Over Your Head

let it go,,,,its about time we the original inhabitants of this land get some recognition. We are always getting the short end and all this is doing is helping the people. Meaning all the original peoples of this land. Look what happend when they wanted to rename a mountain called squaw peak for Lori Piestawa. That racism is still there and probably always will be even from you as because. Did you ever look back in your history and see why there are only 153 left. Well we have had our share here too in the plains and i have read some of the history of the California Indians. Don't look in the history books to find it because they dont tell the real story,,go to the source meaning the people,,,ask them,,,,we here have a story of the people fleeing to Canada,,,,of the U.S. Army chasing them,,,,,and almost getting captured,,,but by some miracle they were spared,,,,why??? what happened?? well it got dark in the daytime and they were able to get away to the sanctuary of Canada,,,,but anywayz a lot of nonnatives don't or wouldn't believe that because its to far fetched,,,,,but wasn't the parting of the red sea far fetched,,,yu know us Natives were and still are a praying people,,,but wanted to share that with you,, to get a point across to show that here only one sided history is taught . It was genocide then and still is to this day. So just want to say let it go,,pray for peace,,,doksa

My sister brought up a good point. The parallel to this is the fact that (along the lines of teaching history) that while 154 is being named Chumash Highway Santa Barbara still celebrates Fiesta which celebrates murderous conquest.

It's as though the politicians are trying to please both sides.

"let it go" is good advice to you BOTH. Why don´t you BOTH just embrace the present.....and focus yourselves on consumption and overendulgance...your destiny is to be obese and diabetic and in a mountain of consumer debt....you are too far removed from your ancestry for it to even matter. Long live capitalist excess!

Why is it that so many people are resistant to the idea that the People who settled here first are owed something, while at the same time everyone has a bleeding heart for the Jews who died in WWII?

Can someone show me the difference, in killing someone in a gas chamber, compared to handing them a smallpox blanket? Is a "kinder, gentler" means of exterminating a population possible? And, is Israel not a reservation for the Jews--albeit one of their chosen holy lands?

Oh yeah, the difference is *we* live here, and not in the Mid-east. . . .

As an aside, I was exposed to some Civil War history this weekend, and it somehow became apparent to me that 143 years really wasn't so long ago. Only about 6 generations, if you count them at 25 years each, and the War of Independence was about over 230 years ago. The point is, many Reservations were founded in the late 1800's, and again, really not that long ago. Yet here we are, now able to ignore the atrocities of the past, and whine about the naming of a road.

While we're at it, maybe we could write letters, to have the Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail changed to the "Jeep Cherokee Oklahoma-Tennessee Soccer-mom Highway". Who's in?

I believe that the issue is NOT about the Chumash people but rather about money. The one thing that made this highway name change happen was money. A good point was brought up about why this name change didn't happen 15-20 years ago. Might it have something do with casino dollars? Times have changed for some fortunate tribal members and we all know buying politicians is cheap in the big picture. The tribes with casinos are making millions of dollars in political contributions a year. Take the time to follow the money and see where it is really coming from. I only wish that our elected officials would realize that there is no money for the county, state or country in "tribal gaming". At least privately owned casinos would have to pay their fair share and the state might actually benefit. All of the billions our state has been promised in the current tribal compacts is yet to be seen. The promise of more money to the state through tribal gaming is a lie. The social and economic costs of our small, precious communities is too high. Again, it's got NOTHING to do with the Chumash - they just did what they do. The fault lies with our own legislative government and all our elected officials - they all have their hands out.