White House Ignored Warnings about Katrina

[scamper]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
Yeah, Brian really knows how it goes in Neo-Con Fantasy Land...

Is that the place with the Dumbo the Flying Elephant ride?

[Hardrock69]

You got it!
:D

[FORD]

Originally posted by scamper
Where is the dakota tribe located?

Mostly Minnesota and Nebraska these days.

[FORD]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
No, I think that's the Lakota.

Actually, the name "Sioux" includes the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota nations. But they are three branches of the same family, if you go back a few centuries or so.

[4moreyears]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
No.

Everyone knows the BCE has a Hurricane Deflection Device (HDD) that they could have used to deflect the storm into a safer area. They didn't want to though because they wanted to punish the Negroes of New Orleans for voting against Dubya in the election. Everyone knows that.

Signed by Mayor: C. Ray Nagin

[Angel]

Originally posted by FORD
Actually, the name "Sioux" includes the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota nations. But they are three branches of the same family, if you go back a few centuries or so.

And the name "Sioux" was created by the French Canadians, who abbreviated the Algonquin compound Nadouéssioux (from nadowe ("Iroquois") plus siu ("snake"/the massasauga rattler), by which a neighboring Ojibwa tribe, or the Ottawa, referred to the Dakota to the west and south. This term is popularly interpreted as an insult but it could refer to a time when the Dakota people, like other southeastern tribes, were known to revere serpents (see Serpent Mounds in Ohio, feathered serpent, water serpents - unktehi/uktena, etc.)

Today many of the tribes continue to officially call themselves 'Sioux' which the Federal Government of the United States applied to all Dakota/Lakota/Nakoda people in the 19th and 20th centuries.

http://www.crystalinks.com/sioux.html

An ancestor of mine was a French Canadian Voyageur who married a Sioux nation woman.