How can people honestly think this way about people? Seriously, it's ridiculous!!
Trail of Tears: forced relocation and movement of Native Americans from present day. Today it's considered an act of genocide. Good, it's a law to do something bad to the Indians. This removal included many members of the Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, Choctaw tribes. Out of the 15,000 Indians that were "relocated", 4,000 died from exposure, disease, starvation
There are 562 known Indian reservations in the US. The poorest reservation in the US is the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Shannon County, South Dakota. The conditions aren't exactly 5 star resort on reservations, with an abundance of suicide, unemployment, short life expectancies, rampant drug/alcohol abuse, infant mortality, poverty
The largest Indian tribes to date are the Cherokee, Choctaw, Navajo, Sioux, Apache, Chippewa, Blackfoot, Iroquois, Pueblo.
Sometimes things between the American Indian tribes and govt. can explode into violence. Most notably the Wounded Knee incident. On Feb. 27, 1973, 400 members of the American Indian Movement took control of Wounded Knee. Local cops and US military were called in to help. And at the nearby Pine Ridge Reservation, 2 FBI agents were killed by Leonard Peltier because they were trying to arrest someone who wanted in on an armed robbery. He is currently serving 2 life sentences.
I'm a girl born in the wrong decade. I belong in the 1960s or the 1970s in my opinion. I bleed tie dye, my theme music is anything 1960s rock or 1970s rock or metal. I'm a hippie through and through. But also a hippie who loves old metal music. I believe that violence never solves anything, so why resort to it to solve problems? With all the wars the world has seen, there should be a clue somewhere in there!
Life is what happens when you are making other plans~ John Lennon
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind~Gandhi
The time is always right to do what is right~ Martin Luther King Jr.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind~Gandhi
The time is always right to do what is right~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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