Quote of the day (for thinking & reflecting upon)

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"Men came and brought papers. We could not read them and they did not tell us what was in them." (Red Cloud, 1870)

-- TomK(mich) (tjk@cac.net), September 02, 2001

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Then maybe the famous red indian should learnt how to read, lol!

Ok going a bit more serious.. i suppose ya could say its all about the biggest fraud in history carried out by the US Govt to claim large parts of the country from the natives...

I here if they do something like that now... (Waco and Ruby ridge), Americans fire back with fully auto weapons and really kick the US govt ar*e. Amazing how the roles of different when its you that threatened and not others like the indians!

(Can`t wait to read the replys, this is going to stir up a hornets nest!)

-- Craig (ruskie@absolutevodka.fsnet.co.uk), September 02, 2001.


Land is still being stolen from Native Americans even today. This also is going on in many other countries to many other indigenous peoples. If the trend continues there will be virtually no indigenous peoples left to teach others how to live sustainably. Then what will people do? If you want to read about numerous accounts the book "In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations" by Jerry Mander is an excellent source.

By the way did you know that our form of government is based on the Great Binding Law of the Iroquois which was in effect hundreds a years before Europeans came here? It has been shown that in the mid 1700's Indians were not only invited to participate in the deliberations of our founding fathers, but that the Great Binding Law of the Iroquois Confederacy became the single most important model for the 1754 Albany Plan of Union, and later the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.

Its not suprising that this information is absent from our schoolbooks and from most historical accounts given the devotion Americans feel to our founding myth that great men gathered to express a "new" vision that has withstood the test of time. If it were to become common knowlwdge that Indians had a large role in it, imagine the blow to the American psyche!

-- debra in ks (windfish@toto.net), September 02, 2001.


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