Dyed & Risen: Strange Story of White Jesus

(TheThinkingAtheist) Dyed & Risen: The Strange Story of White Jesus

• Race and appearance of Christian Jesus Christ

To save Los Angeles' elephants (sutra)

Elephants are especially social and wise animals

L.A. Zoo elephants' whereabouts a mystery amid relocation battle

(ABC7) May 21, 2025: Where are LA's elephants Billy and Tina? The Los Angeles Zoo's two remaining manacled/shackled Asian elephants appear to have been transferred in the dark while demonstrators let their guard down. abc7.com/post/activists...

• UPDATE: The elephants have been secreted away overnight (May 21, 2025) and shipped via truck to the Tulsa Zoo rather than the animal sanctuary anti-animal-cruelty demonstrators were demanding.

LA Zoo elephants Billy and Tina relocated to Tulsa | FOX 11 LA

• Animals in Buddhism
• To herald the coming birth of the Future Buddha, pregnant Queen Maya dreamed that she conceived of Prince Siddhartha when a white double tusker royal elephant entered her side: Queen Maya's Dream
• In Buddhism, elephants get names like Parileyya and Girimekhala, usually after the woods in which they reside.

'Not another zoo': Critics want LA Zoo elephants moved to sanctuary

(TODAY) May 13, 2025: Elephants Billy and Tina, the last two Asian elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo, were set to be relocated to another animal prison at the Tulsa Zoo, but there is pushback from animal-loving demonstrators and critics online alleging, “They will suffer in an inhumane environment.” NBC’s Morgan Chesky reports for TODAY. #elephant #animals #zoo

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  A Light to the World — Svetaketu leaves Tusita

  Pārileyyaka Sutta: When the Buddha was staying in a forest near Pārileyya, some meditative monks asked Ananda to take them to him. He did, and the Buddha, reading their thoughts, taught a sutra on the destruction of the cankers (āsavas) by the full realization of the impermanent and impersonal nature of all existence: all things are transient and devoid of any self (S.iii.95ff.) Translation: Pālileyya Sutta translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi (SN 22.81)

Conscious elephants in Buddhism: The Full Moon Honey Offering Festival

Animal karma (deeds) also bear karmic results

The Honey-Offering Festival is a Buddhist religious ceremony that commemorates the service and sustenance provided by animals to the Buddha.

It was during the Buddha's tenth Rains Retreat (Vas or Vassa) in Parileyya Forest.

According to legend, during his retreat to solitude, a wild monkey brought an offering of a honeycomb to give to the Buddha to eat, as an elephant named Parileyya brought fruit and protected the Buddha from fierce animals in the forest.

The 31 Planes of Existence

When the Buddha accepted the gift of the honeycomb, the monkey became so overjoyed that he began to leap from tree to tree, and in his exuberance fell to his death due to his reckless jubilation. However, because of his generous gift, that monkey was immediately reborn on a celestial plane called the World of the Thirty-Three (Tavatimsa), the second of the six heavens in the Sensual Sphere (below many other heavens of the Fine Material Sphere and Immaterial Sphere).

Since these events are believed to have taken place on the day of the full moon, the occasion has come to be commemorated as Madhu Purnima, or “Honey Full Moon.” The festival is observed on the full moon of the tenth lunar month in Theravada Buddhist countries in South and Southeast Asia. More

Conscious elephant karma

The “Four Harmonious Friends,” Bhutan

The Commentaries (e.g., DhA.i.48ff.; iv.26 ff. UdA.250f.; see Thomas, op. cit., 117 n) say that the elephant's name was Pārileyya (also Pārileyyaka) and describe in vivid detail the manner in which the elephant looked after the Buddha, omitting nothing, even to the extent of finding hot water for his bath.

Later, when the Buddha's attendant Ananda came with many others to invite the Buddha to return to Sāvatthi, the elephant Pārileyyaka provided all of them with alms food. The Buddha agreed and returned.

But such was the attachment the elephant had formed toward the Buddha that he died of a broken heart when the Buddha left the forest.

