Mother Earth, Father Sky. Great Spirit. Great Mystery. Gitchee Manitou. Wakan Tanka. Grandfather. A'HO. Wadogh. Chi miigwetch. Mitakuye Oyasin. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I agree with everything you have written. It is true, dehumanization is the first step on the path to genocide. Sadly, or rather tragically, this is happening for all the world to see (watch) to the indigenous people of Palestine, a mixture of Semitic peoples -- Muslims, Jews (a few), Christians (a few remaining today, after forced removal in the 1st century A.D. by the occupying forces/settler-colonialists known as "Romans," whose descendants live on today under cover of the church of rome]. Genocide, ethnocide, ethnic cleansing of any particular group of people, by an invading &/or occupying force (military) has reared its ugly face again & again, over the course of time.
The Doctrines of Christian Discovery (DoCD) originate with 15th century Papal Bulls that were issued by the Vatican and implemented by Monarchies, sanctioning the brutal Conquest and Colonization of non-Christians who were deemed “enemies of Christ” in Africa and the Americas. These Papal Bulls were a continuation of what had been going on since at least the 8th century from Charlemagne, through the Crusades, the Inquisition, the war on witches, to the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula. In 1823, the “Doctrine of Discovery” was first articulated as a legal formulation in U.S. Supreme Court case, Johnson v. M’Intosh in 1823. As this case fundamentally defines international property law today, it continues to be used by multi-national corporations and Nation-States in their extraction of resources in indigenous territories around the world. The global scale with which the DoCD expressed itself in the “Age of Discovery”-first in Africa, then the Americas, and beyond-created a unified Christendom, which became the opposing force against the great global plurality of cultures. This Doctrine governs United States and international law today and has been cited as recently as 2005 in the decision City Of Sherrill V. Oneida Indian Nation Of N.Y. doctrineofdiscovery.org/what-is-the-doctrine-of-discovery/
Dehumanization is the first step toward genocide. It denies the humanity of the group, weakening the normal repulsion against murder. Dehumanization enables perpetrators to force a people to live in inhumane conditions - in overcrowded ghettos, without resources or potable water, and under starvation conditions - all the while condoning these actions. Dehumanization feeds into polarization creating a divide between the two groups through use of propaganda; basically, spreading an ideology that one group is superior to another and therefore more entitled while the other group is to blame for any shortfalls identified by the entitled group. Both stages are embodied in Native history (Brookings Institute, 1928). Persecution and extermination involve mass killings. Persecution is the genocide proper, while extermination involves state sponsored killings. Persecution segregates victims from the larger community, and their properties are expropriated. They are forced into ghettos, deported to concentration camps, confined to famine-stricken areas and starved, or in the case of Native peoples, forced onto reservations in geographically remote locations. Since White settlers regarded reservation lands as the least desirable, reservations were used to corral the Indians. However, even after rounding them up and restricting them to these areas, in short order, the U.S. government made efforts to disassemble the reservations in order to usurp still more lands (University of Oklahoma, n.d.). Lastly, denial occurs during and always after the genocide (Stanton, 2013). In this stage, leaders deny, downplay, completely lie about events, or are complicit in the lies. Victims are blamed for what happened to them; deaths are attributed to unintended consequences such as famine, disease, self-defense, or a few rogue agents; and deliberate murder is denied. Today, textbooks throughout the country continue to ignore or minimize the brutal treatment of Native peoples, the mass killings and persecutions, the displacement, and the continued struggles in tribal communities (Zinn, 2005). TEN STAGES OF AMERICAN INDIAN GENOCIDE Susan Chavez Cameron1 First Nations Community Health Source, United States Loan T. Phan University of New Hampshire
In the mid-1970s a Choctaw-Tsalagi Indian Health Services doctor was approached by a 26-year-old American Indian woman who desired a “wonb transplant.” She had been sterilized when she was 20 at the Indian Health Service hospital in Claremont, Oklahoma. It was discoverd that 75 percent of the Claremont sterilizations were non-therapeutic, that women American Indians were being prompted to sign sterilization forms they didn’t understand, that they were being told the operations were reversible, and that some women were even being asked to sign sterilization papers while they had yet to come out of birthing sedation. Common Sense magazine reported that the Indian Health Service “was sterilizing 3,000 Indian women per year, 4 to 6 percent of the child bearing population…Dr. R. T. Ravenholt, [then] director of the federal government’s Office of Population, later confirmed that ‘surgical sterilization has become increasingly important in recent years as one of the advanced methods of fertility management’.” From the beginning of European control there has been an unrelenting drive to commit genocide over another culture. The American Indians were a majority so the Europeans called them an enemy. espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
Making and breaking treaties, confiscating ancestral lands, forcing removal, pushing cultural assimilation-and, at times, turning a blind eye to acts of genocide committed by the military on the western frontier. Among the bitterest pills served to Native peoples during his administration: Lincoln signed laws that gave away millions of acres of tribal land to support white westward expansion, and he approved the hanging of 38 Dakota Sioux warriors, the largest mass execution in U.S. history. www.history.com/news/abraham-lincoln-native-americans
