Quentin's Weeknotes 7/4/21-7/10/21

This Week:

• This 4th, I re-read John Wannuaucon Quinney’s 4th of July, 1854 speech given at Reidsville, NY. It’s as powerful a piece of rhetoric and counter-nationalism as Frederick Douglas' “What to the slave is the 4th of July”, telling the story of Native American suffering at the hands of a “free” nation and what that freedom cost.
• I bought albums by Propagandhi and John K. Samson. This song has been in steady rotation ever since:[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AWgpb_xcqQ&w=560&h=315]
• I de-installed a student-curated exhibit called “Silent Lakes and Flashing Rivers”.
• With my son, I finished reading “Warriors: into the wild” by the pseudonymous Erin Hunt, the first volume of the epic children’s book series about the secret world of cats. The book was entertaining, though sometimes bewildering with its big cast of similarly named characters. The only other problem is that the series itself is massive–7 arcs of six books each, plus stand-alone novels, manga, and additional tie-in books. My kid liked it, but now I’m not sure what I’ve gotten myself into!