Comedy | January 01, 2013 | 57 comments

A New Year's Resolution: An Apology Day?

source: http://article.wn.com/view/2013/01/01/A_New_Years_Resolution_An_Apology_Day/

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For good reason Mark Charles, a member of the Navajo Nation, is deeply offended that buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriation Act (after pages on the maintenance and operation of the United States Military) is an "official" apology to Native American People. Not only does such dismissive behavior reflect amnesia and insincerity towards hundreds of thousands of people and one the worst genocides in modern history, but it reveals a national pathological defect in that, U.S. political leaders and officials find it extremely difficult in expressing remorse for past mistakes.

Like hundreds of other Native American tribes, at least for those who survived mass extermination campaigns, the U.S. government sought to dominate the Navajo by establishing armed military posts throughout their territory. Those who resisted were either killed or imprisoned. By 1868, the vast majority of Navajo were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico and incarcerated at a prison camp at Bosque Redondo, New Mexico. Conditions were inhuman: insufficient housing, shortages of food and water, disease, even enslavement.

But what occurred before their imprisonment was much worse. The Long Walk of the Navajo-forced deportation of the Navajo Indians to the Bosque Redondo camp-follwed a scorched earth campaign that murdered hundreds of Navajos. As winter wore on, the homeless, hungry, and fatigued Navajo began surrendering. On March 6, 1864, thousands of them started to make the 400 mile journey from Dinetah to the prisoner of war camp. Only the sick, very young, and elderly were allowed to ride in wagons; the rest were forced to walk every mile, including young children.

Escorted by the U.S. military and government officials, a sad and deadly journey haunted the Navajos. Records that were later published showed 126 Navajo died of dysentery even before the Long Walk started. Hundreds of more died either due to natural causes, poor health, malnutrition, or of various illnesses. Soldiers ruthlessly shot some who could not continue along the way.(1) Others were mercilessly beaten by military personnel, and some women raped.(2) Although the U.S. government attempted to conceal this atrocity, the horrors of the Long Walk and Bosque Redondo were publicized.(3)

Thousands of Navajos either died or were murdered during the Long Walk and while at Bosque Redondo. Sadly, there have been hundreds of other genocidal acts and mass murders that have occurred and were committed by the U.S. government and military. And even though many of them might not have been recorded, they exist and have been buried underfoot, just like the apology to Native American Peoples are buried in a defense bill. An official apology to all Native American Peoples, past and present, would begin a much needed healing process.

Apology Day-that would include other acts of genocide and mass slaughter-would begin to address and cure a kind of malaise, a willful forgetfulness and collective amnesia that has taken hold of the U.S. Such a radical destabilization of American mythology is needed to prevent more atrocities and to counteract American Exceptionalism. A public Apology Day would also break in upon the national consciousness and moral ethos to help Americans realize and understand how the political and military mistakes of the past are still present in the lived experiences of a major part of the population.(4)

Mark Charles recently went to the Capitol on the anniversary of the passing of the defense bill. He read the apology out loud, hoping that others would join him in his cause and that it would attract enough attention so that people would hear about it.(5) The brief apology, which includes admissions to ill-conceived policies, the breaking of covenants, and instances of violence, urges the president to acknowledge the wrongs, something that has not yet happened. Today, many Native American People are still marginalized and still suffer under harsh conditions.

An Apology Day would be liberating for both victims and perpetrators. A remorseful apology would initiate a long walk of healing between the U.S. and Native American Peoples. It would be curative regarding the United States' post-dehistory-stress syndrome. Regarding other mass killings-Filipinos, Vietnamese, Central Americans, Iraqis, etc... -the greatest legacy for this president and generation would be to forge a sorrowful national narrative. This year, then, the most important New Year's revolution would be to publicly apologize to Native American Peoples while enacting a national Apology Day.

-Dallas Darling
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57 comments // A New Year's Resolution: An Apology Day?

  • Michael_Anderson1
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      Michael_Anderson1  

    • How could I and why should I apologize for something I am not responsible for?
      Below: Some words to the Liberals.

      You shall be hated among men for my name sake.

      Thinking themselves wise, they became fools.

