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I talked about the sad state of vineyard workers in a previous post. That got me thinking, when I buy wine gifts around the holidays am I taking those things into account or am I simply looking for a bottle which is on sale? If I’m just looking for a good bottle of wine which [...]
Human rights and farming are not exactly the best of friends. Far from it. In fact many of the serious current abuses of human beings center around both trafficking in women as well as the misuse of farm labor. The wine industry, sadly, is not exempt from that shame. Think about it, who picked the [...]
Native Americans living on reservations today are at a great disadvantage socially. The culture they are hoping to preserve is being destroyed by what are known as Western influences. Specifically the cheap price of alcohol. The native culture has very little stigma attached to alcohol abuse as alcohol distillation is not part of their cultural [...]
Poverty stricken Native Americans in poor parts of the country sometimes find themselves without all the necessary infrastructure to support modern technology. Thankfully, for those in the area of Williams Lake, ingenious thinking provides alternatives to technologies such as cooling which still enable them to preserved their food. When urban dwellers experience an appliance or [...]
Tobacco was used as an entheogen by Native Americans, when the Europeans arrived in America they farmed tobacco and used it as a trade commodity as well as a recreational drug. It was only after the American Civil war that the cigarette was developed and tobacco companies began to form. The rest as they say [...]
Travel has been one of the fastest growing consumer sectors over the last 20 years. Until fairly recently most people in the USA didn’t possess a passport. And this is especially true of indigenous and Indian people in the USA, Canada and Alaska. As a person of mixed indigenous and white blood I never really [...]
The first colonialists to the New World had two important advantages. Although they were vastly outnumbered by the locals they brought two things with them that proved decisive in the fight for land that was to inevitably happen after the initial pretense of friendship passed and settlers arrived looking to appropriate land. These two advantages [...]
There is no doubt that oppression of fat people continues to happen not just in America but elsewhere around the world and in most cases, learning effective weight loss tips is essential. There are countless sad stories about how obese people are being looked down in society; from the classrooms to the gym and even [...]
When people are shopping for fashion items such as designer shoes they are not thinking about the effect that the actual production of the item has had on the environment. Why should they, I hear people ask and this is the way I also used to think. The view that the manufacturing industry is trying [...]
It is hard to imagine today what the old Secwepemc people of Williams Lake would make of North American society today. We have a come long way from the Native American tradition of living in harmony with the land. These days we take from the land everything we can get and more. The nations that [...]
There are Indian tribes scattered all over North America and the challenge for most is to hang on to their heritage while at the same time providing economic opportunity for the younger ones. It is hard to keep the young adults interested in staying as there is so much more opportunity elsewhere and they want [...]
Rosa Parks raised awareness of the need for racial equality on the Montgomery Bus system in Alabama. Her well known act of public disobedience is been widely publicised (see Rosa Park: How I fought for Civil Rights). The question we shall be looking at today is not one of the color of our skin but [...]
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