[Aztlan] geronimo/kennewick/peru

[D. M. Urquidi]

Funny but the same thing happened to the Mexicans in Texas just 30 or so years ago. It is assimilation, not pride in who you are or where you came from.
   
  Dea
  
"Edward B. Hanna" <edwbhanna at comcast.net> wrote:
  > 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.

I can't agree. There was a period when very great efforts were made, with
the approval and even active participation of the U.S. government, to stamp
out every vestige of "indianness," to the extent that children were taken
from their parents and installed in special boarding schools, many run by
Christian missionaries, where they were bleached of their religion and
cultural heritage and were punished if they tried to even speak in their
native tongues.

And I'm not talking about the eighteen hundreds.. This was taking place
well into the 1950s and 60s.

Life today on most reservations is rife with unemployment, alcoholism,
illness and hopelessness, the legacy of many years of not just neglect but a
blatant, concerted effort to force their assimilation into "American"
society.


D. M. Urquidi
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P.O. Box 49485
Austin, Texas 78765-49485
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