Wampum

I made a comment I've yet to provide the requested support for, on the limits to the utility of Dee Brown's work "Bury my heart at Wounded Knee". Part of any critique of how Bmh@WK is consumed would be that it is not the end of histories, simply an end to Dee's work on a history, but more important than it being an end, it is the end of mass interest in White Colonial Studies.

If Congress passed an Indian History Month (and if it has, who cares), it would, like late November's Pilgrim Ritualism, feature Bmh@WK and nothing later. And nothing by American Indians, or Native Americans, or First Peoples, or 'Skinz, or NDNz, or Metis, or ... except perhaps some bright words by some guy self-named mumble-eagle, or some gal self-named spirit-bumble.

So I've avoided doing anything in the "Schwarzer Geschichte Monat" genre. Instead I've spent some considerable time developing the back-end (civicrm and drupal) of a campaign site for a person I used to chat with while shopping with Sam or Jonah (and doing labeling and early language) at Shaw's Northgate in Portland. She is running for an open seat, as Tom Allen is running for the Senate seat in the '08 cycle. In this race, the MDP June primary winner will win the general election, so everything of interest for the ME-01 happens between now and the first week of June next year.

She isn't the only woman in the primary mix, but she is the only civil rights movement activist in the primary mix, and there has never been an African American Woman elected to the US Congress from a New England state. We write Black History, continuously.

Correction: Thanks to milo in comments for pointing out the election of Gary Franks from Connecticut, who served 3 terms, from 1991-1997, and Edward Brooke from Massachusetts, who served 2 terms in the U.S. Senate, from 1967-1979.