INDEX &
ANNOUNCEMENTS
HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR]
ON THE
RIVER OF NO RETURN
Dedicated
To Our Enduring And Immortal Cloudy Gray [
NaŽshdoŽiŽbaŽiŽ ]
http://hunterbear.org/cloudy_gray.htm
Hunter
Gray [Hunter Bear] Organizer
[Mi'kmaq/St.
Francis Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk]
Our
basic cultural perspective is Iroquoian and Wabanaki -- strongly influenced
by Navajo.
I'm an organizer -- a
working social justice agitator. I've been one since the mid-1950s and I'll
always be one. In many respects, it's one of the toughest trails anyone
could ever blaze.
An effective organizer
seeks to get grassroots people together -- and does; develops on-going and
democratic local leadership; deals effectively with grievances and
individual/family concerns; works with the people to achieve basic
organizational goals and develop new ones; and builds a sense of the New
World To Come Over The Mountains Yonder -- and how all of that relates to
the shorter term steps.
An effective organizer
has to be a person of integrity, courage, commitment.
And a person of
solidarity and sacrifice.
The satisfactions are
enormous.
Member,
United Auto Workers, Local 1981 [AFL-CIO]
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NOTE BY HUNTER BEAR:
I am honored -- humbled -- by the 2005 Elder
Recognition Award of Wordcraft Circle of Native
Writers and Storytellers. This is one of several
awards voted by the Caucus [board] of this organization of writers,
storytellers, film makers, and journalists. I was nominated by
Alice Hatfield Azure [Mi'kmaq] -- an honor in its own right. As are
other fine expressions of appreciation, this is extremely meaningful to
me and our family. And to all of those with whom I have worked and
for whom I have written -- and from whom I have always learned much
indeed -- this is for them a tribute as well.
[The previous recipient of the Wordcraft Elder Recognition
Award was Maurice Kenny, Mohawk, teacher and playwright and poet, who received
it in 2000.]
http://www.hunterbear.org/elder_recognition_award_for_2005.htm
The foregoing Elder Recognition
Award page contains a large number of fine comments. It is regularly
updated.
hunterbadbear@hunterbear.org
"We cannot run away from
the Winds of Challenge and Change. We have to take History and ride
with it. Always ahead, always toward the Sun. And always aware that
Democracy is natural and, given half a chance, it will always
flourish. We have big fish to fry and we're going to have to do it
in an American skillet -- over a long-burning fire from the timber
of our own forests."
-- Hunter Bear
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR MANY POSTS
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NEW AND / OR SIGNIFICANT POSTS:
NEW!
GRIZZLIES: FROM A SOMEWHAT TRAPPED BODY -- BUT A
REASONABLY FREE MIND [HUNTER GRAY / HUNTER BEAR JANUARY 13 2008]
WITH MANY COMMENTS
NEW! OUTLAW TRAIL: THE NATIVE AS ORGANIZER [HUNTER GRAY /
HUNTER BEAR /
JOHN R. SALTER, JR
FALL 2007] WITH THE PAINTING MICMAC MAN -- AND THE POEM,
REPATRIATION SOLILOQUY
MY COMBINED COMMUNITY
ORGANIZING PIECES -- WITH MUCH NEW STUFF HUNTER GRAY/JOHN R SALTER, JR
[HUNTER BEAR] SEPTEMBER 5 2004 -- WITH NEW INCLUSION: THE
COMMUNITY ORGANIZER AS PRACTITIONER, TEACHER, WRITER AND STUDENT [HUNTER GRAY --
FEBRUARY 19 2008] ALL OF THIS MUCH REPRINTED -- PLUS MANY NEW COMMENTS
NEW!
WOBBLY MENTOR: C.E.
"STUMPY" PAYNE [HUNTER
BEAR MARCH 1 2008
-- WITH COMMENTS]
HUNTER BEAR'S MOVEMENT LIFE INTERVIEW LENGTHY
AND DETAILED. INTERVIEW DONE BY BRUCE HARTFORD
[CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT VETERANS]
NEW!
"THE BLOODSTAINED TRAIL"* [HUNTER GRAY] APRIL 18
2007 [AND GUN RIGHTS NOTES, UPDATED -
CONTEMPORARY 2008 ]
POLYGAMY FIRES -- CONTEMPORARY AND WITH MUCH COMMENT
[HUNTER GRAY, SEPTEMBER 3 2006]
WITH COMMENTS AND MUCH 2008 UPDATE [TEXAS] HUNTER GRAY
HOT TOPIC!
GHOSTS -- [NEAR
DEATH EXPERIENCE -- THROUGH THE GREAT CANYON]
HUNTER GRAY DECEMBER 22 2003 --
UPDATE NOTES
MEDGAR W. EVERS OF MISSISSIPPI:
REFLECTION AND APPRECIATION -- THIS IS
VERY SUBSTANTIAL AND VERY PRIMARY
MATERIAL FROM HIS CLOSE COLLEAGUE, ME:
HUNTER GRAY [JOHN R SALTER, JR.]
UPDATED
BLACK BELT THUNDER [NORTH CAROLINA AND THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE EDUCATIONAL
FUND]: OUR MAJOR -- AND SUCCESSFUL -- MOVEMENT IN THE BLACK-BELT COUNTIES
[HUNTER GRAY/HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] MARCH 9 2006
CHICAGO ORGANIZING: TOUGH, CAT-CLAWING, BLOODY
-- 1969 - 73 --[HUNTER
GRAY] UPDATED -- PERSONAL ACCOUNT --
SOUTH/SOUTHWEST SIDE-- OUR GRASSROOTS APPROACH VS. TOP-DOWN STYLES
SOCIAL
JUSTICE ORGANIZING AND THE CHURCH [AND
RELIGION, TRIBALISM, SOCIALISM] --
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK -- HUNTER GRAY
UPDATED
NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE NEW CENTURY:
TWO ARTICLES FOR STRUGGLE, ORGANIZING,
FIGHTING, AND VICTORY [HUNTER BEAR -
SPRING 2002 UPDATE
COMMENTS MAY 2008]
NEW!
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, HBO]:
FILM REVIEW BY HUNTER BEAR [MAY 28
2007] -- AND NOTES ON ANTHROS AND OTHER
THINGS [HUNTER BEAR [MAY 28 2007]
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI: AN AMERICAN
CHRONICLE OF STRUGGLE AND SCHISM [MY BOOK -- FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE
DRAMATIC, SANGUINARY AND LEGENDARY JACKSON MOVEMENT. AND SOME OF THE BOOK'S
MANY FINE REVIEWS AND ENDORSEMENTS
ALWAYS REMEMBER THE CODE TALKERS:
CARL GORMAN [AND THE NAVAJO
CODE TALKERS] -- WITH VERY
APPRECIATIVE COMMENT BY ME
[HUNTER GRAY 1/18/02]
THIS INCLUDES THIS KIND
LETTER FROM ZONNIE GORMAN:
Dear Hunter,
[June 25 2002]
"My name is Zonnie
Gorman and I am the
youngest daughter of
Carl and Mary Gorman.
My parents always spoke
very highly of you.
Your name was a part of
my family's fond
memories. I don't know
if we ever met, but
hearing my parents speak
of you so often, it is
as if we have. Thank
you so much for your
words of tribute to my
father. I cried as I
read it all. . . ."
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR
FURTHER POSTS
Hunter Gray [John R. Salter, Jr.]
The "Young Red" Portrait By Frank
Dolphin [Flagstaff, Arizona; and LaBarge, Wyoming -- And A Thousand Other
Places]. Once A Working Cowpuncher And Then An Excellent "Cowboy Artist,"
Frank Was A Good Deal More.
This injunction [June 6, 1963] is my graduate
degree in militant, radical community organization. I take much pride in it and in the
deeply committed human company with whom I'm named -- and in the many thousands of
courageous grassroots Black people who were the hard-rock foundation of our great crusade
for social justice. I was Chair of the Strategy Committee of the massive Jackson
Movement of 1962-63. This is considered the most sweeping anti-demonstration
injunction issued anywhere in the United States during the 1960s. Of course we
defied it. Jackson Movement highlights are listed in this Index.
Following the very bloody Jackson Movement era, I then went immediately into
full-time grassroots civil rights and anti-Klan organizing in the hard-core
South -- as the Field Organizer for the radical Southern Conference Educational
Fund [SCEF.] Those rough-and-ready years, and my subsequent work in the
militant dimension of the Southern anti-poverty movement, are well covered here
-- and are clearly listed down in this Index. All told, we were in the South
from 1961 well into 1967.
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and internationally, visit our Site with frequency. Our material is
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others. We do prune it fairly regularly.
In due course
,
however, as you scroll down -- and down, you'll hit all
of the regular, permanent repository title-by-title Index listings.
