tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post7100654749284009089..comments2024-03-29T04:38:14.302-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: The Mass Murderer or the Holy Man?Leigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-33112419947277172002016-09-01T20:51:17.013-04:002016-09-01T20:51:17.013-04:00Eve, you and I talked about this and I happen to a...Eve, you and I talked about this and I happen to agree with the decision. For similar reasons, I’d like to see the name Delaware changed as well. As I mentioned, I’m not for willy-nilly other name changes including the poorly understood Algonquin word ‘sqa’ (squaw), but renaming Harney to Black Elk is a matter of justice.Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-67451707724476565332016-09-01T18:14:39.399-04:002016-09-01T18:14:39.399-04:00It sounds like quite a few of us have South Dakota...It sounds like quite a few of us have South Dakota connections - now if we can just get a Bouchercon here, I can host a lot! <br /><br />I have climbed up to the tower. Although, to be honest, I always preferred (before my knees got too old) climbing Bear Butte, which is a very, very, very special place.<br /><br />Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-82611529300085364232016-09-01T12:37:21.196-04:002016-09-01T12:37:21.196-04:00Even though I lived in South Dakota for eleven yea...Even though I lived in South Dakota for eleven years, I hadn't heard about the name change, and I'd never heard about Harney's history. (I'd heard of Black Elk, though--contrary to the governor's opinion, I think most people in SD have.) Thanks, Eve, for giving us all this information. I'm very glad the name has been changed, a little amazed it wasn't done many, many years ago. Correcting this sort of injustice is well worth the expense of changing some maps and road signs.<br /><br />How many SleuthSayers have South Dakota connections? I hadn't known R.T. lived in the Black Hills. And we left the state fourteen years ago, too. Quite a coincidence!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17673578800047888317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-51372609860449671342016-09-01T11:57:29.196-04:002016-09-01T11:57:29.196-04:00Eve, we climbed up to the tower (shown in your top...Eve, we climbed up to the tower (shown in your top photo) a few times when we lived in the Hills. The view was great from the top, although the tower itself was in bad shape at the time. If you climbed in the right season, you could look down on floating clouds of yellow pine pollen. The same yellow pine pollen that the traditional Oglala gathered up and tied inside small squares of cloth and hung in the trees as prayer offerings.<br /><br />Nice article. Didn't know the name of the peak had been changed, but then we've been gone for 14 years.R.T. Lawtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15523486296396710227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-11174099024953488182016-09-01T10:13:20.481-04:002016-09-01T10:13:20.481-04:00Hi, Eve -- I'd seen this story as a news brief...Hi, Eve -- I'd seen this story as a news brief, but appreciate the extensive background and context here. Thank you! Art Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02409008167752619352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-65307253197874338772016-09-01T08:46:48.788-04:002016-09-01T08:46:48.788-04:00Anonymous, it is my pleasure. Anonymous, it is my pleasure. Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-9290779454442565742016-09-01T08:45:33.096-04:002016-09-01T08:45:33.096-04:00Bravo to Basil Brave Heart and the US Board on Geo...Bravo to Basil Brave Heart and the US Board on Geographical Names. I suspect there are other landmarks that could do with some naming revision as well.janice Lawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-90574101178485199692016-09-01T07:00:42.991-04:002016-09-01T07:00:42.991-04:00Thank you for writing this. It makes me think of a...Thank you for writing this. It makes me think of a poem I read just yesterday by an Australian Aboriginal woman of the Wiradjuri Nation, mourning the continued invisibility of Native people, and our suffering, around the world. She wrote in part: <br />"Our will to survive is strong, however our will to remain reminded of our loss in every way is unnerving<br />When will we hear the words that need to be said to heal our hearts, souls and peoples?<br />When will we see our land being healed and our knowledge and philosophy respected?"(1)<br />Thank you for saying words that are healing to many. Even if some people do not happen to read them, the very presence of your words in the world is an act of healing, in and of itself.<br /><br />(1) Juanita Sherwood. "An Aboriginal Health Worker's Research Story". Chapter 12 in "Indigenous Pathways into Social Research," edited by Donna M. Mertens, Fiona Cram, and Bagele Chilisa. pp. 203-218. 2013. Left Coast Press, Inc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com