However, as a result of all his good deeds (wholesome karma) toward these enlightened beings, he was immediately reborn as a deva (angel, offspring of the gods) in Tāvatimsa in a golden palace (vimana, mansion) said to be 30 leagues high, where he is now known as Pārileyyaka devaputta.

This elephant is also identified with the elephant in the Bhisa Jātaka (J.iv.314). Source

• Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

No, you're not Cherokee: genealogist

NO! You are NOT Cherokee! History of the biggest myth in genealogy!

No one told Cher that the tribe is matrilineal, taking ancestry from the mother's side, but it's nice.

(Family Tree Nuts, History & Genealogy Service) Nov. 23, 2022 #nativeamerican #cherokee #indian No, you are NOT Cherokee. Your Great-Great Grandma was NOT full-blooded Cherokee, nor was she a Cherokee princess.

I know that I am going to make a ton of people mad here, and before the end of this story there are many of you that will think I’m completely crazy. But I don’t care. I’m going to tell it like it is.

As much as you may WANT it to be true or even fantasize that it is true, the facts are, millions of us have believed in a fallacy our whole lives. This video explains all of this.

Also, let me be perfectly clear for those that love to drop descriptive titles on people, I 100% respect the first peoples (Natives) of this continent. I respect their culture and traditions.

This video is not anti-Cherokee nor anti-Native. It is intended to shed some light on one of the most common myths in genealogy. No matter who your ancestors are, you should honor and celebrate them.

If I had a nickel… If I had a nickel for every time as a genealogist, when I’ve asked someone what their ethnic makeup was, he or she told me various European countries and then inevitably drop the word Cherokee.

It’s been a source of amusement for those in my circle. And when we hear this, we look at each other with an understanding of the inside joke. It’s almost always a person's great-great-grandmother who is the one who was “full-blooded Cherokee,” which is interesting. And I’ve got some reasons why it is that I’ll explain later in this video.

I have heard this myth in my own family, and I know several of them are going to be furious when they see this video. But the reality is, they need to know that we just don’t have any Cherokee in us, at least not anymore.

Why do so many folks think they have Cherokee blood? Where did this myth come from? Why is it so prevalent in the families in Appalachia? Why is it so prevalent in folks from the South? Why is it prevalent in many Black families as well? What other tribes besides Cherokee are thought to be inside so many of us?

There are many theories that give us insight into these questions, and in this video, we'll explain answers to all of them and provide you with a better understanding of yourself and your ancestors.

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Killers of the Flower Moon (DiCaprio, Di Nero)

Xochitl, Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Killers of the Flower Moon (trailer)

(Paramount Pictures) Killers of the Flower Moon is “Scorsese’s most innovative and best movie in decades." It is a TRUE STORY about the richest people in the world, the Osage Indians of Oklahoma.

It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone. It is exclusively in theatres on Friday, October 20, 2023.

Will kill for money. Will kill for money. Will...

STORY: At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Native American Osage Nation, who became the richest people in the world overnight.

The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted, and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting to murder.

How did that tribe get so rich, braves?

Based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), “Killers of the Flower Moon” is an epic Western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal.

It also stars Robert De Niro [reprising his role as a devil in Angel Heart alongside Mickey O'Rourke], Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, and Jillian Dion.

“Killers of the Flower Moon” is directed by Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, based on David Grann’s best-selling book.

• Tulsa Race Massacre (1921): White racist mobs, aided by the US military, murdered affluent and educated Blacks and destroyed their prosperous city ("Black Wall Street").
• White soldiers in the military barrel bombed a civilian center called the Greenwood District, Tulsa in the United States. These unbelievably RACIST events took place in Oklahoma not far from these horrific events of racist violence, jealousy, and betrayal portrayed in this movie.
• It's one thing to steal but to murder the rightful owners then blame them for their modern poverty and backward behavior? Whites created these racial disparities out of envy.
• Racism isn't the cause of anything in the US, or we rarely hear facts that disagree with the spin?
• Today white Americans spin events in Israel to justify mass murder by settler colonialists.

