Politics are beyond me

( There are days when I just don't understand. )

Native Americans around us

Savannah was talking about the indigenous populations of Hawaii and mildly irate that a friend of hers had questioned whether Hawaii had a native language, in her blog post the other day. I responded that both Hawaii and Alaska have fairly non-European sounding names, and that it didn't actually take much thought to realize that both Hawaii and Alaska were ergo probably Native American names. Of course they have indigenous populations and languages, even if they've been sort of thinned out/ not widely spoken. Duh.

... Then I thought about what I'd said, and realized that 17 (edited: Ry counts 25, and I am too lazy to count properly) of the 50 states have Native American, not European or Latin names. (Wikipedia page on State name etymology). That really should underline how much of our country was originally Native American, for a sense of history but then I thought: but how many Native Americans do you see wandering around now? Our indigenous population is almost extinct in almost all our states, not just in Hawaii or Alaska... which is sad.

Vampire yay!

OMG OMG! Twilight the movie is coming out on the 21st, and Richelle Mead, the author of the Vampire Academy series, is COMING TO NEW YORK sometime between the 19th and 26th.

Hells yeah it's gonna be a fang filled week! Am I a fangirl? Yes, yes I am.