“The force of race in history occupied a singularly important place in Roosevelt’s broad intellectual outlook,” wrote Thomas G. Dyer in Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race. Roosevelt believed fundamentally that American greatness came from its rule by racially superior white men of European descent. “As a race and in the mass they are altogether inferior to the whites,” he confided to a friend in a 1906 letter. Ten years later, he told Senator Henry Cabot Lodge that “the great majority of Negroes in the South are wholly unfit for the suffrage” and that giving them voting rights could “reduce parts of the South to the level of Haiti.” “I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian,” he said in 1886, “but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.” As president, he favored the removal of many Native Americans from their ancestral territories, including approximately 86 million acres of tribal land transferred to the national forest system. Roosevelt’s signature achievements of environmental conservation and the establishment of national parks came at the expense of the people who had stewarded the land for centuries. Roosevelt also supported policies of assimilation for indigenous Americans to become integrated into the broader American society. These policies, over time, contributed to the decimation of Native culture and communities. www.history.com/news/teddy-roosevelt-race-imperialism-national-parks
In the west there are a whole series of Eichmanns. General Amherst ordered the distribution of small pox infested blankets to kill of our people. But his name is shamelessly preserved in the names of towns and streets. George Washington is called the “village burner” in Mohawk because of all the villages he ordered burnt. Villages would be surrounded. As the people came running out, they would be shot, stabbed, women, children and elders alike. In one campaign alone “hundreds of thousand died, from New York across Pennsylvania, West Virgina and into Ohio”. His name graces the capital of the United States. espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
I am glad to have met you. You may not remember me but we had some conversations in the past. It allowed me to face the uncomfortable and horrific truth of the real history of this nation, which is only skimmed over in school and not emphasized. No wonder, because if it was more emphasized nobody would support this genocidal nation. I live on the unceded and stolen lands of the Pâri, the Jíwere-Ñút’achi Máya, the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, and the Jíwere. I have donated to the MMIW organization you've mentioned before. May there never be another stolen sister or sibling. As a white settler colonialist I am deeply ashamed of what this fucked up country has done. As long as I live, I will do my best to continue to make a difference and spread the truth, even though most others will refuse to accept it.
The term “Final Solution” was not coined by the Nazis. It was Indian Affairs Superintendent, Duncan Campbell Scott, Canada’s Adolph Eichmann, who in April 1910 plotted out the planned murder to take care of the “Indian problem”. In the residential schools many eye witnesses have recently come forward to describe the atrocities. They called these places “death camps” where, according to government records, nearly half of all these innocent Indigenous children died or disappeared as if they never existed. In the 1920’s when Dr. Bryce was alarmed by the high death rate of children in residential schools, his report was suppressed. espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
Warrior-Brother, Yes. The so-called "residential schools" were tools of cultural oppression & outright genocide. The systemic physical, mental, social & (often) sexual abuse of native children, tragically, frequently resulted in the death of those children. More often than not, the families of those children were never informed of their child's death. Rather, they were told that their child had "run away."
Settler colonialism is an ongoing system of power that perpetuates the genocide and repression of indigenous peoples and cultures. Essentially hegemonic in scope, settler colonialism normalizes the continuous settler occupation, exploiting lands and resources to which indigenous peoples have genealogical relationships. Settler colonialism includes interlocking forms of oppression, including racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and capitalism. This is because settler colonizers are Eurocentric and assume that European values with respect to ethnic, and therefore moral, superiority are inevitable and natural. However, these intersecting dimensions of settler colonialism coalesce around the dispossession of indigenous peoples’ lands, resources, and cultures. The evolving field of settler colonialism studies arose from scholarship in Native American and indigenous studies that engages with postcolonial studies and critiques the post- in “postcolonial” as inappropriate for understanding ongoing systems of domination in such places as the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, where colonialism is not a thing of the past because the settlers have come to stay, displacing the indigenous peoples and perpetuating systems that continue to erase native lives, cultures, and histories. Foundational theories in settler colonialism studies distinguish settler colonialism from classical colonialism through work that demonstrates that settler colonizers destroy indigenous peoples and cultures in order to replace them and establish themselves as the new rightful inhabitants. In other words, settler colonizers do not merely exploit indigenous peoples and lands for labor and economic interests; they displace them through settlements. In his groundbreaking theory of the “logic of elimination,” Patrick Wolfe shows that settler colonialism is a system, not a historical event, and that as such it perpetuates the erasure of native peoples as a precondition for settler expropriation of lands and resources, providing the necessary conditions for establishing the present-day ideology of multicultural neoliberalism. www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780190221911/obo-9780190221911-0029.xml www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623520601056240
"In other cases, the Lincoln administration simply continued to implement discriminatory and damaging policies, like placing Indians on reservations. Beginning in 1863, the Lincoln administration oversaw the removal of the Navajos and the Mescalero Apaches from the New Mexico Territory, forcing the Navajo to march 450 miles to Bosque Redondo-a brutal journey. Eventually, more than 2,000 died before a treaty was signed." washingtonmonthly.com/2012/12/27/lincoln-no-hero-to-native-americans/
"The expedition you are appointed to command is to be directed against the hostile tribes of the six nations of Indians, with their associates and adherents.1 The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible. It will be essential to ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more. When we have effectually chastised them we may then listen to peace and endeavour to draw further advantages from their fears." founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-20-02-0661
Like you, I also do not celebrate this occasion. Nor do my children. There are many who do not understand why. I have tried to explain. Thank you for sharing your insights with the world at large. Wadogh. Chi miigwetch.
