Jaime Robert Robertson (born July 5, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a songwriter, guitarist and singer, best known for his membership in The Band.
Born to a Jewish father and a Mohawk mother, (he took his stepfather's last name after his mother remarried), Robertson had his earliest exposure to music at Six Nations 40, Ontario, where he spent summers with his mother's family. He studied guitar from his youth and was writing songs and performing from his teen years.
By 1958, Robertson was performing in various groups around Toronto. By 1959 he had met singer Ronnie Hawkins, who headed up a band called The Hawks (after relocating to Canada). In 1960 he joined the group, which toured often, before splitting from Hawkins in 1963.
The quintet styled themselves as The Canadian Squires and Levon and the Hawks [1], but (after rejecting such tongue-in-cheek names as The Honkies and The Crackers), ultimately called themselves The Band.
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Carlisle Indian Industrial School, (1879 - 1918), was an Indian Boarding School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry Pratt at a disused barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The so-called “noble experiment” was a failed attempt to forcibly assimilate Native American children into the culture of the United States. The United States Army War College now occupies the site of the former school.
Richard Pratt was an enlistedman and then an officer in the Civil War. After the war, Lt. Pratt was an officer with the Buffalo Soldier’s 10th Cavalry Regiment, in the southern plains of the United States. One of Pratt's jobs was to command the Native Americans who were enlisted Scouts for the 10th Cavalry. In 1875, Pratt took a small group of Native American leaders to Fort Marion, an Indian reservation or POW camp in Florida where they were held hostage to allow the U.S. Government to coerce their respective nations. At Fort Marion, Pratt set about trying to “civilize” his captives: taking away their traditional clothing in favor of military uniforms, cutting their traditional braids, teaching them English, etc. While these people were released in 1878, Pratt and others thought his techniques could be applied to others, especially children. He convinced others to establish Carlisle.
"It seems curious that church people, humanitarians, and idealists should fall so much in love with Pratt. He was a quite ordinary army officer who had developed a marked ability for knocking the spirit out of the Indians and turning them into docile students who would obey all orders. Pratt was a domineering man who knew only one method for dealing with anyone who opposed his will. He bullied them into submission." (Hyde, 1979, p. 289)
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Richard Pratt was an enlistedman and then an officer in the Civil War. After the war, Lt. Pratt was an officer with the Buffalo Soldier’s 10th Cavalry Regiment, in the southern plains of the United States. One of Pratt's jobs was to command the Native Americans who were enlisted Scouts for the 10th Cavalry. In 1875, Pratt took a small group of Native American leaders to Fort Marion, an Indian reservation or POW camp in Florida where they were held hostage to allow the U.S. Government to coerce their respective nations. At Fort Marion, Pratt set about trying to “civilize” his captives: taking away their traditional clothing in favor of military uniforms, cutting their traditional braids, teaching them English, etc. While these people were released in 1878, Pratt and others thought his techniques could be applied to others, especially children. He convinced others to establish Carlisle.
"It seems curious that church people, humanitarians, and idealists should fall so much in love with Pratt. He was a quite ordinary army officer who had developed a marked ability for knocking the spirit out of the Indians and turning them into docile students who would obey all orders. Pratt was a domineering man who knew only one method for dealing with anyone who opposed his will. He bullied them into submission." (Hyde, 1979, p. 289)
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Quotes
"Every part of all this soil is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley...has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished." -
Chief Seattle, Dwamish
Chief Seattle, Dwamish
Child's arrest angers Minn. tribe
VINELAND, Minn. - The 11-year-old boy was led from his school in handcuffs, held overnight in a juvenile detention center, and hauled into court in shackles and an orange prison jumpsuit.
His crime? Missing a court date to testify as the victim of an assault.
The treatment of the boy, a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, has reignited a decades-old feud between the tribe and officials from the surrounding county in central Minnesota.
"There's other people out there they could have picked to make an example of," said Kristie Lee Davis-Deyhle, the boy's mother, in her first interview about the case. "Not an 11-year-old."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070509/ap_on_re_us/child_arrest
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His crime? Missing a court date to testify as the victim of an assault.
The treatment of the boy, a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, has reignited a decades-old feud between the tribe and officials from the surrounding county in central Minnesota.
"There's other people out there they could have picked to make an example of," said Kristie Lee Davis-Deyhle, the boy's mother, in her first interview about the case. "Not an 11-year-old."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070509/ap_on_re_us/child_arrest
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Virginia tribes' recognition bill passes House
WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives' Natural Resources Committee has given its approval to a bill that would grant six Virginia Indian tribes federal recognition.
For the first time since the Virginia tribes have sought federal recognition through legislation, the Resources Committee took action on the bill April 25, sending it to the full House. The committee's action improves the bill's chances of consideration by the House, according to Rep. James P. Moran, D-Va., who introduced the bill in March.
While opponents to the federal recognition bill have argued that the Virginia tribes would be allowed to utilize the federal Indian Gaming Act, the bill includes an amendment that prohibits the tribes from pursuing gaming.
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414965&na=1559
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For the first time since the Virginia tribes have sought federal recognition through legislation, the Resources Committee took action on the bill April 25, sending it to the full House. The committee's action improves the bill's chances of consideration by the House, according to Rep. James P. Moran, D-Va., who introduced the bill in March.
While opponents to the federal recognition bill have argued that the Virginia tribes would be allowed to utilize the federal Indian Gaming Act, the bill includes an amendment that prohibits the tribes from pursuing gaming.
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096414965&na=1559
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