How do you feel about history repeating itself by the US trying to back out of the promise they made to DACA recipients?
Totally, disgusted...I have felt that way for years! And, I feel the same way about DACA!
People all over the world have been conquered through out history. I don't see how what you are promoting helps
Perhaps because the US often tries to pose as a moral compass for the world.
Maybe not so much these recent days, though!
@birdingnut Every civilization has done their bad! The US is no different. We are held to a higher standard, than the other free nations, and they are no better than the US. I really think in the grand scheme of exploits of history, we are no better or no worse.
@Leutrelle True, but people love their illusions, LOL!
Just the European diseases wiped out millions.
The Native American tribes waged constant war on each other, but it was for horses, status, hunting ground access, to acquire children to adopt to replace ones that were killed, etc.
The Native Americans were unable to grasp the concept of genocide, ownership of land, that someone would promote the destruction of trees, wildlife, pollution of rivers, etc., so made treaties with white men to acquire guns, metal weapons and tools, and, they thought, help with subduing their enemies.
The US government killed many of my distant relatives outright in the Trail of Tears, treaty violations, etc, since I have Native American on both sides of my family, three and six generations back.
I still look Cherokee enough to be regularly invited to pow-wows.
Depressed and aggravated, yet again, for my nation's arrogance and selfishness.
it's fucking disgraceful. where is there American dream? and like many countries with horrible pasts its all accidentally left out of the history books etc.
About the same way i feel about drumpy and DACA....sad & mad!
Anne, and everyone else reading this. 'It', the theft of life and land, didn't just happen in the US; it happened in Canada, Australia, the African Continent, etc. Anyone accepting a Rhodes Scholarship is accepting one that was purchased with the lives of many blacks in the former Rhodesia. Cecil Rhodes was exceptionally evil, from what I have read.
Much the way I feel about every war they have fomented or used for their monetary gain...what goes around comes around.
The American Indians way of life was bound to come to an end eventually. I’m certainly not proud of the fact that we repeatedly broke treaties while we were doing away with their way of life but I definitely don’t think we should be paying them today for something that happened long ago.
We've pretty much gone back on every promise since the beginning of this country. The Original Americans continue to be lied to, disregarded, and screwed over. America has been a country of the rich white males, by the rich white males, and for the rich white males since the first boat landed. My ancestors should have put up a wall.
It's infuriating and embarrassing. One of my best friends has a fairly large percentage of native american blood in his ancestry. He rose through the ranks of the company he worked for and got more conservative as he did. He's nearing retirement and is now embracing his heritage and it's causing him some cognitive dissonance with his corporate side. He suggested I read
"An Indigenous People's History of the United States: Revisioning American History" and it was painful. It just made me angry. I'd recommend it if you want to find out what was left out in your American history books.
I think it was Rosie Sorels who coined the phrase "people's long memory". Utah Phillips frequently used it in his concerts, recordings and broadcasts, explaining it as "the part of history that the ruling classes didn't want remembered". There are many "long memories" safeguarded by people around the world. It worries me that many youngsters and their elders now shrug their shoulders and say "whatever". Like the dodo when it is gone it cannot be retrieved.
I learned a lot when I worked on the Navajo Reservation
Very very angry. I'm not a native American but they were so mistreated by the government and white people, I have an especially deep hatred for Andrew Jackson and what he did to the native Americans.
P.S. I am of Irish and Slovak descent.
Had not my Great-great Choctaw Grandmother been forcibly marched west ..she’d never have ever met & married my Great-great Dutch Grandfather along the way… Treaties were broken, but Native Americans live on..
Yet....the American government is blazing around the world, "trying" to help other regions' "peace" processes.....I got to think that those participants see right through their bullshit. They seem willing enough to accept the USA Taxpayers' money and weaponry though
I hope that's sarcasm. Being we're not promoting peace anywhere.
@William_Mary ; Truly was sarcasm...note the quotation marks. Twas'n't I that created that mis-label (misnomer ?) (peace process) in the 1st place
I'm not happy with anything relative to what we do around the world to this nature in our names! Unfortunately, Native Americans didn't help their cause much as they collaborated with the Europeans against each other in many instances to gain favoritism. Always leading to betrayals. Sadly, this means to control society, land, and resources never ends even with centuries of its engagement forced onto us. The world is blindly engulfed in it even today.