My 2nd husband was Tsalagi (Cherokee), Muskogee (Creek) & Blackfoot. Plus, some African American & a dab of European blood. He looked 100% native, with shiny wavy black hair & dark brown skin. He learned to "pass" as black in the white man's world, because he had learned, by observing the lives of his parents & his grandparents, that that would be less traumatic than being identified as Indian. But privately, his native roots showed through. He loved to fish, and to do archery. He taught all of our children the art of archery. Likewise, fishing.
I am predominantly of European ancestry (this lifetime). Might qualify as Metis, if I lived in Canada. I have one bloodline directly from the pre-colonization time of the Powhatan Confederacy. I am Tsalagi by marriage. I am Mi'qmaq by adoption. I and my children were adopted by a Mi'qmaq medicine woman & her clan, of New Brunswick, in a ceremony at a traditional gathering, around 10 years ago. Like yourself, I also have not been able to travel north of the border to see my family since the jab requirement was put in place. I share your great sense of frustration/outrage about this policy, as First Nations people of the U.S. & Canada have always been able to go back & forth across the border freely. The "international border" is non-existent/not significant to native & tribal governments. This policy may have been deliberately contrived to separate families, clans & Nations with people on both sides of the line. Especially for those at Akwesasne, for example. Or, members of the Wabanaki. I know first-hand the pain of social isolation that such policies create(-d). Wishing you an abundance of sunshine & fresh breezes, Chi miigwetch.
It has been said that Hitler visited the state of Vermont (Abenaki territory) to study the methods which the state of Vermont had used to reduce the native population of Abenaki, by a government-sanctioned program of forced sterilization of Abenaki women. That "campaign" was very "successful" in drastically reducing the original Abenaki population. Today, there are very few Abenaki left in Vermont. Some fled north to Canada, to escape persecution &/or extermination. Other Abenaki families retreated to the hills (foothills) & mountains (Green Mountains) where they remained, living in social isolation from one another, for generations. Similar to the way in which Tsalagi (Cherokee) people who wished to avoid the forced "Removal" by the Trail of Tears, also took refuge in the hills & mountains of the Appalachian Mountains.
When your army entered the Country of the Six Nations, we called you the Town-destroyer and to this day, when that name is heard, our women look behind them and turn pale, and our children cling close to the neck of their mothers. founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-07-02-0005
The Europeans saw themselves as the superior culture bringing civilization to an inferior culture. The colonial world view split reality into popular parts: good and evil, body and spirit, man and nature, head and hear, European and primitive. American Indians spirituality lacks these dualism’s; language expresses the oneness of all things. God is not the transcendent Father but the Mother Earth, the Corn Mother, the Great Spirit who nourishes all It is polytheistic, believing in many gods and many levels of deity. “At the basis of most American Native beliefs is the supernatural was a profound conviction that an invisible force, a powerful spirit, permeated the entire universe and ordered the cycles of birth and death for all living things.” Beyond this belief in a universal spirit, most American Indians attached supernatural qualities to animals, heavenly bodies, the seasons, dead ancestors, the elements, and geologic formations. Their world was infused with the divine - The Sacred Hoop. This was not at all a personal being presiding ominpotently over the salvation or damnation of individual people as the Europeans believed. For the Europeans such beliefs were pagan. Thus, the conquest was rationalized as a necessary evil that would bestow upon the heathen “Indians” a moral consciousness that would redeem their amorality. The world view which converted bare economic self interest into noble, even moral, motives was a notion of Christianity as the one redemptive religion which demands fealty from all cultures. In this remaking of the American Indians the impetus which drove the conquistador’s invading wars not exploration, but the drive to expand an empire, not discovery of new land, but the drive to accumulate treasure, land and cheap labor. espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
Hitler told a past US President when he remarked about their maltreatment of the Jewish people, he mind your own business. You’re the worst. The North American Indian holocaust was studied by South Africa for their apartheid program and by Hitler for his genocide of the Jews during World War II. Hitler commented that he admired the great job Americans had done in taking care of the Indian problem. The policies used to kill us off was so successful that people today generally assume that our population was low. espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
Genocide denial is the attempt to deny or minimize the scale and severity of an instance of genocide. Denial is an integral part of genocide and includes the secret planning of genocide, propaganda while the genocide is going on, and destruction of evidence of mass killings. According to genocide researcher Gregory Stanton, denial "is among the surest indicators of further genocidal massacres". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_denial This WHY Israel commits its Genocide, funded by the red, white and blue. Take a good, god damn look in the mirror Canada and America! Take a good damn look! Can you see yet!? Can you not see!!! Here, let me help you see! Ugly Precursor to Auschwitz: Hitler Said to Have Been Inspired by US Indian Reservation System ictnews.org/archive/ugly-precursor-to-auschwitz-hitler-said-to-have-been-inspired-by-us-indian-reservation-system It's all enacted AND upheld in the name of the invaders god "Jesus" www.danielnpaul.com/DoctrineOfDiscovery.html Sometimes, the bad guys, think they're the good guys. Look and you shall see. What does the invaders bible claim> "The truth shall set you free". I'm showing you no lies.
