What it Means to Be American

In my opinion, the most telling sentence in your article is this one:

"In the traditional Navajo home where Begay once lived with two of her sons, the radiation levels were up to 100 times the acceptable level. The two sons have died — one of lung cancer and the other from a tumor. The EPA tore down the home in 2001."

What more needs to be said?

Thank you for sharing this.

It's very popular in America to commemorate the Holocaust (and rightly so), but the genocide against Native Americans is not a polite conversational topic. We need an American Holocaust Museum to acknowledge what happened. We need a Native American Homeland, free from interference of the United States Government, which will provide arable land, access to all necessary natural resources (WATER), and safe housing for all Native Americans. The reservation system is a system of concentration camps, and it is a national disgrace. The Indian School system is a national disgrace. The forced marginalization of Native Americans is a national disgrace. Strip mining and oil drilling on reservation lands is a national disgrace.

I would love to see the American gov't. honor at one of the thousands of treaties they have signed with Native Americans of this land. They have broken every single treaty they have signed with every nation, it is beyond disgraceful. Is this what it means to be an American? To be the most dishonorable killers know to man?

Exactly. Thanks.

See ya.....

Sue considered herself to be a "new age citizen of the world",....right before she became extinct.

Where's his flag lapel pin?

Heh ! +^d

Yeah, but you still have to respect Ron Paul for respecting the right to use the ancient medicine known as "marijuana".....

I DO ! +^d

someone "hit- n -run drive by assassinvoted " -Vd THAT bit o' humor ? jeeeeze .

That's OK. I zeroed ya back up!

Heh. thanx ma'am ! was just being humorous.

My thanx, ma'am !

There's Uncle Standing Deer!

Would that be the fifth one from the right??

Have we been drinking again?

Just coffee. But who took the picture??

Already with you on that one....

Yep! Uum I'm sure I have done asked you this but please humor me What tribe do you run with??

I have that bumper sticker!!!! All my whitey white friends get so offended when they see it…. LOL.

well fooy on them then.

The Mexicans stole it from my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandma.

I'm sorry but she traded it for some beads and a peice of red rock candy.

Ha ! +^d !

Ha ha ! +^d +^d !

Ha ha ha ! +^d +^d +^d !

( hmmmmmmmmm,........ is sort of starting to sound like a war dance . . .)

Naa war will never solve what's wrong with this place.

Well I never said it would not make one rich but do you really want to become rich at the cost of the lives of others? I know I don't I like to look at the world and see where I have done good in the grand scheme of things not torn down what some one else built or taken the life of someone

AHh a bit of miscommunication I believe

Bring it on, Smurf!

Same old con game; different century.

I would go for a cow and some goats if I was you.

I'm so confused....

Well let try to clear the air or fog which ever She offered a few strings of beads and a couple blankets. But you can get those at any homeless shelter. So if I was you I would want a Cow and a couple of goats in trade.

I understood you the FIRST time. Scary. +^d

Yep! Just goes to show Ya how sick we could be