James Falcon
James C. Falcon is a journalist based in North Dakota. He recently completed an internship with the Rapid City Journal in Rapid City, S.D.
He can be contacted at jcfalconbergh@yahoo.com
He can be contacted at jcfalconbergh@yahoo.com
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Articles by James Falcon
August 23, 2005
The Fast and The Dangerous(What a Drag!)
James Falcon
Speed Racer, they’re not.
It seems like every once and a while, you hear or read about someone that died as a result from illegal street racing. Some young, twenty-something youth died as a result of stupidity. As harsh as that may sound...
July 14, 2006
[This article appeared in the July 10, 2006 issue of the Rapid City Journal.
STURGIS — About 20 to 30 men, women and children sit in a small wooded camp at the base of Bear Butte. For the next month, they will be residents of a tightly-knit community on Coyote Lane, seven miles northeast of Stu...
January 26, 2006
Happy-go-lucky entertainment or propaganda for genocide? It's your call.
The Association for American Indian Development recently made a public outcry asking individuals to boycott a new video game, as well as its creator, Activision Incorporated. The game in question is called ?Gun?. The mission,...
December 21, 2005
Gun control is a very controversial subject, especially when young children are involved.
In the case of Linnea C. Holdren, a forty-three-year old elementary school teacher in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, if children are in possession of guns, they should be allowed access anytime, anywhere. Even if...
December 21, 2005
A recent press release from the Associated Press (AP) has stated that there is a sharp increase in the number of drivers who talk on their cell phones simultaneously.
"About 10 percent of the people on the road during the day are using cell phones, up from 7 percent in 2004..."
Speaking on cell...
December 14, 2005
Dare I say it?
Governor Arnold Schwartzanegger did something remotely right? Yes, I am as bowled over as you are. Speechless, perhaps.
Allow me to set the scene and take you back in time. The waning years of disco set the background in 1979 as Ernest Tookie Williams participated in two hold ups...
December 13, 2005
A cartoon that recently appeared in The Independent Florida Alligator, a student newspaper for the University of Florida, has caused quite some excitement, anger, and anguish.
The single-panel cartoon features Albert the Alligator is strangling a crudely-drawn stereotypical barefoot, feather-wear...
December 11, 2005
Hypocrisy is alive and well in the United States, especially in the case of Charles Cullen, who has been identified as being the worst serial killer in the state of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Cullen, a male nurse who makes Nurse Ratchet look like Florence Nightingale, murdered twenty-nine patients throug...
December 02, 2005
Vine Deloria, Jr, who grew famous in Indian Country?s public eye for his Native American activism, passed into the spirit world on Sunday, November 13, 2005. He was seventy-two years of age.
According to his son, Phillip, Deloria Jr succumbed from complications of a aortic aneurysm in Denver, Col...
October 03, 2005
As a resident of North Dakota, I hear about the constant tribulations of the "Fighting Sioux fiasco" on a daily basis. The newspaper, the radio, and the Internet all service me with up-to-date news on what's going on and who's saying what.
I've noticed that many that support UND, in one way or an...
September 27, 2005
There have been many newspaper articles where people have bad-mouthed fry bread, saying that it is leading to diabetes, heart ailments, obesity, and basically every ill that our Indian Country faces today.
The Native Voice, a Native American newspaper, featured one such article, titled "The Great...
September 20, 2005
While news of President George W. Bush's malfeasance against the African-American communities in New Orleans during the wake of Hurricane Katrina is quite the number #1 star of CNN, MSNBC, and every news channel from here to eternity, there is one such minority that is not receiving the proper repre...
August 30, 2005
I’ve heard of freedom of speech – but this is ridiculous!
The Rev. Fred Phelps, the leader of the “cult” Westboro Baptist Church (and creator of such children-friendly websites as www.godhatesamerica.com), and his “congregation” (which is made up mostly of children, grandchildren, and in-laws) re...
August 29, 2005
Buffy Sainte-Marie, we miss you!
On page A-2 of my local daily newspaper (The Minot Daily News), I read a short news piece in the section “The Nation at a Glance”. The article told about a 14-year-old student in Pittsburgh, PA who was expelled from school due to rap lyrics that he had wrote.
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August 24, 2005
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary defines the term disenroll as “to erase from a roll or list.” But, what does that really mean?
The issue of disenrolling tribal members is one that goes up there with land quandaries, casino problems, and Leonard Peltier. I believe that tribes should have t...
August 23, 2005
Kathleen Parker, a conservative columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, wrote in her 29 July 2005 column (subtitled “A plus B makes C?”) about the influx of gay and lesbian parents who are fighting to change the birth certificate form in the state of Massachusetts. Those fighting for this want the form ...
August 22, 2005
Unless Dennis Rader starts eating his yogurt now, he probably won't live to see the day he is released.
That's right, even if he should live to be three hundred years old, he'll be able to see the light of day.
Does one multiplied by ten equal one hundred and seventy-five? According to the co...
August 19, 2005
Indian gaming has become a hotbed of discussion over the past few years, especially with the advent of casino after casino sprouting up across the nation. Do Indian reservations need the sustenance of a casino to boost economics and employment rates? Those numbers are in fact just numbers on pieces...
August 17, 2005
Carthage College Redmen. Southeastern Oklahoma State University Savages. The University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux. And, let’s not forget Chief Fullabull (a/k/a Yahola and Chief Wampum-Stompum), everybody’s favorite boozing mascot for Florida State University.
The Seminoles Tribe of Florid...
August 15, 2005
In my eyes, alcoholism has a way of becoming an unwanted guest: it comes to stay with you and it never leaves. Along with living in teepees, frequenting casinos, and scalping (and I don’t mean tickets to the Fighting Sioux games), alcoholism has also become one of the many stereotypes that are forev...