The “Indian Removal” policy was implemented to “clear” land for white settlers. Removal was more than another assault on American Indians’ land titles. The Indian Removal Act began in 1830. Forced marches at bayonet-point to relocation settlements resulted in high mortality rates. The infamous removal of the Five Civilized Tribes - the Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and Seminoles - is a dismal page in United States history. espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races-that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermingling with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior. I am as much as any other man in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race." presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/learn/educators/educator-resources/teaching-guides/lincolns-views-african-american-slavery/
“For every scalp of such Female Indian or male Indian under the Age of Twelve Years, that shall be killed and brought in as Evidence of their being killed …, Twenty Pounds,”( US$12,000 in today’s currency.) the declaration reads. Colonial governments in New England issued over 60 scalp bounties from the 1680s through the 1750s, typically during various conflicts between Colonists and Native Americans. Massachusetts ( keep in mind, by far, the most white supremacist and oppressive, colony today against Indians; the Maine settler colony was part of Mass) made the widest use of scalp bounties among the New England Colonies in the 1700s. theconversation.com/indigenous-peoples-day-offers-a-reminder-of-native-american-history-including-the-scalping-they-endured-at-the-hands-of-colonists-214433 There are towns, cities and countless place names all across the settler colonies, named after those who slaughtered our children!!!! Yes. Fucking today. "Thanksgiving" isn't celebrated every year, because the evil settler colonies are sorry. They celebrate Genocide, not knowing they do so. "Thanksgiving" is 100% for the support of Genocide denial. Not because the settlers are thankful to use Indian lands. What do they have to be thankful to Indians for, when they have their "Jesus" who provided it all for them?
“The Spanish cut off the legs of children who ran from them. They poured people full of boiling soap. They made bets as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half. They loosed dogs that ‘devoured an Indian like a hog, at first sight, in less than a moment.’ They used nursing infants for dog food.” [2, pg.4] This was not occasional violence - it was a systematic, prolonged campaign of brutality and sadism, a policy of torture, mass murder, slavery and forced labor that continued for CENTURIES. “The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world,” writes historian David E. Stannard. [3, pg.x] Eventually more than 100 million natives fell under European rule. Their extermination would follow. As the natives died out, they were replaced by slaves brought from Africa. In the 1980s, under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the U.S. government knowingly gave direct aid to genocidal campaigns that murdered tens of thousands Mayan Indian people in Guatemala, El Salvador and elsewhere. [7] The pattern holds. espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
THE DOCTRINES DECREED BY ROMAN CATHOLIC POPES, begining in 1452, were adopted by European Christian Nations for the purpose of providing them a legal cover to pillage and destroy non-White Civilizations around the World. The citizens of which were indiscriminately slaughtered by the tens of thousands, enslaved, raped, and dehumanized. Daniel N. Paul www.danielnpaul.com/DoctrineOfDiscovery.html
The American Indian Holocaust, known as the “500 year war” and the “World’s Longest Holocaust In The History Of Mankind And Loss Of Human Lives.” Genocide and Denying It: Why We Are Not Taught that the Natives of the United States and Canada were Exterminated Death Toll: 95,000,000 to 114,000,000 American Holocaust: D. Stannard (Oxford Press, 1992) - “over 100 million killed” “[Christopher] Columbus personally murdered half a million Natives”
Mother Earth, Father Sky.
Great Spirit.
Great Mystery.
Gitchee Manitou.
Wakan Tanka.
Grandfather.
A'HO.
