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In reply to the discussion: It's about evangelism, evangelicals, and why they are so dangerous [View all]moniss
(4,852 posts)and sadly we still in America do little to really come to grips with admitting how much of our conduct towards Native Americans was driven by the "convert the savage" justification. The Hollywood movies/TV shows are all mostly predominant about the tribes of the Plains and Southwest and usually all about military conflict. Hollywood still doesn't really show us the truth of the Iroquois for example and how they lived. Conflict sells I guess. How about a real story of the "Trail of Tears"? How about a realistic portrayal of what the Spanish Mission system did to the tribes in California? The destruction of tribes and then the subsequent horrors of the "Schools" all had the "convert the savage" mentality at it's core.
So we wait for a movie that will never come about the fight for the return of the Black Hills. We wait for a movie to tell the real truth about the "Schools" the people involved and what they did. Suffice it to say that we know as fact that a huge amount of knowledge and wisdom gets lost through the ages whether, for example, it is Alexandria, the Mayans or the Native American tribes. Sometimes there are more than one way to answer questions. Sometimes people want to control those answers.
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