Indigenous tribes had the same kind of trouble as black folks, and it wasn't til the '70's that the practice of their religion got legalised. Just think about that for a moment - in the "land of the free", they could go to jail for running a sweatlodge.
Indigenous tribes had the same kind of trouble as black folks, and it wasn't til the '70's that the practice of their religion got legalised. Just think about that for a moment - in the "land of the free", they could go to jail for running a sweatlodge.
Genocide was planned - their children were stolen away, put in residential schools, beaten for speaking their own language, abused and sent back into the world without their culture or their identity, or any concept of how to raise successful kids.
The treaties the US government signed with them were signed with this in mind - no need to worry about what you're promising because they won't be there to collect anyway.
Indigenous women are still victimised at a higher rather than other groups - murdered, abused, imprisoned, you name it. Some are still being sterilised without their consent, by the same sort of people who demonise abortion.
And yet many of them - men & women - refuse to be beaten down. Look back at the history of Standing Rock.
Many young indigenous people are getting themselves qualified as lawyers - to go back to those same treaties & demand justice.
There are many from the tribes who struggle, but the tribes as a whole are not giving up. Not ever.
As a white women from the UK, I was expecting to be at best tolerated when I started supporting the Standing Rock protests, but instead I found there was a place made for me to join the fight over the internet, acknowledging the damage my forebears had done but using my skills and educating me about both history & culture. We did a lot of learning, all of us.
Is there a place or a time where there's been a similar coming-together on the wider race issue in the US? It ought to have happened with BLM, but that it seems was a washout. Will the fight in Georgia over the "police city" be the one?
"Is there a place or a time where there's been a similar coming-together on the wider race issue in the US? It ought to have happened with BLM, but that it seems was a washout."
No, no coming together that I'm aware of. And yes, tragically BLM seemed largely about making the divide between black people and white people as wide and unbridgeable as possible. This despite the fact that police brutality affects everybody, black, white, and all shades in between.
If you want to see an example of this in action, look at these people:
https://www.warriorwomen.org/
Indigenous tribes had the same kind of trouble as black folks, and it wasn't til the '70's that the practice of their religion got legalised. Just think about that for a moment - in the "land of the free", they could go to jail for running a sweatlodge.
Genocide was planned - their children were stolen away, put in residential schools, beaten for speaking their own language, abused and sent back into the world without their culture or their identity, or any concept of how to raise successful kids.
The treaties the US government signed with them were signed with this in mind - no need to worry about what you're promising because they won't be there to collect anyway.
Indigenous women are still victimised at a higher rather than other groups - murdered, abused, imprisoned, you name it. Some are still being sterilised without their consent, by the same sort of people who demonise abortion.
And yet many of them - men & women - refuse to be beaten down. Look back at the history of Standing Rock.
Many young indigenous people are getting themselves qualified as lawyers - to go back to those same treaties & demand justice.
There are many from the tribes who struggle, but the tribes as a whole are not giving up. Not ever.
As a white women from the UK, I was expecting to be at best tolerated when I started supporting the Standing Rock protests, but instead I found there was a place made for me to join the fight over the internet, acknowledging the damage my forebears had done but using my skills and educating me about both history & culture. We did a lot of learning, all of us.
Is there a place or a time where there's been a similar coming-together on the wider race issue in the US? It ought to have happened with BLM, but that it seems was a washout. Will the fight in Georgia over the "police city" be the one?
"Is there a place or a time where there's been a similar coming-together on the wider race issue in the US? It ought to have happened with BLM, but that it seems was a washout."
No, no coming together that I'm aware of. And yes, tragically BLM seemed largely about making the divide between black people and white people as wide and unbridgeable as possible. This despite the fact that police brutality affects everybody, black, white, and all shades in between.