Wadogh.
Chi miigwetch.
Mitakuye Oyasin.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I agree with everything you have written. It is true, dehumanization is the first step on the path to genocide.
Sadly, or rather tragically, this is happening for all the world to see (watch) to the indigenous people of Palestine, a mixture of Semitic peoples -- Muslims, Jews (a few), Christians (a few remaining today, after forced removal in the 1st century A.D. by the occupying forces/settler-colonialists known as "Romans," whose descendants live on today under cover of the church of rome].
Genocide, ethnocide, ethnic cleansing of any particular group of people, by an invading &/or occupying force (military) has reared its ugly face again & again, over the course of time.
The Doctrines of Christian Discovery (DoCD) originate with 15th century Papal Bulls that were issued by the Vatican and implemented by Monarchies, sanctioning the brutal Conquest and Colonization of non-Christians who were deemed “enemies of Christ” in Africa and the Americas. These Papal Bulls were a continuation of what had been going on since at least the 8th century from Charlemagne, through the Crusades, the Inquisition, the war on witches, to the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula. In 1823, the “Doctrine of Discovery” was first articulated as a legal formulation in U.S. Supreme Court case, Johnson v. M’Intosh in 1823. As this case fundamentally defines international property law today, it continues to be used by multi-national corporations and Nation-States in their extraction of resources in indigenous territories around the world. The global scale with which the DoCD expressed itself in the “Age of Discovery”-first in Africa, then the Americas, and beyond-created a unified Christendom, which became the opposing force against the great global plurality of cultures. This Doctrine governs United States and international law today and has been cited as recently as 2005 in the decision City Of Sherrill V. Oneida Indian Nation Of N.Y.
doctrineofdiscovery.org/what-is-the-doctrine-of-discovery/
Dehumanization is the first step toward genocide. It denies the humanity of the group,
weakening the normal repulsion against murder. Dehumanization enables perpetrators to force a
people to live in inhumane conditions - in overcrowded ghettos, without resources or potable
water, and under starvation conditions - all the while condoning these actions. Dehumanization
feeds into polarization creating a divide between the two groups through use of propaganda;
basically, spreading an ideology that one group is superior to another and therefore more entitled
while the other group is to blame for any shortfalls identified by the entitled group. Both stages
are embodied in Native history (Brookings Institute, 1928).
Persecution and extermination involve mass killings. Persecution is the genocide proper,
while extermination involves state sponsored killings. Persecution segregates victims from the
larger community, and their properties are expropriated. They are forced into ghettos, deported to
concentration camps, confined to famine-stricken areas and starved, or in the case of Native
peoples, forced onto reservations in geographically remote locations. Since White settlers
regarded reservation lands as the least desirable, reservations were used to corral the Indians.
However, even after rounding them up and restricting them to these areas, in short order, the
U.S. government made efforts to disassemble the reservations in order to usurp still more lands
(University of Oklahoma, n.d.).
Lastly, denial occurs during and always after the genocide (Stanton, 2013). In this stage,
leaders deny, downplay, completely lie about events, or are complicit in the lies. Victims are
blamed for what happened to them; deaths are attributed to unintended consequences such as
famine, disease, self-defense, or a few rogue agents; and deliberate murder is denied. Today,
textbooks throughout the country continue to ignore or minimize the brutal treatment of Native
peoples, the mass killings and persecutions, the displacement, and the continued struggles in
tribal communities (Zinn, 2005).
TEN STAGES OF AMERICAN INDIAN GENOCIDE
Susan Chavez Cameron1
First Nations Community Health Source, United States
Loan T. Phan
University of New Hampshire
In the mid-1970s a Choctaw-Tsalagi Indian Health Services doctor was approached by a 26-year-old American Indian woman who desired a “wonb transplant.” She had been sterilized when she was 20 at the Indian Health Service hospital in Claremont, Oklahoma. It was discoverd that 75 percent of the Claremont sterilizations were non-therapeutic, that women American Indians were being prompted to sign sterilization forms they didn’t understand, that they were being told the operations were reversible, and that some women were even being asked to sign sterilization papers while they had yet to come out of birthing sedation.
Common Sense magazine reported that the Indian Health Service “was sterilizing 3,000 Indian women per year, 4 to 6 percent of the child bearing population…Dr. R. T. Ravenholt, [then] director of the federal government’s Office of Population, later confirmed that ‘surgical sterilization has become increasingly important in recent years as one of the advanced methods of fertility management’.”
