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popeye1250 -> RE: Obama has officially been elected President of the United States (11/5/2008 11:25:16 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BlackPhx
Native American women also got undesired, unrequested, unneeded and uninformed hysterectomies as late as 1975. http://www.whale.to/b/heavner.html , by the government. They have been moved off of reservations when oil, gold, or other precious materials have been found and relocated to land that barely sustains life. Native Americans have been raped, held as slaves (yes some sold other NA's as slaves or kept them themselves, some tribes would lay down and die rather than submit), infected with influenza and small pox to kill them off and starved.
The free homes you speak of are far from free, most are the equivalent of FEMA trailers and low cost housing, and this is how they live until a Tribe does make enough money to actually build homes like many of us take for granted. Native Americans must leave reservations if they desire a good education, and many of the religions (there were many) have vanished under decades of Missionary indoctrination, the few that still remain, are Tourist attractions for the most part. Most can barely speak their native tongue and there are few remaining elsewhere in a "home country" that can teach them. Few tribes exist where hundreds once did, they have been assimilated into several major tribes.
The Percentage of the Total Population Who Are American Indian and Alaska Native Alone: 2006 can be found here : http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GRTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-_box_head_nbr=R0203&-ds_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_&-redoLog=false&-format=US-30&-mt_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_R0203_US30 . The Highest is Alaska at 13.5% or in numbers out of 683,478 living in Alaska in 2007, 88, 852 of them were of the race that originally settled that land. Georgia a smaller state has a higher percentage of African Americans at 29.8% out of a 9 million person census in 2007. Given far too short a time, the Original Population of this country will be completely assimilated and an entire way of life will exist only as artifacts in a museum.
Their grave mounds have been ransacked for artifacts, sacred lands developed and sold and many of the "Native Art" pieces that are available are made in china ( always check the tag on your Navaho rug) and jewelry in Mexico (Mexican Silver and Turqouise must be marked as such).
Being 1/3 of each of 3 races (Irish, Apach and Black) I have had a strong interest in my genetic past (you would be surprised at how it can affect your health). Being stolen or sold by your country, is not greater or less in it's impact than having that country stolen from you. Either is a tragedy and leaves a long and bitter memory.
But, we are a country of many people, many ethnicities, cultures and unity is possible here. We saw that happen last night. I hope to see it continue for many years to come.
poenkitten
BlackPhx, that's very interesting.
I read one time that some scientists did DNA studies on the remains of a bunch of NativeAmericans's that were a thousand or 2000 years old and they found that 40% or so of the remains had Celtic DNA!
When I first moved here to S. Carolina I was told by a bunch of guys, "redneck" types that there was a tribe of "white" Indians up in N. Carolina, blue eyes, blonde hair, the "Lumbee Indians."
They said that the actress Heather Locklear was a member of the Tribe.
I thought they were playing jokes on me so I looked it up on the computer and sure enough, they were right!
Damn, I thought she was Swedish or something.
I wonder where they came from?
We know that the Vikings were in N. America a thousand years ago.
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