Well, what do you know? The buffalo are gone from the Great Plains, 100 million Native Americans are dead, Lakota lands are now being stolen by oil companies, most A.I.M. leaders are either murdered or wrongfully in jail, and Chief Joseph will fight no more forever. The Indian Wars are truly over. https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
Or are they?
There appears to be a new breed of Native American that has started the Indian Wars all over again — reluctant warriors.
Was it Sitting Bull who traveled to Washington DC, saw how many White men there were back there and said, “Holy cow! These white-eyes are everywhere! We’re never going to get our lands back!” And although Sitting Bull defended his Lakota family with all his heart and soul, it was no use. There were just too many White men grabbing up his homeland.
But now the tide appears to have turned — as a whole new group of Native Americans are currently pouring into the USA in great numbers, thousands a day, coming up from the south to reclaim Native lands. https://mashable.com/article/indigenous-map-america/#flOBYke1WaqX
“Who me?” say the immigrants. “I’m only just looking for a job here. Whatda ya got?” Stoop labor? Meat packing? Trench diggers and roofers? Nannies and maids? “Count me in.”
Who knew that our red-skinned brothers from the south would come here to right a great wrong, to take back stolen lands?
“Not me,” say the immigrants. And yet the thing speaks for itself. So what’s the story here? Do unto others as you would have others do unto you? Nope. “What goes around comes around.”
But it really doesn’t have to be like this — all this “us versus them” bull dookie, yet another unnecessary repeat of America’s infamous genocidal policy modeled after George Armstrong Custer and Hitler’s rantings in Mein Kampf. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/america-has-become-a-functionally-fascist-state/
There is a better way.
We can all learn from each other.
It has been scientifically proven that wherever cultures and races interact nicely, we can always see new talents, insights, solutions and ideas being born. To quote one of America’s greatest philosophers, “Please won’t you be my neighbor….” http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html
PS: I’ll be going to El Paso in early November to work on the Beto O’Rourke campaign (who in their right mind would even consider voting for sleazy Ted Cruz?) And does anyone know the location of any I.C.E. slave-labor camps down there that I can picket while I’m in El Paso? In the spirit of Crazy Horse? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/migrant-children-family-separation-court.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
I know that there is a grossly-huge tent-city concentration camp for young Native American children at Tormillo but don’t know how to get down there. Would Uber give me a Lyft? These camps are truly horrid — but the good news is that all those useless white tents that were left over surplus from the “war” on Iraq can now be happily sold to us gullible taxpayers (again). https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/02/texas-detention-camp-swells-fivefold-with-migrant-children?CMP=share_btn_fb
I also plan to visit Juarez while I’m down there. Any hot tips on the best taco places to visit in Juarez? And does Juarez have a Yelp site these days?