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It's a TRUE story? Hidden US history

Osage Indian murders: the investigation begins and includes the new FBI

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Author David Grann (narrated by Will Patton and Ann Marie Lee) has scored a 4.4 out of 5 stars after 55,946 ratings with the audio version of this nonfiction book.

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI is #1 on Amazon Charts this week. It is also a #1 New York Times BESTSELLER and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today" — New York Magazine.

It is a NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST and now A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE.

Trust the white man. He'll take care of you.

“A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime thrillers ask?” — USA Today

“A masterful work of literary journalism crafted with the urgency of a mystery.” — The Boston Globe

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were tribe members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma.

After oil was discovered beneath their reservation land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Charged and tried for murder: James A Stout, William K. Hale, John Ransey, J.A. Clouse (1926)

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Then, one by one, whites began to kill off the Osage. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target.

Osage Indian murders (Wiki)

One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.

As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the racist young FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery.

White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

• Killers of Flower Moon (audiobook)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (nonfiction book)

Final season of comedy "Reservation Dogs"

Xochitl, Dhr. Seven, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Reservation Dogs is the funning Native American comedy that has ever existed (FX/Hulu).

Reservation Dogs | Season 3 official trailer | FX

(FX Networks) July 6, 2023. This is the official trailer for FX’s Reservation Dogs, the final season. Streaming August 2, 2023, only on Hulu.

• Visit official site: fx.tv/ResDogs

From Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, Reservation Dogs is a half-hour comedy that follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers from rural Oklahoma.

This season, the Rez Dogs find themselves stranded in Cali and have to figure out their way back home. Season 3 is full of road trips, bathroom wisdom, unexpected fathers, boarding schools, Bigfoot, rumors, revenge, and healing.

Haven't caught on to Reservation Dogs? Now's the chance (NPR)

Eric Deggans, All Things Considered, NPR, Aug. 3, 2023

Rez Dogs: Paulina Alexis as Willie Jack, Devery Jacobs as Elora Danan, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Bear, and Lane Factor as Cheese (Shane Brown/FX)

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As a critic who didn't catch on to coming-of-age comedy Reservation Dogs until recently, I was a little confused at the start of the new season — which plunges right into a moment where Bear Smallhill, backed by his three friends, tries connecting with his deadbeat father in a dumpy apartment in California.

Fortunately, we have a little help processing it all from a bizarrely charismatic source: William Knifeman, the spirit of a Native American warrior who died at Little Big Horn and occasionally breaks the fourth wall, apologizing for the hectic pace of the first episode's start.

"I know I threw a lot at you in the first few minutes," says Knifeman, played with a slacker's ease by Dallas Goldtooth, a Native American activist who co-wrote the episode with series showrunner Sterlin Harjo.

"You have to trust me. I'm an Indigenous storyteller to the bone. I'm like a Greek chorus with a loincloth." D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Dallas Goldtooth (Shane Brown/FX).

At this point, Knifeman lifts up his loincloth to reveal an area blurred out by producers. Thank goodness.

An unassuming comedy with a powerful message, Reservation Dogs is a deft comedy hiding inside a scrappy, in-your-face character study, focused on a group of Native American teenagers searching for their place in the world.

At times as informal as an indie film, the performances here are so nuanced and authentic, it can feel like watching a ridiculously entertaining documentary.

Viewers of the second season know [potheads] Bear and his friends -- known as the Rez Dogs -- left their home in Oklahoma for California to fulfill a dream of their friend Daniel who died by suicide.

The new episodes pick up at about that same time, as a relative of one of the Rez Dogs shows up in California to take them back home. More

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• Fresh Air Weekend: Rez Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo

First Look at Season 2 | Reservation Dogs

(FX Networks) Sept. 7, 2022. Older, but not necessarily wiser. Pop open a bag of hot chips and see what’s in store for the Reservation Dogs in this First Look at Season Two.

