Censorship - is it alive and well

Buffey Sainte Marie, A native Indian American Folk singer was put out of business by the then Government of the US of A, why?

Censorship of Buffey Sainte-Marie - According to Wikipedia

She has claimed that she was blacklisted and that she, along with other Native Americans in the Red Power movements, was put out of business in the 1970s.

"I found out 10 years later, in the 1980s, that [President] Lyndon B. Johnson had been writing letters on White House stationery praising radio stations for suppressing my music," Sainte-Marie said in a 1999 interview with Indian Country Today at Dine' College... "In the 1970s, not only was the protest movement put out of business, but the Native American movement was attacked."

Additionally, she claims that in the United States, her records were disappearing. According to her, thousands of people at concerts wanted records, and although the distributor claimed that the records had been shipped, no one seemed to know where they were.

Said Sainte-Marie, "I was put out of business in the United States."

So for Karen Ellis and all of those Hubbers with Indian Blood

Now that the buffalo's gone.

Can you remember the times

That you have held your head high

and told all your friends of your Indian claim

Proud good lady and proud good man

Some great great grandfather from Indian blood came

and you feel in your heart for these ones

Oh it's written in books and in song

that we've been mistreated and wronged

Well over and over I hear those same words

from you good lady and you good man

Well listen to me if you care where we stand

and you feel you're a part of these ones

When a war between nations is lost

the loser we know pays the cost

but even when Germany fell to your hands

consider dear lady, consider dear man

you left them their pride and you left them their land

and what have you done to these ones

Has a change come about my dear manor

are you still taking our lands

A treaty forever your senators sign

They do dear lady, they do dear man

and the treaties are broken again and again

and what will you do for these ones

Oh it's all in the past you can say

but it's still going on here today

The governments now want the Navaho land

that of the Inuit and the Cheyenne

It's here and it's now you can help us dear man

Now that the buffalo's gone.

Makes us all stop and think

I was recently reminded about Buffy's music when I read a blog about the North American Indians, on Hubpages.

In my mid teens, we in South Africa heard this song played across both the South African radio, and good old LM radio, and as all aficionados of the coffee bar scene, we often heard this and several other pieces of her music, like Universal Soldier. So when I tried to trace the words for the song,I came across the above little snippet from Wikipedia, our amazing font of new age wisdom.

So it is, with no wonder, that we are always being led, or misguided, by our noble politicians. We are so indoctrinated by their flim-flammery, that we still do not know when the white rabbit will appear from their hats.

So we look at other good things, that we have been misdirected to, to hide us from our sins. The wonders of what we have, and how good we have it, compared to outer-u-name-it.

Where ever we are, now, we are if capable of, learning a great deal more about each other, as well as, what we want to know about everything. It is just a bit strange, that when you find a link to go to on some pertinent subject, or issue, that you come up this:-

new and cunning electronic censorship,

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