Skin in the Game: A Paiute Prayer, BLM, and a Confederate Flag (Eugenia Camas & Tessa)
Flag image courtesy of Capture 11 Photography
Guest: Eugenia Camas is Shoshone-Paiute and grew up on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Owyhee, Nevada where she and her 2 brothers were raised by their paternal grandmother. Eugenia was previously an Educational Assistant at Jefferson County School District in Madras, Oregon and is attending Central Oregon Community College. Eugenia has 6 children and 5 grandchildren.
Eugenia’s passion: Teaching her children and grandchildren to stand up for what’s right and to learn and represent Indigenous culture fully even if they are afraid.
Discussion Topics:
- What led up to, and what occurred when Eugenia took her daughter into a potentially hostile environment to teach her that BLM and Native lives matter!
- What happened when an anti-BLM, confederate flag holder yelled obscenities at Eugenia for supporting the BLM movement
- The Officer who subtly stepped up to offer Eugenia support
- Tessa’s (Eugenia’s 11 year old daughter) presentation of the Shoshone Flag song and what she learned from the event
- How Eugenia’s fluency in the Paiute language was challenged when she went to a new school
- Thoughts on POTUS and Voter Registration
- Supplemental: Nightwolf opinion on the truth about Matoaka and how Indigenous history has been mocked and distorted
Native prayer presented by Verona Iriarte
Host: Jay Winter Nightwolf
