Native Americans in the United States

I think, and this is a- an important point, too.

Uh, you, you brought up a very, I think, powerful thing in American history where, um, a lot of the natural Native American springs have been, um, unfortunately taken, uh, corporatized, I guess you could say, where they're not, um, just natural springs anymore.

They're these, um-

Bath houses and-

Right.

Yeah, I was gonna-

... to really thrive and survive, then it, then you do it in a conscious, respectful way, which is what many of the Native Americans and Indigenous peoples did.

Mm-hmm.

But we've already seen Gulf of Amer- Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America.

Lake Ontario, Lake America, right? Tech Native America.

So obviously they're gonna keep going with this.

New Mexico, New America.

I'm, I'm forgetting which w- w- what else is left basically at this point.

And then he tweeted out this map where basically from Greenland to Canada all the way down to Mexico, Central America, Cuba is all painted in the US American flag.

It's the Tech Native America.

It's the North American Union, and I think...

Um, I used to-

By the way, as a person who's 1/32 Native American, I take no offense to that.

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Yeah.

So she is she's a Native American tribal chief and also one of the most southern woman I've ever met.

I think one thing I'm interested with this book was like talking, spending time with people who are deeply southern, but who claim a state that often doesn't love them back.

And that's the case with Native Americans who are still at battle with Alabama over their sovereignty, over their right to operate gaming.

And she's this genteel, soft-spoken, Christian, football-loving Southern woman who is also building this casino empire for this tiny band of Creek Indians in Alabama.

And they're a key part of Alabama's story that is often left out.

Wawa

is also Native American speak for

geese.

If you go into the Wawas that I've seen are just generally nicer and offer better products than 7-Eleven.

That's

a smooth little move right there in verse 9, that Sidney Gilbert is to obtain a license from the U.S. Indian agents so he can send goods to the native americans by means of clerks employed in his service he says i think the idea here is to create a way for the saints to legally cross the border and start to interact with the natives you remember at the beginning of the lamanite mission when they actually get out there like it wasn't too long until u s agents are going to kick them out of the native american territory and so their ability to preach to the natives was not good but here's a nice little loophole what if he can get a license to uh send goods to the native americans now we've got a legal way to access them and it seems like let me just kind of think big picture here for a second it looks like the lord is laying out here the practical means and basic kind of infrastructure both to provide for the saints like he says in verse 10 and to establish a city from which my gospel may be preached unto those who sit in darkness, he says, and in the region and the shadow of death, referring to the Native Americans.

So this kind of suggests that positioning the center place of Zion in independence with the Gentiles, the non-Jews to the east, and then Lehi's seed, the Lamanites, or the Jews to the west, is strategically calculated to facilitate the bringing of the gospel blessings to Lehi's seed, like the Book of Mormon prophesied would occur, which would in turn then cause this Israelite remnant to, quote, flourish in the wilderness, right? It would cause these Lamanites to blossom as the rose, as the Lord had recently prophesied in Doctrine and Covenants 49.

And all of that is to occur before his second coming.

Now, I'm not a prophet.

I don't know.

And part of the reasoning here is that What we were just talking about was section 57, talking about this line between the Gentiles and the Jews or the Native Americans and the U.S. people.

That was perfect.

You can see the confluence of what is now the Arkansas and Poto Rivers.

Like I said, it was built in 1817 and at the time it was the One of the westernmost federal garrisons, and it was built to keep peace between Native American tribes.

It was abandoned just a few years later in 1824 when federal troops moved further west.

And then subsequently the larger fort was built.

I did.

Because I will be honest.

When I first started writing this book in 1994, it was at a period where there were not a lot of books about Native Americans.

There were certainly not a lot of books about contemporary Native families.

It's from the Crestwood Coyote.

That's fun because you used to play Native American ball with his father.

I did.

Who would have thought that years later his son would be asking you to spank him?

Good on them.

When Tim goes back to finish his final credit hours, it'll be like Rodney Dangerfield and back to school.

That's from the Native American baller, Doug.

His love interest, of course, Hidden Valley Ranch's Sally Kellerman.

I mean, you look at what they did to the food

zoo, but also just, you know, even just when you walk in the, you and I were talking, just walking into practice, you know, now we have that Native American, just the whole front area.

And then with the bubble right there, I mean, it's, it doesn't, it used to feel really open, you know, when we'd practice out there, you know, in the middle of that field.

Yep.