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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 12:54 am |
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 01:39 am |
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Man, those wacky First people! Good thing they are considered ignorant, unworldly types that don't need to be paid no mind...here's a bit more from some of them...
*A Native Perspective on Virginia Tech Headlines*
Thursday, April 19, 2007**
By Kat Teraji
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, Deep in the Earth, Cover me with pretty lies - bury my heart at Wounded Knee . Didn't we learn to crawl, and still our history gets written in a liar's scrawl. They tell 'ya "Honey, you can still be an Indian d-d-down at the 'Y' on Saturday nights." - lyrics to "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ," written by Buffy St. Marie
"The worst shooting rampage in American history." "Massacre and Mourning, 33 die in worst shooting in U.S. History," and "Rampage called worst mass shooting in U.S. history." "What first appeared to be a single shooting death unfolded into the worst gun massacre in the nation's history." You've seen and heard these headlines and reports all week as the media provided non-stop coverage of the tragic shooting of 33 people at Virginia Tech University on Monday.
"The worst in U.S. history." Really? It is certainly the worst shooting on a college campus in modern U.S. history. But if we think it is the worst shooting rampage in U.S. history, then we are a singularly uneducated nation.
"I can't take one more of these headlines," said Joan Redfern , a member of the Lakota Sioux tribe who lives in Hollister. We met at First Street Coffee to talk while we scanned Internet stories. "Haven't any of these people ever heard of the Massacre at Sand Creek in Colorado, where Methodist minister Col. Chivington massacred between 200 and 400 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, most of them women, children, and elderly men?"
Chivington specifically ordered the killing of children, and when he was asked why, he said, "Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice."
At Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota , the U.S. 7th Cavalry attacked 350 unarmed Lakota Sioux on December 29, 1890. While engaged in a spiritual practice known as the "Ghost Dance," approximately 90 warriors and 200 women and children were killed. Although the attack was officially reported as an "unjustifiable massacre" by Field Commander General Nelson A. Miles , 23 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor for the slaughter. The unarmed Lakota men fought back with bare hands. The elderly men and women stood and sang their death songs while falling under the hail of bullets. Soldiers stripped the bodies of the dead Lakota, keeping their ceremonial religious clothing as souvenirs.
To say the Virginia shooting is the worst in all of U.S. history is to pour salt on old wounds-it means erasing and forgetting all of our ancestors who were killed in the past," Redfern said.” The use of hyperbole and lack of historical perspective seems all too ubiquitous in much of the current mainstream media," Redfern said. "My intention is not to downplay the horror of what has happened this week in any way. But we have a 500-year history of mass shootings on American soil, and let's not forget it."
This is only the most recent mass shooting massacre in a long history of mass shootings in a country engaged in a long love affair with firearms and very little interest in gun control.
Let's not forget our history and the richness of our Native roots. While spending time on the 1.5 million acre Hopi Reservation in Arizona , I met families living in homes they have occupied for over 900 years. On the surface, it looks like a third world country: you will observe many homes without running water, travel unpaved roads, and notice that there are no building codes. But sitting in a Hopi home being served a delicious lunch cooked by a proud Hopi working mother, I experienced so much more: the continuity of a long and deep heritage, a sense of the sacred, an artistic expertise, and wisdom about many things that remain a mystery to my culture.
Most of all, may we never forget all those innocent civilian men, women, and children who lost their lives simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, just as the students happened to be this week in Virginia .
May we always remember the precious humanity of these students, but may we also never forget the humanity of those who lost their lives simply for being born people Native to this country.
Yeah well, America, in general (and generalities are very bad, I know that, and have beautiful exceptions and I know and embrace and celebrate that) has short timer memory...give us an Anna Nicole Smith story this week and much can be put on the *I don't like the pain of thinking with my morning coffee* backburner.
Check out the dates...this history isn't so very long ago...like global warming and those who live in the NOW effect of it...history is ignored in favor of the immediate, with lessons learned too late and then shock, surprise! It's YOU being affected! How on earth did the government (oh that we the people thing...not the THEM?? I guess we didn't read that part) let this happen? Damn their hides! So it goes.
Just in case you haven't read this since 6th grade...so you can see what it really says and know what is being lost:
http://stlplaces.com/constitution/
Last edited on Fri May 4th, 2007 01:45 am by Island Woman MJ
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 01:44 am |
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| this was in the news.....and makes valid points -- even Queen Elizabeth, who is currently visiting Jamestown (400th anniversary), is visiting with the Native Americans in recognition of their role in that horrible part of our history (actually, is there much to be proud of???)....I just sent you a private message
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Posted: Fri May 4th, 2007 02:03 am |
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and a bit more history that Americans forget, aren't taught, skim over...amazing what reading the BBC news will remind you. For some real fun, try reading news from anywhere but CNN or Fox or any American source...they usually report more of what is going on in America than we do.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6616037.stm
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