Watch new episodes of FX’s Reservation Dogs Wednesdays only on Hulu. Subscribe now for more Reservation Dog clips: SubscribeFX.

From Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, Reservation Dogs is a half-hour comedy that follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma who steal, rob, and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of "California."

The show’s first-of-its-kind Indigenous creative team invites audiences into a surprisingly familiar and funny world. Watch Reservation Dogs Season 1 videos: youtube.com/playlist... See more of Reservation Dogs on our official site: fxnetworks.com/shows/res...

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Not a Nation of Immigrants: Colonialism, White Supremacy (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)

Mitch Jerich, Letters & Politics, KPFA Pacifica Radio 94.1 FM, 11/29/21; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

KPFA presents Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz with Steve Wasserman on Zoom:

Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion

“Her thought-work and writing are both full-force with courage and wisdom. In the age of telling truth, she says, the US has yet to correct its narrative to acknowledge its settler-colonialist and imperialist past and present.

This book should be taught in classrooms; readers will finish it changed.” — Booklist, Starred Review

“Dunbar-Ortiz’s message is clear: uplifting narratives about the United States as a ‘nation of immigrants’ allow the country to hide from its history of colonialism, genocide, slavery, and racism.... [T]his thought-provoking account will prove insightful for all.” — Library Journal

Many Americans will say proudly that we are a "nation of immigrants." In this bold new book, acclaimed historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts that this self-congratulatory myth is harmful because it masks the US’s history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today.

This propagandistic myth, she claims, is a convenient response by the ruling class to the demands for decolonialization, reparations, and social justice.

This paradigm-shifting new work from the author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States insists that we need to stop perpetuating this simplistic and inaccurate ideal and embrace the real history of the United States.

ABOUT: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades.

She is the author of over eight books, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, which received the 2015 American Book Award, and Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico, and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War. She lives in San Francisco.

Steve Wasserman is a writer, editor, publisher, and literary agent, currently publisher of the award-winning Heyday Books, formerly editor-at-large for Yale University Press and editorial director of Times Books/Random House. For many years he edited The Los Angeles Times Book Review.

• Past event: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz + Steve Wasserman: Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion | KPFA
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Summertime 'n the livin' is easy (Darci Lynne)

This kid's stealing my thunder, Simon! Stop her!

Today, June 1st, is the first day of summer (if "Summertime" is understood to refer to the most temperate season in the Northern temperate zone) -- the meteorological season, which runs from June 1 through August 31. In the Solar or Celtic season, summer is already a month old. Our "Summertime Sadness" (Lana Del Rey) has already set in, but here's young Darci Lynne, 12, with her rendition of the heartbreaking old-timey tune composed by George Gershwin in 1934, with a ventriloquist twist and shyness that won her the Golden Buzzer from Mel B in 2017 on #AGT (Kids Got Talent) #AmericasGotTalent

African Americans deserve the credit for the best American music!

Here Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong show Darci how it's done.

American musical genius Billie Holiday inspired the world in 1936.

But she covered the song from the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.

My Native American roots: Cherokee (audio)

Sarah and Amy Vowell, Host Ira Glass (This American Life, Episode #716, "Trail of Tears," Sept. 4, 2020); Xochitl (gabrielenoindians.org), Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The "Trail of Tears" runs from the doorsteps of Cherokee to their graves along the way to OK.

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What would archeology look like from space?

For the long holiday weekend, let’s take a road trip through U.S. history.

This is a moment when as Americans we are tearing down our racist monuments and rethinking how to address the shameful parts of America’s past.

Sarah on Thanksgiving

So let’s return to a story from the early days of the radio show This American Life that took that on, in a vivid and complicated way.

