by Joseph Coleman

Created on: April 22, 2009   Last Updated: April 24, 2009

No, the people of the Indian Nation should not continue to be given Federal aid. Instead of Federal aid, they should be given their lands back; they should be given an apology by the Federal Government, and the people of America, plus reparations from atrocities committed by the American Government upon them! This would, of course, include the Black Hills, of South Dakota, which they were given in the Treaty of 1876, and the treaty is still active; also all farm lots the were given, individually. Then, and only then, could they tear the "Great White Fathers" faces from Mt. Rushmore, rename it "WoyuOnihaya He", (Honor mountain), and replace those faces with the likes of honorable humans, such as, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Gall, and Chief Joseph.

The most sacred piece of Indian ground, in America, has become a slap-in-the-face-insult by putting the white faces in such a place of sacred honor, to put the Indian "in his place", and show them who it was that they were to worship! This was a travesty of inhuman proportions. These humans, the people of the Indian Nation, do not own the land; they live on the land. For them, the ground is sacred, it moves, and they believe no one can own the Earth, since they live acording to the Great Spirit's commandments! The Earth is God to them. It feeds them; the Earth holds their babies; it is their home. They do nothing to take the food away from the Air, the Water, or the Earth, unless to feed their own kind. Unlike white corporations, and earth-killers, they do nothing to insult, degrade, or harm their Mother, Earth. An Indian is master of his air.

Perhaps Americans, still, do not understand what atrocities that were committed against out brothers and sisters of the Indian Nation. This Federal Government subjugated them, tortured them, and killed them, women and children included. This, alone, makes them all war criminals. Forget the Geneva convention, this was a human massacre! There is no need for the Federal Government to commandier the people of the Indian Nation any longer.

The Federal Government owes the Indian Nation for their sacrifice! No aid is necessary, or welcomed; it is the duty of the people of America to honor them by givng them their necessary coin, through Congressional generosity, one of the "four virtues" of the Indian Nation. Since the United States Government has broken, and dishonored, every single treaty made with the people of the Indian Nation, it should be said "they owe this tribute"! The American people must forage this tribute, as the American Government can no longer be trusted to do this!

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