      I come in my Father's name and you accept me not.
      Another shall come in his own name and him you will accept.

      I am the way and the light. No one comes unto the Father but by me.

      Before Abraham was, I am.

      Where were you when I set the foundations of the world?

    • 2 months ago
  • alexandrekBack
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  

    • Canada's Idle No More movement began as a small social media campaign - armed with little more than a hashtag and a cause. But it has grown into a large indigenous movement, with protests and ceremonial gatherings held almost daily in many of the country's major cities. The movement is spearheaded by Theresa Spence, the leader of the Attawapiskat, a small native band in northern Ontario. Spence is now 22 days into a hunger strike on Ottawa's Victoria Island just across from the Canadian Parliament.

      Inside Story Americas, with presenter Kimberly Halkett, discusses with guests: Pamela Palmater, a lawyer and chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University, Toronto, and Clayton Thomas-Muller, an indigenous rights activist and tar sands campaign co-director at the Indigenous Environmental Network.

    • 5 months ago
  • northernexpat
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      northernexpat  

    • In some respects Hollywood really did the Native Americans a disservice back in the 50s and 60s when it portrayed all of them as vicious savages. It would scared me spitless when I watched Westerns back then showing wagon trains and frontiersmen being attack, even though I have Iroquois blood from way back in my ancestry.

      I now have a grandson whose paternal great grandmother was Metis and I also have two nephews who are half Blackfoot. I have lived among the Metis and Dene in the Northwest Territories for 36 years now, and they are proud people who continue to fight the Canadian government for the right to their own land.

      So any preconceived ideas I may have had growing up have really changed now that I know them and understand their beliefs. To this end, I am extremely sorry that neither the American or the Canadian Governments will not offer apologies to all Native American tribes for what was done to them in the past in their name.

    • 5 months ago
  • theknopfknows
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      theknopfknows  
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    • Too little, too late!
      100 years before the,Hitler/ Jewish Holocaust,
      USA CANADA had the Indian Holocaust Genocide,
      By ANDREW JACKSON and ABE LINCOLN, Indian abuse,
      Also in CANADA the Church, trappers, hunters, killed raped stole the Indian children away to be killed elsewhere,for population control,
      The gov`t supported Church and programs that killed Indians, like baby seals,
      Blood red in the white snow, Canadian national colors of SHAME.
      Today, they, Still Rape Women of native origin in British Columbia, steal their land for resources. In USA new Tar sands oil is the NEW Pipeline of tears, contaminating Indian lands/ reservations. Apology, like the Christian Cross that becomes the sword at a blink of an eye. USA started by killing and has never stopped just gone GLOBAL.

    • 5 months ago
  • Sarah_Honea
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      Sarah_Honea  

    • The amongst the tribes I am descended and others, there is broad spiritual understanding that when one murders or does a grave injustice to another. the victim cannot pass on to the next world unless the passing of their slayer has come.

      In a broader sense , what is still happening to my people will continue as long as reparations and healing go unaddressed and when the white man understands that ruling with hate and ignorance perpatuates injustice.

      Native women are still being raped by white men without legal redress.
      The American Indian remains the poorest and unhealthiest amongst all ethnic groups
      American Indians land is not being respected nor is their legal sovreignty
      American Indians remain the most polticaly marginalized peoples in the USA

      We are still living Colonial lives on Indigeonous land. put yourself in the shoes of the Cherokee, Cree, Shoshone, Navajo, and Miwok: And tell me that everything is fair and just.

    • 5 months ago
  • remanns
  • remanns
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      remanns  

    • Apologies, unlike "revenge", is a dish best served HOT ! ( to a LIVING recipient, by a LIVING bully,.....preferably with some form of reparations / cash settlement or marriage to the perps nubile attractive daughter ! )

      Just saying.

      p.s. - BUT , having a conscience is good.

    • 5 months ago
  • mitekillem
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      mitekillem  

    • "U.S. political leaders and officials find it extremely difficult in expressing remorse for past mistakes."

      1. No person living created these offenses, and no person alive received them.
      2. Apology is not necessary and remorse for show is pointless.
      3. What is needed is reconciliation, to make things right. But how does one correct isolation and genocide???

