[Aztlan] geronimo/kennewick/peru

[huehueteot at aol.com]

Michael and Listeros:

  I don't know of any such discussions. Generally there are much 
different attitudes among indigenous folk in the US and Central and 
South America. In America the connection to the pre-contact period is 
much closer and, while our treatment of the Indigenous folk has been 
terrible it hasn't had the same impact that three more centuries of 
contact and coercion and the effect of such things as the Holy 
Inquisition and forced conversion to Catholicism had. This drove the 
practice of Native Religion under ground and changed beliefs and 
practices surrounding the dead so drastically that generally Central 
and South American Native folk don't voice the kinds of concerns that 
U.S. Native Peoples do.

  U.S. Native American Religions were also driven under ground, but 
somehow it was left more intact with less influence from the conquering 
culture in most cases. Where the contact was longer the impact was 
greater and had greater effect.

 Cheers,

 Hugh G. "Sam" Ball

 And remember:

 "This too Shall Pass!

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Michael Stevenson <mijobas at yahoo.com>
 To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
 Sent: Sat, 20 May 2006 14:45:37 -0700 (PDT)
 Subject: [Aztlan] geronimo/kennewick/peru

 Dear All,

 Are there similar controvesies surrounding findings of
 human remains in Central and South America?

 There seems to be a lot of discussion about the
 Kennewick Man and Geronimo's skull but none concerning
 the recent find of the Moche woman. Do these
 discussions take place and we don't hear about them or
 are the circumstances within those countries
 different?

 Thanks,

 Michael Stevenson

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