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BACKGROUND NARRATIVE:
HUNTER
BEAR GRAY: PERSONAL AND DETAILED -- INCLUDING MY NATIVE AMERICAN
BACKGROUND, FAMILY, ACTIVISM, PUBLICATIONS, APPROPRIATE LINKS, MUCH MORE
The Background Narrative is consistently and
frequently up-dated. Expanded 2008.
2005 ELDER RECOGNITION AWARD
[HUNTER GRAY, 5/2/05] AND WITH MANY COMMENTS --SPEAKING TO THE DEMOCRATS AT
IDAHO FALLS [HUNTER BEAR, 5/08/05] -JOHN SALTER'S LETTER TO
CLARION-LEDGER 7/25/05 -- MICMAC
MAN IN NATIONAL MUSEUM FILM FOOTAGE -- GENE MCCARTHY [1916-2005] -- AND MORE -- [THIS PAGE UPDATED
12/14/05]
GRAY LANDS AND GRAY GHOSTS: THE TIME OF FLINT [HUNTER GRAY] JOHN
GRAY [HATCHIORAUQUASHA] AND FAMILY --- UPDATED 02/06/06 [THIS
PAGE ALSO CONTAINS MANY OF OUR LINKS TO GRAY FAMILY MATERIAL]
CLOUDY GRAY: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALL
RIGHT [HUNTER GRAY, OCTOBER 2 2006 ] WITH MANY, MANY COMMENTS! -- A VERY
SPECIAL TRIBUTE INDEED -- AND, OUR GOOD WOOLY [MARCH 28 2008] AND,
SKY GRAY COMES HOME [APRIL 28, 2008]
NEW!
HUNTER GRAY/HUNTER BEAR IN NEW WEST MAGAZINE ["KEEP FIGHTING"] JANUARY 15 2007
UPDATED WITH LOCAL NEWS AND COMMENTS
NEW! OUTLAW TRAIL: THE NATIVE AS ORGANIZER [HUNTER GRAY /
HUNTER BEAR /
JOHN R. SALTER, JR
FALL 2007] WITH THE PAINTING MICMAC MAN -- AND THE POEM,
REPATRIATION SOLILOQUY
MOTHER'S FAMILY -- IN
THE WEST [HUNTER
BEAR]
SPEAKING AT ETHICAL
CULTURE -- AND A GREAT TRIP OF 3700 MILES IN NINE STATES OVER ELEVEN DAYS
[HUNTER GRAY MAY 10, 2003]
UPDATED FEBRUARY 23 2006
COMING OF AGE INTO
THE RED: A SYCAMORE MEMOIR [HUNTER GRAY SEPTEMBER 4, 2002] AND THEN, FRANK
DOLPHIN: TRAILS IN THE GOLDEN WEST [HUNTER BEAR AUGUST 25 2007]; PLUS, SYCAMORE
TREASURES [HUNTER BEAR, JULY 10 2006] COMMENTS FOLLOWING EACH PIECE
GHOSTS -- [NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE -- THROUGH
THE GREAT CANYON]
HUNTER GRAY DECEMBER 22 2003 --
UPDATE NOTES APRIL 24 2007
NEW!
SYCAMORE TREK: MAY SOUND A
LITTLE FAR OUT -- BUT IT'S A PLAN [HUNTER BEAR] JUNE 20 2007
-- PLUS MANY FINE COMMENTS -- AND A GREAT SYCAMORE COLLOQUY [JANUARY 2008]
LOTS ON SYCAMORE WILDERNESS! UPDATE MAY 6 2008
NEW!
WILDERNESS LIFE AND TIMES -- AND
PLEASANT SURVIVAL [HUNTER GRAY / HUNTER BEAR] DECEMBER 20 2007 -- PLUS, "HE
TRAVELS THE FASTEST . . ." [HUNTER GRAY DECEMBER 22 2007] -- WITH COMMENTS
HUNTER BEAR'S MOVEMENT LIFE INTERVIEW LENGTHY
AND DETAILED. INTERVIEW DONE BY BRUCE HARTFORD
[CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT VETERANS]
AND ALSO,
EXTENSIVE ESSAY FROM THE JOURNAL OF
INDIGENOUS THOUGHT [SASKATCHEWAN INDIAN FEDERATED COLLEGE] WINTER 2001
"I Consider Myself a Real Red:" The Social Thought of American Civil Rights
Organizer John R. (Salter) Hunter Gray" by Professor Roy T. Wortman, Department
of History, Kenyon College
THE STORMY
ADOPTION OF AN INDIAN CHILD -- MY FATHER [ADDENDUM TO BACKGROUND NARRATIVE
MATERIAL]
[HUNTER
GRAY/HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER, JR JUNE 11 2004]
NEW MATERIAL ADDED --- ESSAY: "MINORITY ADOPTIONS" AND NATIVE AMERICA,
LAND, RESOURCES [HUNTER BEAR -- FEBRUARY 16 2008]
MY COMBINED COMMUNITY
ORGANIZING PIECES -- WITH MUCH NEW STUFF HUNTER GRAY/JOHN R SALTER, JR
[HUNTER BEAR] SEPTEMBER 5 2004 -- WITH NEW INCLUSION: THE
COMMUNITY ORGANIZER AS PRACTITIONER, TEACHER, WRITER AND STUDENT [HUNTER GRAY --
FEBRUARY 19 2008] ALL OF THIS MUCH REPRINTED -- PLUS MANY NEW COMMENTS
NEW! AMERICAN
POLITICS: WHAT OF -- AND WHERE TO? [HUNTER GRAY/HUNTER BEAR --
DECEMBER 9 2007; AND THOUGHTS ON SOME AMERICAN POLITICAL MATTERS [HUNTER BEAR
WINTER 2008] -- WITH MANY GOOD PIECES AND COMMENTS
GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING: RACE AND ETHNICITY [HUNTER BEAR] MARCH
18 2006 -- AND WITH MUCH COMMENT
THE NATIVE
AMERICAN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONAL TRAINING CENTER [BASED AT CHICAGO] PLUS NOTES
ON NATIVES AND PRISONS [HUNTER GRAY]
SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZING AND THE CHURCH [AND RELIGION,
TRIBALISM, SOCIALISM] -- ROCHESTER, NEW YORK -- HUNTER GRAY
UPDATED
NATIVE RIGHTS AND THE YELLOW ROCK THAT KILLS [URANIUM TRAGEDY] [HUNTER GRAY]
RACISM IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS
-- WITH
NATIVE RIGHTS HIGH SPOTS AT DEVILS LAKE, NORTH DAKOTA [HUNTER GRAY]
"THERE IS A SAYING" IN OUR NATIVE
NECK OF THE WOODS -- SOME GOOD WORDS ON HUMAN RIGHTS FIGHTS: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH
DAKOTA, STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, GRAND FORKS [N.D.] POLICE DEPARTMENT [HUNTER GRAY]
NATIVE AMERICAN
COMMISSION PAGE 4: THE NORTH DAKOTA MURDERS OF RUSSELL TURCOTTE, JEROME
DECOTEAU, AND ROBERT AND DAMIAN BELGARDE [HUNTER GRAY]
ORGANIZER 20:
FACTIONALISM AND GERONIMO AND
ORGANIZERS AND TODAY [HUNTER GRAY
7/31/02 -WITH AN ADDED NOTE 2/27/06]
MUCH REPRINTED
NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE NEW
CENTURY: TWO NEW ARTICLES FOR STRUGGLE, ORGANIZING, FIGHTING, AND VICTORY
[Hunter Gray - SPRING 2002 ]
One of these articles,
NATIVE AMERICAN STRUGGLE: ONE CENTURY INTO ANOTHER has now been
published in the Spring 2002 issue of DEMOCRATIC LEFT -- official journal of
Democratic Socialists of America[DSA]. On April 20, 2002, Portside [the news
service of Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism] published
and sent it to about 4,300 recipients. The second article, "NATIVES, ISSUES, AND
RADICALS, has appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of the CCDS
journal DIALOGUE AND INITIATIVE as NATIVE PEOPLES AND THE LEFT.
NATIVE AMERICAN STRUGGLE has also been published [9/9/02] on the website of the
Anti-Racism Commission [DSA], Our Struggle/Nuestra Lucha
http://dsausa.org/antiracism/editorials/editorials.html
NATIVE ISSUES AND OTHER
MATTERS: RECOGNITION, GOVERNANCE, FEDERAL INDIAN LAW, UNITY -- AND MUCH MORE
[HUNTER GRAY MARCH 14, 2003]
THE GREAT CANADIAN ALGONQUIN MIGRANT FUR WORKERS' FREEDOM CAMPAIGN [ONTARIO
COUNTY, NEW YORK -- HUNTER GRAY]
"ARTIFACTS" AND NATIVE BURIALS [AND A
DIGRESSION INTO AN UNUSUAL FUR CONFERENCE EPISODE] HUNTER GRAY 11-22-01]
ALCOHOL AND PEYOTE AND NATIVE AMERICANS [HUNTER GRAY 11/16/01]
RACISM, ETHNOCENTRISM -- AND NATIVE
TRIBALISM [HUNTER GRAY'S ESSAY PUBLISHED IN THE SUMMER 2001 ISSUES OF THE
NORTHWEST ETHNIC VOICE]
CARL GORMAN [AND THE NAVAJO CODE TALKERS] -- WITH VERY
APPRECIATIVE COMMENT BY ME [HUNTER GRAY 1/18/02]
THIS INCLUDES THIS KIND LETTER FROM ZONNIE GORMAN:
Dear Hunter, [June 25
2002]
"My name is Zonnie Gorman and I am the
youngest daughter of Carl and Mary Gorman. My parents always spoke very
highly of you. Your name was a part of my family's fond memories. I don't
know if we ever met, but hearing my parents speak of you so often, it is as
if we have. Thank you so much for your words of tribute to my father. I
cried as I read it all. . . ."
