My Second Cup of Coffee

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. Today is the Fourth of July 2023 but few people are aware that 30 lines below the statement "All men are created equal" the Declaration of Independence refers to Native peoples as "merciless Indian Savages. Over My Second Cup of Coffee I discuss why this term was used and why the USA struggles to acknowledge it even today. LINKS: Native News Online: T...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. Today is Friday, June 30 and I invite you to join me for My Second Cup of Coffee and a discussion about the recent US Supreme Court opinions re: Native Water Rights, Affirmative Action and LGBTQ protections. SCOTUS is issuing opinions exactly like we should expect from the highest court of a nation whose Declaration of Independence refers to Natives as "Mercile...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. Today is Tuesday, June 27 and I invite you to join me for My Second Cup of Coffee. I review the news headlines and share some thoughts about my progress on my upcoming book #DecolonizingFaith. LINKS: Native News Online: ‘We’ve Seen This Movie Before and Know How it Ends’ | The Supreme Court’s Navajo Water Decision https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/we-ve-all-seen-...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. Today is Friday, June 23 and over My Second Cup of Coffee I offer some preliminary thoughts on the recent SCOTUS opinion ruling against Native American Treaty and water rights in "Arizona v Navajo Nation". I invite you to join me. AP News: A nuclear site is on tribes’ ancestral lands. Their voices are being left out on key cleanup talks https://apnews.com/...

One year ago (June 2022) I recorded a Second Cup of Coffee episode titled "Creating Common Memory re: Juneteenth. In commemoration of Juneteenth 2023 I am reposting the main excerpts from that episode. On June 19th the US will celebrate #Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when after the Civil War, slavery ended in the Confederacy as news of the the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas. Bu...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. Today is Tuesday, June 13 and over My Second Cup of Coffee I talk about the adverse health effects of noise, the 4 Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Colombian jungle and a brief mention of Trump's Indictment. I invite you to join me. NYTimes: Noise could take years off your life. Here's how. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/09/health...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. It's Friday, June 9 and today over My Second Cup of Coffee I am intentionally not talking about Donald Trump. Instead I will discuss Global Warming and the wildfires raging in Canada, the chaos happening at CNN and the irony of the PGA "sports washing" the LIV. I invite you to join me. LINKS: Politico: ‘Unprecedented does not begin to describe this eve...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. It's Tuesday, June 6 and today over My Second Cup of Coffee I discuss Cornel West's announcement that he is running for President in 2024 with the People's Party. An Oklahoma School Board recently approved a religious (Catholic) Public Charter School. I will end with a look at the unique way the Finnish calculate their speeding tickets. I invite you to j...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. It's Friday, June 2 and over My Second Cup of Coffee I'm discussing my recent speaking event at the Navajo Nation Museum exposing that the Navajo Long Walk was a policy of Abraham Lincoln. I'll also share a few thoughts about why the debt ceiling crisis is FAR from over. I invite you to join me. LINKS: AP News: Deal approved, Biden will address budget, d...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. It's Thursday, May 25 and I'm traveling this week so I'm on location in New Mexico. Today over My Second Cup of Coffee I share some details re: the Treaty Day event at the Navajo Nation Museum on May 31 that I've been invited to speak at. I also have a few thoughts about Ron DeSantis and his newly announced 2024 campaign for President. I invite you t...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. It's Tuesday, May 16 and today over My Second Cup of Coffee I discuss White Evangelicals. Last week on CNN Donald J. Trump demonstrated that he is a narcissistic, selective truth teller who lives in a fantasy world and has no morals, and yet White Evangelicals continue to flock to him. Links: AP News: New Mexico gunman who killed 3 and injured 6 shot randomly at...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. It's Tuesday, May 9 and I invite you to join me for My Second Cup of Coffee. Today I discuss the immaturity of our nation as evident in the ongoing debt ceiling debate. And I share my initial response to the latest mass shooting in Dallas. I also give an update one week into my recovery from hip replacement surgery. Twitter: I want to remind my conservative rela...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. It's Tuesday, April 25. I invite you to join me for a conversation with Daniel Immerwahr over My Second Cup of Coffee. Daniel is the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University and the author of the best selling book 'How to Hide an Empire - A History of the Greater United States.' Daniel Immerwahr on Twitter - @dimmerwahr https:/...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. It's Sunday, April 23. Over My Second Cup of Coffee I am speaking with ASU Law Professor Robert Miller re: the Vatican's repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery. Robert is an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe and the author of "Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies" (Oxford University Press 201...

