{"id":744,"date":"2007-11-14T15:21:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T15:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=179"},"modified":"2007-11-14T15:21:59","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T15:21:59","slug":"111307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"11\/13\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

My family and I attended a “Native American Culture Class” at Trinity Church in Cleveland tonight. \u00a0 It was sponsored by the American Indian Education Center <\/strong>here. \u00a0 The Center’s Sheldon Glave said it is essential \u00a0people understand the true history, and plight, of the Native Americans. \u00a0 A Navaho woman, Loretta Taylor, demonstrated how to make fried bread, explaining here ancestors made it from ground wheat and animal fat. \u00a0 It was (and still is) a staple in Native American diets, especially among the poor. \u00a0 Because of poverty and poor nutrition, low income Native Americans are often more prone to disease… \u00a0 The session was attended by Jesse of the Tiano Tribe, who lives in Lorain, Ohio, and is a Native American activist. \u00a0 He said the Tiano \u00a0was the first tribe Christopher Columbus encountered. \u00a0 I added that it was my belief God had orchestrated a “coming together” (with Columbus being the first) of two cultures to learn from each other. \u00a0 And synergistically, this would have created a much better society as a whole. \u00a0 One problem: \u00a0 Columbus, and those who came after, were more interested in gold, land, and so on. \u00a0 They were driven by greed, not the common good. \u00a0 We can still make it right, I explained this evening, through (for instance) classes just like this one. Note:<\/strong> To view our Native American position paper<\/a>, which is based on years of cross country research…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My family and I attended a “Native American Culture Class” at Trinity Church in Cleveland tonight. \u00a0 It was sponsored by the American Indian Education Center here. \u00a0 The Center’s Sheldon Glave said it is essential \u00a0people understand the true …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}