OUR HISTORIC WOOLWORTH SIT-IN: JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI -- MAY 28 '63 THE MOST
VIOLENTLY ATTACKED SIT-IN OF THE 1960S. SUBSTANTIALLY EXPANDED WITH ADDITIONAL
PHOTOS AND
SIGNIFICANT COMMENT. TWO PAGES. THIS IS ONE PORTION OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF
MISSISSIPPI MATERIAL LISTED THROUGHOUT OUR WEBSITE.
MEDGAR W. EVERS OF MISSISSIPPI: REFLECTION AND APPRECIATION
-- THIS IS VERY SUBSTANTIAL AND VERY PRIMARY MATERIAL FROM HIS CLOSE COLLEAGUE,
ME: HUNTER GRAY [JOHN R SALTER, JR.]
UPDATED
NEWLY LISTED: THREE BASIC JACKSON
MISSISSIPPI MOVEMENT "SCRAPBOOK" LINKS:
[1]
The Jackson boycott picket arrests on Jackson's downtown Capitol Street on
December 12 1962 and the "Gauntlet Letter" of May 12 1963 sent by Medgar W.
Evers, Doris Allison, and John R. Salter, Jr. [Hunter Gray] to the various
components of the Jackson and Mississippi power structures -- demanding
wide-spread desegregation and related social justice goals and promising
large-scale demonstrations if these were not implemented.
[2]
The sweeping Mississippi court injunction of June 6
1963; and up-close photos showing the June 13 1963 multiple police beating of
John R. Salter, Jr. [Hunter Gray] on Jackson's Rose Street.
[3]
The Medgar W. Evers funeral march through two miles
of Jackson on June 15 1963, Farish Street, John R. Salter, Jr. speech at Denver in December 1964,
some Salter oral histories, and a discussion of James Meredith.
NEW! GRIZZLIES:
FROM A SOMEWHAT TRAPPED BODY -- BUT A REASONABLY FREE MIND [HUNTER GRAY /
HUNTER BEAR JANUARY 13 2008] WITH COMMENTS
REMINISCENCE: WHEN THE
WEST WAS WILD AND SO WERE WE [HUNTER GRAY JANUARY 1 2005] NEW! FOLLOWED
BY FILM THOUGHTS: "CONSPIRACY" HUNTER GRAY 1/10/05] UPDATED WITH HERMIT
MOONSHINE [HUNTER BEAR MAY 7 2007]
UNIONS, NATIVES, AND TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY
[HUNTER GRAY FEBRUARY 16 2002]
UPDATED JUNE 24 2005
WHEN THE
RED LEAVES FALL [NATIVES IN THE RADICAL CULTURE OF SEATTLE ] HUNTER GRAY
SEPTEMBER 11, 2002 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL: INDIANS AND RADICALS AND THE SKID
ROAD DISTRICT -- UPDATED
MORMONS AND EPISCOPALIANS AND CATHOLICS AND OTHER FOLKS AND MATTERS [HUNTER
GRAY MAY 24 2003] UPDATED DECEMBER 7 2007
THE HOWL OF THE
WOLF CAN CARRY FAR [OUR WAR AGAINST LUPUS] HUNTER BEAR MARCH 1 2006 -- AND
ALSO RIVER OF NO RETURN [LIVING WITH LUPUS] HUNTER GRAY PUBLISHED
IN SPRING 2006 ISSUE OF LUPUS NEWS -- COMMENTS
NEW!
BETTY AND BARNEY HILL; AND ET
ENCOUNTERS [HUNTER BEAR] JUNE 12 2006 [WITH DISCUSSION FROM HUNTER AND
OTHERS] PLUS IMPORTANT BOOK NOTE [CAPTURED!], SUMMER 2007 --
UPDATED CONSISTENTLY
ETERNITY [HUNTER BEAR APRIL 19 2006]
SUN ON THE WATER: A
PERSONAL REPORT WITH MUCH COMMENT FROM FRIENDS [HUNTER BEAR JUNE 3
2006] UPDATED
KAY-OH-TAY GOOD
["LITTLE BROTHER"] HUNTER GRAY/HUNTER BEAR 2/28/04
PERSONAL REPORT ON A QUIET WAR [HUNTER BEAR,
11/30/06] WITH MANY KIND COMMENTS
NEW! THE
CARROT AND THE STICK [PERSONAL WARS] HUNTER GRAY JULY 21, 2007
COMMENTS
SUNLIGHT IN OUR SMALL CORNER: FIGHTING LUPUS PREDATOR [HUNTER BEAR AUGUST 30 2007] WITH
MANY COMMENTS -- UPDATED WITH, THINGS AND THINKING [HUNTER BEAR] SEPTEMBER 29
2007
SPECIAL
TRIBUTE PAGE FOR HUNTER BEAR -- FROM MANY, MANY FRIENDS [MARCH/APRIL 2004]
COVERS MY LIFE TO DATE. MUCH SOCIAL JUSTICE MATERIAL. REGULARLY UPDATED
AND STILL GROWING.
BRIAN RICE'S FINE BOOK: SEEING
THE WORLD WITH ABORIGINAL EYES: A FOUR DIRECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN
AND NON-HUMAN VALUES, CULTURES, AND RELATIONSHIPS ON TURTLE ISLAND [A REVIEW BY
HUNTER GRAY] JULY 7 2006 [WITH COMMENTS]
NEW!
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, HBO]:
FILM REVIEW BY HUNTER BEAR [MAY 28 2007] -- AND NOTES ON ANTHROS AND OTHER
THINGS [HUNTER BEAR [MAY 28 2007]
NEW!
FREE
MINDS AND FREE PEOPLE [HUNTER GRAY/HUNTER BEAR [MAY 1 2007] --
INCLUDES "DEFEAT RACISM, DON'T CENSOR IT" BY HUNTER GRAY]
UPDATED
NEW!
WOBBLY MENTOR: C.E.
"STUMPY" PAYNE [HUNTER
BEAR MARCH 1 2008
-- WITH COMMENTS]
NEW! "THE
BLOODSTAINED TRAIL"* [HUNTER GRAY] APRIL 18 2007 [AND GUN
RIGHTS
NOTES, UPDATED - CONTEMPORARY 2008]
NEW!
DUEL IN THE SHADOWS:
IDAHO HARASSMENT AT POCATELLO [HUNTER GRAY] -- BACKGROUND AND
CONTEMPORARY EVENTS --
REGULARLY UPDATED WITH CONSISTENCY
NEW!
HUNTER BEAR'S THOUGHTS
AND COMMENTS: NORTHWOOD, NORTH DAKOTA; UTAH COAL DISASTER; COLD WEATHER; NATIVE DEATHS AND "LAWMEN" SINS;
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION; KCLS RADIO STATION AT FLAGSTAFF ARIZONA; LINGO;
HUALAPAI SPRING AT GRAND CANYON; IMUS [HUNTER GRAY -- 2007]
NEW!
NEW THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS [HUNTER
BEAR SEPTEMBER 2007 AND
BEYOND]
-- FLAGSTAFF ARIZONA AND KCLS RADIO AND NAVAJOLAND; DISCUSSION IN THE WILDS OF
NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND [GODDARD COLLEGE DAYS]; ATVS AND OLD MINE SHAFTS;
PBS FILM ON THE FAMOUS BILL HAYWOOD TRIAL AT
BOISE [AND A MENTION OF LARRY CRAIG;
AL MAUND [FINE SOCIAL JUSTICE WRITER, FINE SOUTHERNER]; THE EVANSES [MEDFORD AND
M. STANTON] AND ARIZONA AND MISSISSIPPI.
NATIVES,
THE ENGLISH, RACISM, AND DEERFIELD [HUNTER GRAY/HUNTER BEAR]
EXPANDED 2/17/04 AND 2/17/05-- THIS PAGE ALSO INCLUDES OWLS AND INDIANS, WITH
UPDATES 3/04/05
THE WILD WEST ETHIC AND THE CRUCIBLE OF PARANOIA
Hunter Gray [Hunter Bear] January 2, 2003
IDAHO THINGS: GOOD, BAD AND VERY STRANGE --
RECENT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STUFF
LUPUS: PREDATOR WITH BROAD TASTES AND
MINORITY PREFERENCES [HUNTER GRAY 1/18/05]
UPDATED --
ALSO, A GOOD DAY WITH BLM AND USFS/MY WELL RECEIVED TALK [HUNTER GRAY, 1/24/05]
DEATH
PENALTY [HUNTER GRAY SEPTEMBER 27 2006] WITH ADDED
COMMENTS -- AND OTHER POSTS BY HUNTER BEAR
POLYGAMY FIRES [CONTEMPORARY AND WITH MUCH COMMENT] [HUNTER GRAY, SEPTEMBER 3
2006] -- ALSO LETTER TO SENATOR HARRY REID [NEVADA] -- WITH COMMENTS AND MUCH
2008 UPDATE [TEXAS] --
HUNTER GRAY HOT TOPIC!
