ICTMN: 8 Big Lies History Books Tell About Natives

[Algernon Moncrieff]

Lincoln Ordered a Mass Execution

In the fall of 1862, Native tribes in Minnesota waged war on white settlers out of frustration from starvation, mistreatment and harsh conditions. After soldiers captured over 300 Indians, President Abraham Lincoln approved the largest mass execution in U.S. history on 38 Dakota men. On the day of their hanging, an estimated 4,000 spectators watched them hung. Their bodies were later taken and used as medical cadavers.

Unwritten History of African Americans and Natives

Dr. Arica L. Coleman is the assistant professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. She is African American and Native American (Rappahannock). Due to her ancestry, she has done a lot of thinking about the relations and interactions of blacks, Indians and whites on the East Coast, primarily in Virginia.

According to Coleman, who turned her Ph.D. dissertation into a book titled That the Blood Stay Pure, there was Indian slavery in Virginia.

“The first slaves in the Americas were Native American and this business that the Native Americans died off as a result of disease and war [is inaccurate]—those were not the only reasons for their demise, there was the Indian slave trade, which is something we do not discuss a lot,” she writes.

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/29/8-big-lies-history-books-tell-about-natives-155540?page=0%2C3

[2naSalit]

1. ...

Tip of the iceberg.

[LoisB]

2. ...and even that "tip" will never be told in U.S. history books.

[JDPriestly]

3. When Americans whose ancestors were in the US very early

begin to study their DNA, even more lies will be debunked.

A lot of people will be surprised to learn who their ancestors really were.

[ieoeja]

6. East of the Mississippi comparing Indian lineage is quite common.

I have Cherokee blood myself. My ex-wife had Blackfeet.


The East-West divide on Native racism is a thousand times more distinct than the North-South divide on Black racism. First time I ran into Native racism in the West, I was quite startled. At the time I had no idea it still existed.

I knew a full blooded Cherokee woman who grew up in Chicago. After the first time she went out West, she showed up at my doorstep in tears. She had never been the victim of racism her entire life in the East.

That is why the Washington Redskins controversy fails to register in the East. You can tell them "redskins" is an insult all you want. But in the East it is not considered an insult. And Washington is in the East. To Easterners with no experience of Native racism, this sounds like made up bullshit by somebody presumably trying to capitalize on it.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

7. Agreed

That is why the Washington Redskins controversy fails to register in the East. You can tell them "redskins" is an insult all you want. But in the East it is not considered an insult. And Washington is in the East. To Easterners with no experience of Native racism, this sounds like made up bullshit by somebody presumably trying to capitalize on it.

I grew up in the DC area, and now visit Native American reservations in my professional life with some regularity. I'd say the above is a reasonably accurate assesment.

I posted this last month from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. You might/might not find it interesting.

http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2014/06/28/name-sd-redskins-controversy-priority/11643467/

American Indian Movement co-founder Clyde Bellecourt says AIM plans to force the controversy toward resolution when Washington plays the Minnesota Vikings in the publicly owned University of Minnesota stadium Nov. 2.

But on the Pine Ridge Reservation, the growing furor over the Washington NFL team's continued use of its Redskins nickname has sparked little of the clamor for change the Illini mascot did only a few years ago.

"I don't know that it's that big of an issue," says Ivan Sorbel, director of the Pine Ridge Chamber of Commerce. "We're dealing with some serious issues out here, bigger than NFL team names." The Chamber has taken no position on the matter, he adds.

KILI Radio could be considered the crossroads of Pine Ridge, and when it broadcast a call-in show from Albuquerque on the Redskins nickname controversy this past week, "we had some people from here call in," says KILI General Manager Tom Casey. "Yeah, there's definitely interest here. People are talking about it. But there are more nuts-and-bolts issues to deal with, 80 percent unemployment, a 70 percent dropout rate, a high youth suicide rate. These things are much closer to survival issues."

[Heidi]

4. Kick, kick, kick!!!

[JEB]

5. K&R