24 March 2008

it's 30 below, and i'm an "indian" player ...


hey, brady braves ... any of ya attend the november 2007 redfacin' soiree sponsored by a sorority at the university of north dakota? check it out in one of today's indianz.com headlines: http://indianz.com/News/2008/007787.asp
a former sorority prez says the party's theme was cowboys. apparently, some folks didn't get the memo. or perhaps they were just doing a brady bravin' good deed of completing the cowboys 'n' indians dichotomy ...

14 March 2008

mascots and dna

good ol' boy dan rogers of somewhere outside of bradyville says in a letter to the editor that "most Americans believe the American Indians should hold their head high and be proud to be referred to as redskins." another example of a mr. brady-like father figure telling ind'ns what to "be proud" about, ennit? and check the dichotomy: "americans" as separate from "american indians." your arguments so old and so trite, mr. rogers, that you're not wayne's-worldly-worthy to be in the brady brave hall of shame ...

for something more original, check out WA Post's article on indian DNA ... "Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests.
Those women left a particular DNA legacy that persists to today in about about 95 percent of Native Americans, researchers said." calling all brady bravers across the americas: forgive this sentence-ending preposition and take your pick of which of the six you're with ... a new song for disney? 1 little, 2 little, 3 little cherokee princesses, er, p[americ]an-indian princesses ... 4 little, 5 little, 6 little ...

07 March 2008

and then there were 10 ...


a month since the last brady update? ... well, here's a quick one for you brady bravers ... if you're looking for redvoiced music, in particular, a classic colonialist oldie, then check track 17 of disney's children's favorite songs ... according to sales on amazon.com, "ten little indians" looks to still be a favorite ... #2 in educational children's music ... #6 in sing-a-longs kids' tunes ...