To learn more about the Native American Ghost Dance movement and the conflagration at Wounded Knee in 1890, over the weekend I read Rex Alan Smith’s Moon of the Popping Trees: The Tragedy at Wounded Knee and the End of the Indian Wars. Smith has constructed a crisp narrative that will hold your attention.
For those [...]
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Over at WorldNews, Dallas Darling (love that name) has posted a nice story asking “What Kind of Christianity Should Texas Teach?“ There are, of course, many kinds of Christianities, though the Texas School Board apparently believes Christianity is an essential unity and their perception of this fictitious unity (and false history) should be taught in [...]
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