FINALLY: An Indigenous Peoples' History Of The United States
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This is not a rant. It's a reminder of how much we need to keep informing ourselves of our history. One example.
Sitting Bull on American money. Laughable if it didn't so sickeningly reveal the complete erasure of Indigenous history that descendants of any ethnicity have been unaware of. The erasure of Indigenous history for this country is the erasure of the true Anglo historical legacy of America.
Sitting Bull on American money. Think on that. Has anyone checked with the Sioux or Cheyenne Nations over this so-called question? I seriously doubt it. Some not-for-profit has simply put out an okey-doke on the social networks.
No Indians have wanted to be associated with money. Indians were set up by economic hit men: the basis of our Treasury wealth until after the OK land rush was Indian land, stolen, then sold, after Indians were stalked by white militia "rangers" made of Ulster-Irish poor who brought THE SCALPING PRACTICE from the English-Irish wars -- England. All this for 100 years before plantation owners settled down on stolen Indian land to torture and rape their African "property."
ALL U.S. military history and current military jargon come from our military's Indian wars -- "Rangers" is enshrined in the 2nd Amendment as "militias," "In Country" is the euphemism of "Indian Country," which all military use even today to call all hostile lands they're based in. This book exposes much of the military's malingering mindset of the U.S.'s Indian wars.
So no. No Indians on American money. This white lady believes that Techumseh, Little Turtle, Blue Jacket, Black Elk, Chief Joseph, Little Crow, Little Wolf, Old Lady Horse, Crazy Horse, Dragging Canoe, Goyathley (Geronimo), as courageous protectors of their land base, would never want to be associated with the Indian killers that America has already put on its money -- Jefferson, Washington, Jackson, Grant, T. Roosevelt, and yes, Abraham Lincoln. Other Indian killer presidents never made the cut, like Polk or A. Johnson.
Not even the decision to put Harriet Tubman's portrait on our money got adequate discussion. To indulge in any unconscious fetishizing on money of the genocidally murdered is to further erase and humiliate this country's Indians who presently suffer and resist corporate invasions of their lands, water and other resources.
Non-indigenous people of this country -- US -- finally -- FINALLY -- have the best researched, comprehensive history of our genocidal Doctrine of Discovery with its bloody "terranullism" that Indian killer presidents have participated in, passively, "legally" or no.
As Howard Zinn once said, civil disobedience is not our problem; it's civil obedience. I consider this history an inspiration to stay true to those who taught us how to survive and live on the land we call the United States.
To return land base control to our Indigenous people -- e.g., Standing Rock Sioux and their protest of DAPL -- is to help save our environment from corporate slash and burn mining and forestry destruction of ALL our water and food sources. As we sleep, fossil fuels are run through our non-Indian lands right under our noses.
As for what we stand for in DU, I cannot recommend this book enough.
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