      Should the ancestors of the perpetrators have to apologize every year for this? What good will come of it? Should we also apologize to all ancestors of slaves every year? Should we apologize to all races and countries of people we killed in wars and proxy wars?
      No. A dead man will ask for no apology.

      Instead, if we wish to honor the dead, and correct injustice we should learn from their mistakes and make the world a better place by placing the news of the few aside, remove our egos, and place people first. Replace bad deeds with good ones.

    • 5 months ago
  • remanns
  • coolplanet
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      coolplanet  
    • mitekillem:

      We are still violating treaties (now a tax on tobacco), destroying their land with pipelines and uranium mining, stealing their water, treating them as inferiors and keeping them in poverty.
      We are behaving as disgracefully as our forefathers.
      But mere apologies aren't nearly enough!

    • 5 months ago
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • mitekillem:

      I would say the abuse is ongoing or offenses. You should learn about how the Shasta Indians were murdered and the women moved hundreds of miles away. I learned about it before computers so I am not sure what is available. It is rather bad, sad, and no sorry will ever touch it!

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
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    • Vote this down too, coward. Shame some people here can't actually respond to questions raised here without voting the posts down with no response as if that discredits their validity. Must have hit a nerve again. Again, is this about bashing Christians on the whole or is this about real healing for a great injustice and stain on the history of this nation?

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • An apology? An insincere apology? How can they possibly just "apologize" for taking the soul of these people and expect healing? For taking their land? Their lives? Their health? Their water? Their dignity? Apologies mean nothing from insincere people who are still doing it today. And just to comment on the "anonymous" comment in the picture above: "If there is a heaven and it is filled with Christians then hell is the place for me." Firstly, I would like to know who said that because I don't believe a Native American said it and secondly I am a Christian and not like anyone who did what was done to the indigenous peoples of this land. Is this about true healing to some, or just another subtle way to use this American tragedy to bash Christianity in total?

    • 5 months ago
  • freecrack
  • OlBlue
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      OlBlue  
    • freecrack:

      Great idea.....great video!
      Some people cannot apologize for anything. Even the rumor of apology sets their hair on fire as when the loons on the right accused Obama of an "apology tour". As I remember, Obama simply acknowledged that America isn't perfect (gasp). And these rightwingnutbags wonder why we are hated by a good part of the world's population.

    • 5 months ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • OlBlue:

      well that is a whole other thing.their you are talking about people who are so seperated from reality, all muslims are terrorists, but havent destroyed themselves as a result, which is what would happen if they were all terrorists.
      taxes never have to go up ever, and some how the reagan budget should be able to pay for shit now that they demand of the government.
      which as they demand things of the government, complain about having to government do the shit they demand of them.while electing officials to make it better, under the guise it is perfect, which doesnt make sense either, as you cant make something perfecter.

      aside from that group of evolutionary throw backs.

      it seems we all agree with no argument what so ever that we did exactly the thing we attribute as the worst shit that can be done, which is agreed upon based on its effects being present to this very day.

      so if this is the case, that we can both recognize that a mistake was made, and we dont want to repeat it, why not do our part to end our personal part in it.why not be the generation that actually does something to counter the problem, as simply being yet another generation in a series who live in supposed regret over the situation as it stays the same?

      it literally costs us nothing but a few minutes of time to state what we feel to create a matter of concensus that our leaders who are supposed to, wont.

      it seems a no brainer to me.

    • 5 months ago
  • OlBlue
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • artemis6
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • artemis6:

      I can't believe someone voted your ingenuous comment down, Artemis6.
      The Western movies I saw in the 1950s seemed to have an innocence to
      them about both sides, though the Discrimination agaqinst Indians was so
      horrendous only whites could depicted Indian. Though there were several
      more honest movies showing the treachery of whites. The first movies I
      ever saw that showed how it realy was were entitled Son of the Morning
      Star, and Hildago more recently. The first named movie(s) were so tragic
      I couldn't even bear to watch them through more than once. The latest
      renacted the Wounded Knee massacre, how truely evil the white's attitude
      toward native Americans and their horse brothers. In the Michael Mann
      movie Last of the Mohicans the Indian/white adopted son of the Deleware,
      aka the Deerslayer, gave a speech deploring the greed of the new white
      European settlers in then colonial New York turning the tribes against
      each other to steal their land and create their feudal system in the New
      World. That lame notation on paper buried in the NDAA they should set
      fire to and shove it back up their behinds. Imo, it only adds insult to injury
      because it's so half hearted. The only movie I've ever seen depicting an
      honest account of Native Americans fighting back against invaders bent
      on enslaving everything on it was a Black & White Gene Autry film from
      the late 1940s.