SAGE
BRUSH AND NATION: SOME CONTEMPORARY ISSUES [HUNTER GRAY AUGUST 15
2006] AND NOTES ON A FIRST RATE DOCUMENTARY: WATERBUSTER [HUNTER
GRAY SEPTEMBER 5 2006]
SEDONA, FOREST FIRES, AND
RABBIT EARS [HUNTER BEAR] JUNE 20 2006 -- ELLIOTT RICEHILL: BROTHER,
UNCLE, WARRIOR [HUNTER BEAR] JUNE 22 2006
FOREST FIRES IN THE WEST: SUMMER OF
2002 [HUNTER GRAY JUNE 23, 2002] UPDATED AUGUST 20 2007
AND NOVEMBER 3 2007
[MUCH FIRST HAND LIFE EXPERIENCE]
A
CHILD'S VIEW OF URBAN INDIAN LIFE [MARIA AT CHICAGO IN THE '70S] HUNTER
BEAR JUNE 6 2006
GUNS AND POLITICS [HUNTER BEAR JUNE 1
2006]
LOST ADAMS DIGGINGS,
NATIVE AMERICANS, AND DREAMS AND LEGENDS [HUNTER GRAY] GOLD!
EXPANDED APRIL 12, 2003 AND UPDATED 4/15/05
WHEN A KID BUYS HIS FIRST CAR IN
THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM [HUNTER GRAY AUGUST 30 2002] UPDATED 12/12/07
NEW!
NORTH CAROLINA:
THOUGHTS ON DURHAM/LACROSSE AND HALIFAX MEMORIES [HUNTER BEAR] MAY
23 2006 -- WITH MY APRIL / MAY / JUNE 2007 UPDATES, AND THOUGHTS ON EVANGELICALS
-- AND DIXIE LAWYERS
POLYGAMY -- AND MORE:
IDAHO
AND THE WILD WEST -- POLYGAMY: ARIZONA MEMORIES AND CURRENT ISSUES [HUNTER
GRAY, MAY/JUNE 2001 [UPDATED WITH GOOD FOLKS AND LYING CRITICS,
DECEMBER 10 2005] UPDATED AGAIN 5/12/06
GETTING SET FOR NATURAL DISASTERS
[PREPAREDNESS HERE IN MORMON COUNTRY] HUNTER GRAY APRIL 9 2006
COMMENTS
PRAYER, PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND
GOD [HUNTER BEAR] APRIL 3 2006 -- MUCH COMMENT
BLACK BELT THUNDER [NORTH CAROLINA AND THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE EDUCATIONAL
FUND]: OUR MAJOR -- AND SUCCESSFUL -- MOVEMENT IN THE BLACK-BELT COUNTIES
[HUNTER GRAY/HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] MARCH 9 2006
HANDLING THE KLAN ON EASTER
SUNDAY, 1965 [HUNTER GRAY 1/01/02]
A MISSISSIPPI KEY-NOTE
ACCOUNT FROM THE JACKSON MOVEMENT SAGA -- PLUS PHOTOS ["A YOUNG MAN BLEEDS . .
." HUNTER BEAR MARCH 6 2006 UPDATED APRIL 5
2006
SOUTHERN STUFF!
BIG DISTRESS CHALLENGES IN
THE EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NIGHT [HUNTER BEAR APRIL 7 2005]
AND THEN, "THE DEVIL HIMSELF, COME RIDING DOWN THE DRAW" [A MAGNOLIA
TALE] HUNTER GRAY 4/10/05]
MOVEMENT WRITING YET
AGAIN: THE JACKSON MOVEMENT, KENNEDYS, TAYLOR BRANCH ET AL.
[HUNTER GRAY FEBRUARY 20 2006] UPDATED MUCH
NEW!
MOVEMENT WRITING:
SOME IDAHO THOUGHTS TO DIXIE [POLITICALLY SANITIZING WRITERS AND MOVEMENT
"EXPERTS"] HUNTER GRAY/JOHN R. SALTER, JR. FEBRUARY 18
2006 UPDATED NOVEMBER 29 2007
MISSISSIPPI CONTEMPORARY
[PERSONAL] HUNTER BEAR/HUNTER GRAY/JOHN R SALTER, JR. 2/08/06
THE TANGLED CASE OF THE
MISSISSIPPI STATE
SOVEREIGNTY COMMISSION FILES
[HUNTER GRAY] AN EXTREMELY
STRANGE BUT HISTORIC CASE
-- A PERSONAL ACCOUNT -- UPDATED
PUBLISHED IN MAY/JUNE 2002 ISSUE OF
AGAINST THE CURRENT: THE CLOSED
SOCIETY OF MISSISSIPPI AND FREE AMERICA TODAY [HUNTER GRAY ]
NEW AND MUCH EXPANDED UPDATE --
THE UNIVERSITY OF
NORTH DAKOTA POISONING THE WELL: MY TRULY BIZARRE UND
SITUATION. [HUNTER GRAY
- REGULARLY UPDATED]
COYOTES AND COYOTE TALK
[HUNTER GRAY 2/01/06] WITH MANY COYOTE COMMENTS!
-- AND THEN, MANY FINE AND RECENT PERSONAL COMMENTS ON VARIOUS MATTERS [UPDATED
3/21/06]
HUNTER GRAY IN THE GEM STATE [HUNTER
BEAR 1/16/06] CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW AND PHOTOS -- MY
2006 KING DAY SPEECH -- AND MORE -- UPDATED 1/28/06
MORE ON ORGANIZING [HUNTER BEAR
JANUARY 10 2006] UPDATED WITH, MONSTER SLAYER [HUNTER BEAR
1/29/06]
REFLECTIONS ON FINNS AND FINNISH-AMERICANS
[HUNTER GRAY -- AUGUST 25 2001 -- UPDATED]
RADICAL/LABOR HISTORY NOTES:
WOBBLIES, METAL MINERS, SOCIALISM, ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM, COMMUNISM [AND A NOTE ON
UNITY] BY HUNTER GRAY
[JULY 2001]
UPDATED 12/26/06
NEW!
LABOR, EDUCATION AND CIVIL
RIGHTS [A COLLOQUY] HUNTER GRAY/HUNTER BEAR MARCH 25 2008
RIDING TO THE AID OF JENGHIZ KHAN [HUNTER
GRAY] [POSTED 10/7/01 --
WITH UPDATING NOTES]
TALKING
WEST: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, YELLOW ROCK THAT KILLS, AND MORE [HUNTER
BEAR JANUARY 2006] MUCH UPDATED -- INCLUDING IDAHO WOLVES,
AND GUN TALK
NATIVE LIFE, NATIVE TIMES,
NATIVE SURVIVAL [HUNTER BEAR 12/22/05] UPDATED WITH
NOTES ON IOWA, MY KPFA RADIO INTERVIEW ON NATIVE AMERICAN CHALLENGES, AND THUNDERHEART, AND
MUCH MORE
NEWLY UPDATED!
LUMBEE
INDIANS OF NORTH CAROLINA SEEK FEDERAL RECOGNITION, SOCIAL JUSTICE [HUNTER GRAY
APRIL 12 2005. A slightly older post on a continuing issue, expanded. Updated
--- most recently MARCH 2007.]
AGITATOR STUFF: THE DESTROYERS RIDES [AND
BURNS] ONCE AGAIN [HUNTER BEAR, 10/29/05] -- AND MY NPR LUPUS INTERVIEW [TAPED
10/27/05 AND PLAYED NATIONALLY IN NOVEMBER -- BRUCE BABBITT AND THE MORAL FALL--
MORE] LAST UPDATED APRIL 7 2006
"THE DESTROYERS" -- THE
STORY ITSELF FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME ON THE NET. PRIZE-WINNING SHORT STORY BY
JOHN R. SALTER, JR. [HUNTER GRAY] : VIRULENT RACE HATRED IN THE CONTEXT OF A
MASSIVE NORTHERN ARIZONA FOREST FIRE. MUCH REPRINTED IN U.S. AND ABROAD.