From the beginning of European control there has been an unrelenting drive to commit genocide over another culture. The American Indians were a majority so the Europeans called them an enemy.
espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
Making and breaking treaties, confiscating ancestral lands, forcing removal, pushing cultural assimilation-and, at times, turning a blind eye to acts of genocide committed by the military on the western frontier. Among the bitterest pills served to Native peoples during his administration: Lincoln signed laws that gave away millions of acres of tribal land to support white westward expansion, and he approved the hanging of 38 Dakota Sioux warriors, the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
www.history.com/news/abraham-lincoln-native-americans
“The force of race in history occupied a singularly important place in Roosevelt’s broad intellectual outlook,” wrote Thomas G. Dyer in Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race. Roosevelt believed fundamentally that American greatness came from its rule by racially superior white men of European descent.
“As a race and in the mass they are altogether inferior to the whites,” he confided to a friend in a 1906 letter. Ten years later, he told Senator Henry Cabot Lodge that “the great majority of Negroes in the South are wholly unfit for the suffrage” and that giving them voting rights could “reduce parts of the South to the level of Haiti.”
“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian,” he said in 1886, “but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.”
As president, he favored the removal of many Native Americans from their ancestral territories, including approximately 86 million acres of tribal land transferred to the national forest system. Roosevelt’s signature achievements of environmental conservation and the establishment of national parks came at the expense of the people who had stewarded the land for centuries. Roosevelt also supported policies of assimilation for indigenous Americans to become integrated into the broader American society. These policies, over time, contributed to the decimation of Native culture and communities.
www.history.com/news/teddy-roosevelt-race-imperialism-national-parks
In the west there are a whole series of Eichmanns. General Amherst ordered the distribution of small pox infested blankets to kill of our people. But his name is shamelessly preserved in the names of towns and streets. George Washington is called the “village burner” in Mohawk because of all the villages he ordered burnt. Villages would be surrounded. As the people came running out, they would be shot, stabbed, women, children and elders alike. In one campaign alone “hundreds of thousand died, from New York across Pennsylvania, West Virgina and into Ohio”. His name graces the capital of the United States.
espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
I am glad to have met you. You may not remember me but we had some conversations in the past. It allowed me to face the uncomfortable and horrific truth of the real history of this nation, which is only skimmed over in school and not emphasized. No wonder, because if it was more emphasized nobody would support this genocidal nation.
I live on the unceded and stolen lands of the Pâri, the Jíwere-Ñút’achi Máya, the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, and the Jíwere.
I have donated to the MMIW organization you've mentioned before. May there never be another stolen sister or sibling.
As a white settler colonialist I am deeply ashamed of what this fucked up country has done.
As long as I live, I will do my best to continue to make a difference and spread the truth, even though most others will refuse to accept it.
I remember you, good neighbor and ally.
The term “Final Solution” was not coined by the Nazis. It was Indian Affairs Superintendent, Duncan Campbell Scott, Canada’s Adolph Eichmann, who in April 1910 plotted out the planned murder to take care of the “Indian problem”.
In the residential schools many eye witnesses have recently come forward to describe the atrocities. They called these places “death camps” where, according to government records, nearly half of all these innocent Indigenous children died or disappeared as if they never existed. In the 1920’s when Dr. Bryce was alarmed by the high death rate of children in residential schools, his report was suppressed.
espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
Warrior-Brother,
Yes. The so-called "residential schools" were tools of cultural oppression & outright genocide.
The systemic physical, mental, social & (often) sexual abuse of native children, tragically, frequently resulted in the death of those children.
More often than not, the families of those children were never informed of their child's death. Rather, they were told that their child had "run away."
Settler colonialism is an ongoing system of power that perpetuates the genocide and repression of indigenous peoples and cultures. Essentially hegemonic in scope, settler colonialism normalizes the continuous settler occupation, exploiting lands and resources to which indigenous peoples have genealogical relationships. Settler colonialism includes interlocking forms of oppression, including racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and capitalism. This is because settler colonizers are Eurocentric and assume that European values with respect to ethnic, and therefore moral, superiority are inevitable and natural. However, these intersecting dimensions of settler colonialism coalesce around the dispossession of indigenous peoples’ lands, resources, and cultures. The evolving field of settler colonialism studies arose from scholarship in Native American and indigenous studies that engages with postcolonial studies and critiques the post- in “postcolonial” as inappropriate for understanding ongoing systems of domination in such places as the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, where colonialism is not a thing of the past because the settlers have come to stay, displacing the indigenous peoples and perpetuating systems that continue to erase native lives, cultures, and histories. Foundational theories in settler colonialism studies distinguish settler colonialism from classical colonialism through work that demonstrates that settler colonizers destroy indigenous peoples and cultures in order to replace them and establish themselves as the new rightful inhabitants. In other words, settler colonizers do not merely exploit indigenous peoples and lands for labor and economic interests; they displace them through settlements. In his groundbreaking theory of the “logic of elimination,” Patrick Wolfe shows that settler colonialism is a system, not a historical event, and that as such it perpetuates the erasure of native peoples as a precondition for settler expropriation of lands and resources, providing the necessary conditions for establishing the present-day ideology of multicultural neoliberalism.