    • 5 months ago
  • OlBlue
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  
    • OlBlue:

      If you are REALLY sorry , you ask them how you can make up for it , a lousy card , will not do . At LEAST let them pick the day ..or weekend ...We can have an all nations powwow !

    • 5 months ago
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  
    • PressCore:

      I think people really DO feel horrified about what happened . The subject contains a certain sensitive defensive feel to me . I live among some Native Americans . The gaping hole where their culture, their psychological foundation should be ... is still in need of repair . I have not seen any of those movies ... i had "the Last of the Mohicans" though ... i do recall The Lone Ranger too . I will try to see some of them . As a female i did not relate to the characters in westerns too well . I didn't like the girl molds either ... too busy playing stuff like " jungle barbie of the French underground/resistance" . THAT , i would watch .... not that it was on .

    • 5 months ago
  • OlBlue
  • OlBlue
  • artemis6
  • artemis6
  • eternal_springs
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      eternal_springs  

    • Excellent post!! This horrendous history of the USA is often forgotten and overlooked. I get an email "on this day in history" daily, and on the anniversary of the slaughter of Native Americans at Wounded Knee, while acknowledging it happened, greatly minimized the number of those murdered by the army.

      Exactly.....the "white European" called the Native Americans savages. And so many still believe all that crap!

    • 5 months ago
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  
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    • http://500nations.com/Indian_Casinos.asp

      "Tribes receive $4 of every $10 that Americans wager at casinos. Indian casinos earned $27.2 billion in 2011 gross revenues."

      Would the casinos be considered, an apology, a bribe, or not applicable as either?

      http://www.santaynezchumash.org/links/2010_articles/April%202010%20newsclips/Apr...

      "Chief J. Allan, Chairman, Coeur d’Alene Tribe

      Before gaming, life on the reservation was extremely rough.We all struggled to put food on the table and survive. Many of our members had to leave the reservation and takejobs elsewhere.

      Today, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe employs more than 1,600 people through its various government and business operations. The tribe’s philosophy of giving back to the entire community is a constant in everything from our schools to our medical and wellness center.

      The tribe volunteered to donate five percent of its casino revenues to education from the beginning. The tribe’s commitment toward education is paramount.
      We’re using gaming revenues to educate the people. Currently, the tribe has nearly 100 members enrolled in college and professional technical classes.Our elders knew that gaming was ameans to an end.We are taking those dollars and
      reinvesting them in the people and businesses to grow to get us over the next mountain."

    • 5 months ago
  • remanns
  • OlBlue
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      OlBlue  

    • One way to help is to make a donation to one of several Native-American charities out there. Some tribes are doing well with casino revenue but others are still dirt-poor.

    • 5 months ago
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  
    • OlBlue:

      If "Some tribes are doing well with casino revenue" then wouldn't another way that is more sustainable like the "teach a tribe to fish" thing be to invest in more casinos for "others are still dirt-poor.?"

    • 5 months ago
  • OlBlue
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      OlBlue  
    • Argon18:

      The poorest tribes are in areas where casinos don't do well due to low population densities. The Coeur d’Alene Casino you highlight prospers because of the proximity to a major metro area, Spokane, WA.
      From Wiki:
      "Pine Ridge is the eighth-largest reservation in the United States and it is the poorest. The population of Pine Ridge suffer health conditions commonly found in Third World countries, including high mortality rates, depression, alcoholism, drug abuse, malnutrition and diabetes, among others. Reservation access to health care is limited compared to urban areas, and it is not sufficient. Unemployment on the reservation hovers between 80% and 85%, and 49% of the population live below the federal poverty level.[89] Many of the families have no electricity, telephone, running water, or sewage systems; and many use wood stoves to heat their homes, depleting limited wood resources."

