Here's a brand of racism - Native American style!!!

[Bobbieo]

To make long stories short:
In 1877, Crazy Horse was fatally bayoneted from behind while struggling in custody at Fort Robinson, Neb.

In 1890, Sitting Bull was dragged from his cabin on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota by Lakota policemen appointed by white authorities. One of the officers killed the defenseless chief with a shot to the head.

A few weeks later, the St. Louis Republic in Missouri editorialized:
"So when Sitting Bull was surprised and overpowered by the agents of the Great Father, he set his greasy, stolid face into the expression it always took when he was most overcome by the delusion that he was born a native American from native American ancestry. Disarmed and defenceless he sat in the saddle in which he had been put as a preliminary to taking him to prison, and without a change of countenance urged his handful of greasy followers to die free. This idiotic proceeding he kept up until he was shot out of the saddle.

"So died Sitting Bull. So was removed one of the last obstacles in the path of progress. He will now make excellent manure for the crops, which will grow over him when his reservation is civilized."

From the May 26, 2006 edition of Native Unity

'Anglos Were Once The Immigrants'

http://nativeunity.blogspot.com

[panader0]

1. Good post. Rec'd

[aquart]

2. Native Americans are also immigrants.

Just a small point they dislike.

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[FirstLight]

3. Rec'd ... great point,

...AND, the "living" conditions (if you could call them such) on the Reservations are no more than a farce- Land given to a tribe to "compensate" them...with govt housing and subsidy offered as a livelihood.

But many are not allowed to pursue their own economic developmnt, they are denied rights on "their" land...what they can grow, build, manufacture, etc...

The plight of the Native Americans in America is yet another blemish on our country.

(and to the person who calls the Native Americans immigrants...I think there is a distinction betwen someone coming to this continent 10,000 years ago, vs 500 or so years ago..!)