I'm 25 % Apache Indian and I'm pissed at the White Man!

[trumad]

OK...I admit I'm 75% of that White Man.... but I'm watching the mini-series, "Into the West" and it's just stunning to revisit what the White Man did to Native American Indians.

OH..but the White Politicians get all upset if the Indians want to add a Craps table in their Casinos.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. I cried through most of it last night, and you don't have to have any

Native American blood to feel so frigging angry about what this country did to them. Wholesale slaughter. Why are we supposed to be such a great nation? Can someone tell me?

[wurzel]

2. They did much the same to other white men. It's about money!

[Bellamia]

7. Disgraceful...

as the past is, no one living today is responsible for the carnage;
yes, it breaks my heart, what happened, but just as in slavery, I had nothing to do with it. I am proud to say I have had and still have, thru email, Apache and Cherokee friends.

[really annoyed]

14. Hmm..

You're not responsible for the carnage, but your ancestors are. If we don't learn from the past, we repeat it. We can't simply say "Well, I didn't have anything to do with it!"

Plus, highlighting the crimes of Native Americans against white doesn't excuse the bevavior of the white person either.

I'm glad you have Native American friends. I'm Cherokee through my great-grandmother.

[sam sarrha]

3. get a box of tissues and read 'Burry My Heart At Wounded Knee'..sad

:cry: :grouphug:

[G_j]

4. Cover me with pretty lies, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
by Buffy Sainte Marie

INTRO:
Indian legislation on the desk of a do-right Congressman
Now, he don't know much about the issue
so he picks up the phone and he asks advice from the
Senator out in Indian country
A darling of the energy companies who are
ripping off what’s left of the reservations. Huh.



I learned a safety rule
I don’t know who to thank
Don't stand between the reservation
and the corporate bank
They send in federal tanks
It isn’t nice but it’s reality

chorus:
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Deep in the Earth
Cover me with pretty lies
bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Huh.

They got these energy companies that want the land
and they’ve got churches by the dozen
who want to guide our hands
and sign Mother Earth over to pollution, war and greed
Get rich... get rich quick.

chorus...
We got the federal marshals
We got the covert spies
We got the liars by the fire
We got the FBIs
They lie in court and get nailed
and still Peltier goes off to jail

chorus...
My girlfriend Annie Mae talked about uranium
Her head was filled with bullets and her body dumped
The FBI cut off her hands and told us she’d died of exposure
Loo loo loo loo loo

chorus...
We had the Goldrush Wars
Aw, 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"

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Deep in the Earth
Cover me with pretty lies
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Huh!

[SpiralHawk]

5. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Buy this book and read it, I would recommend. It's a classic, available in papeerback now. For many people this book has given depth of understanding, and the beginnings of forgiveness and forward motion.

There's a whole lot of karma that is being cleaned up now in this time of transition, and ALL of the scum must bubble to the surface to be dissolved in the new Sun arising. Fusion. Miigwich, SH

[trumad]

8. Thanks guys..

I'll buy it tommorrow...

[stevedeshazer]

9. One of the greatest books I have ever read.

It sure changed my world view for the rest of my life.

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Miigwitch? Jeez, you Anishinabe? Boozhoo, niji.

[G_j]

13. please, everybody read it!

you will never be the same

[dave502d]

6. They used Intimate domain on the Indian and allot more.n/t

[hexola]

15. Intimate domain?

Is that when they come and take your squaw away?

[newswolf56]

10. Strong thread on this topic last night too:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4060079

[mandyky]

11. Be sure to check out the Native American group

in DU Groups

[formernaderite]

16. This isn't just an American or white issue....

at various points in history humans, of all religions and every color, all over the world, killed, enslaved and abused other humans, for power, wealth, ritual, belief and just for hate. I'm not one to revisit history and relive it...I'm also 1/8 Indian. I'm all for Indians using their land as they see fit...including casinos. I actually don't understand why Americans are so shocked that atrocities also happened here. We're not any more special than anyone else on earth. We kill and bleed the same as every other culture on this planet.