This post is going to several lists. While it's always pleasant for me to see a link indicated with one of my very special pieces of writing, I'm somewhat puzzled why Michael Pugliese posted a discussional link for "Gray Lands, Gray Ghosts" on ASDnet when I had just barely finished posting on ASDnet the direct link to my webpage which carries the piece. Only difference is, the webpage also contains Jesuit Father Nicolas Point's excellent 1841 Rocky Mountain sketches of my very-relevant-to-today great/great/great grandparents, John Gray and Marienne -- Mohawk Indians. Again, the website link is http://www.hunterbear.org/GRAY%20LANDS%20AND%20GRAY%20GHOSTS.htm
The link Pugliese provided was Leninist International [one of Mac Stainsby's always interesting lists.] At the same time I posted the piece there, I posted it on about fifteen other lists -- Native and radical -- including ASDnet, SocUnity, and DSA Anti-Racism. It's been very well received. Perhaps Pugliese, who likes to keep busy, was intrigued or even horrified by "Leninist." He seems to be treasuring the link from Leninist International. Or, perhaps he just wanted to divert people away from our huge social justice website which now often gets upwards of 400 to 450 visitors per day. I do have a full set of Lenin -- all 45 volumes in cloth [no index with this set] in my massive library. The set immediately adjoins that of my patron saint, Ignatius of Loyola.They do have much in common -- among other things, vigorous and militant commitment. I've always been especially interested in Lenin's principled pragmatism under difficult revolutionary conditions. [In addition, I have a nice bust of Lenin which I rescued from oblivion and that sits on the top of one bookshelf, under the old family tomahawk which is attached -- with its ancient feathers tied to it in ancient rawhide -- to the wall. Lenin looks across the room at a photo of Frank Little [Cherokee and IWW leader, lynched at Butte on August 1 1917], a photo of Jack Reed at his typewriter, and the sketch my father gave me virtually as soon as I was born: the Mohawk leader Joseph Brant [Thayendanegea] watching his warriors burning out the settlers in the Cherry Valley section of New York State. [When I asked a friend, a Lenin scholar in the East, if he thought Lenin would mind the nearby tomahawk, he said he didn't think Lenin would mind that at all.] I also picked up along the trail a battered set of Stalin [13 volumes] which extends into the '30s -- but I keep that a bit segregated from the now almost countless other books. As Ever Hunter Gray [Hunterbear] www.hunterbear.org Protected by NaŽshdoŽiŽbaŽiŽ and Ohkwari' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pugliese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "asdnet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 1:51 AM Subject: [ASDnet] Re:[L-I] GRAY LANDS, GRAY GHOSTS: NATIVE EARTH, ACTIVISM AND ENDURANCE > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/leninist-international/2002-November/01 2996.html > > _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
