Moya-Smith: When Did Native Lives Begin to Matter to These People?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

Link to full story at ICTMN

See also: CJCJ: Who are police Killing?

What makes this number even more profound is that this land is our “old country,” as the phrase goes. Lo, unlike our European American neighbors, we Native Americans cannot catch a flight to a continent across a big blue sea to witness our languages and cultures thriving. This land is it. It’s our “motherland.”

Still, getting Native Americans down to 2 percent of the total U.S. population was by no means a small feat. It took detailed planning. It took legislation, and it took viciousness.

Yet, here we are at the latter end of 2015, and it still seems that Native Americans have a bounty on our heads today as much as we did centuries ago. The difference being back in the 19th century one could make $250 for every “redskin scalp” collected.

So what we have here is the smallest racial group that is, at the same time, the most likely to be killed by police. And once again, there is very little coverage of this disturbing reality for Native Americans on mainstream news.

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1. K & R for the sad truth.