#sun chief

[everycloudinatla]

Season 3, Episode 13, 22:49, 23:02

i feel like the sun chief is someone who's always making puns.

[avatarsymbolism]

[everycloudinatla]

Season 3, Episode 13, 14:16-15:17

The design of the mountain in the background is so cool! I would watch a whole series about the sun warriors.

[hclib]

Censorship in the Library, 1943

This week is Banned Books Week (September 27-October 3, 2015), a time in which we celebrate our freedom to read, our freedom to choose, and our freedom of expression.

The Minneapolis Public Library Archive at the Minneapolis Central Library includes correspondence from patrons demanding that particular titles be removed from the collections. Based on the responses from librarians, they sometimes complied. In his 1943 letter to Chief Librarian Carl Vitz, F. E. Farrell states his distaste for the book Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian edited by Leo Simmons and published in 1942 by Yale and Oxford University Presses.

“This book is the most obscene and indecent that I have ever read in my long and varied life as a general reader, editor, and medical student. It is not educating, useful, or true of the Indians. I feel that you will investigate my statement and remove or destroy this book.”

In this case, the local librarian agreed, but not enough to withdraw the books from the collection. The two library copies of Sun Chief were moved to the closed stacks and marked with a warning so they would not be put on open shelves. The collections were censored: “we try to be sure that every book included is a positive and wholesome inclusion,” Chief Librarian Vitz said in his personal reply to Mr. Farrell.

[whole-e-stick-blog]

She taught us to ask Jesus to watch over us while we slept. I had tried praying to Jesus for oranges and candy without success, but I tried it again anyway.

Don C. Talayesva, the Sun Chief, speaking on his experience as a Hopi child in a missionary boarding school, 1899.

[prayerandpugilism]

I love how

it was dark and cloudy outside and it was pouring rain. I wanted to pray to the Great Spirit, so I went out on my porch and did that, amidst the rain, and cold and darkness. As if in acknowledgement of my prayer, the rain died down to a light sprinkle, and Sun Chief peeked through the clouds and greeted me. With delight I then greeted the Sun, "Hau mitakuye oyasin". Today is a good day.