How many of you know the true history of the United States regardin the treatment or mistreatment actually of Native Americans throughout our history? This is not the history you learned in public schools or college.
Columbus didn't "discover" America, he stumbled upon Turtle Island as it was known before the Europeans came. He proceeded to enslave the Indigenous Natives of the islands first, the Caribs, followed by those on other islands, in hte pursuit of wealth to pay back his debt to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. He allowed his men to rape and murder women as they wished, and to murder any native man on a whim, like to test the sharpness of their blades.
You can't cram all the history into five episodes, but the five episodes on PBS are well researched, historically accurate, and balanced.
One of the episodes, number 3, is the story of my people, the Cherokee, or Aniunwiyun as they were know to themselves. It is perhaps the best example of how a people who had done all they could to adapt white culture were cheated of their land, promised in perpetutiy by treaty, by the signing of the "New Echota Treaty", a treaty signed by men who had not the authority to represent the whole of the Cherokee Nation.
I pray that you will watch all five episodes, in order, to get a better appreciation of why we are still fighting for our rights.
Friday, November 27, 2009
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