, I will cheerfully risk an experiment which may preserve the lives of fifteen or twenty thousand Indians.”
Pilcher’s colleague, William Fulkerson, similarly warned that “the small pox has broke out in this country and is sweeping all before it — unless it be checked in its mad career I would not be surprised if it wiped the Mandan and Rickaree [Arikara] Tribes of Indians clean from the face of the earth.”
Regardless of how the epidemic had started, it devastated Indigenous Americans. Suspicious that European settlers had spread the disease intentionally but unable to stop its scourge, they often turned to desperate means to prevent its spread. History Net reports that people flung themselves off cliffs, killed themselves or their families, and impaled themselves with arrows.
In the end, the epidemic killed tens of thousands. But it also did more than that. Rumors of smallpox blankets also planted a seed of distrust among Indigenous Americans toward the federal government that remains to this day.
How The Legacy Of Smallpox Blankets Endures Today
Stories about smallpox blankets — both true and false — are important in our own time. As The Washington Post pointed out, COVID-19 vaccine hesitency among Indigenous Americans can be traced to events like smallpox.
U profs
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/Churchill.pdf
https://www.aaup.org/JAF3/response-ellen-schrecker%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cward-churchill-dalton-trumbo-fountain%E2%80%9D-introduction-colorado#.V-mStPkrJQI
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In Response to Ellen Schrecker’s “Ward Churchill at the Dalton Trumbo Fountain”: An Introduction to the Colorado Conference of the AAUP’s Report on the Termination of Ward Churchill
By Ward Churchill
Prominently featured in the inaugural issue of the AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom (JAF) was an article by historian cum AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure member Ellen Schrecker titled “Ward Churchill at the Dalton Trumbo Fountain,” purportedly using my much-publicized case at the University of Colorado, Boulder (UCB) as a means of illuminating the more generalized repression of critical scholarship in the United States since September 2001. Having received a heads-up that the article would be appearing, I must admit that I’d been awaiting its publication with considerable eagerness. This was so, both because I hoped its release might reflect a change for the better in my theretofore negative experience with the AAUP’s national office, and because I held—in fact, still hold—Schrecker’s work concerning the impact of McCarthyism on the academy in highest esteem.She of all people, I imagined, couldbe relied upon not only to recount what had transpired at UCB in a fair and accurate manner but to properly contextualize it.
Hence, it should not be difficult to imagine how stunned I was, upon my first reading of the piece, to find myself depicted as a “long-haired fifty-eight-year-old … who affected a modified Native American style of dress with a beaded headband and dark glasses,” a man who’d “latched on to the Native American cause” from “the fringes of the 1960s left” although “the nature of his [own] identity as a Native American” is “spurious.”The reason for this last assessment, it was explained, is that, “Apparently, one of his ancestors had married a Native American woman … though Churchill was not actually her descendant.” Bluntly put, anyone viewing me through the lens of the “facts” Schrecker recited in this regard would have had little alternative but to conclude that I was guilty of “ethnic fraud,” and am perhaps a rather comic figure as well.
Remarkably, given the acutely personal nature of her observations, as well as the disparaging manner in which they were offered, Schrecker gave no hint of having bothered to actually acquaint herself with my background in any way at all. Indeed, while simply parroting my “enemies within … the faction-ridden American Indian Movement” concerning my supposed fashion preferences, the only source she cited in connection with everything else was a story appearing in the openly reactionary Denver Post at the very height of the Colorado media’s virulent campaign to discredit me during the spring of 2005.5 Not to put too fine a point on it, she’d have done no worse had she simply regurgitated as fact the contents of a profile emanating from Joe McCarthy’s internal security subcommittee when characterizing one of the individuals targeted by that squalid entity.
Read the entire article "In Response to Ellen Schrecker’s 'Ward Churchill at the Dalton Trumbo Fountain': An Introduction to the Colorado Conference of the AAUP’s Report on the Termination of Ward Churchill."
so sad yt has become a farce ... no WC in suggs ...
Ward Churchill Q&A After Talk Nov 17, 2017 SF, CA
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Ward Churchill answers questions about "Pacifism As Pathology" and other questions about his writing.
"Wielding Words like Weapons" is a collection of acclaimed American Indian Movement activist-intellectual Ward Churchill’s essays in indigenism, selected from material written during the decade 1995–2005. Taped at the Eric Quezada Center for Art And Politics in San Francisco California. Presented by Freedom Archives and PM Press.
Ward's talk includes Pacifism As Pathology, thirty years after it was first published.
https://www.perlego.com/book/1354822/pacifism-as-pathology-reflections-on-the-role-of-armed-struggle-in-north-america-pdf
the lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI7w3IuvmKU
this is a bay area account focusing on cooperatives
https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/ward-churchill .. shows none till you you hit the tag link
https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/ward%20churchill?sort=top
the WC dotnet site stopped 2014
Ward Churchill on Colonialism and Genocide - Reflections on Sartre’s Formulation,” a 2014 Walter Rodney Speaker Series lecture --------Posted on 13th Oct 2014
https://milkboydotnet.tumblr.com/post/165480758228/the-desire-for-a-nonviolence-and-cooperative
[T]he desire for a nonviolence and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein, however, lies our only hope.
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