MIKE RACCOON EYES KINNEY: NATIVE WRITE-IN CANDIDATE FOR US PRESIDENT 2016




There is NO one for Indian Country to vote for in the US Presidential 2016 bid! I am now starting a National write in campaign as a PROTEST VOTE AGAINST THE DEMOCRATIC & REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES! I have made the decision to be a NATIVE WRITE-IN CANDIDATE FOR THE US PRESIDENT! It may sound crazy to do as such, but these SO-CALLED MAINSTREAM CANDIDATES  DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT US IN INDIAN COUNTRY! My goal is quite simple: MORE HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS FOR INDIAN COUNTRY!




" THE NATIVE VOTE EQUATES NATIVE ELECTED OFFICIALS TO GIVE US REPRESENTATION IN A RACIST, COLONIAL MAINSTREAM SOCIETY



Among the most difficult civil rights issues are those facing Indian Country's 10 million Native Americans. Federally recognized tribes are considered domestic dependent nations, with their rights to tribal sovereignty preserved. Tribal sovereignty refers to tribes' right to govern themselves, define their own membership, manage tribal property, and regulate tribal business and domestic relations; it further recognizes the existence of a government-to-government relationship between such tribes and the federal government. The federal government has special trust obligations to protect tribal lands and resources, protect tribal rights to self-government, and provide services necessary for tribal survival and advancement.


The fight to preserve tribal sovereignty and treaty rights has long been at the forefront of the Native American civil rights movement Moreover, Native Americans suffer from many of the same social and economic problems as other victims of long-term bias and discrimination - including, for example, disproportionately high rates of poverty, infant mortality, unemployment, and low high school completion rates. The struggle for equal employment and educational opportunity is key to addressing these problems that historically plague Indian Country.
WE NOW KNOW INDIAN COUNTRY IT IS TIME TO RISE TO POWER! We know as Native People can no longer afford to go along to get along!



The Native vote equates Native elected officials rebuild Native community by community and person by person, and Indian Country as a whole. I can't tell you how many everyday people that I've talked with who've visited Indian Country, and they've looked around and they saw all the social indicators of decline: high infant mortality, high unemployment, many other very serious problems among our People, and they always ask, " What happened to these people? Why do Native People have all these problems?"



To be blunt, many Native Peoples view the current United States government as a racist, colonial, illegal foreign government that is occupying our many Native Nations and could a dam less about us!
Five hundred years of conquest, death, cultural deprivation, and mistreatment have left North American Native populations with unresolved grief about our history. The racist, colonial policies of the United States government views as a so-called 'conquered people', oppression and repression of our God given Human and Civil Rights as First Nation Peoples and mass extermination, ethnic cleansing and racial genocide.



Native people know that with the emergence of many Native elected officials in 2016 that is the beginning of the prophecies of when Indigenous Native People are in CONTROL of the three America again within the next 25 years or less!



As I state on mainstream media and town hall meetings through out Indian Country, I make the following statement:



" CREATOR'S WORLD RENEWAL CYCLE SHALL START SOON! THE NATIVE MAN SHALL RISE TO POWER SOON! WE AS NATIVE PEOPLE SHALL BE IN CONTROL OF THE AMERICAS AGAIN! BE READY! LEARN YOUR PRAYERS! LEARN YOUR SONGS! LEARN YOUR DANCES! BE READY! THE NATIVE MAN SHALL RISE TO POWER AND BE IN CONTROL OF THE AMERICAS!"