AMERICAN RACISM
[ORGANIZER'S REFLECTIONS: RACISM, KINDRED ILLS, GOOD MOVEMENTS AND VISION]
HUNTER
GRAY OCTOBER 15 2002 -- PUBLISHED IN THE FALL 2003 ISSUE OF THE
MICHIGAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW [A SOMEWHAT OLDER POST BUT VERY TIMELY]
WITH COMMENT BY SAM FRIEDMAN
MAY
1970: NORTH AND SOUTH, MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS -- AND BLOOD [HUNTER
GRAY -- FORMERLY JOHN R. SALTER, JR.] KENT STATE / JACKSON STATE /
MISSISSIPPI / CHICAGO
NAVAJO
WITCHCRAFT AND THE SKINWALKERS -- AND A DUBIOUS FILM [HUNTER GRAY 4/29/02]
AND NOW MY VERY CRITICAL MINI-REVIEW OF THE SKINWALKERS FILM ITSELF
[HUNTER GRAY 11/25/02]
MINE-MILL: MAURICE E. TRAVIS:
MILITANT ADVOCATE FOR RACIAL EQUALITY AND JUSTICE [MUCH EXPANDED] HUNTER
BEAR -- THIS PAGE
ALSO LISTS MANY OF OUR KEY MINE-MILL LINKS
NEW PAGE ON
MINE, MILL & SMELTER WORKERS: THE "CONSPIRACY" THAT WASN'T: RELENTLESS RED SCARE
ATTACKS ON A MILITANT, DEMOCRATIC UNION [HUNTER GRAY 2/01/02]
Part of a larger section on Mine-Mill. Expanded March 2 2004
MINE MILL: CLASS
STRUGGLE --AND LABOR MOVEMENT REVIVAL THOUGHTS [HUNTER
GRAY/HUNTER BEAR: JANUARY 27 2004]
NEW! REFLECTIONS ON [HOPEFULLY] REAL-STUFF DIXIE LABOR
ORGANIZING [HUNTER GRAY/HUNTER BEAR: JANUARY 29 2004]
DIXIE ORGANIZING PUBLISHED IN MAY DAY 2004 ISSUE OF THE SOCIALIST UPDATED
1/07/05
SPECIAL TRIBUTE PAGE FOR HUNTER
BEAR -- FROM MANY, MANY FRIENDS [MARCH/APRIL 2004]
TESTIMONIALS, POETRY, PHOTOS, ESSAYS AND ARTICLES AND STORIES -- WITH MANY NEW
ADDITIONS. COVERS MY LIFE TO DATE. MUCH SOCIAL JUSTICE MATERIAL.
REGULARLY UPDATED AND STILL GROWING.
From Sam Friedman:
"It is an amazing
outpouring of love and respect. Not just for today, but as something we can
show our grandchildren and they can show their grandchildren to say, "This is
what you can aspire to."
From Lois Chaffee: "It
is a great tribute - I'm very glad that you can see the impact your life has had
on so many other lives and so many significant events. Best to you all."
From Heather Booth:
"Hunter,
You have captured our hearts and spirits.
I am so glad you like the web site and know some of the impact you have had not
only on those who have been with you in common struggle, but also those of us
who are moved by your example."
Lee Taylor Benally, Navajo brother. Lived with us
at various points while attending Flagstaff High School. We graduated together.
Lee, on leave from the Navy, died in a car wreck on Highway 666 near his family
home at Shiprock, New Mexico. This photo taken in the patio by our house with
our dog, Tippy. Ca. May, 1951.
Dear Hunter, [June 25
2002]
My name is Zonnie Gorman and I am the youngest
daughter of Carl and Mary Gorman. My parents always spoke very highly
of you. Your name was a part of my family's fond memories. I don't know
if we ever met, but hearing my parents speak of you so often, it is as
if we have. Thank you so much for your words of tribute to my father.
I cried as I read it all.
My mother Mary, passed into the spirit world
on September 9th of last year. I miss them both very much. I wish they
both could have been here for the release of Windtalkers. My mother and
I assisted Senator Bingaman for nearly two years to find and verify some
400 Code Talkers who were receiving the Congressional medal. As I am
sure you know, my mother was very much dedicated to my father...and to
the Code Talkers.
She was able to go to Washington DC in July
last year to receive the Gold Congressional medal in memory of my
father. Approximately six weeks later we lost her a heart
attack. I know they are together as it should be and that they
are still watching over the Code Talkers and their story.
I am currently living in Gallup with my three
teenage sons, Micheal (18), and Christopher and Anthony (16). I have
recently opened a family gallery on the net. I have produced a
poster set from two paintings my father did of Code Talkers in the 1970s
that are featured on the site. I would love very much to link to your
site and share your memories of my father with my clients.
I hope that one day we can meet in person.
Sincerely,
GUIDE'S NOTE: KEEP GOING DOWN, ALL
THE WAY [ASSUMING YOU'RE SO INCLINED] AND YOU'LL FIND A VAST AMOUNT OF MATERIAL
ON A WIDE VARIETY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE MATTERS. MOST OF IT HAS NOT BEEN
LISTED ABOVE. -- HUNTER BEAR
WILD WEST!
AN ORGANIZER'S TRAIL IS LIKE THE OLD
WESTERN OUTLAW TRAIL [HUNTER GRAY, JANUARY 13 2005] FOLLOWED BY,
NEW! THE SEX BOOKS OF BEAR MOUNTAIN [HUNTER GRAY, JANUARY 16 2005] AND THEN,
NEBRASKA COLLOQUY 1958-59
IT'S A
GREAT LIFE IF YOU DON'T WEAKEN [HUNTER BEAR, 4/17/05]
VARIOUS TOPICS -- INCLUDING TRAPPING - UPDATED LAST
ON MAY 15 2005
Hunter,
The negative, depressing side of this is clear enough.
The positive side is the clarity with which you have confronted the
problem, and continue to confront it
- and deal with it, coffee and all.
One would hardly know from reading your
accounts of just how gravely ill you are.
The mind, clearly, ain't.
Peace,
David [McReynolds] 4/25/05
From Joyce Ladner [4/20/05]
Dear John,
I am so glad to know that you are holding your own. Old soldiers never
die. You aren't even fading away but going stronger than ever. If given a
choice, give me the ability to be mentally tough any day over physical
strength. I recently began making necklaces--with large ethnic beads,
especially in turquoise. Would you happen to know anyone among the Native
people who sell the beads and pendants for jewelry making? I am very
interested in establishing a contact with Native distributors. My very
best to Eldri. I know she's probably got that loom
humming busy!
All the best,
Joyce
[Joyce follows up with, " Thanks a lot John Hunter (). I like John because
it reminds me of the John who led the Jackson boycott. I respect Hunter a
lot too. Thanks for the list of bead merchants. I've started going down
the list already. . ."
Take care,
Joyce
FRIENDS [CURRENT PHOTOS]
INITIALLY POSTED 4/21/05 UPDATED
THIS IS VERY NEW AND IT'S KEPT CURRENT
NATIVE AMERICAN COMMISSION PAGE: [HUNTER GRAY] [FIRST
OF FIVE PAGES] STATEMENTS, ISSUES, NATIVE
POLITICAL ACTION
NATIVE
AMERICAN COMMISSION -- PAGE 2: STATEMENTS, ISSUES, MURDERS OF NATIVE MEN IN
NORTH DAKOTA
NATIVE AMERICAN COMMISSION -- PAGE 3:
MY BOOK NOTES ON THE EXCELLENT THE WABANAKIS OF MAINE AND THE MARITIMES
[10/25/02] -- AND MY RECENT ARTICLE: NATIVE PEOPLES AND THE LEFT [HUNTER
GRAY]
NEW/ISSUES!
NATIVE AMERICAN COMMISSION PAGE 4: APPEAL FOR MURDERED RUSS TURCOTTE AND THE
MURDERED INDIANS AT GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA [HUNTER GRAY] FREQUENTLY
UPDATED DURING THIS PERIOD!
NEW/ISSUES!
NATIVE AMERICAN
COMMISSION PAGE 5 : POLICE RACISM; POCATELLO ANTI-RACISM COMMITTEE PLANNING AREA CONFERENCE;
ORGANIZED CONTEMPORARY HATE -- [HUNTER GRAY] FREQUENTLY UPDATED!
[A very fine, sharply honed, eminently
complimentary -- and genuinely optimistic poem ["Hunter" -- by Sam Friedman] January 21 2004
Hunter, here it is. I hope we have the chance to read an updated version
together at night to the stars on your 100th birthday!
best
sam
Hunter
I know him
as electronic words
on a list serve,
printed words
in a few articles
and a book,
and by brief talk
by telephone-
and by the echoes of his deeds
which were not his
but those of the movements
he helped to organize.
As he would say,
the greatness is theirs,
or maybe, grudgingly, "ours,"
never "mine,"
never "me,"
though not through the false modesty
he reviles.
