This is an
interesting letter to say the least.
And
As you will learn by
reading the following letter and books on our people,
this
government murdered
hundreds of thousands
of
unarmed,
defenseless, innocent, old men, women and children
from tribes throughout
Indian Country
(The United States of America).
While knowing this,
still no president,
including President Barrack Obama,
will end the
insult
to an innocent man
and free Leonard Peltier.
Yes,
someone and no
one really knows who,
shot two Federal
Agents
after someone,
no one knows who,
fired a shot,
while the Federal
Agents
were trespassing
on private land!
Letter to the Editor
Native Americans’
treatment shameful
Posted: July
16, 2016
If the Ten
Commandments are something from the Bible that should be taken literally,
I think it is
logical to conclude that America has to be disqualified from the
claim of being
a Christian nation,
since the
commandments against
stealing, murdering,
coveting and making false idols
were
heinously
violated when the federal, state and local governments
decided to greedily
take minerals and precious metals from the Native Americans' lands
without compensation
and then brutally expropriated those same lands.
When reading
"Bury My Heart
at Wounded Knee,"
I was horrified to
learn that when the U.S. Cavalry was tasked
with removing Native Americans from
their lands,
abominable methods
were used that often approximated those of the Islamic State.
Basically, any and
all atrocities imaginable were perpetrated
against defenseless and peaceful
women, children, babies and old people.
Furthermore, and
perhaps more importantly,
what reinforces this
notion that the U.S. cannot be thought of as a Christian nation
is that the
mistreatment of Native Americans is being perpetuated to this day,
with the continued
existence of reservations where living conditions are tragically inhumane,
with unemployment
rates reaching 80 percent,
where alcoholism and
drug abuse are rampant
and
where hopelessness
results in teenage suicide rates up to 10 times the national average.
It has been said
that the measure of a society
is how it cares for the least of those in that
society.
It is a sad state of
affairs when non-profit organizations like Remote Area Medical
are needed to
provide the services
that impoverished people are entitled to by virtue
not
only of the principle of common human decency
but by being the
citizens of the wealthiest nation on the planet.
I think it is high
time this country atoned for its misdeeds in any and every way possible.
Robert A.
Christiansen, Knoxville
One Comment Allan Webb on Sunday
And no dramatic
measures have even been considered in addressing the problems that OUR
indigenous people have.
I don't have a
solution but we owe it to them.
The politicians
ignore them except for helping them get casinos on reservations.
They probably got a
kick-back from the gambling lobby as a donation to the benefit of the members
of the two houses of Congress.
P.S.
Walkingfox,
might
not be the sharpest tack in the package,
but I for one have the answer
(Solution)!
