AN OPEN APOLOGY TO THE FIRST NATIONS

WELCOME TO ONE HUMAN FAMILY
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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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

WOUNDED KNEE - THE DARKEST HOUR

As an American, as a human being, as a member of the human family, it is impossible to watch this video, to become aware of what has happened to the first inhabitants of this land "discovered" by Europeans, this land that we gloat over, this land we refer to as the "land of the free". We came for religious freedoms, for space and land, we came to be free. All the things we wanted we took away from the original inhabitants, killing them in the name of Christianity, women, children, even all their buffalo (just to get rid of the Indians). Now we are here in this free land, how nice for us, how nice for everyone except the original inhabitants. How can anyone enjoy this freedom when we killed and maimed and stole and lied and beat and imprisoned and tore children away from the original inhabitants of this land? Obviously the government is never going to make this right for the First Nations. It is going to take a profound effort on the part of the citizens of all races of this land to stand up and say, "What the hell did our ancestors do here? Even now the people suffer greatly. It took 400 years just to receive a verbal apology! How can we ameliorate this horrendous act of injustice? Each person who reads this sentence must find his own way to improve the conditions and lives of the American Indian nations nearby. It is up to individuals to mend this wrong. It is up to people who call themselves Christians to take a stand, stand up and be counted, do something to mend this pain, anguish and suffering of our brothers and sisters.

Please watch this film clip.
Please enter your apology on this site.
Please do something to mend this pain and suffering and cure native hearts.

1 comment:

  1. Incredible, this really is beautiful. Think about all of the reading through and also creating you could do this... Frosty during the cold months though. D3 Items


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