His ego resembles
a Pocatello pine,
his mind ranges over the Rockies,
his caring and vision
spills from the Arizona of his birth
through Jackson, Eastern Carolina,
Rochester, Chicago, the Dakotas,
down deep into the dark metal mines
where safety depends on power,
through the longshore bars of Seattle
and the firefronts of arid Arizona.
When he dies, the Scorpion and Centaur in the sky
Will drive Lupus from the star-fields with meteors,
and the Bears will dance around the Pole Star
to commemorate a life of their own.
GHOSTS
[HUNTER GRAY DECEMBER 22 2003]
UPDATE NOTES APRIL 24 2007
Note by Hunter Bear:
In just several days, this particular post has drawn a flood of continuing
praise. Here are just a few of many indeed:
"This
near-death experience by an authentic American hero--who was deeply
involved in the Mississippi civil rights movement among many other
principled stands--is so moving that I have to share it with you."
Steven F. McNichols [Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Attorney]
San Francisco, CA 94104-3503 12/21/03
great writing. xo
Kass Fleisher
Author of forthcoming THE BEAR RIVER MASSACRE [Spring 2004]
12/22/03
I
HAVE FORWARDED THIS TO MY SONS, CALLING IT A WONDERFUL READ BY A WONDERFUL
MAN WHO HAS LED A WONDERFUL LIFE. THE WHOLE THING BELONGS IN YOUR
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, INCLUDING YOUR PRESENT ILLNESS, BECAUSE THAT WILL TELL
READERS ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER. AND I URGE YOU ONCE AGAIN TO GET IT WRITTEN
PRONTO, MAKING ARRANGEMENTS FOR YOUR WRITER AND EDITOR SONS AND WHOEVER ELSE
TO FINISH THE JOB IF YOU DONT.
BILL [William
Mandel] Activist and author of many books -- including
SAYING NO TO POWER. 12/21/03
Oh, John! This is wonderful. Even with your
terrible illness, your strength shines -- blazes, really. My warmest wishes
and gratitude to you and Eldri. Paz. Clyde
Clyde Appleton, Tucson, a close radical activist friend from the '50s.
December 27, 2003
Having been a subscriber for less than a year, I have
very much regretted not having the opportunity to meet this man. Knowing what I've learned of
him through these pages inspires me to let him know that I very much
appreciate his contributions and will miss him and his work when he is no
longer with us. My wishes are for his impact to influence my thought world
and that of others for many seasons and for his continued strength to
continue to be with us for as long as he needs to be.
Marie Jackson SNCC
discussion list January 6, 2004
ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING!
Dale Jacobson Poet and scholar January 23 2004
Maybe the world is out of balance (Koyaanisqatsi?)
and you're in balance. John Salter
[Beba] 2/21/05
I sincerely wish you health and a wealth of
happiness.
Celebrate Life!
John Grogan 2/22/05
Canadian Rockies bioregion
Thank you for all you have done and will
continue to do. The struggle continues for as long as injustice does, and
as long as human life prevails upon this planet and perhaps some other
planet in the future. Our spirits are with you.
Mario Marcel Salas 2/22/05
San Antonio, Texas SNCC
From Tiffany: 2/21/05
Wow! All that I can say is that I'm
amazed. i know you've probably heard
this so much that it's old, but your writing ability is incredible! I'm
totally blind, lost my sight at two months old, have never been to Arizona,
and yet I saw the places to which you were referring. I felt that I was
with you as you made that journey. Then again, what else should i expect
from such an admirable figure as yourself?
[Tiffany]
REMINISCENCE: WHEN THE WEST WAS WILD
AND SO WERE WE [HUNTER GRAY JANUARY 1 2005]
NEW! FOLLOWED BY
FILM THOUGHTS: "CONSPIRACY" HUNTER GRAY 1/10/05]
UPDATED WITH HERMIT MOONSHINE [HUNTER BEAR 5/07/07]
One of your best pieces, in my
opinion. Maybe the brandy is still there, wedged between some rocks, aged
to perfection. John Salter 1/01/05
Treasure of an essay. Sheila Michaels
1/01/05
I feel I know you a little through your
wonderful postings. Thank
you for them. Edwin Laing 1/01/05
This is a very nice story indeed. You
have a real gift here.
It was terrific to talk with you.
Happy New Year
sam [friedman] 1/01/05
I do hope someone found that bottle of
brandy!
David [McReynolds] 1/01/05
What a great post, made stronger because
I can picture the switchbacks below Jerome. That's a great line -- the
jail sliding across the street. It seemed remarkable to me (and my
Dakota/Nebraska flatland conditioning) that the entire town just didn't
tip and roll down the hill. Anyway, great writing. Great stories. I'm
saving this one. Peter Gray Salter 1/01/05
Good
read. Thanks.:-
Yours,
Issodhos
1/02/05
When the big
bottle of Hennessy hit the water in Lindsay Loy's irrigation ditch, it was
immediately transposed into Legend. In that sense it joins [in its
small but qualitatively quite comparable fashion] the Lost Dutchman Mine
in the Superstitions of central Arizona and the Lost Adams Diggings
located somewhere in western New Mexico or eastern Arizona: gold
lost, gold found, gold lost again. Not one of the countless
conversations of any kind that Joe and I have had on any topic since the
early '50s has failed to early-on include the Loss -- and no academic
class to whom I have given this account has failed to focus immediately
and primarily on the Bottle. As the decades have passed, the
Hennessy has grown tremendously in image and glow -- as authentic legends
always do. In my opinion, finding it would simply reduce the Legend
to commonplace materials, adding another layer of tragedy and an even
greater sense of loss.
Yours, Hunter Bear 1/02/05
THE STORMY ADOPTION OF AN INDIAN CHILD -- MY FATHER [ADDENDUM TO
BACKGROUND NARRATIVE MATERIAL] [HUNTER GRAY/HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R
SALTER, JR JUNE 11 2004]
WITH NEW MATERIAL JULY 6 AND
JULY 9 2004
--ESSAY: "MINORITY ADOPTIONS"
AND NATIVE AMERICA, LAND, RESOURCES [HUNTER BEAR -- FEBRUARY 16 2008]
A BIZARRE 1979 ALBUQUERQUE FBI EFFORT
TO SMEAR ME [EVENTUALLY CORRECTED], AND ITS WEIRD RAMIFICATIONS
[THIS IS ONE OF THE OLDEST
COMPONENTS OF OUR WEBSITE, INCLUDES SOME ESPECIALLY RELEVANT DOCUMENTS -- AND
RELATES MUCH TO OUR UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SITUATION. [THIS LINK
POSTED APRIL 4 2005] TWO PAGES
ISSUES AND THINGS: AS WINTER DRAWS
NIGH [HUNTER GRAY 11/23/04] [POLITICS 2004; FT LEWIS
COLLEGE RACIAL CONTROVERSY; MY KIND OF WEATHER, JACK REED, LUPUS; MEDICINE;
JACKSON MOVEMENT; LESCHI; AND MORE]
Here's an important account of the Jackson civil rights movement by an
important civil rights activist then and now.
Attorney Steven F. McNichols
San Francisco, CA 94104-3503 12/10/04
DUTCH OVEN STEW: MRS DORIS ALLISON;
JACKSON MOVEMENT; THOMAS AND MIMI ARE MARRIED AND OTHER IDAHO NOTES;
LUPUS; NATIVE MATTERS -- BLM, BIA, NATIVE BURIAL PROTECTION, AND
TRADITIONAL MEDIATION EFFORTS AND TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY [HUNTER BEAR]
AUGUST 20/21 AND SEPTEMBER 1 2004
HOW EACH SIDE SEES THE OTHER
SIDE: NATIVE VIEWS AND ANGLO BUSINESS VIEWS [HUNTER BEAR]
AUGUST 27 2004
OUR
COMMUNALISTIC WILL [AND OTHER MENTIONS INCLUDING WILLIAM JAMES AND FAMILY]
HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR] UPDATED MAY 13 2006 AND UPDATED AGAIN
WITH MUCH COMMENT
RATTLESNAKE! [HUNTER BEAR, JUNE 7, 2004]
THE SUN AND THE WIND [HUNTER BEAR, JUNE 7, 2004]
FROM
AN IDAHO WINDOW [HUNTER GRAY / HUNTER BEAR 4/30/04] KASS FLEISHER'S FINE NEW BOOK ON THE HIDEOUS BEAR RIVER MASSACRE OF
NORTHWESTERN SHOSHONI BY US TROOPS. AND MORE.
JEROME, ARIZONA [HUNTER
GRAY/HUNTER BEAR MARCH 13, 2004]
COPPER
STRIKE IN THE SOUTHWEST: ITS SAD "RESOLUTION" [THE STEEL UNION,
ASARCO AND THE OLD MINE-MILL [HUNTER BEAR NOVEMBER 16 2005 -- WITH
LESSONS AND LABOR CHALLENGES THAT CRY OUT [HUNTER BEAR POSTED 11/17/05]
HUNTER GRAY'S ESSAY/REVIEW OF
"BIG
TROUBLE" -- CENTERED ON THE FRAMEUP TRIAL OF WILLIAM D.
