As everyone knows, NAICA is a strident supporter of indigenous contemporary art practice and filmmaking, and as one of the only online magazines offering coverage of high art and fine independent cinema for free with a global indigenous (pseudo) academic slant, we are inundated with requests for friendship via our Myspace page. It’s hard to choose who shall be blessed with a “top friends” spot. We know all too well: feelings get hurt. It’s an ugly post-Millenium truth that cyber-friendships are just as difficult and rife with drama as they are in real-time. That brings us to a recent upset in the precarious balance of Myspace friendship equity.

In a recent post it was revealed that NAICA’s favored Native son/musical genius (Frontier Justice, anyone?) Val Kilmer removed all Native Americans, including John Trudell and Tatanka Means (Russell Means’ son), from his Top 28 friends list. This seeming slight has sent a shock though-out Indian Country. Apache Indian, Sonny Grant, remarked, “I really can not believe Val would move John out of his Top friends list. I just spent three minutes talking to John Trudell last week and he seemed aglow in the friendship light that was his association with being Val Kilmer’s #1 friend on Myspace.”
When asked if Trudell was aware of the change in his friend status Grant said he was uncertain if Trudell was aware of this new development as he himself had not heard of it until Longviews told him so. However, Grant did say he was certain that if Trudell knew of this he’d write one hell of a scathing indictment/spoken word poem/song that would bring Kilmer to shameful tears.
Cyber-slights are the most vicious because one cannot retaliate in any effective manner other than to post a bulletin which inevitably makes one look like a tool. Therefore, in an effort to re-unite these two revered Native men in cyber-friendship NAICA has vowed to intermittenly interchange Trudell and Kilmer as their Number 1 and Number 2 friends. Hopefully, this sad event in inter-tribal relations can be remedied concilatorily and the Indian removal from Myspace Top 28, or 38, or even 58 can finally stop.
We can only hope.

To all our relations. We are all one family.
(unless you’re non-Native than you’re assed out homes!)

NOTE: No one in Indian Country truly cares about Val Kilmer’s Myspace pages or who his friends are…actually Longviews cannot confirm that this statement is true nor any statements made here in this post or any other post on this blog site.