What do you get when you cross a Bonacker with a Shinnecock native?
A drunk with prospects.
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Showing posts with label Bonackers shinnecock tribe. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Joke Of The Day...
What do you get when you cross a Bonacker with a Shinnecock native?
A drunk with prospects.
Monday, September 8, 2008
BONACKERS PETITION FEDERAL COURT TO JOIN SHINNECOCK NATION
Today in federal court a petition was submitted on behalf of the United Bonackers of East Hampton (U.B.E.H.) to join the Shinnecock Indian tribe's quest for federal recognition as an indigenous people to the U.S. Their ultimate aim is to open a casino/theme park with a clam digging theme at the Atlantic Avenue beach in Amagansett, NY which the Bonackers consider their ancestral homeland.
The bubbies’ unique cultural heritage features alcoholism, knowledge of local waterways, a penchant for eating raw clams and consuming large quantities of tobacco which is in keeping with Shinnecock folklore.
Speaking with UBEH spokesman Josiah McCullum, who extolled the virtues of the Bonac way of life, he mumbled, "By Jesus bub... don't know why we didn't figa this angle out a laawng time ago.”
The Bonac way of life has been on a serious decline since the mid-1980's when the New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation (D.E.C.) began curtailing the quantity of stripped bass and shell fish they could harvest per year and that in turn destroyed their livelihood. In addition, foreign fish imports and the beach mansions of the elite are factors behind their near tragic extinction. Now this small, threatened tribe is struggling to preserve its unique native language and customs against an onslaught of environmental regulations and new laws that limit beach access.
So the next time you see a pick-up truck with a wooden flat-bed on the back parked at an East End beach, offer the lonesome warrior a beer and light his cigarette for him as he is only paying homage to the warriors who have gone before him.
The bubbies’ unique cultural heritage features alcoholism, knowledge of local waterways, a penchant for eating raw clams and consuming large quantities of tobacco which is in keeping with Shinnecock folklore.
Speaking with UBEH spokesman Josiah McCullum, who extolled the virtues of the Bonac way of life, he mumbled, "By Jesus bub... don't know why we didn't figa this angle out a laawng time ago.”
The Bonac way of life has been on a serious decline since the mid-1980's when the New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation (D.E.C.) began curtailing the quantity of stripped bass and shell fish they could harvest per year and that in turn destroyed their livelihood. In addition, foreign fish imports and the beach mansions of the elite are factors behind their near tragic extinction. Now this small, threatened tribe is struggling to preserve its unique native language and customs against an onslaught of environmental regulations and new laws that limit beach access.
So the next time you see a pick-up truck with a wooden flat-bed on the back parked at an East End beach, offer the lonesome warrior a beer and light his cigarette for him as he is only paying homage to the warriors who have gone before him.
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