Saturday, July 10, 2010

The stolen island

So our ancestors came to this land, and the people that greeted them, the ones already here, who were in general, wild, free, powerful, philosophical, eloquent, and a solitary people.
A people that could express themselves sensibly, intelligently, with interests of conscience, and of his rights. Our ancestors that explored and cataloged the riches to plunder, had to work with the natives or starve to death and freeze to death out on the prairie, and up in the north. Those who listened to the wisdom of the natives, who lived with the land for centuries, survived.
Then as the exploiters we brought alcohol, guns, and prejudiced against the natives, jails and prisons and so much more. We signed treaties with them.
What were they given in return after signing legitimate treaties, you know things like the residential schools with deadly health conditions, banned their language and culture, subjected them to sexual degradation and physical violence, and disrupted their families.
That's how their freedom and rights were handled.
Nonetheless they survived.
They were an autonomous sovereign people an ungoverned society of people and I think they can guide us to that place again.

While the Mexican people have an even richer native heritage and culture.
Will the signing of the 2005 security and prosperity agreement, bring us to wiping it out also, the Mexican cultural past which is so celebrated. Will the modernization and westernization lead to a cultural annihilation.
Under the British Colonial directive. The Americans annihilated their native population, this is the same control as today. They annihilated everything that was in the way, the natives, the buffalo, the plants, and other animal species.
The colonialists took over the territory. They brought their methods and they made sure that their methods were going to make the land conform.
The Catholic Church, the UN, seem to want to wipe out peoples autonomous  history, the destruction of books, the destruction of information, the destruction of our planet, the one source of information. All from one small, tightly controlled, non-elected, non-representational elitist oligarchy.

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