Relevant History?

Again, what Native American history really was a genocide which includes the destruction of culture and history in the victims.   A relevant and accurate telling of Native American History is one of a culture’s ethnocentrism, racism and greed obliterating another.  

The history was changed alright,  into a lie to hide this tragedy of humanity.  I am sure you are aware of the Doctrine of Discovery, which was used to seize lands from Native Americans who wouldn't or couldn't (language barrier) declare themselves Christian.  The Pope had declared that only Christians could claim land for their sovereign (the Pope) in the New World.  This was allegedly to keep European Nations from going to war over the "New World"....they did anyway.  

And this practice was the beginning of a systematic ethnic cleansing of continents of North, Central and South America.

After the Civil War, the task was completed under the guise of Manifest Destiny and spreading Democracy to Hawaii and beyond.  The reason this history has been changed and lied about is there is debt to be paid for  the land the Europeans stole, including California to Massachusetts and beyond.  Stole...like not paid for.  Over and over and over again treaties were broken, agreements shredded  because it was easier to exterminate the Indians and take their land.    And the land was given to immigrants who were fleeing the feudal system of Europe and Asia; providing the opportunities that are the backbone of American democracy…Problem is, the whole thing is a con, a cover for out and out stealing of land.

Have you ever been to an Indian Reservation or Rancheria?  It is one of the worst places on the planet...poverty, suicide, drug addiction, and death.  The effects of having a culture destroyed are still playing out.

You are right history should be studied in its entirety  The fact that Native Americans had wars against each other's tribes is true, but the casualty rates were far below the thousands who were continually massacred....the bounties that were paid...the annihilation of game (buffalo etc) to starve the Native Americans out.  

And to say not many Native Americans would not  give up the technology of today and actually like “progress"is excuse me...bullshit.  To even imply that Native Americans are better than they were before western "civilization" is so tone deaf white supremacist it  does not deserve a reply...But here it goes anyway.

I am part Native American, a Stanford Graduate with a Masters Degree and contributed 36 years of my life to educating young people....contributions of Native Americans are all over the place.  I like technology and the modern lifestyle as much as anybody else.  But I also have seen the reservation, I also am a descendent of a lynching.    And I think reparations need to be paid.  And I know lots of Native Americans who live in squalor who barely exist, some are now homeless, while their land makes a fortunes for the “others”.  

But the debt is still owed...reparations need to be paid...The land was not yours to take.  

And the tragedy is that there was plenty of land to parcel out to the Native Americans and acculturation could have been done so much better except for this:  white supremacy drove the interactions of the cultures from Native Americans to African Americans.  

The Doctrine of Discovery put white Christians at the top of society for no other reason that by superior force of guns, certainly Jesus is nowhere in this equation (in fact he would be appalled if he came back to witness what was done).

 It is white supremacy that drives even this discussion....you cannot see it I guess...because the cultural bias is so embedded that it is seeps out all the time.  White supremacy has tainted American History from 1492 on. 

Look, Western Civilization has done wondrous things...it also has caused two huge world wars, and RIGHT NOW has the world poised on the edge of nuclear annihilation.  

And, the climate RIGHT NOW is poisoned by warming that has obliterated Texas and is just about to destroy Florida, with more to come.  

I call what is coming the Reckoning...and the odds are, after just electing a mad man as President that whatever is left of the world will look back on what western civilization did to the Native Americans and what it did to the climate as a brutal attack as my ancestors said so eloquently on the "human beings”.  Western culture forgot a long time ago what it meant to treat people as human beings.  How else does the Holocaust happen?  What culture in history has done this to as many over and over again?  

History always needs to be relevant all right , and where we are headed I don't want to go....but the true, relevant  history of western culture is one of destruction, death, and …..A Reckoning of Biblical Proportions!