Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Senate apologizes to Native Americans for historic mistreatment. Your thoughts?

Please be mature in your response thanks.|||I am of Native American descent and I do not accept for this reason. There are many things that have been done to my people that have the Gov. has tried to hide and mislead others' about, and they will not own up to it. I believe if an apology is sincere, you would come out with the entire thing. Millions of my ancestors' were beheaded all in the name of American science. Not many people know of this. And if they are truly sorry, may we please have our land back, and the credit for discovering it? Peach, go get a life!! You sound so "well protected", what is your ethnicity?|||Too little too late? Unfortunately, the oppressors and those most severely affected are long dead. Still, it is nice that it was acknowledged.|||I don't disagree that Native Americans were mistreated. I wonder if this will be a precursor to more reparations. Really, I wonder if that's what they need. They already draw a paycheck from the government. How about people take personal responsibility for their problems?|||Some things in our history are unfortunate, thats life. If an apology helps some people cope, then why not, otherwise its a waste of time and effort to apologize for things that occurred before any of us even existed, things that nobody alive today was responsible for.|||Being part Native American, your apology is a little too late. The people who were first on this land, have long since passed and were the one's who truly needed to hear it. Your apology back then would have stopped the self-destruction of people because they lost everything because of the whack dealings with the US. Native American got blankets with diseases, alcohol, fat. No Native American should be like this we are Warriors! And with today's generation all that is lost. And Yes, the apology may not be sincere but an act due to some political agenda, but it's news that just a bit too late. The Senate and other US politicians honor the Japanese, Chinese, the Jews with apologies and money but still you screw Mexicans, Latins and you still haven't apologized nor paid for the acts of today and for what your bloody ancestors did against slavery, racism, segregation, the list could go on for days, to BLACKS! When is this going to happen? I think the Senate would apologize to every other race before blacks. See racism is still a live, well and running this country. Remember Katrina and black people wrongfully convicted of crimes.|||Stop the apologies already. It isn't like WE did it yesterday. The natives in my state seem to be doing pretty darn well with their gaming.And they don't have to pay taxes because they are a nation.|||The mistreatment went well on into the late '70s. Women being secretly sterilized, strip mining uranium on reservations, the Child Welfare League of America taking kids from their homes and on and on.





It didn't end in the 1800s.





Do some research on more recent atrocities.





And the majority of tribes do not have casinos.|||I think it's a little late.........|||Native Americans get womb-to-tomb health care free.


Scholarships go begging because few people want them.


Very cheap housing is often available.


Commodities are available.


If they live on the reservation, they do not pay income tax.





Is the Senate going to apologize to the Irish because of the ill treatment given to them when they first came here in the 1800s?


Don't try holding your breath.|||I love the indians and think we really screwed them but we need to stop looking at the past and move forward. to many people live in the past and use it as a excuse for why they should get something for nothing.|||I honestly don't think that that's enough. Their culture was devastated and stripped away from them. A lot of people will say that that's in the past but look how it's affected the present. Native Americans aren't represented in politics, the media, etc.|||In Australia we have just gone through a similar process and it has already started to create lawsuits by some indigenous Australians (who by the way were never the direct sufferers of any of the "atrocities", just their distant relatives) which in turn will create an even wider wedge between the two populations (Indig and non indig) as it is already being labelled as opportunistic and dishonest ... No one who apologised had anything directly to do with what ever happened many years ago and I don't think an apology should have been made...|||a sign of good faith, but too little too late. Besides, the people that did the mistreating are all dead.|||It's better than nothing. How can you say, 'gee, so sorry about that whole genocide thing. What were we thinking?' It's better than nothing.|||i think its a good thing that the senate apologized becuz they should have never dissed the native americans anyway|||not only is it a little late it is just words the apology shoould have been made along time ago really there should have been no need for the apology the attempted genocide should never had happened tribes should never have been treated with such disrespect and should never have been forced to live on lands set aside for them when it was there home lands ! i wouldnt go in someones house and tell them where they have permission to be i think its all hogwash i take no joy in an apology so empty|||i think that they deserve more than an apology but it's a start and they also need to publicly apologize to African Americans for slavery. at least the president could call a press conference on Martin Luther king Jr. day and say sorry. just a simple sorry and acknowledge that they should not have done that. that would be great.





tengo how could you say that they weren't mistreated? you really need to brush up on your history a little. no amount of money can repay them for the amount of lives that were lost and the way they were spit on by the people who came to THEIR land and took it from them. if you were treated like that don't you think your and your children and the generations there after deserve an apology for their culture being stomped on?|||The parallels in regard to the treatment dished out to Indigenous Australians and Americans are too many to list here, but racist policies directed at both communities existed well into the 70's and in some instances well into the present. Those of us who felt the sting of these policies aren't going to wake up one morning and find those memories and experiences will have miraculously dissapeared. Many individuals who were responsible for these policies are still alive and still have influence in certain political circles. Those of us Indigenous people who lived under these policies remember very clearly.





Acknowledgement of the past can only help the future...|||How many times have they done that? Did they not get it right every other time? We already know the answer to that. That's a cloud hovering over our heads, and I think the reason for the majority of problems we face as a nation. We are paying for the sins of those who came before us, because we are so arrogant and spoiled, and so used to getting what we want, and for the rest of the world looking to us in an "innovative" way. For all the "good" we do, we always have bad. For all the progress we have made, we still have age old problems. Overcrowding in prisons, escalated violence, and even random violence, drug use, homeless, poverty, etc... We won't have peace until we atone for the sins we carry, and still carry on.

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