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Stand Watie, the Cherokee Confederate General
The last Confederate general to surrender in the American Civil War did so on June 23, 1865. He was brigadier general Stand Watie, a member of the Cherokee tribe. Watie’s story is remarkable. He was born in the ancient Cherokee homeland in the mountains in Georgia. The Cherokee were a powerful tribe, considered one of the “Five Civilized Tribes.” Those were…
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Rupert’s Land
One of the British North American colonies is usually forgotten about. It had a very small population, it was remote, it was closed off much of the year because of winter ice. It was huge, larger than the whole United States east of the Mississippi River. It was Rupert’s Land. You never heard of it. So who was Rupert and where…
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Bread and Roses
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Working Through Suicidal Thoughts
It’s likely that a sizable fraction of people reading this have had suicidal thoughts. That doesn’t mean you are weird or have a mental problem. It means that at some point, things just no longer made sense. Resigning from life may seem to make sense. It’s been a while since I was a young man. When I was, Iwas smart,…
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HELLO WORLD We’re Back!We’re back! After more than a year of not posting anything on this site, we’re back. We (Greg and Barbara) have had a tough year, but we have gotten our lives together and our partnership goals include making the site lively and we hope, helpful.What we intend to do in the coming months is post at least one…
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Animals That Spit at You
There was a time when, in the American West at least, thatbars and saloons had what were called spittoons, containers on the floor for patrons to spit into. Chewing tobacco was widespread then, a century and more ago. People who chewed tobacco, mostly men, chewed and spit. The spittoons were preferable to a slimy brown floor. That…