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[Red Fox]

Your thoughts please...

Native American Council Offers Amnesty to 240 Million Undocumented Whites

 

[Red Fox]

I'm currently working on an article that also turns the table on the illegal immigration issue, contrasting all the atrocities committed against American NDNs in this country to what could happen to American citizens if that time of history in America were to repeat itself in our modern world. I haven't finished it yet, but when I'm done, I will post it in my upcoming blog here on CF. I don't know if I'll pursue having my article published or not, but I will share it on Facebook.

 

[Gxg (G²)]

Originally Posted by Red Fox

I'm currently working on an article that also turns the table on the illegal immigration issue, contrasting all the atrocities committed against American NDNs in this country to what could happen to American citizens if that time of history in America were to repeat itself in our modern world. I haven't finished it yet, but when I'm done, I will post it in my upcoming blog here on CF.
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Something to consider is that many have pointed out that the Illegal Immigration issue is directly connected to the issue of Native Americans since the reality of the matter is that those often deemed illegal (such as Mexicans, for example) are simply called Hispanic when the reality is that their descent is actually from Native American groups (i.e. Incans, Mayans, etc.) and other groups that were in the Americans before European Colonialization. - and thankful for the solidarity between Hispanics and Native Americans when realizing common connections and how much Spanish culture itself involved the Native American dynamic - as the mixture of cultures happened and was often something the Spanish were very upset about - but Western Powers often try to divide groups among themselves, in the same way others tried to pitch Illegal Immigration and Immigration in general as harmful to Blacks even while they forgot on those who were Afro-Latino

For reference:

• The Map Of Native American Tribes You've Never Seen Before : Code Switch : NPR

• The U.S.-Mexican War . Prelude to War . Native American Displacement Amid U.S. Expansion | PBS

• The Hispanic Experience - Indigenous Connection

• Native Mexicans Didn't Mix Much, New Study Shows

• The Other Mexicans

• “..blood of Mexicans is primarily American Indian.” | Native American Netroots

• Mexican Indian Tribes and Languages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMjSzrU1fRM
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[Red Fox]

I have always honored Mexicans and have included them when I mention the indigenous peoples of Turtle Island, which is North America.

 

[Red Fox]

Gxg (G²), thank you for your response, and for the information you shared. I appreciate it very much.

 

[Red Fox]

O'siyo, and good morning, my friends.

 

[Red Fox]

"The beginning is purification, that's the first step. And purification means purification of body and mind. You don't purify the body without cleansing the mind; that's the way it works." --Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE

If we have bad thoughts or poison in our minds, they will eventually show up in our bodies in the form of headaches, pains, and stomach problems. It works this way because we are interconnected. Our minds and our bodies are one system. So when we start to grow, or commit to the Red Road, we need to start cleaning up our thoughts and start showing respect for our bodies. We start purifying our minds by prayer and meditation, and we start cleansing our bodies by getting the right amount of sleep and developing good eating habits. Today, I'm going to observe my thoughts. Will my thoughts be clean today?

Great Spirit, let me focus on Your love today so my mind will be pure.

Elder's Meditation by White Bison

 

[Zoness]

Your thoughts please...

Native American Council Offers Amnesty to 240 Million Undocumented Whites

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.

 

[Red Fox]

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.

That's exactly what it does. I also think that's why it's often ignored.

 

[Red Fox]

Good morning, my friends. It's a new week.

 

[Cute Tink]

Natives Targeted Most for Hate Crimes

Report: Native Americans most likely to be killed by police

FBI: Indians Still Most Assaulted in Hate Crimes (Update)

I'm so sorry this is happening to you. I didn't realize the crime rate against NDNs was so high.

 

[Red Fox]

Yes, it is true, but you won't see that in the national news.

 

[Red Fox]

Posted on Facebook by Lakota People's Law Project.

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.”

Read the report here: Native Lives Matter

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.

Key findings of the report include:

• Native Americans are most likely to be killed by law enforcement.
• Native youths suffer the two most severe outcomes of the juvenile justice system—out of home placement and transfer to the adult penitentiary system.
• Native Americans are more likely to be victims of violent crimes perpetrated by non-Native people than any other group.
• Native American youth is 1 percent of the youth population, but represents 70 percent of the youth admitted to the federal bureau of prisons.​

 

[Red Fox]

 

[Red Fox]

Pope 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: Blasphemy: Turning a Killer Into a Saint

I don't understand why the Pope wants to canonize a murdering tyrant into a 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.”

Excerpt from the article: To Some in California, Founder of Church Missions Is Far From Saint

More articles on this issue:

Sainthood and Serra: It's an Insult to Native Americans

Sainthood for Junipero Serra shocks some Native Americans

Father Serra’s Sainthood: Sanctifying a Legacy of Domination

What California Indians lost under Junipero Serra, soon to be saint

To Some in California, Founder of Church Missions Is Far From Saint

"There's Nothing Saintly About the Atrocities": Native American Chief Blasts Decision to Canonize Junipero Serra

 

[GoingByzantine]

Hey Red Fox, hope you are doing well.

In regards to Junipero Serra, I went to the library about a month ago and checked out a bunch of works by Junipero Serra.

Most of his writings talk about how he was trying to protect the natives from the Spanish Army, he also detailed the horrible atrocities they committed and his efforts to stop them. Never did anything I read indicate that Junipero Serra was brutal or cruel, in fact it was almost always the opposite.

What are the claims against him? That way I can go back to my sources and try to find if he really did such things. Never once did I find a mention of him murdering anybody, and certainly he did not murder hundreds.

 

[Red Fox]

I read the articles that I linked, GoingByzantine. I'm sorry to say that I don't trust many non-native sources to be unbiased nor believe many to be completely honest about historical facts either. As we both know, history is written by the victors, not the victims.

 

[Red Fox]

It never ceases to amaze me how racist some non-native people are against American NDNs. I have read several comments made here on CF and on Facebook against my people, and it makes me angry, as well as hurts my heart. My people have suffered so much in our own ancestral homeland, and yet even today we are still being punished for simply being NDN. I can't help but ask, have we not suffered enough or must we continue to suffer and be shunned for being who we are or for what our people have suffered through in the past? Must our suffering and our sacrifices continue to be mocked and ridiculed? We are no longer free as our ancestors were once free. We are not free living in the United States of America. It is a lie to believe that our people are now free in a country that tried to kill us off and utterly destroy us. This country tried to destroy our people, our way of life, our spirituality, our languages, our culture, and our very identity as an NDN. It took many of our own children away from us to forcibly assimilate them to become white children, not NDN children. No, we are not free in this country. We were free before this country ever came to be. We are still an oppressed people and still living in captivity in our own ancestral homeland. Many of our own people still live in the prisoner war camps known as the Reservations, which many of them have third world living conditions, like Pine Ridge. That is not freedom. We are still prisoners of war, but the Red Nations are starting to wake up, and the tide will soon turn, the world will change, our lives will change.

 

[Red Fox]

I'm still planning to go to Lawton, Oklahoma this Saturday to attend an NDN protest against the racial discrimination committed against a Comanche man who lives there. We're not just standing up for him, but for all NDNs, and we're standing against racial discrimination committed against any person, no matter the color of their skin. I'm ready to go and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm grateful to my husband and to my children for supporting me on this.

 

[Red Fox]

I'm still working on the content for my new blog that I want to start here on CF. I do have a title for it, but I'm still thinking about what I want to say and what I want to share. It isn't as easy as it seems, at least not for me anyway. I have many ideas, I just have to sort through them all first.