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780190221911/obo-9780190221911-0029.xml
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623520601056240
"In other cases, the Lincoln administration simply continued to implement discriminatory and damaging policies, like placing Indians on reservations. Beginning in 1863, the Lincoln administration oversaw the removal of the Navajos and the Mescalero Apaches from the New Mexico Territory, forcing the Navajo to march 450 miles to Bosque Redondo-a brutal journey. Eventually, more than 2,000 died before a treaty was signed."
washingtonmonthly.com/2012/12/27/lincoln-no-hero-to-native-americans/
"The expedition you are appointed to command is to be directed against the hostile tribes of the six nations of Indians, with their associates and adherents.1 The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible. It will be essential to ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.
When we have effectually chastised them we may then listen to peace and endeavour to draw further advantages from their fears."
founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-20-02-0661
Like you, I also do not celebrate this occasion. Nor do my children.
There are many who do not understand why. I have tried to explain.
Thank you for sharing your insights with the world at large.
Wadogh.
Chi miigwetch.
My 2nd husband was Tsalagi (Cherokee), Muskogee (Creek) & Blackfoot. Plus, some African American & a dab of European blood.
He looked 100% native, with shiny wavy black hair & dark brown skin. He learned to "pass" as black in the white man's world, because he had learned, by observing the lives of his parents & his grandparents, that that would be less traumatic than being identified as Indian.
But privately, his native roots showed through. He loved to fish, and to do archery. He taught all of our children the art of archery. Likewise, fishing.
I am predominantly of European ancestry (this lifetime). Might qualify as Metis, if I lived in Canada.
I have one bloodline directly from the pre-colonization time of the Powhatan Confederacy.
I am Tsalagi by marriage.
I am Mi'qmaq by adoption.
I and my children were adopted by a Mi'qmaq medicine woman & her clan, of New Brunswick, in a ceremony at a traditional gathering, around 10 years ago.
Like yourself, I also have not been able to travel north of the border to see my family since the jab requirement was put in place.
I share your great sense of frustration/outrage about this policy,
as First Nations people of the U.S. & Canada have always been able to go back & forth across the border freely.
The "international border" is non-existent/not significant to native & tribal governments.
This policy may have been deliberately contrived to separate families, clans & Nations with people on both sides of the line.
Especially for those at Akwesasne, for example. Or, members of the Wabanaki.
I know first-hand the pain of social isolation that such policies create(-d).
Wishing you an abundance of sunshine & fresh breezes,
Chi miigwetch.
It has been said that Hitler visited the state of Vermont (Abenaki territory) to study the methods which the state of Vermont had used to reduce the native population of Abenaki, by a government-sanctioned program of forced sterilization of Abenaki women.
That "campaign" was very "successful" in drastically reducing the original Abenaki population.
Today, there are very few Abenaki left in Vermont. Some fled north to Canada, to escape persecution &/or extermination.
Other Abenaki families retreated to the hills (foothills) & mountains (Green Mountains) where they remained, living in social isolation from one another, for generations.
Similar to the way in which Tsalagi (Cherokee) people who wished to avoid the forced "Removal" by the Trail of Tears, also took refuge in the hills & mountains of the Appalachian Mountains.
Who is the singer? Such a powerful voice.
When your army entered the Country of the Six Nations, we called you the Town-destroyer and to this day, when that name is heard, our women look behind them and turn pale, and our children cling close to the neck of their mothers.
founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-07-02-0005
The Europeans saw themselves as the superior culture bringing civilization to an inferior culture. The colonial world view split reality into popular parts: good and evil, body and spirit, man and nature, head and hear, European and primitive. American Indians spirituality lacks these dualism’s; language expresses the oneness of all things.
God is not the transcendent Father but the Mother Earth, the Corn Mother, the Great Spirit who nourishes all It is polytheistic, believing in many gods and many levels of deity.
“At the basis of most American Native beliefs is the supernatural was a profound conviction that an invisible force, a powerful spirit, permeated the entire universe and ordered the cycles of birth and death for all living things.” Beyond this belief in a universal spirit, most American Indians attached supernatural qualities to animals, heavenly bodies, the seasons, dead ancestors, the elements, and geologic formations. Their world was infused with the divine - The Sacred Hoop. This was not at all a personal being presiding ominpotently over the salvation or damnation of individual people as the Europeans believed.
For the Europeans such beliefs were pagan. Thus, the conquest was rationalized as a necessary evil that would bestow upon the heathen “Indians” a moral consciousness that would redeem their amorality.
The world view which converted bare economic self interest into noble, even moral, motives was a notion of Christianity as the one redemptive religion which demands fealty from all cultures. In this remaking of the American Indians the impetus which drove the conquistador’s invading wars not exploration, but the drive to expand an empire, not discovery of new land, but the drive to accumulate treasure, land and cheap labor.
espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
Hitler told a past US President when he remarked about their maltreatment of the Jewish people, he mind your own business. You’re the worst.
