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Just saw a preview for “little bird” which is on pbs. 6 parts series. May be a realistic portrayal of rez life. Kids being taken from their families. Won’t say it’s a fun ride but maybe a realistic one.

I think they could get Ethan hawke. So Ethan hawke they got. And we’re supposed to squint that he fits the criteria.

I think some things about reservations is you don’t miss what you don’t have. I think any and all walks of life should be encouraged to go wherever. Learn whatever. Take advantage of whatever opportunities there may be. And there’s no failure in returning to the reservation or your home town and bringing that enrichment with you. If that’s what elora does. Yippee. I feel like cheese and willie jack also intend to pay it forward in whatever way. The indigenous people I’ve known have been the happiest people I’ve ever known. And that’s people who have to bring in sheep to sleep with in winter for heat. Not ideal for everybody but they ain’t sad about it.

part of the sense of community comes from the reservations themselves. Initially they were prisons. The government shoved them in and said don’t come out without asking. Navajos were lucky they got locked into the location they already had. White peoples didn’t want it. They had their sheep and the govt gave them flour and booze. They made do. But it meant if one guy has a truck and going to town pretty much everybody jumping in the truck and going to town. It means when there is a pandemic and they say hunker in place. Boy do they ever. The Navajos suffered tremendously because they hunkered together. You do not leave a man behind even if the man is sick and gonna take you all down. Community is necessity and you do not comprehend the level of “sharing” until you’ve hung out on a reservation.

I had a laugh on myself with a wild guess that Matthew Broderick would be the murderer. I’m looking at the shiny Constable jacket and wondering how far fetched any of the death rattle costumes etc are compared to real productions. Yes confused for a second why Ben was singing with Loretta and the figured it out. I FEEL 58 AGAIN.

As the white Steve of my growing up years I’d say yes they do respect their elders way more than regular teenagers. That doesn’t mean that they don’t get up to teenage hijinks. At my graduation I literally begged people to get out of town. If you don’t go anywhere how can you grow? Etc. Speaking only about Navajos they do not expect to leave their 4 sacred mountains. I do think it’s important to return. I have my own personal Elora my “niece” just got her doctorate and plans to create something that brings Navajo holistic medicine and add in the biligana stuff. Mental health in particular. It’s about trust. Most Navajos don’t trust western medicine. Her mom runs the community center with heavy emphasis on suicide prevention because there is so much need.

It did make me cry. I like Jackie’s hair darker. She looked like a skunk. I will miss them. I know cheese is in the fablemans so maybe I’ll go visit him. Otherwise off to “our flag means death”

I think I’m getting off work early so maybe I can watch BUT I DONT WANNA BE SAD. :(

Holy crap I think I’m white steve. Aye dios mio I much prefer if Jackie and bear are an item that we left it there. Good lord knows I could care less who Taylor swift is dating but they sure wanna make me try.

I haven’t watched it yet and probly won’t have time until this weekend but In olden times (dvr) I’d just save the last episode and never watch, then in my brain it never ended. Never watched the last episode of the daily show. (I know Trevor Noah kept making it but I never watched.) I need a friendly ancestor ghost ego farts.

I do think ethan hawke did a good job. And it kinda helps that I was disinclined to like him. We are all elora approaching this situation and she went into it defensive because he was unknown. Him being bad and awkward at fatherhood was kinda expected. Although I wanna know how she went about stalking him because she didn’t enter the hardware store after him (that I could tell) she couldn’t have just known he’d be there. Has she been following him for days? And as a house painter all he got was 2 cans of spray paint? Also as an elder, ahem, I remember when Willow came out and even if he was a film nerd I find it hard to believe he named her. There was no dude on this planet at that time that I could have convinced to go see that movie. I read the book. I awaited the movie. Dudes didn’t. Spoiler alert I don’t love Val Kilmer either. Walton goggins is another irrational hate.

I enjoy maya hawke so it’s contained to her dad. Again I have no idea what it is that bugs me so bad about him. I think sister magpie just called me old! 😩 Ethan hawke is older than me so neener.

Opposite of Ethan hawke there are people who I’d watch anything they ever do. Nick offerman is one. If they made him Eloras dad? I’d cry enough to flood Oklahoma. When Elaine from northern exposure showed up on “the last of us “ with graham Greene I squeed. I know it’s too late now since it’s the end of Eric Schweig is another one I love. I don’t wanna say I’m old enough to have the hots for Wes studi but among the elder men I like him most unless they got Eric schweig. Then I call dibs on the snagging.

In the magnificent 7 Chris Pratt died exactly right. I think first. And in a stupid manner, I think he ran straight at a Gatling gun. I wanted the Asian guy to live. He and Ethan hawke were the last 2 in the bell tower and by god I wanted to push him off. I think there’s a smugness to him and Costner and nic cage. That I think annoys me. They can do great work ( I love raising Arizona despite my disdain for nic cage) I’m sad too that they chose to end rez dogs. Ever since northern exposure I seek these things out. That remind me of home since I can’t be there.

