“We must give the land back: America’s brutality toward Native Americans continues today”
“To clarify: Vast portions of five U.S. states — North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana — are Indian land according to a treaty to which the American government voluntarily assented. The highest legal authority in the United States has acknowledged that a significant portion of the land in question is rightfully Lakota. The American government refuses to return that land.
Let’s therefore drop the quaint notion that the colonization of Natives is a tragedy limited to the days of yore.”
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/17/we_must_give_the_land_back_americas_brutality_toward_native_americans_continues_today/
Every once in a while, I stop and realize that every place I have ever lived or gone to school or earned money or taken a subway is only available for my use because of genocide and colonialism. I don’t exactly know what to do with that, but shit like not having American Indian mascots anymore would be a start. (And I would love to know if there is a campaign to improve American history education, so that fans of those teams actually know what they are celebrating by wearing t-shirts with those caricatures)
