This reading really opened my eyes to all of the ways that Native Americans have been demoralized and made fun of just because they can be. I didn't know that there were so many names of teams and schools that were named after of referring to the Native Americans.
When the writer began calling out other groups of people and putting them in the Native Americans place, it should have been a wake up call for everyone.
It's not right for us to single out the Native Americans. It's not "honoring them" if you don't know anything about what they really stand for or represent. We are just feeding into the stereotypes that have been placed upon them which is unfair.
It's sad that how the young Native Americans were taken from their homes and what they only know and placed with a non Native American family. This was done without a trace of where they originally came from, in an attempt to "Americanize them".
It's just awful and the last few sentences really sums it all up.
"Know that it causes real pain and real suffering to real people. Know that it threatens our very survival. And know that this is just as much a crime against humanity as anything the Nazis ever did. It is likely the indigenous people of the United States will never demand that those guilty of such criminal activity be punished for their deeds. But the least we have to expect - indeed to demandis that such practices finally be brought to a halt."
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11 years ago
i agree we should not pick on Indians
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