      This is a national disgrace.

    • 5 months ago
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  
    • Argon18:

      I think we TOOK most of the GOOD land that has fishing . The Spokane tribes , near me , do protect what is left of the fish and habitat on the land left to them . There is not enough left to extract . Just keeping the habitat clean and healthy is hard enough .

    • 5 months ago
  • artemis6
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • Argon18:

      South Dakota is still a full of shit state. Sad but Pine Ridge still is one of the worse. I went looking for the demise of the Shasta and to my horror no where on the computer had the truth. I realized that this white boy better get busy to get this on the computer and into our history. They signed a treaty and 3000 men who signed it were killed, poisoned at Fort Jones in the late 1800. General Right from the civil war was the guy in charge. The women were then moved to Siletz, Oregon and that is the school I started in. Hippie Parents. The Internet still thinks the history is mystery.

    • 5 months ago
  • artemis6
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • artemis6:

      I should have taken this on before banging half my brains out. That is par for the course of what is needed. I was rather surprised to not find the information on pages of Google search. I may try Bing next and if I do find it I will most likely share with MSJ first. I'm tired! Peace dear. I will find you and I am holding hope for this community!

    • 5 months ago
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  
    • treewolf39:

      I know you have done what you could all your life ... and you are still here . You could start writing it down . I know next to nothing about it . Your brain is still good . The Great Mother has a purpose for us all .

    • 5 months ago
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • artemis6:

      I ran this by my dad last night on the phone and he also thought it was a good idea. I am going to try bing this weekend and see if someone has already shared the information and it is just bottled up somewhere. There is no full blood Shasta Indian left. I am one of the few who know where he was buried in the forties. I was in 8th grade when I did a open house school report on it in the community where it happened. I interviewed elder tribal leaders and made copies of the treaties that were signed that day. The white community/now land owners did not like it at all. The real reason it is so secret I guess. If I do write about it I need to go there again and do a real report that you and Progresshive would be proud of. I need a ride and company for that adventure but it is a good goal and I am only about six hour away. I am only 45 minutes away from where the women where walked to and happens to be the elementary school I went to. I was going to pow-wow's at five.

    • 5 months ago
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  
    • treewolf39:

      Perhaps you can post your report here , and get some attention ... some allies . Eventually it must be recorded in some form , book or documentary ... I want my son , and everyone's children to have access to the truth . I know you do too . Perhaps a college student in need of a thesis could help .... They do have some Indian studies majors .

    • 5 months ago
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • artemis6:

      Good idea! I am a little afraid that there are not many of us left who have really learned this piece of the past. Sins of our fathers. My family was pretty decent but I have worked and gone to school with families who were not. The history is called Change that story.

    • 5 months ago
  • johnnyTremaine
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      johnnyTremaine  

    • Nazi's were inspired by the whole reservation - concentration camp concept. Mormons believe that Native Americans are really Jews.The forced vaccination of our children is an eugenic stratagem similar to passing out the smallpox blankets. As a child, I always played the indian. As an adult I despise everything Texan, except the boots.

    • 5 months ago
  • Ricky84
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  

    • Excellent post, Brava. I don't know if "An Apology Day" would be enough. It would certainly be a start because they haven't even gotten that much.

    • 5 months ago
  • BRAVATRAVELS
  • attilatheblond
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      attilatheblond  

    • I know way too many WASP Americans who just do not want real history taught. They rail ANY time something even slightly less than admirable is mentioned about the behavior of groups of white people. They demand 'equality' when anything positive is mentioned of the history of other peoples.

      Delusional people with very guilty group conscious.

      A Day of Apology would be good, but I don't have enough faith in most Americans to make it a reality. I am ashamed for the affiliations of my skin.

