Look at these people. They were not savages. Look at how they are dressed. Look at their homes. They lived in colonial style homes, in towns with schools and shops. They farmed with horses and plows. They lived like we live today. They are the Cherokee. President Andrew Jackson ordered these people to be removed from their homes, imprisoned, and their lands taken from them and given to white america following the recommendation of President James Monroe (1825) This is the United States of America in 1838. Andrew Jackson and James Monroe were no better than Adolf Hitler. It was a different kind of murder. It was the murder of HOPE. Andrew Jackson ordered the Cherokee nation to be moved west to Oklahoma so that white america could take possession of their homes and property. The year 1838 was one of America's darkest periods, Jackson's Indian Removal Act and the Forced relocation of the Cherokee Nation to Indian Territory in 1838. Over 4000 Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, Nearly a quarter of the Nation. "...when they finally arrived in Indian Territory they arrived almost without any children and with very few elders. In a way they arrived with no past and no future..." for the children and elderly had all died on the trail. This is an example in our history when a President is given full go ahead on anything no matter how corrupt and immoral and evil it is and is not checked by "We the People". At that time there was an eagerness by "We the People" to get some free land and free homes. There was an Axis of Evil right here in the USA. This is why many perceive us as the UGLY AMERICAN. Is that Axis of Evil still present in this country? Our government should be held accountable for all of it's actions by "We The People. There were some whites against the removal, notably Davy Crockett. Our United States government seems eager to commit genocide whenever the victims are are black skinned, brown skinned, red skinned and anything but white skinned. There's no denying it because it is in our history, and we, as Americans, inherit this history along with THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS. What will we do the next time if they come for us...
...and then they came for me...In Germany they first came for the Communists, ?and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. ?Then they came for the Jews, ?and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. ?Then they came for the trade unionists, ?and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. ?Then they came for the Catholics, ?and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. ?Then they came for me - ?and by that time no one was left to speak up. ?-- Pastor Martin Niemöller, 1945
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The story of Wounded Knee is the story of the L... (more)
Added: October 13, 2007
The story of Wounded Knee is the story of the Lakota Indians and it summarizes the story of all the native tribes in North America. The U.S. government's policy towards Native Americans, as stated by General Sherman, was to 'clear off the buffalo', (the buffalo were the chief source of the Plains Indians' food and clothing), and 'clear off the Indians' to the point of total extermination if necessary (genocide). It is estimated that 50 million Native Americans were killed through war, starvation, and disease. This number is equivalent to the number of soldiers that were killed on both sides during World Wars I and II. Every treaty between the United States and the Native Americans was broken by the United States Government. The American Europeans wanted the gold in the Black Hills so the Fort Laramie Treaty was broken and the U.S. calvary was sent in to drive the Lokatas out of the Black Hills. The tribes were moved onto Reservations and their religions were banned. When the Lokotas were practicing one of their rituals, the Ghost Dance, they were slaughtered by the United States calvary. Many Lokatas fled to a place called Wounded Knee and there they, women and children and elderly were mowed down by the U.S. Calvary using gatling type machine guns. Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown wrote about this in his book, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee". (1970)
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The American Holocaust, the Genocide of the Nat... (more)
Added: December 09, 2006
The American Holocaust, the Genocide of the Native Americans in the name of conquest and manifest destiny, is not taught in any honest way - but it happened. But one of the worst parts is how many times they lied to the Indigenous people and betrayed them again and again - and STILL are.
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"AMERICAN INDIANS ARE PEOPLE, NOT MASCOTS
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Added: January 30, 2008
"AMERICAN INDIANS ARE PEOPLE, NOT MASCOTS
Charlene Teters, Spokane
On the verge of the millenium, Indian people are still involved in what Michael Haney has described as the longest undeclared war against the American Indian, here in our own homeland. This war, no longer on battlefields is now being fought in the courtrooms, corporation boardrooms, and classrooms over the appropriation of Native American names, spiritual and cultural symbols by professional sports, Hollywood, schools, and universities. The issue for us is the right to self identification and self determination this is the fight of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media.
The American Indian community for 50 years has worked to banish images and names like Cleveland's chief wahoo, Washington redskins, Kansas City chiefs, Atlanta braves. We work to remind people of consciousness of the use of the symbols resemblance to other historic, racist images of the past. Chief wahoo offends Indian people the same way that little black sambo offended African Americans and the frito bandito offended the Hispanic community and should have offended all of us. It assaults the principle of justice.
Last year during the media hype that surrounded the baseball playoff games between New York and Cleveland, the New York Post caught up in the hype covered its front page with the headline, "Take the Tribe and Scalp 'Em." Little concern was shown for the Indian children, or community living in New York City, or around the country. The American public has been conditioned by sports industry, educational institutions, and the media to trivialize Indigenous culture as common and harmless entertainment. On high school and college campuses Native American students do not feel welcome if the school uses as its mascot (not a clown, a mythical creature, or an animal) a Chief, the highest political position you can attain in our society. Using our names, likeness and religious symbols to excite the crowd does not feel like honor or respect, it is hurtful and confusing to our young people. To reduce the victims of genocide to a mascot is unthinking, at least, and immoral at worst. An educational institution's mission is to educate, not mis-educate, and to alleviate the ignorance behind racist stereotypes, not perpetuate them and to provide a nondiscriminatory environment for all its students, conducive to learning.
Student leadership has played a significant role in bringing the mascot issue forward. In the 1970's students at Stanford and Dartmouth were successful in changing the athletic identity from Indians to a race-neutral name and symbol. Since 1988, the student-led struggle to retire the dancing Indian mascot/symbol at the University of Illinois continues with little chance of change against an arrogant and entrenched governor-appointed Board of Trustees.
Still, in recent years, significant contributions to this movement to eradicate racist mascots have been made. At least six Universities have changed their names, the Los Angeles Board of Education voted to ban Indian images and names. In schools across the country the mascot issues is being debated and these debates are being led by young Native people finding a new found pride in reclaiming themselves."
http://www.aimovement.org/ncrsm/index...
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