I really hope this picture was not taken from a tree.

Little Pig, Little Pig, come down from that tree.

You got nothing to fear, you can trust me.

Top BIA official resigns to take LDS Church post

Just ran across this this morning during my usual wanderings across the wilds of the Internet. It seems that a member of the Pawnee nation has resigned his post in the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take a position in the Mormon Church.

WHAT!!!!!!???

I thought I had seen sellouts before but this is over the top. Few groups in the modern era are more insulting to Native people than the Mormons. Their manufactured religion (OK, OK all religion is manufactured) and less-than-factually based visions of American History are a fecal log in the punchbowl of Native culture. Now we are faced with this? What the hell is next? Is Jesse Jackson going to join the Klan?

Cracker

Just read that the word "cracker" as a pejorative word for white people comes from the experience of slave owners cracking whips. Can someone in NC comment on this?

Wikipedia says:

Etymology

One theory is that slaver foremen in the antebellum South used bullwhips to discipline African slaves, with such use of the whip being described as 'cracking the whip'. The white foremen who cracked these whips were thus known as 'crackers'.