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Making manifest destiny great again ~ An article by Niigan Sinclair

By James B. Beard aka Noodin
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    Making manifest destiny great again By:   Niigaan Sinclair Posted:   12:10 PM CST Monday, Jan. 12, 2026 U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March calling for the removal of “improper ideology” from national museums. Targeting Smithsonian institutions, including the National Museum of the American Indian, the order said it is the Trump administration’s policy to “restore federal sites dedicated to history, including parks and museums, to solemn and uplifting public monuments that remind Americans of our extraordinary heritage.” Museums in the U.S. capital, the order states, “should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history.” Johns Hopkins University history Prof. Nathan Connolly remarked on the changes on Facebook in late December after visiting the museum. “No more Indigenous geography, or Indigenous cosmology,” he wrote. “The treasur...
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Submit to tyranny, oppressive power exerted by a government. The use of power without restraint. You then will become the oppressed.

By James B. Beard aka Noodin
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  PROTECTING THE LAND Submit to tyranny, oppressive power exerted by a government. The use of power without restraint. You then will become the oppressed. The Constitution was drawn by the people for the people to insure against repression. Allowing certain individuals in power to take away those laws will take away a quality of life enjoyed by the people. It is the laws, the treaties agreed to by the majority that have protected the people. A few years ago, I watched as a small community of First Nation people stood up for their rights. They refused oppression by Corporate interests reinforced by government authorities. They were successful because they were within the rights of their treaty. Had they not stood up for those rights in protest the outcome would have been very different. The feather represents truth and preservation of life. First Nation MicMac woman facing RCMP Taking away the rights of the people who have lived on the land for thousands of years is typical of gove...
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Be who you are! Humility!

By James B. Beard aka Noodin
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  MIGIZII ~ BALD EAGLE In Ojibwe: D'baad end’zin (humility).    Humility to allow that we are equal to everyone else. No more and no less. Take pride in what we do, but the pride that we take is only in the sharing of the accomplishment with others. To be right size means dropping the mask that we wear to impress others. Step forward to do the work regardless of the credit.    One of the seven gifts brought to the people by the First Elder.  The Seven Grandfathers Told the First Elder  Wisdom, Respect, Honesty, Humility, Bravery, Love, Truth   The seven teachings must be used together as one. You cannot have wisdom without love, respect, bravery, honesty, humility, and truth. To leave one out is to embrace the opposite of what that teaching is. If one of these gifts is not used with the others, we will not be in balance. We must remember these teachings, practice them, and teach them to our children  GET THE MESSAGE OUT! Please Share the...
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Stories that are told are heart to heart. ~ Stories that are read lose that connection.

By James B. Beard aka Noodin
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  Telling Stories rather than Reading Stories                 Excerpts of interview with Hannah Thomas of HeartRising.com When telling stories that have happened to me, I am speaking of the stories from the experience as spirit gave it to me. When telling the stories of the people, the Native stories, stories about the seven grandfathers that creator put on this earth to watch over us and try to help us to understand and follow guidance, or the four chiefs that brought us the medicines to help to heal the people and other stories that I tell. I tell them as I heard them at the fire. What that means is when I go to ceremonies or I visit communities of the Native people that are still in this country practicing their traditional beliefs, I listen to the old story tellers as they tell the stories. The stories that I tell are those stories, the ones that I have heard and very often, when I am telling them, people will say; You don’t sound like ...
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