Native Americans

The Trump death cult tour comes to South Dakota

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Donald Trump is going to Mount Rushmore today for an Independence Day eve campaign rally and fireworks show (a decade after fireworks were banned amid concerns about wildfires and groundwater pollution). President Trump pushed for the revival of the fireworks display, so naturally this red state complied with his whims. The local Argus Leader reports, Fire expert: Mount … Read more

Minority Elected Officials in Southern Arizona

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Someone asked me recently about who are the minority politicians in Southern Arizona. So here’s my list (which is not comprehensive, as I didn’t list Town of South Tucson nor the Native American tribes – where they are the majority), so please let me know by commenting below if I forgot anyone.

Hispanic  Americans:

Raul Grijalva, CD 3 Congressman

Richard Elias, D 5 Pima County Supervisor

Ramon Valadez, D 2 Pima County Supervisor

F. Ann Rodriguez, Pima County Recorder

Olivia Cajero Bedford, LD 3 State Senator

Macario Saldate, LD 3 House

Rosanna Gabaldon, LD 2 House

Daniel Hernandez Jr., LD 2 House

Regina Romero, Ward 1 Councilwoman

Richard Fimbres, Ward 5 Councilman

Luis Gonzales, PCC Governing Bd. (District 5)

Adelita Grijalva, TUSD Governing Board (Raul’s daughter)

Eva Carrillo Dong, Sunnyside School District Governing Board

Robert Jaramillo, Sunnyside Schooil District Governing Board

Beki Quintero, Sunnyside School District Governing Board

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Indigenous Peoples Day at Global Justice Center – updated

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY South Tucson, AZ Monday, October 10, 2016 GLOBAL JUSTICE CENTER BLOCK PARTY BEGINS 10AM to 9PM 225 E. 26 ST. (between 3rd and 4th Avenues) “Live Art, Music, Dancers and Speakers throughout the day. Featuring hip hop crew Barrio Mindz, art collective Neoglyphix, and various traditional dancers of the Tohono O’odham, Yaqui, … Read more

GOP feigned outrage of the day: Denali (no, seriously)

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Ohio Republicans have their panties in a twist that President Obama has authorized Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to restore the name of the tallest peak in Alaska (and the U.S.) to its millennia-old native people’s name of Denali, from Mount McKinley, named after the 25th President of the United States who came from Ohio.

The Washington Post today has the story behind the original name change. How a 19th-century political ‘joke’ turned into a 119-year-long debate:

DenaliThe name Mount McKinley “was little more than a joke.”

That’s according to toponymist George R. Stewart, an expert in American place-names (apparently a real field of academic study).

There was no reason, Stewart explained in his 1945 tome “Names on the Land,” why a New Hampshire gold prospector of little consequence should have been able to christen America’s tallest peak.

But politicians, not toponymists, are the ones who control the nation’s maps, which largely explains how the craggy, ice-bound mountain remained named after America’s 25th president for more than a century.

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