    • 5 months ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  

    • Both the reading posted above, and the meaning of Sacred explained
      by Chief Seattle are profoundly true & wise. I live in a county in New York
      which has a reservation for one of the Iriquois tribes, the Onondaga. The
      New York State police maltreated them with the same viciousness that
      pretty much all tribes of native Americans were subjected to. I knew of
      the atrocities inflicted on native American tribes by U.S.Military personelle..
      But until I read this article, which made me wince from empathy for them,
      I never knew in detail how horrible the intentional Hate crimes of genocide
      they were subjected to. WW2 veterans in the Pacific recall the Japanese
      death marches on Bataan and Corregidor during 1942. The read here
      isn't substantialy different than that WW2 Fascism, a pretty ugly word
      to an Italian American citizen like myself.

      I've always been a constant fan of Westerns since the age of 6 when we
      got our first TV in 1955. I've always felt the Karma of what the Americans
      in 1868 did to the Navajo would come full circle to visit itself on modern Americans today though they didn't have a hand in what the whites of
      1868 did to native Americans. Life is a 360 degree in all directions
      experience, so what goes around comes around. When I see how the
      .0001% and their minions have disinherited us as their minions did to
      native Americans, I'm certain Karma is at work setting the stage for all
      the reality we experience. I'm more and more careful to think positively
      the older I get because I believe in Karma on an individual level too as
      much as a collective level. As our thoughts shape & create our reality.

      I never thought when I was 6 in 1955, that the USA I knew then would
      no longer be a place with a bright future..And that I'd want to acquire
      dual nationality to live in Switzerland & visit Holland & the Czeck Republic.
      I've lived in Texas, and Colorado, and more than ever I still want to live
      part of the year in Colorado. They've progressed so far since I lived
      there in Summer 1978. But I'm apprehensive something evil is coming
      our way that will make a normal life of Peace & Love impossible in the
      USA-anywhere. Terrorizing Mustang families by helicopter, running the
      colts to death, herding them for slaughter so they can be dinner for
      jaded whites who can't understand how sacred & nobel these equines
      are. These evil trends make me weep as Iron Eyes Cody did when he
      saw the pollution whites dumped on the sacred Earth borrowed from
      the children of the future. I believe Jesus should have spelled it out
      for his flock more explicitly: " What you do to the least of these, you do
      to Me, and yourselves " As for the Native Americans: " the good die
      young so that they shall not be corrupted. And the evil live to be old
      so they can experience the consequences of their evil, and repent of it "

    • 5 months ago
  • BRAVATRAVELS
    • +5
      BRAVATRAVELS  
    • PressCore:

      Your experiences are a testimony of the disgrace USA has become... The more I learned about our history the more I feel sad and disgusted...

      Thanks for the great and knowledgeable comment ...

      btw happy 2013 presscore :D

    • 5 months ago
  • kennymotown
  • coolplanet
  • MSII
  • treewolf39
  • BRAVATRAVELS
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      BRAVATRAVELS  
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    • "Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."

      Ancient Indian Proverb

    • 5 months ago
  • PressCore
    • +4
      PressCore  
    • BRAVATRAVELS:

      Most wonderful post of all to commence the New Year with, Brava. I recall
      when I first traveled out West to live in Colorado, I passed through the Eastern
      quadrants of New Mexico on Interstate 25. I stopped for directions at a trading
      post north of Roswell, and saw a copper toned Indian girl there at the counter.
      That experience, the deja vu of traveling through ancient Indian lands made
      me feel as if I lived there in another incarnation during the distant past. Nowhere
      on Earth have I ever felt so much at home and so peaceful, except for the
      mountain lake in Geneva, Switzerland. Thanks for being our conscience. There
      was an article posted here recently: Don't the Arabs love their children too ?
      It reminded me of a Gordon Sumner aka Sting song of the 1980s: Don't the
      Russians love their children too ? Noone has to question whether the Native
      Americans love their children. I believe they never held faith in money for that
      very reason. Happy New Year, alma buena.

    • 5 months ago
  • BRAVATRAVELS
    • +3
      BRAVATRAVELS  
    • PressCore:

      awww presscore I am humble by your comments...

      I am glad it meant so much to you...

      It is a good idea to start apologizing maybe that way we can bring some Darma,,,and let go of the Karma....

    • 5 months ago
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