Sarah Vowell (shown at left) and her blond twin sister Amy -- "Injun" and "Swede," as they were called growing up in the South -- headed out on the road to retrace their Cherokee roots on the Georgia/Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

It was the route their ancestors took when they were expelled from their own land by greedy Whites. They reflect on the question, What are we supposed to do with the mix of good and bad that is this country? Details + AUDIO

Federal death sentence starts again at 4 PM

CBS News, 7/13/20; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly UPDATED

Daniel Lewis Lee, 1997 (Dan Pierce/AP)

Terre Haute, Indiana — The federal government is planning to carry out the first federal execution in nearly two decades on Monday, over the objection of the family of the victims and after a volley of legal proceedings over the coronavirus pandemic.

Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, is scheduled to [be executed by the federal government] by lethal injection at 4:00 pm on Monday at a federal prison in Indiana.

He was convicted in Arkansas of the 1996 killings of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell.

The execution, the first of a federal death row inmate since 2003, comes after a federal appeals court lifted an injunction on Sunday.

It had been put in place last week after the victims' family argued they would be put at high risk for coronavirus if they had to travel to attend the execution. The family had vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court. More

• SUCCESS! Federal judge halts execution at the last minute, angering Trump
• FAILURE!! U.S. executes first federal prisoner in 17 years, Daniel Lewis Lee

COMMENTARY

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Why would we approve if we don't kill?

We oppose killing, particularly by the government in our name. It is collective bad karma to call for or applaud such a thing, a form of which is remaining silent. Silence is consent. The first precept is to abstain from taking the lives of living beings, a part of which is abstaining from encouraging others to kill. If we encourage or approve of such a thing, we are complicit in that karma. Stand against killing, against murder, against revenge, against executions, which have been shown to not prevent killing. It only coarsens us like a police state. Very few countries do such things, all of them more brutal than we imagine ourselves, as we imprison, torment, and warehouse more citizens than any other place in the world. We can do better.

Trump spreads corona: Tulsa, OK (video)

I'm not a rich fat cat. This is goiter (rense.com).

(PBS) Donny Trump is promoting his implicitly biased "MAGA" slogan yet again. Midwest does not lap it up this time. The arena was half empty with many empty seats in the rafters. Bloomberg's broadcast was full of audio problems. Fox News was sleek but got many fewer views. There was a stage set up to address the overflow crowds, and as there were none, that stage was quietly dismantled. Trump is slipping severely and worried senile Joey Biden might easily beat him. Then the mainstream media reports that six members of Trump's advance team have tested positive for coronavirus. Who analyzes those tests? This Nuremberg-style rally may be counted a complete failure.

Bloomberg trumps up coronavirus (COVID-19) scare across the country.

Whites riot, loot, murder blacks: Tulsa, 1921

Nermeen Shaikh, Amy Goodman (democracynow.org), Black Wall Street; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Democracy Now! tells the story of Black Wall St. bombed by US military

As protests against police continue over their killing of blacks today (such as Terence Crutcher, Trevon Martin, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castille, etc. ad nauseum), Democracy Now! looks at "The Night Tulsa Burned" by the History Channel.

It is the hidden history of Tulsa, Oklahoma's white-against-black race massacre. It was May 31-June 1, 1921 when a giant white mob -- stirred up by the local paper -- killed an estimated 300 blacks. Their corpses were hidden and are still being dug up in forensic excavations. After a young black shoe shiner Diamond Dick Rowland, 19, stepped on the toe of his young white co-worker, a female elevator operator Sarah Page, 17, he was accused of assaulting her.

She was not interested in pressing charges, but an editorial called for a lynching. Over two days infuriated white mobs set fire to black businesses, homes, and Christian churches in Greenwood, a thriving black business district known at the time as the "Black Wall Street" of America. Local white police distributed guns and passed them out to whites, handing out ribbons as if to deputize them, and ordering them to "Get you a ]n-word]."

The U.S. Army joined the pogrom and massacre, bombing Black Wall Street from the air with barrel bombs and other incendiary devices. When the smoke cleared, the black area lay in ruins. Many blacks left to never return. The white National Guard rounded up thousands of others and detained them at various locations around the city.

DN! speaks with author and attorney Hannibal B. Johnson (hannibalbjohnson.com), who examines this history in his book, Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District.