RE: Is it possible to maintain and respect cultural heritage and not be a racist
March 12, 2015 at 1:49 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2015 at 1:57 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 11, 2015 at 10:42 pm)Drich Wrote: You guys are too easy sometimes.
In the movie I referenced "bury my heart at wounded knee" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0821638/
http://www.jacknilan.com/nativeamerican/...heart.html
the stated goal of Henry Dawes http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_L._Dawes
Was to break the will of the plains Indians and put them on reservations. He was the senator who sponsered the Dawes act (in the movie and in real life) which was later found to be the piece of legislation that had illegally stolen land (the Dakotas) from Indians and given it to the goverment.
He was quoted in saying " we will assimilate the Sioux or we will see them extinct."
I've read the book, thanks. The Sioux certainly haven't been assimilated. The were forced onto a reservation -- those who chose to stay in America, that is -- and at greatly reduced numbers due to a campaign aimed at genocide in order to remove them as an obstacle to settlement in the Dakotas, and the exploitation of the minerals therein. They had their lands expropriated, their children taken away from them to be educated in schools run by whites, and were given starvation rations for many years before the 1890 massacre.
That the word "assimilation" was used by the architect of their demise is not an example of correct usage, but rather, of euphemism. It was for all intents and purposes an incomplete genocide but a successful ethnic cleansing.
(March 11, 2015 at 10:42 pm)Drich Wrote: You didn't get it did you? pun-ie/Pawnee.. (it's this whole other tribe of Indians)
Probably because it's an entirely different tribe, from a different part of the country, with different traditions. It'd be as if I were talking about Koreans, and then made a joke about Vietnamese.
But hey, I guess to some folks, they all look the same, eh?
