Our ancestors, '
the
ones that had no help crossing them (Their path to Creator), are rolling over in their graves because
of your lack of concern from them and their descendants!
Suzan Shown Harjo
points to a signature on Treaty K at the National Archives. The document will
be on display in 2016 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American
Indian for an exhibit on treaties curated by Harjo.
James
Clark/NPR
For
centuries, treaties have defined the relationship between many Native American
nations and the U.S. More than 370 ratified treaties have helped the U.S.
expand its territory and led to many broken promises made to American Indians.
A rare exhibit of such
treaties at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., looks back at this history. It
currently features one of the first compacts between the U.S. and Native
American nations – the Treaty
of Canandaigua.
The ‘Blood Quantum’
Question, Part One
‘Blood Quantum’
This is something
that has jerked my chain since the early 1980’s!
Soon after the
Casino Indians were created by your government!
What is it that
gives this government the right to play GOD?
About a God Given
Right from (Creator), to be able to tell the people of this country and only
this country what nationality each person is allowed to call themselves
and
the
citizens of this country allow it to go on?
I told the
government back then and a thousand times since,
“Bite Me!”
A person in Mexico
is called Mexican, A person born in Canada is called Canadian, A person born in
England, France, Poland, Ireland, Spain, and Russia and so on, and this is
true.
So, what happened to
our people that have changes?
It is called the
hundreds of thousands of broken treaties that’s what happened.
This government
takes and never gives to the 'first people of this land'!
EDITORIAL: The
‘Blood Quantum’ Question, Part One
A short quote from
that complicated and controversial piece of federal legislation:
‘Native’ means a
citizen of the United States who is a person of one-fourth degree or more
Alaska Indian… Eskimo, or Aleut blood, or combination thereof.
The term includes
any Native as so defined either or both of whose adoptive parents are not
Natives.
It also includes, in
the absence of proof of a minimum blood quantum, any citizen of the United
States who is regarded as an Alaska Native by the Native village or Native
group of which he claims to be a member and whose father or mother is (or, if
deceased, was) regarded as Native by any village or group.”
As far as I know, I
have no ancestors who could be described as American Indians.
Certainly, my
parents and grandparents have never claimed such a heritage.
So my children, born
to a “certified” American Indian mother
(as defined by the
U.S. government) —
are not themselves
“certified” American Indians, since they have less than a 1/4 blood quantum
Bill Hudson founded
the Pagosa Daily Post in 2004 in hopes of making a decent living writing about
local politics. The hope remains.
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