Part of the problem, I suspect, is that most of the native communities are in the inland west and often very remote. Most of us never have occasion to meet or talk to any indigenous people.
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There has long been a significant community of Mohawk iron workers in New York City, but we are very fortunate to have a major branch of the National Museum of the American Indian, which brings speakers and artists from all over the country every month. I always learn something when I go there.
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From the same CNN link. Apologies if already posted: 4 year old accidentally shoots himself:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/14/us/oa...amily-gunfire/
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostThere has long been a significant community of Mohawk iron workers in New York City, but we are very fortunate to have a major branch of the National Museum of the American Indian, which brings speakers and artists from all over the country every month. I always learn something when I go there.
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Yup, those are the Mohawks.
I went to a talk by one of them who said that it wasn't that they were unaware of the risks, but rather that they had been culturally trained to minimise and accept them in order to make a good living and continue the tradition. He said that he wasn't that keen on going onto the roof of his house because he wasn't being paid for that and didn't have his equipment at home.
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The opening scenes are from the construction of One Chase Manhattan Plaza, which is a block from my office and contains the subway entrance I use most often.Last edited by ursus arctos; 01-05-2019, 19:18.
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I heard an interview recently with the grand-daughter of one of the Six Nations Mohawk steel walkers. He told her that as kids they'd play on railway trestles all the time, daring each other to climb higher and run faster along the beams.
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It seems so alien to me that the commentary says that these are just normal guns, but something must have happened to trigger the investigation. As if having several hundred long guns and handguns was totally normal and shouldn't alert the police.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostWhat a fucked up country that my first reaction was: "This is the biggest mass shooting of the year, and it's only 12 people. We doing pretty well compared to last year."
But these shootings only count for a small percentage of people being shot in the US. Suicides are more common than homicides and domestic murder is more common than these types of “stranger” murder.
The numbers appear to be fairly stable, but they are also very high. I don’t understand how “not increasing” is supposed to make the problem less urgent.
www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/10/1/18000524/mass-shootings-rare
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If only garlic farmers had had the foresight to arm themselves with machine guns, this would never have happened
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49147369
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