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My father's people: Choctaw
My children: Shuar & Quichua, Choctaw

In the month of Geno-tober (Genocide-October--the nefarious celebration of Genocide in the Americas) a few solitary voices beckon to educate oneself on the history, and most important, current struggle of indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere.

How can one communicate properly to Americans--Europeans and the other immigrants from the various broken tribes of the world, if they're unwilling to even make a bland effort to educate themselves.
That, my friends, is the benefit of being the descendants of conquerors and continuing the legacy. You don't have to pay attention. What was 100% Native is now 3%, and even that's under occupation.

In 1887 the Indian Allotment Act privatized land, cutting it up and giving it to families based much on blood quanta.

There was the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act which returned some tenuous tribal control, but it was another ruse by the US to manipulate and have further control of "Indian Country."

1954 the Termination Act which deemed certain tribes extinct and to encourage to leave the Rez and seek employment in urban areas.

During the Uranium Boom in the West, Navajos (Dine) paid a heavy price in higher cancer rates due to processing of uranium known as Yellow Cake for the US's Cold War and factories.

Yet another in a long line for Americans to rid themselves from the yoke of responsibility, a Final Solution. These various Acts come after hundreds of years of being hunted down, disgraced, diseased, and made a refugee in their own home. Millions lay dead under the feet of Freedom and Democracy, and made invisible.

Over 400 treaties were ratified by US Congress with various Native "Nations", a legal-binding contract no different than making it with a major power like Britain or France. All were broken.

The litany of destruction could go on...

The Crime and lack of punishment of Genocide lives squarely in this land today.
Here's a great book to begin to take responsibility of educating yourselves:
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
A Native American author...
www.amazon.com/Indigenous-Peop…

Description

My father's people: Choctaw
My children: Shuar & Quichua, Choctaw

In the month of Geno-tober (Genocide-October--the nefarious celebration of Genocide in the Americas) a few solitary voices beckon to educate oneself on the history, and most important, current struggle of indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere.

How can one communicate properly to Americans--Europeans and the other immigrants from the various broken tribes of the world, if they're unwilling to even make a bland effort to educate themselves.
That, my friends, is the benefit of being the descendants of conquerors and continuing the legacy. You don't have to pay attention. What was 100% Native is now 3%, and even that's under occupation.

In 1887 the Indian Allotment Act privatized land, cutting it up and giving it to families based much on blood quanta.

There was the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act which returned some tenuous tribal control, but it was another ruse by the US to manipulate and have further control of "Indian Country."

1954 the Termination Act which deemed certain tribes extinct and to encourage to leave the Rez and seek employment in urban areas.

During the Uranium Boom in the West, Navajos (Dine) paid a heavy price in higher cancer rates due to processing of uranium known as Yellow Cake for the US's Cold War and factories.

Yet another in a long line for Americans to rid themselves from the yoke of responsibility, a Final Solution. These various Acts come after hundreds of years of being hunted down, disgraced, diseased, and made a refugee in their own home. Millions lay dead under the feet of Freedom and Democracy, and made invisible.

Over 400 treaties were ratified by US Congress with various Native "Nations", a legal-binding contract no different than making it with a major power like Britain or France. All were broken.

The litany of destruction could go on...

The Crime and lack of punishment of Genocide lives squarely in this land today.
Here's a great book to begin to take responsibility of educating yourselves:
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
A Native American author...
www.amazon.com/Indigenous-Peop…