September 25,
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Treaties Between the
United States and American Indian Nations
I enjoyed reading
Philip Kennicott report on the Smithsonian franchise.
Because of health
reasons among others since 1993, I have not been able to visit the
National Museum of
the American Indian
I have been sadden
because of this.
Thank to Mr.
Kennicott’s report I see that I am missing nothing?
The National Museum
of the American Indian is just like the rest of history, nothing about what has
been happening to the first people attacked by the republic and this government
before the need of their treaties ever since first contact?
Where, in this
museum are my people, the people of the eastern part of Indian country?
Remember, there are
thousands of tribes east of the Mississippi river?
Who will be telling
the true stories of the traditionalist and what is happening to them?
Who is going to tell
the stories about the “Mixed Breed People and how they became mixed breeds?
What is happening to
the true traditional people that are refusing to knuckle under to the
government strong arm
” Except our terms
of surrender and go to our newest reservations in New England?”
Nation to Nation is
an Oxymoron
Un-less you are
talking
Nation to Nation is
just another way of keeping troublesome indigenous peoples on a reservation out
of the way of this governments progress into greed.
What is the correct
terminology: American Indian, Indian, Native American, or Native?
Is a newer way for
the “Nations to Nations Reservation people to help this government to
annihilate the rest of our people, people of “Mixed Breed!”
An expression now
used by reservation Indians.
“All of these terms
are acceptable. The consensus, however, is that whenever possible, Native
people prefer to be called by their specific tribal name.
In the United
States, Native American has been widely used but is falling out of favor with
some groups, and the terms American Indian or indigenous American are preferred
by many Native people.”
Philip Kennicott is
the Pulitzer Prize-winning Art and Architecture Critic of The Washington Post.
He has been on staff
at the Post since 1999, first as Classical Music Critic, then as Culture
Critic.
