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Interesting link. A think a lot of people glance at it and think of it as satire but it does paint an ironic image on the hypocrisy of the current immigration debate in the united states.
The recently released report “Natives Lives Matter” not only details the myriad of injustices the criminal justice system in South Dakota presents to Native American people, it also offers recommendations including investing more money in tribal Family Service Programs, investing in tribal drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs, establishing cultural awareness and sensitivity training for the police, hiring more Native American police, and generating community policing programs.
“This fact-based report unequivocally shows that at best the institutions in South Dakota are culturally biased, at worst they are blatantly racist and bent on perpetuating a slow genocide,” said Chase Iron Eyes. “The recent anecdotal incidents along with the statistics presented in this report demonstrate that racism against Native Americans is palpable. It will not go anywhere unless we unite as a people and stand together against it.”
Native Lives Matter: A 15-page report detailing the unequal treatment of Native Americans by the United States criminal justice system. Please read the full 15-page report by clicking here.
Excerpt from the article: Blasphemy: Turning a Killer Into a SaintPope Francis has decided to do something very controversial in the Catholic Church. He has declared that an alleged murderer should be a saint.
.... Only God knows how many Indians Serra personally killed, but it was in the hundreds, if not the thousands. He had men garroted, hanged, shot, jailed, and whipped. The Indian women were treated almost as cruelly—they were raped, enslaved and abused. The women were restricted to the houses of the ranchos, and slept in prisons at night.
Excerpt from the article: To Some in California, Founder of Church Missions Is Far From Saint“Serra did not just bring us Christianity. He imposed it, giving us no choice in the matter. He did incalculable damage to a whole culture,” Ms. Miranda, the author of “Bad Indians,” said of her ancestors and what she called “the mission mythology.”
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