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Thread #137198   Message #3138700
Posted By: ollaimh
20-Apr-11 - 12:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Indigenous Peoples Outlook
Subject: RE: BS: The Indigenous Peoples Outlook
north american natives were subjected to genocide and crimes aginst humanity, and still do not recieve fairness in the legal syatem or in most areas of endeavour. a little justice and a lot less whineing about natives wanting your money would be nice. perhaps thats too much for capitalist raised people.

we still have generation of natives who were forced into the residential shools where they were although they were legally taken in a wards of several churches. mainly catholic anglican presbyterian and methodist churches. and these churches were given their power by the state, they were deprived of the necessities of life and deprived fo basic health care untill the late seventies in canada and the usa. they had a death rate over fifty per cent over the century and a half of these schools--for each class!!

this is horriffic for people to grow up in so a little sympathy is in prder and a lot less nasty bad mouthing about casinos or pretending that anyone in darby shire has been through this malestrom. those making these awfull ignorant remarks are dehumanized and soulless. the product of centuries of military capitalism that has caused much suffering and is destroying the viability of life on earth.

if you listened to natives you'd fimd them among the most firgiving and honest people on earth--with a lot to teach the jaded naysayers of militarism