Well, I'm all for................
By rebelann1949
@rebelann (111073)
El Paso, Texas
June 19, 2022 10:04pm CST
Occasions like Juneteenth but what about those Native American Children who were forcibly taken from their families and Tribes? It was still ongoing in the 1960s.
Are there any documents that can tell us what happened to all these children? Were they simply put into schools where they had no parents or tribe to cling to? Did they survive?
I would love to hear Biden give some kind of apology to the many tribes who were robbed of their children and not allowed to raise them as they saw fit. Those tribes were deprived of their cultural futures.
The only president I'm aware of who was viciously doing his best to annihilate Native Americans was Andrew Jackson whose ruthless desire to remove Native Americans created total destruction of many tribes. I wish we had a memorial month for all those souls who needlessly lost their lives due to his order to relocate all Native Americans. And later to remove their children to place in white families where those families were supposed to raise them.
I am ashamed of the way the white man has allowed this to happen, it's just as bad if not worse than slavery.
https://www.usdakotawar.org/history/andrew-jackson
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@jobelbojel (34729)
• Philippines
20 Jun 22
Too bad for the native American children.
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@jobelbojel (34729)
• Philippines
20 Jun 22
@rebelann Yes, I feel about their parents too.
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@Deepizzaguy (94294)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Jun 22
Keeping families intact is the best way for all of us to be happy in life.
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@marguicha (215148)
• Chile
20 Jun 22
I have heard that it was also done in Canada and in Australia. Shame!
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@rebelann (111073)
• El Paso, Texas
20 Jun 22
It is Queen Elizabeth who should apologize, parts of Canada belong to her realm. The other part of Canada was part of France although I'm not sure if that's still the case, I only know a little about Canada.
As I mentioned in my discussion, I think Biden owes the Native American tribes an apology.
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@LadyDuck (457249)
• Switzerland
20 Jun 22
@rebelann The British government has formally apologized for colonial crimes. It is correct that it was the British Government and not the Queen. I heard no apologies to the native Americans from an American president. I do not expect the French to apologize.
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@BarBaraPrz (45433)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
20 Jun 22
Happened in Canada, too, and now we have a "Truth and Reconciliation" committee.
In Canada, the process of reconciliation is tied to the federal government's relationship with Indigenous peoples. The term has come to describe attempts made...
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16517)
• China
20 Jun 22
My heart goes out to those children .Don't know what became of them !
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@LindaOHio (155469)
• United States
20 Jun 22
What about all the land that was taken away from the Native Americans, forcing them to live on reservations? What about the Japanese that were imprisoned during the war? What about all the Jews that were slaughtered? There are many examples of people that have been discriminated against.
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@rebelann (111073)
• El Paso, Texas
21 Jun 22
It's shocking. Slavery is not a new concept, it's happened to various groups for as long as humanity has existed, just look how the ancient Egyptians, Romans and Greeks would make slaves of people they conquered which had nothing at all to do with skin color.
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@LindaOHio (155469)
• United States
21 Jun 22
@rebelann I'm always amazed at what man can do to others in the human race.
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@LindaOHio (155469)
• United States
22 Jun 22
@rebelann Exactly. It's beyond my comprehension.
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@Nakitakona (56302)
• Philippines
23 Jun 22
I never heard of this kind of genocide of Indian children.
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