WoodrowX2
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Salaam Alaikum. I am very sorry to hear about what your wife had gone through. In the church I go to, we have First Nations peoples who have also lived through these horrors. We have a man who witnessed his brother being beaten to death by a priest. In spite of this, he is a Christian. He knows that the horrific crimes he experienced were done by the people who were disobeying and abusing, not following, the Christian faith.
I am extremely outraged to hear that even now, it is illegal for your people to practice some of their traditions. I had no idea that the US is still this messed up- I mean I know that both my government and your government have sunk down to lows and continue to, but not that they'd still be doing this in the 21st century.
I'm sad to hear that Lakotah First Nations peoples who are Christians are considered a derogatory term (how different is "Twinkie" from "wigger"?) and are not taken seriously by others. To me, that sounds like religious discrimination.
It wouldn't be unlike looking down on Americans who converted to Islam after 9/11, or Armenians who are Muslims. If they can make the distinction between the religion and the crimes that were carried out in its name, why can't Aboriginal Christians?
It isn't as much as being anti-Christian as it is being anti-government. Just as there are Lakotah Muslims there are Lakotah Christians. But, Christianity gets to be equated with the Wasicu government. Wasicu is a strange word, while an exact translation is "White Man" it has come to mean the White government and/or those who support it. A big problem is the Lakotah have never surrendered and are living under the 1878 Peace treaty. (The Treaty of Laramie) which has been consistently broken by the government.Under the treaty the Lakotah were guaranteed the right to be self governing in the Lakotah territory which has been cut down to a few reservations. The original treaty granted the Lakotah. The Orange is what the treaty promised, the red is what remains or rather what we want designated as the Republic of Lakotah. The Black are the Reservations which are the actual remnants.
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