AN OPEN APOLOGY TO THE FIRST NATIONS

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My intent with this blog is to open a forum where, from one human being to another, we can pour out our tears regarding the horrendous, inconceivable acts of unnecessary violence and inhumanity carried out by some Europeans against the innocent FIRST NATION, the MILLIONS of peoples living on the American continent when the English "discovered" this "new" land. It wasn't "new" to the peoples who occupied it, but it's a nice way to put it in the history books so that the white offspring of generations to follow have NO REAL IDEA of what went on in this country. I'm white and until I watched 500 Nations and digested what really happened to our darker skinned brothers and sisters, I just didn't really understand why I would get the cold shoulder by some American Indians. NOW I UNDERSTAND! Like the Tibetans in China, it is very very hard to swallow that your country was stolen by some stronger peoples, and that now you are living on the very fringes of society, barely surviving. Every day you visualize how life used to be, how it still should be, your customs, your beautiful streams and mountains, the ancient traditions of generations before you. GONE. LOST. DEAD. And now alcohol is killing what's left of it. And your one river is drying up. And you don't know how much more land will be taken from your children. It makes me seriously sick to my stomach to realize what our ancestors did, how they used and abused and lied and cheated and deflowered and murdered using their CHRISTIAN GOD as their excuse. They killed just to kill at times, just to kill...in the name of God...just kill the "heathens"! If I didn't know sweet, wonderful, sincere, loving Christian people I would HATE CHRISTIANITY! There is NO DAMN EXCUSE for what they did when they had other options, which was most of the time. It was just easier to erase them. These sort of white men make me want to erase them from the face of this world. They are the ones who should have gone down. There were other ways to settle here. We didn't have to wipe out so many tribes, so many innocent women and children. We didn't need to kill other human beings. We didn't have to have the best land for ourselves. We didn't have to take ALL the land, kill ALL the buffalo, take their children away from them to make them into little Christian Europeans. I cannot believe this took place only 100 years ago. I'm sickened and appalled. I am compelled to stay up all night to set up this blog, to apologize a hundred million times, which can never be enough. Please help me heal this wound in the hearts of the FIRST NATION. Please apologize here and now. We owe them at least that much!

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Monday, March 22, 2010

NO! More lies! More broken treaties in 2010! No!

Colorado Lawmakers Backing Away From Indian Treaty

Colorado lawmakers consider cutting funding for American Indian students at state college

DENVER January 15, 2010 (AP)

Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill that would cut $1.8 million in funding each year for Native American students attending Fort Lewis College in Durango and could violate a 99-year-old Indian treaty.

In 1911, as a condition of accepting thousands of acres of land in Hesperus in southwest Colorado, state lawmakers agreed to establish an institute of learning and all Native American students would be admitted tuition free.

Now, facing a budget crunch, Colorado lawmakers want to take some of that money away. See the full story http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9573804

DO NOT GO AWAY. DIG THIS. THEY WANT TO BREAK THIS TREATY TO EDUCATE AMERICAN INDIANS JUST AS AMERICAN INDIANS BEGIN TO BLOOM. CHECK THIS OUT.

American Indian students rise above expectation

Friday, March 19, 2010

As anyone who has visited our schools knows, our kids learn the values of capitalism through an educational model that rewards excellence and punishes laziness. Our students make no pledges and take no oaths.

The American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland serves 200 students in grades six through eight, and its sister high school serves 100 students. Last year, 100 percent of our students were accepted to four-year colleges, including Stanford, MIT, Cornell and UC Berkeley. Our students' average SAT scores were 150 points above the national average. Oakland Unified School District's graduation rate is 51 percent.

On last year's state assessment, 100 percent of our eighth-grade students tested at or above grade level in language arts and Algebra I. By contrast, only 29 percent of eighth-grade students in Oakland schools tested at or above grade level in language arts, and just 24 percent tested proficient or advanced in Algebra I.

Read full story - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/18/ED3P1CHUEO.DTL


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