Description: Ya'at'eeh my relatives. It's Wednesday, April 19. Over My Second Cup of Coffee I discuss how using #StandYourGround laws are used to justify shootings like that of #RalphYarl demonstrates the imperative need to de-center whiteness. I invite you to join me. LINKS: Politico: Tim Scott announces presidential exploratory committee https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/12/tim-s...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. Two weeks ago, on March 30, the Vatican issued a joint statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery. Today, over My Second Cup of Coffee, and using Unsettling Truths (the book I co-authored), I will define what the Doctrine of Discovery is and demonstrate how the Vatican's repudiation is an attempt to re-write the history of its dehumanizing doctrine. LINKS:...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. Today is #GoodFriday 2023 and over My Second Cup of Coffee I will briefly discuss the white supremist actions of the Tennessee Legislature as well as the Vatican's hypocrisy in repudiating of the Doctrine of Discovery. I will end with some reflections on the reality of Good Friday, #HolySaturday and #EasterSunday. and why lament is such an important discipline f...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. Today is Tuesday, April 4 and over My Second Cup of Coffee I am thrilled to have a conversation with Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner. Dr. Wagner was awarded one of the first doctorates in the country for work in women’s studies (UC Santa Cruz) and a founder of one the first college-level women’s studies programs in the United States (CSU Sacramento). She is also the author...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. On Thursday, March 30, 2023 the Vatican issued a "Joint Statement on the 'Doctrine of Discovery' of the Dicasteries for Culture and Education and for Promoting Integral Human Development". The 9 point statement does repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery but it also takes extraordinary steps to affirm its history and limit the liability of the Catholi...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. After yet another horrific mass school shooting, this time at The Covenant School in Nashville TN, our nation is once again engaged in our traditional partisan screaming match which (as usual) results in our bipartisan paralysis and resignation. I invite you to join me for My Second Cup of Coffee and a discussion regarding Gun Violence, the 2nd Amendment and what I...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. It's Thursday, March 23 and my guest today for My Second Cup of Coffee is Sarah Augustine. Sarah, who is a Pueblo (Tewa) descendant, is the founder and cochair of the The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery and the executive director of a Dispute Resolution Center in central Washington state. She is also the author of the book "The Land Is Not...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. It's Tuesday, March 21 and over My Second Cup of Coffee I'm discussing my "foodie" tendencies as well as President Obama's book "A Promised Land", Moral Wrongs and the importance of hunting your news. I invite you to join me. Links: Ad Fontes: Media Bias Chart https://adfontesmedia.com/ All Events in Hanover NH: NHCUCC Anit-Racism Min...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. Today is Thursday, March 16 and for My Second Cup of Coffee I am having a conversation with Shane Claiborne, a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author.  Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. I invite you to join us. LINKS: The Simple Way: Rethinking Life https://thesimpleway.myshopify.com/products/rethinki...

Ya'at'eeh my relatives. Today is Tuesday, March 14 and over My Second Cup of Coffee I will discuss the ever persistent pay gap between men and women in the US, the failing of Silicon Valley Bank and President Biden's approval of a massive oil drilling project in Alaska. I invite you to join me. LINKS: NPR: It's Equal Pay Day. The gender pay gap has hardly budged in 20 years. What gives? https://ww...

Phrases like "Black Lives Matter" and "Native Lives Matter" are uttered to counter the historic, systemic and ongoing lie that people of color are not equal to white people. These are important words that need to be repeated. But there is an underlying belief that also must to be challenged just as directly; and that is the lie of White Supremacy. So today, over My Second Cup of Coffee, I will dis...