HAYWOOD AT IDAHO [POSTED 1/25/04]
WESTERN FEDERATION OF MINERS
JRS/HG
Review/Essay of Mine Mill: The History of the International Union
of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in Canada -- Since 1895 [Mike
Solski and John Smaller]
LABOR HISTORY, FALL 1986
WORKSHOP:
NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ORGANIZING [HUNTER GRAY] POSTED 1/23/04
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES -- OR,
GETTING PRACTICAL [REVISED DECEMBER 25 2003]
BASED ON MY 50 YEARS OF ORGANIZING EXPERIENCE. HUNTER GRAY/JOHN R SALTER, JR
PUBLISHED IN OREGON SOCIALIST WINTER/SPRING 2004 [NEW MATERIAL ADDED
8/25/04] ALSO IN LEFT HOOK. REGULARLY UPDATED
JUST
WHAT MAKES A DAMN GOOD COMMUNITY ORGANIZER? BASED ON MY 50 YEARS OF COMMUNITY
ORGANIZING [HUNTER GRAY [HUNTERBEAR] 12/30/03
Published in the Spring 2004 issue of Independent Politics News. And
published in Oregon Socialist, Winter/Spring 2004. Also in Michigan
Citizen and Left Hook and other publications.
MORE ON ORGANIZING [HUNTER BEAR
JANUARY 10 2006] UPDATED WITH, MONSTER SLAYER [HUNTER BEAR
1/29/06]
GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING: RACE AND ETHNICITY [HUNTER BEAR] MARCH
18 2006
MY COMBINED COMMUNITY
ORGANIZING PIECES -- WITH MUCH NEW STUFF HUNTER GRAY/JOHN R SALTER, JR
[HUNTER BEAR] SEPTEMBER 5 2004 -- WITH NEW INCLUSION: THE
COMMUNITY ORGANIZER AS PRACTITIONER, TEACHER, WRITER AND STUDENT [HUNTER GRAY --
FEBRUARY 19 2008] ALL OF THIS MUCH REPRINTED -- PLUS MANY NEW COMMENTS
ORGANIZER 20:
FACTIONALISM AND GERONIMO AND
ORGANIZERS AND TODAY [HUNTER GRAY
7/31/02 -WITH AN ADDED NOTE 2/27/06]
REDS AND CAPITALISTS, HAYWOOD AND HAMMOND AND
ME [HUNTER BEAR 1/18/04]
LUPUS AND NATIVES, NATIVES AND HUNTING [HUNTER
GRAY JANUARY 3, 2004] UPDATED 2/23/05
FAMILY THINGS -- AND
ALSO GOLD, NATIVES, AND DREAMS AND LEGENDS
[HUNTER GRAY/HUNTER
BEAR JANUARY 12 2004] UPDATED 4/15/05
PHOTOS: SOME FAMILY OF OURS OF
WHOM YOU'VE HEARD [HUNTER BEAR JANUARY 13, 2004] ELDRI
THOMAS JOSIE & CAMERON
GRAY LANDS AND GRAY GHOSTS: THE TIME OF FLINT [HUNTER GRAY -- UPDATED FEBRUARY 6 2006] IROQUOIS ACTIVISM IN THE FAR WEST --
FAMILY -- THE CURRENT SCENE
KIND CORRESPONDENCE: JOHN GRAY LAND OF
LONG, LONG AGO -- AND RELATED MATTERS -- AKWESASNE [HUNTER GRAY, NOVEMBER 7 2004]
MEDGAR W. EVERS OF MISSISSIPPI: REFLECTION AND APPRECIATION
-- THIS IS VERY SUBSTANTIAL AND VERY PRIMARY MATERIAL FROM HIS CLOSE COLLEAGUE,
ME: HUNTER GRAY [JOHN R SALTER, JR.]
UPDATED
This is a part of a much larger section on the
Mississippi Movement. The full sweep can be found by scrolling down.
WARBONNET: A FEW NOTES ON INDIAN
DRINKING -- AND A HIDEOUS/FASCINATING CHICAGO DRINKING ARENA [HUNTER GRAY /
HUNTER BEAR 1/26/04] NEW! OKIE STOMP DANCE: SOUTHERN INDIANS,
OKLAHOMA, FLAGSTAFF [HUNTER GRAY JULY 10, 2003 ]
JUNE
18: THE LAST HOLY DAY IN THE JACKSON MOVEMENT CALENDAR [HUNTER GRAY
JUNE 13, 2003 AND UPDATED JUNE 18 2005] ALSO "RED" POLITICS/RED BLOOD -- AND THE SIGNAL JUNE 6
ANNIVERSARY [HUNTER GRAY JUNE 6, 2003]
PETER MACDONALD AND THE
NAVAJO [DINE'] NATION [HUNTER
GRAY] -- ALSO HUNTERBEAR ARTICLES ON THE NAVAJO URANIUM TRAGEDY
IN THE DARK WILDS WE HAVE MANY FRIENDS
[HUNTER GRAY MARCH 15, 2003] "JURY DUTY" IN IDAHO [HUNTER GRAY
APRIL 2, 2003] AND HIGHWAY 666 -- AND MY BROTHER, LEE
BENALLY [HUNTER GRAY APRIL 18, 2003]
NATIVE ISSUES AND OTHER
MATTERS: RECOGNITION, GOVERNANCE, FEDERAL INDIAN LAW, UNITY -- AND MUCH
MORE [HUNTER GRAY MARCH 14, 2003]
OUR HISTORIC WOOLWORTH SIT-IN: JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI -- MAY 28 '63 THE MOST
VIOLENTLY ATTACKED SIT-IN OF THE 1960S. SUBSTANTIALLY EXPANDED WITH ADDITIONAL
PHOTOS AND
SIGNIFICANT COMMENT. TWO PAGES. THIS IS ONE PORTION OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF
MISSISSIPPI MATERIAL LISTED THROUGHOUT OUR WEBSITE.
PUBLISHED IN MAY/JUNE 2002 ISSUE OF
AGAINST THE CURRENT: THE CLOSED
SOCIETY OF MISSISSIPPI AND FREE AMERICA TODAY [HUNTER GRAY ]
IMPORTANT FAMILY STUFF [John Gray:
Mohawk Ancestral Activist/Culture Hero; Our Native Genealogy]
AND CLOSELY RELATED PAGES
GRAY
LANDS AND GRAY GHOSTS: THE TIME OF FLINT [HUNTER GRAY -- UPDATED
FEBRUARY 6 2006] IROQUOIS ACTIVISM IN THE FAR WEST --
FAMILY -- THE CURRENT SCENE
JOHN GRAY'S HISTORIC FIGHT WITH THE FIVE GRIZZLY
BEARS. SKETCH BY FATHER NICOLAS POINT, S.J., 1841
ALSO TWO
NOTES
BY ME -- HUNTERBEAR -- TO A FRIEND ON MY CURRENT FIREARMS AND RELATED MATTERS
WEIRD THINGS HAPPENING WHERE WE
ARE: FOR THE RECORD [HUNTER GRAY 12/10/02]
WOBBLY
SOME AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RADICAL HISTORY -- MY EARLY RED MEMBERSHIP CARD
SKINWALKERS II [BAD MEDICINE -- AND GOOD] HUNTER
GRAY 11/26/02 -- AND A NOTE ON TONY HILLERMAN AND WRITING ON INDIANS [HUNTER
GRAY 11/27/02] MORE [HUNTER GRAY 5/15/03]
MOUNTAIN LION [NASHDOITSOLBAI] THREE POSTS, HUNTER GRAY [NOVEMBER
14/15 2002] NOTES ON COYOTES AND [WILD] CATS [HUNTERBEAR, 1/12/03]
PANTHERS
[HUNTER GRAY MARCH 5 AND MARCH 6 2002] A SOUTHERN TALE --
SOCIAL CHANGE [HG MARCH 8, 2002]
UPDATED 11/15/04
OWLS AND
INDIANS -- AND SOME RADICALS WHO ARE NEITHER [HUNTER GRAY 2/05/02]
UPDATED, MOST RECENTLY 3/04/05
VIEWS AND VISTAS ON THE
REPARATIONS TRAIL [HUNTER GRAY DECEMBER 1 2002] MAJOR
ARTICLE
Published in the January/February 2003 issue of the
excellent socialist journal, Against the Current
HUNTING DEER WITH NED HATATHLI
IN THE CINDER HILLS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA -- AND OUR ANASAZI CONCERNS [HUNTER GRAY
1/27/03] ON NAMES AND NAMING: AND REMEMBERING MARTIN MANY WOUNDS
[HUNTER GRAY 1/28/03] UPDATED 2/09/05
CARL GORMAN [AND
THE NAVAJO CODE TALKERS] -- WITH VERY APPRECIATIVE COMMENT BY ME [HUNTER GRAY 1/18/02]
CARL
GORMAN [Kin-yah-onny beyeh - "Son of Towering House People"] : NAVAJO CODE
TALKER PHOTO
MY FAVORABLE
IMPRESSIONS OF WINDTALKERS [HUNTER GRAY 6/15/02]
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI: AN AMERICAN CHRONICLE OF STRUGGLE AND SCHISM [MY BOOK
-- FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE DRAMATIC, SANGUINARY AND LEGENDARY JACKSON
MOVEMENT. AND SOME OF THE BOOK'S MANY FINE REVIEWS AND ENDORSEMENTS -- AMONG THEM
Best Sellers, Southern Exposure, Monthly Review, Journal of Southern History,
Socialist Monthly Changes, Sojourners, Social Forces, Journal of Mississippi History, Wisconsin Magazine of
History, UMOJA [A Scholarly Journal of Black Studies],
Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Social Development Issues, Win Magazine
, AMAZON and
others. And among the reviewers and those giving
individual testimonials are Jessica Mitford, James W. Silver, Anne Braden,
John Dittmer, Jay Weinstein, J.S. Himes, Gary Lowe, Frank Adams, Neil McMillen,
Clyde Appleton, Fr. Joseph Hacala S.J., Sarah Cooper, Jim Woodward, Vinton
Prince Jr., Reed Massengill, David Ranney, Alene Jones, Perk Perkins, Sam
Friedman, David Fields, James Loewen and others.