:( omg I HAAAAAATE Ethan hawk. It’s very irrational. I have zero reason for this. I just want to slap his stupid face. I have several irrational hates. Kevin Costner. People who just ruin absolutely anything they’re in (for me. Mhoo) 🤮 when they remade 7 samurai with Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt etc I prayed the entire time that Ethan hawk would die. Spoiler alert he didn’t die. Everybody in that movie I loved …dead. Saving private Ryan …the dude I hate lives (not Matt Damon the other one) now it’s tainted.

I love the heist plan. I love that it was unnecessary. I had not initially put together that Maximus was the lost brother. I’m glad it tied together because I’ve also been feeling that this season is a lot of bottle episodes. It’s great to get to know cheese on his own or bears journey but I like the group. And I loved that every single element of their plan was so half assed. I love that Kenny boy is the dude from jury duty. I kept trying to place him I love snagging.

That kid has so much more hair than Daryl and it looks combed and clean. I am looking forward to the Rick/michonne one. I hope they do right by them. I just do not understand the appeal of Darryl.

I did watch it. I did NOT hate it. I saw the bath. Ugh I just do not know how they keep doing this to me. I think I’m out and they keep pulling me back in.

Yep. And early 70’s were just barely coming off the forced residential schools where they quite literally tried to beat the Navajo out of you. Marcy’s parents both went to Utah for school (not forced like old days) and luckily got to come back to their fully Navajo families. Marcy was born in 1971 and got to learn to speak Navajo. It was fading. They tried to stamp it out and there is a resurgence. Between Marcy and her youngest sibling, 13 years they didn’t speak Navajo. My next door neighbor pretended not to speak Navajo. She was ashamed of all things Navajo. She “understood” but didn’t speak Navajo and hated when they showed up at school twice a year with clothes for Navajo kids. You got a big clear garbage bag full of a big winter jacket, jeans underwear and necessities. She hated it because it was Walmart clothes. Lots of families needed it, she did not. Her dad and my dad worked together. Every day of her life she tried to be as white as possible.

I think when he left to go to fbi he tried to be as white as possible. If they’re going somewhere with this and having him re-ignite his tribal pursuits, that’s a journey for him. I don’t know that they’ve got the time to do that. AMC is another of those that gives these shows about 3 seasons unless they become cultural phenomenon. I think there were 2-3 hillerman movies made. With Adam beach as Jim chee and wes studi as Joe leaphorn. They were pretty good for a made for tv movie. This past weekend was Navajo nation fair in window rock and megadeath played. I don’t know how I feel about that. Boys I went to high school with were very heavy metal with a side of country. Ac/dc was a favorite.

I’m only halfway through the negan and Maggie one so I dunno if I can’t take unwashed darryl again.

Anybody watch Darryl? I don’t want to wander in there and get spoiled but lord I don’t care for Darryl and don’t wanna. Sigh.

I do think she’s a big reason why he stayed. I don’t think he didn’t not want to work for leaphorn but I do think he def did not want to work for fbi anymore. Obviously he was working for evil fbi guy but aside from that the fbi didn’t actually care about anything but the money in the robbery. No matter the murders that occurred as a result. He was disillusioned with the whole system. But a terrible terrible private investigator. Ha. And he got no game. Elvis shoulda snapped up manuelito he’d probly be alive today…or is he? Next season on dark winds, Elvis is found living on the rez.

Oooh I gotta watch this behind the scenes! I would agree with that. And I don’t know how all native cultures view murder, Zahn McClarnon himself is not Navajo, he just plays one on tv. I like that they respect his input. But a Navajo thing is to not say the name of the deceased, meaning when he got upset at dinner and accidently called jim chee “joe”. Throughout the show he Refered to “my son” never by name. You are pretty much only pronouns after you die. They also don’t keep things. Like making the belt buckle into a feather. Or the jacket that he buried. When you died you were supposed to set the hogan on fire and all your things go with you. (For obvious reasons that’s not practiced too much anymore) You aren’t supposed to be in a house where a person died. My friend Marcy got in trouble for coming to my house the night my mom died (although my mom didn’t die in our house, it was still a house of a deceased person) there were some anxious aunties that kept trying to get her to leave. And my mom had a sweater that Marcy kept for years when you weren’t supposed to keep personal items. But she’s a modern Navajo and she liked my mom just like Joe jrs girlfriend shouldn’t have kept the jacket.

True. Any murder is federal. Indigenous or white. If you steal something from a store they can arrest and charge you. If you were biligana they send you to white people court. If your cows/sheep/ livestock get out and are all over you pretty much can’t call anyone. Just hope they come home.