Megan, I would agree with that, but only if this had been recognised in the first place, and were not continuing to this very day.

Read up on how many Indian children are being fostered out, or adopted into, non-Native American Indian homes, right up this day...See how the States that do this get paid DOUBLE for American Indian children, as they are ALL registered as 'special needs' children...There are American Indian Foster Homes standing *empty*, ready and waiting to receive youngsters, to care for them until their parents are better....

Talk to me of a once proud people, of whom so many are now heavily into drug, drink and depression, the high suicide rates etc.....

Look up 'Vanishing Prayer'...the entire film is on Google.

I'm sorry, but the Native American Indians need recognition that this has happened, that it is STILL happening to this day, that they have had a terrible, dreadful ordeal to endure, which still touches their children to this day....and they need compassion and promises that this will all be put right, as soon as possible, not false promises from Obama which either fade away entirely, or take so long to bring to fruition that all have lost hope....

And please, look up Leonard Peltier, for he has spent 36 YEARS in prison for something so very many, including many, many eminent people, feel he did NOT do.

It is not only a National Disgrace to the USA, but it is a Global Disgrace!

And as one of the men says in that brilliant, heartbreaking film there are Geronimos all around the planet, fighting for their people.....of which Chief Raoni is just one, fighting for his People and his home, in the Amazon Rainforest, and if Brazil builds their insane bloody dam, along with 60 others which will follow Belo Monte we will all be in very deep shite.

We cannot CHANGE the Past, but..we can bloody well ACKNOWLEDGE it happened in the first place, that it is STILL happening today and then we offer out our hands in Love, Support and Compassion.

This race need their Pride back. They need their Culture back. They need their History back. They need their LIVES back!

And, they need their RESPECT back, from all of us!