by DjWhite

Created on: June 30, 2008

I find the subject of illegal immigration in the United States a comical subject, in a sad deluded kind of way. I shake my head in amazement when immigrants call other immigrants illegal. People whose ancestors came to these lands in the seventeen, eighteen or early nineteen hundreds and after, are twiddling their thumbs with worry about another set of immigrants wanting to make a better life in a new land.

Well, isn't that what your progenitors wanted when they came across the great pond? How do you think my ancestors felt when the children of the sea came and muscled in their lands?

Most people aren't aware that the American Indian war is still being fought. It's being fought in the court rooms. People of the First Nations are still fighting with the Americans over treaties from one hundred and fifty years ago.

I read an article, entitled "Lakota Indians Withdraw Treaties Signed With U.S. 150 Years Ago" http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317548,00.html - Lakota Indian story which immediately piqued my interest. My first thought, no, my second thought was - wow! the American Indian war is still going strong. My first thought was of my great, great-grandmother and how she must be turning over in her grave and screaming "it's about time."

This brought back the memory of 1974 and Wounded Knee and how the Federal government decend on the Rez like a swarm of ravishing locusts. Now, here we go again. Why does this article arouse such interest to me, because I am of Cherokee decent. Later in this commentary I will talk about my great, great-grandmother who walked the trail of tears in 1839.

The first paragraph of the article summed the Lakota stance exact: "We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,'' long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means said.

America is a land of immigrants. Immigrants who conquered the North American Continent in order to settle and freely practice religion, their religion - much to the chagrin of this country's original people. To be politically correct, amend that last sentence to read - conquered this land at the expense of this country's First Nations, who were settled here 300 - 400 hundred years prior.

In this new millennium, there's much speculation about how the "Original People" or the First Nations of America came to be here. In the world of History academia, heated debate regarding what's true history and what isn't continues.

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