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rsmith6621

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Tue May-20-08 06:18 PM
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"Barack Black Eagle"

Crow Tribe adopts candidate Obama in historic visit

Senator commits to have an American Indian policy adviser

By BECKY SHAY
Of The Gazette Staff
CROW AGENCY - If elected president, Sen. Barack Obama will "shake up" the bureaucracy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and appoint American Indians to be his White house advisers, he promised the Crow Tribe during a rally here Monday.

Obama called his visit to Crow Agency "one of the most important events we've had in this campaign."

"Barack Black Eagle, that is a good name," Obama said, and then made listeners laugh as he struggled to pronounce the tribal name for Crow people, Apsaalooke.

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/05/20/news/state/18-obama_s.txt

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BayouBengal07

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Tue May-20-08 06:23 PM
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1. Sounds like a 70s superhero

Edited on Tue May-20-08 06:24 PM by BayouBengal07

Black Eagle and the Superfriends!

I like it.

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islandmkl

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Tue May-20-08 06:25 PM
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2. in the words of a real American:

"Too long this country has been divided," Venne (Crow Chairman) said. "This is a red state. This is a blue state. As the senator says, it doesn't matter, we're all American."

It is the sad fact that the American Indians, of all tribes and people, are the forgotten refuse of Western Imperialism...

it is sickening to hear RW zealots speak of 'patriotism' and 'the red, white & blue' when the very soil we ALL stand on was stolen through genocide and bureaucracy these past 300+ years...

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