MAINSTREAM
: REMEMBRANCE AND APPRECIATION -- AND RADICALS, EDITORS, AND UNITY: FRED
THOMPSON, BERT COCHRAN, CHARLES HUMBOLDT [HUNTER GRAY -
EXPANDED AND UPDATED 10/29/05]
REPOSTED BY REQUEST!
PERSONAL
REMINISCENCE: NORTH CAROLINA AND JESSE HELMS -- HUNTER GRAY
PUBLISHED IN THE SOCIALIST
[JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003]
NEW
ADDITIONS [2/19/02]! PHOTOS OF MY FATHER'S EXCELLENT NATIVE AMERICAN ART
NEW
PAGE [2/21/02] MORE OF MY FATHER'S NATIVE AMERICAN ART
VERY
ANCIENT FAMILY MEMBERS: TEZCATLIPOCA AND THE TRAVELING DEITY [VERY PRE-COLUMBIAN]
UNIONS, NATIVES, AND TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY [HUNTER GRAY FEBRUARY 16
2002]
UPDATED JUNE 24 2005
THE METIS, LOUIS RIEL,
THE RED RIVER, AND MUCH MORE [HUNTER GRAY 1/30/02]
NEW MEXICO [A
RADICAL INDIAN'S TOUR GUIDE] HUNTER GRAY 1/03/02 -- UPDATED DECEMBER 3
2007
NATIVE AMERICANS
AND THE NEW CENTURY: TWO NEW ARTICLES FOR STRUGGLE, ORGANIZING, FIGHTING, AND VICTORY [Hunter Gray - SPRING 2002] One of
these articles, NATIVE
AMERICAN STRUGGLE: ONE CENTURY INTO ANOTHER has now been published in the Spring 2002
issue of DEMOCRATIC LEFT -- official journal of Democratic Socialists of America[DSA].
On April 20, 2002, Portside [the news service of Committees of Correspondence
for Democracy and Socialism] published and sent it to about 4,300 recipients.
The second article, "NATIVES, ISSUES, AND RADICALS, has
appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of the CCDS journal DIALOGUE AND INITIATIVE as
NATIVE PEOPLES AND THE LEFT.
NATIVE AMERICAN STRUGGLE has also been published [9/9/02] on the website of the
Anti-Racism Commission [DSA], Our Struggle/Nuestra Lucha
http://dsausa.org/antiracism/editorials/editorials.html
Cloudy - Bobcat Mix
-
NaŽshdoŽiŽbaŽiŽ
EXTENSIVE
ESSAY FROM THE JOURNAL OF INDIGENOUS THOUGHT [SASKATCHEWAN INDIAN FEDERATED
COLLEGE] WINTER 2001 "I Consider Myself a Real Red:" The
Social Thought of American Civil Rights Organizer John R. (Salter) Hunter Gray" by
Professor Roy T. Wortman, Department of History, Kenyon College
NEW!
HUNTER
BEAR'S MOVEMENT LIFE INTERVIEW LENGTHY AND DETAILED: THE EQUIVALENT
OF 51 TYPED SINGLE-SPACED PAGES!
_______________________________________________________________
GUNS:
I had my first firearm when I was seven, have had many indeed since then and
presently have several, was president of our Junior NRA Club at Flagstaff High School and
a rifle champ, was Expert Marksman in the US Army, and have on occasion -- sensibly and
determinedly -- utilized firearms for self-defense against racist attackers. I have
for decades written widely on civil rights, civil liberties, and the thoughtful use of
firearms. This much reprinted article of mine, "Civil Rights and Self-Defense,
appeared in the excellent socialist journal, Against the Current [July/August 1988.]
-- Hunter Gray
[8/25/01]
REFLECTIONS ON FINNS AND FINNISH-AMERICANS
AND A WORD ON THE MINE-MILL UNION AND THE TITO FACTOR AT BUTTE / ANACONDA IN
1953-1954
AND MYRON BERCIER -- AND GUS HALL
MY EXTREMELY POSITIVE REVIEW OF LYNN MARIA LAITALA'S DOWN FROM
BASSWOOD [HUNTER GRAY 4/4/02]
UPDATED 2/27/05
This extensive page is also the beginning of a
major section on the life and times of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers. One can tie into that right here -- or scroll down where it's all listed in
detail.
NEW AND MUCH
EXPANDED UPDATE --
POISONING THE WELL: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA AND MY TRULY
BIZARRE UND
SITUATION. [HUNTER GRAY -
REGULARLY UPDATED]
___________________________________________________
Congratulations: We are proud of all
of our children and grandchildren -- whose accomplishments continue to be significant.
In May, 2001, our oldest son, John Salter [born at Raleigh, N.C., 1965],
received a highly prestigious McKnight Writer's Award for creative prose: a quite
substantial financial stipend, publication of his submitted/judged work, key reading
appearances. His was one of four awarded out of a large pool of applicants.
His short stories have appeared in many of the top-flight literary magazines in the United
States.
An excellent
collection of his fine short stories has -- March 2002 -- been published in cloth and
paper. The book is ALBERTA CLIPPER -- issued by
Livingston Press / University of West Alabama. It's available from all of the
conventional sources.
He received a substantial grant through the
Minnesota Arts Council. in 2002.
In 2003, he was their guest -- for an extensive stay -- at the Yaddo artists and
writers retreat at Saratoga Springs, New York.
A second book of his fine short stories plus a novella will be coming out
before long. It will be called PURPLE SAGE.
BUT THE BIG NEWS OF THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY IS
THAT HIS CURRENT MAJOR NOVEL, A TROUT IN THE SEA OF CORTEZ,
HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN LATE SUMMER 2006 BY COUNTERPOINT [A DIVISION OF PERSEUS],
NEW YORK CITY!
AND IT IS
DRAWING TRULY GREAT REVIEWS!
AND NOW,
FOR THE SECOND TIME, JOHN HAS JUST RECEIVED THE MCKNIGHT WRITER'S FELLOWSHIP --
AND HAS JUST RECEIVED THE TOP BUSH FOUNDATION [TWIN CITIES] WRITER'S FELLOWSHIP
AS WELL.
Hunter Gray [May 2007]
John Salter
IDAHO AS PLACE MY
ARTICLE IN THE NORTHWEST ETHNIC VOICE [MAY / JUNE 2001]
___________________________________________________________
"An Injury To One Is An Injury To All"
-- From the Preamble of the I.W.W.
and Mine-Mill
"Takes more than guns to kill a man..."
-- From Joe Hill
"The copper bosses killed you, Joe
They shot you, Joe says I
Takes more than guns to
kill a man
Says Joe, I never
died"
John Gray [Ignace Hatchiorauquasha], great/great/great
grandfather of Hunter Gray:
"Gray -- Ross had described him the year before
as "a turbulent blackguard, a damned rascal" -- then launched into a
denunciation of the policies of HBC in general and the men of the Columbia Department in
particular: ". . .the greatest Villains in the World & if they were here
this day I would shoot them . . ." John Gray [Ignace
Hatchiorauquasha], Mohawk, fighting leader of the Iroquois fur-hunters in the Far West, to
Peter Skene Ogden et al. of the Hudson's Bay Company, on May 24 1825, at the point John
Gray and his Native band struck Ogden's camp -- near the present northeastern
Utah/southeastern Idaho border -- and successfully ended a viciously exploitative pricing
system and quasi-indentured servitude over the whole, entire wide region.
Cited from: Don Berry, A Majority of
Scoundrels: An Informal Histor