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Welcome to Flag Steward's
Be a Stud Citizen - Reminders from Our Flag

for Monday, February 8, 2021​
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[ Flags fly at Flag Steward HQ during Feb. 2020 sunset - pic by S. Sweeney ] 
[ 3 Ways for Students to Experience today's 'Be a Stud Citizen' - Reminders from Our Flag: ]
[ 1) Scroll down this page and read it to yourself or perform it aloud for your school / classroom. If reading the page to a classroom, skip any text in [ brackets ].
2) Play & listen to the 'BASC' podcast as you or your classroom follow along while scrolling down this page on a device or classroom projection
or, 3) Play & watch, by yourself or with your classrooom on a projector, the screen captured short video performance of this page ]
[ Note: Flag Steward's 'Be a Stud Citizen' podcasts are available on nearly all podcast platforms for you to listen and enjoy however you prefer. ]
[ Note: If you can't access or play videos from YouTube in your school, then GO / CLICK HERE to watch today's stories from Our Flag on Loom. ]
Where is Our Flag, the U.S. Flag, at half-staff today?
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Today's Historical Moment from Our Flag
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[ 1911 ad from US Deptmt of Interior offer alloted land for sale = public domain image ]
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In an effort to save American Indians (Native Americans) from being killed off and helping them to adjust to being like "European-Americans," U.S. Senator Henry Dawes and Alice Fletcher, a social scientist, wrote and pushed through Congress the Dawes Act of 1887 (shown below).  The act (law) was passed on February 8th of 1887.  This law provided tax-free land to the Indigenous people (Native Americans), so they could learn to live off the land. 
Unfortunately, this plan and law back-fired.  It turned out to be a land-grab from the Native Americans, who lost 92 million of the 138 million acres they owned and called their communal lands before the Dawes Act.  A sad, tragic event in American history.  
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​​Today's (Sadly) Enlightening Quotes from Our Flag

"The Indian may now become a free man;
free from the thralldom of the tribe;
free from the domination of the reservation system;
free to enter into the body of our citizens.
This bill may therefore be considered as the Magna Carta of the Indians of our country."


​-Alice Fletcher


"The Dawes Act was a way to break up the whole tribal structure of Native American nations. Instead of saying you are a group of people, all of a sudden you are individual landowners ─ you are Americans. And so it was designed to break up community, to civilize people, make us farmers, and also break up our tribal structure."

-Charlotte Black Elk

Today's Fun from Our Flag
... is a cold, eye-opening joke aimed at a sad part of our American heritage ...


Why do Native Americans dislike the month of April?

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Well, as the old saying goes, "April showers bring May flowers."  And, Mayflowers bring white people to take over their lands.

What is vegetarian called by Native Americans?

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A vegetarian is a bad hunter, of course. :)
And, now it's time to ...
Recite the Pledge of Allegiance
Students across America, at school or at home, understanding of a major American mistake, the Dawes Act, and the need to be better to each other, please unite and recite the Pledge.
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​​Thanks for participating in today's U.S. Flag tribute.
This is Sean Sweeney, a fellow Flag Steward, signing-off:

Go out and 'be a stud citizen' today
Keep America Beautiful, and remember,
In God We Trust
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​In God We Trust
(Official motto of the United States of America)
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