One to share around on Facebook, for those who may so desire...Took me a while, but Marlon's words are absolutely true and should be shared around...

Happy Thanksgiving, from Russell and Marlon

Here they are, for those who are not on Facebook:

From Marlon Brando:

"I read a book called 'Indians of the Americas' and after reading the book I realized I knew *nothing* about the American Indian and that everything that we are taught about the American Indian is wr
ong, it's inaccurate and our school books are hopelessly lacking, perhaps *criminally* lacking in revealing what our relationship was with the Indian.

When we hear, as we've heard throughout all our lives, no matter how old we are, that we are a country that stands for freedom, for rightness, for justice, for everyone, it simply doesn't apply to those who are not white. It just simply doesn't apply, and we were the most rapacious, aggressive, destructive, torturing, monstruous people who swept from one coast to the other, murdering and causing mayhem among the Indians.....but...that isn't revealed 'cos we don't like that image of ourselves. We don't like to see us...we like to see ourselves as perhaps John Wayne sees us.

And also, what we've learned about the Indian has been largely taught to us by Hollywood and by motion pictures, they have educated us, so we naturally believe that when the Indians came, that the wagons circled and the Indian rode around and subjected themselves to terrible fire and died at a ratio of 65 to 1..and that wasn't the way it was at all.

But anyway, Indians have been *tragically* misrepresented in films and in our history books, in our attitudes, in our reporting, so we must set about to re-educate ourselves....

Let me tell you another thing, at a time when we say, especially, that we're going to keep our Treaties and that we do keep our word and that we, above all people, *do* keep our word, I think it's important to mention that there have been nearly 400 Treaties written by the United States, in good faith with the Indians, and *every single one of them* was abrogated, it means broken, or changed, or altered...."