The North American Indian holocaust was studied by South Africa for their apartheid program and by Hitler for his genocide of the Jews during World War II. Hitler commented that he admired the great job Americans had done in taking care of the Indian problem. The policies used to kill us off was so successful that people today generally assume that our population was low.
espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
Genocide denial is the attempt to deny or minimize the scale and severity of an instance of genocide. Denial is an integral part of genocide and includes the secret planning of genocide, propaganda while the genocide is going on, and destruction of evidence of mass killings. According to genocide researcher Gregory Stanton, denial "is among the surest indicators of further genocidal massacres".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_denial
This WHY Israel commits its Genocide, funded by the red, white and blue. Take a good, god damn look in the mirror Canada and America! Take a good damn look! Can you see yet!? Can you not see!!!
Here, let me help you see!
Ugly Precursor to Auschwitz: Hitler Said to Have Been Inspired by US Indian Reservation System
ictnews.org/archive/ugly-precursor-to-auschwitz-hitler-said-to-have-been-inspired-by-us-indian-reservation-system
It's all enacted AND upheld in the name of the invaders god "Jesus"
www.danielnpaul.com/DoctrineOfDiscovery.html
Sometimes, the bad guys, think they're the good guys. Look and you shall see. What does the invaders bible claim> "The truth shall set you free". I'm showing you no lies.
The “Indian Removal” policy was implemented to “clear” land for white settlers. Removal was more than another assault on American Indians’ land titles.
The Indian Removal Act began in 1830. Forced marches at bayonet-point to relocation settlements resulted in high mortality rates. The infamous removal of the Five Civilized Tribes - the Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and Seminoles - is a dismal page in United States history.
espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races-that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermingling with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior. I am as much as any other man in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/learn/educators/educator-resources/teaching-guides/lincolns-views-african-american-slavery/
“For every scalp of such Female Indian or male Indian under the Age of Twelve Years, that shall be killed and brought in as Evidence of their being killed …, Twenty Pounds,”( US$12,000 in today’s currency.) the declaration reads.
Colonial governments in New England issued over 60 scalp bounties from the 1680s through the 1750s, typically during various conflicts between Colonists and Native Americans. Massachusetts ( keep in mind, by far, the most white supremacist and oppressive, colony today against Indians; the Maine settler colony was part of Mass) made the widest use of scalp bounties among the New England Colonies in the 1700s.
theconversation.com/indigenous-peoples-day-offers-a-reminder-of-native-american-history-including-the-scalping-they-endured-at-the-hands-of-colonists-214433
There are towns, cities and countless place names all across the settler colonies, named after those who slaughtered our children!!!! Yes. Fucking today.
"Thanksgiving" isn't celebrated every year, because the evil settler colonies are sorry. They celebrate Genocide, not knowing they do so. "Thanksgiving" is 100% for the support of Genocide denial. Not because the settlers are thankful to use Indian lands. What do they have to be thankful to Indians for, when they have their "Jesus" who provided it all for them?
“The Spanish cut off the legs of children who ran from them. They poured people full of boiling soap. They made bets as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half. They loosed dogs that ‘devoured an Indian like a hog, at first sight, in less than a moment.’ They used nursing infants for dog food.” [2, pg.4]
This was not occasional violence - it was a systematic, prolonged campaign of brutality and sadism, a policy of torture, mass murder, slavery and forced labor that continued for CENTURIES.
“The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world,” writes historian David E. Stannard. [3, pg.x]
Eventually more than 100 million natives fell under European rule. Their extermination would follow. As the natives died out, they were replaced by slaves brought from Africa.
In the 1980s, under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the U.S. government knowingly gave direct aid to genocidal campaigns that murdered tens of thousands Mayan Indian people in Guatemala, El Salvador and elsewhere. [7]
The pattern holds.
espressostalinist.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/
THE DOCTRINES DECREED BY ROMAN CATHOLIC POPES, begining in 1452, were adopted by European Christian Nations for the purpose of providing them a legal cover to pillage and destroy non-White Civilizations around the World. The citizens of which were indiscriminately slaughtered by the tens of thousands, enslaved, raped, and dehumanized. Daniel N. Paul
www.danielnpaul.com/DoctrineOfDiscovery.html
The American Indian Holocaust, known as the “500 year war” and the “World’s Longest Holocaust In The History Of Mankind And Loss Of Human Lives.”
Genocide and Denying It: Why We Are Not Taught that the Natives of the United States and Canada were Exterminated
Death Toll: 95,000,000 to 114,000,000
American Holocaust: D. Stannard (Oxford Press, 1992) - “over 100 million killed” “[Christopher] Columbus personally murdered half a million Natives”