And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Priority: Normal >To: "ishgooda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "KOLA International Campaign Office" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Fw: Ghost Shirt - a bitter aftertaste - dumb article in "The Glaswegian" >Date: Mon, 28 Dec 98 19:44:31 PST > > >---------- >Date: Monday 28 December 1998 10:06:32 >From: Tom Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Ghost Shirt - a bitter aftertaste - dumb article in "The Glaswegian" > > >I find myself constantly feeling obliged to apologise for my fellow wasicus. >Just lately, since this business of the shirt arose, I have felt the need to >apologise for my fellow Scots in particular. > >The attached article is a prime example of the attitudes still prevailing in >certain (ie most) sections of the press. These are the same attitudes as led >to Wounded Knee to begin with. It is not the Lakota, dwelling in "wig-wams" or >otherwise, who are locked in the past, it is journalists like these, who seem >entirely disorientated to discover that Indians possess an existence outside >of John Wayne films. > >To state that this article is racist and offensive - for all their dignity, >the Lakota delegates are here cast as beggars - is quite superfluous, as it is >to point out that it trivialises this important event. This new link between >the City of Glasgow and the Lakota Nation is a vital and stimulating new >development, but Mr. Robertson conceives of it only as a waste of rate-payers' >money. Don't worry, Mr. Robertson, you got one thing spot-on - yes, you are >cynical. I assume that you weren't actually present at the public meeting - if >you had been there, you would have learned that the Lakota case was based on a >great deal more than simply that the shirt used to belong to the Lakota. > >As for that Burns manuscript, if it had been prised out of the frozen grasp of >a corpse at Glencoe, why yes, we would have a case for demanding its return >free of charge, in part settlement of an ancient wrong. What would Burns >himself have said about this? I think a clue in this direction is provided by >his classic lines: > >"It's coming yet, for a' that, > That man to man, the world o'er, > Shall be brithers be for a' that". > >At the public meeting, it seemed to me that these visionary and prophetic >words were at last being brought to realisation. > >Tom Cuningham > > >Right, here's that offensive article. >*************************************************************************** > >From "The Glaswegian" (free newspaper distributed in Glasgow), Thursday 10th >December, 1998: > >"Backbencher" with Bill Robertson > >Is it any surprise that the Lakota shirt handover should spawn another trip? >Trust the George Square nomads to organise it. > >Wigwam bampots on the move again. > >Cynical folks, like yours truly, may suspect that there was always a hidden >agenda. > >So it should come as no surprise to learn the latest plan being concocted by >our Labour councillors. > >They want to hold heap big pow wows - on a regular basis - with their new >found brothers, the Lakota Sioux. > >It is the next step in the saga of The Ghost Dance Shirt. After a century at >Kelvingrove museum, the relic of the Wounded Knee massacre is going back >across the Atlantic. > >But your councillors have decided, of course, that they can't simply wrap it >up like a Christmas parcel - and send it off through the post. > >Oh no! A working party is now at work to decide on "the composition of any >delegation to travel from Glasgow". In other words, a foreign trip is being >planned. Not to the actual wig-wams in South Dakota. More likely to the >nearest Hilton. > >With the party doing badly at the polls and municipal elections looming in >may, it will be a matter of wonder just how the Labourites will find the time. >However, that should be the only difficulty. The council will find the cash. > >Rostov in Russia or some reservation near the Rockies. No sweat for seasoned >world travellers. The Black Hills of Dakota seem set to become a regular stop >on the council's globetrotting circuit. > >Arts & Culture committee convener Liz Cameron is keen "to establish contacts" >with the Lakota. She is also anxious, according to the official minute, "to >maximise the opportunity for future cultural and educational exchanges". In >political jargon that means regular trips. > >Meanwhile, another relic has surfaced on the museum scene. Councillor Cameron >and her department were scurrying about trying to raise cash in a hurry before >this weeks's deadline. > >Status > >Up for auction in New York yesterday (Wednesday) was a genuine manuscript of >Burns' Auld Lang Syne. In the handwriting of the great man himself. The >Mitchell Library already holds the biggest collection in the world of Robert >Burns literature and memorabilia. The addition of this particular manuscript >would add to the collection's status. > >Big business, the lottery board, the Arts Council - all were being asked to >chuck cash into the kitty. To rescue a piece of Scottish heritage lying in a >foreign land. > >Strange that our councillors should have gone round with the begging bowl. >Why, like the Sioux, did they not simply ask for the relic to be returned to >its original home? 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