Mike Raccoon Eyes Kinney is of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, out of Southeast Kentucky. He has been a Native Advocate for more Human and Civil Rights for Indian Country for the past 25 years. He is the San Francisco Bay Area delegate for the Inter-Tribal Council of California. He is a writer and author on traditional and contemporary issues of Indian Country, as well gives inspirational motivational talks about the spiritual empowerment of Native Peoples. He currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

ANNE HILLERMAN: THE NEXT GENERATION By Mike Raccoon Eyes Kinney

ANNE HILLERMAN: THE NEXT GENERATION


By Mike Raccoon Eyes Kinney




ANNE HILLERMAN: THE NEXT GENERATION
By Mike Raccoon Eyes Kinney
I had my coffee and notes ready for my interview with Anne Hillerman (daughter of Tony Hillerman) international mystery writer and with two New York Times best sellers she has authored- SPIPER WOMAN'S DAUGHTER and ROCK WITH WINGS.


The phone rings exactly at 3pm sharp. I take a quick final sip of coffee and I hear the charming and delightful voice of Anne calling me from her home in Santa Fe. I was really so excited to finally hear the voice of Ann, she is a master story teller who really understands the art of being interviewed and talking with her was like talking to my best friend or close family member. She is a very warm, friendly and well-spoken person about her art and craft of being both a writer and author.


" I can remember my Dad talking so much about his main character Joe Leaphorn I almost viewed him as an uncle. It was from this point, I realized how lucky I was to write fiction in a fictional world that I had inherited from my Dad.This was how rich that experience was. It was from there I sensed the real love of my Dad's telling those stories.It really hit home with me in the early 70's, when Dad sold his book the BLESSING WAY. It was then finally Joe Leaphorn had a real place in fiction to exist and be."


She has carefully researched and studied her Dad's internationally acclaimed Leaphorn-Chee mysteries to carry it and have it evolve to the whole next level. When I asked her about her two New York Times best-sellers SPIDER WOMAN'S DAUGHTER and ROCK WITH WINGS she explained to me how she had sought to take her Dad's character, Navajo Tribal cop, Bernadette Manuelito to have a real life of her own in the Leaphorn-Chee-Manueltio series she was writing.


" Bernie is the wife of Sheriff Jim Chee, as my readers know. But she needed to have a place where she was viewed as crime-solver, a real law-enforcement officer. I was able to bring a new twist and my voice into her character. Dad created Bernie as a character but her life didn't have a back story, so I intended to fill that void."


" She as well has a Mother and her Sister, Darlene whom play important parts in my novels. As example, Bernie's Mother is important in her life because she is very stabilizing in Bernie's life, her Sister Darlene can be troubling at times. The younger sibling at time needs a good kick in the pants in their fictional world. Their Mother does not tolerate or put up with foolish coming from here daughters, but by the same token the Mother's health problems make her dependent on the two of them. It is just a complicated relationship at times."


" I have lived in Santa Fe since the early 70s so it was something I was familiar with and could write about. So I thought it would be great to bring Leaphorn, Chee and Bernie to Santa Fe. And to see what Bernie thought about being there for the first time."


She and her photographer Husband, Don Strel teamed up to together to write TONY HILLERMAN'S LANDSCAPE. With Don's amazing photographs and her writings, the book became a huge success. " The book was intended to be coffee table book. My editor shared that the book would be published in the United States and publishing here would be more expensive. We had down size the photo images from 225 to 100 photo images. So we had to restructure the whole book. The editor suggested that I should write about the experience of my Dad's passing in the first chapter, which I did. In doing as such, I was able to celebrate my Dad's life and as well it helped with my grieving and healing."


" What I enjoyed about writing SPIDER WOMAN'S DAUGHTER and ROCK WITH WINGS that these two mysteries were now connected to each other. After ROCK WITH WINGS was finished, I still did not have a title for it. At that time my Mother was in the hospital and she knew something was bothering me. So I shared with her about not having a title. She eventually thought of the idea for the title based on the Navajo translation of Shiprock, which would be in English- Rock with Wings. So we have two locations going on, one in Shiprock and the other in Monument Valley. The Monument Valley landscape is ancient and mysterious. My Dad had never done story based out of there. So I just knew it was the right place to have a part of the story take place at."


When asked what she liked about being a writer and author, Anne stated: " If people read my books, I am very happy! "