By: Quetzalcoatl

Quetzalcoatl — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:38:56 +0000

This is true pinche gobierno que nos programa. Pero amigo tambien nosotros nos dividimos siempre seguimos la programacion al enfocarnos solamente en nuestra nacion (1) y no todas las naciones ya que todos tenemos las mismas luchas y los mismos enemigos. Espero que tu puedas llegar esta informacion a nuestros amigos la division entre pueblos indigenas es la causa de nuestra destruccion y entre mas divididos mas conquistados. Entonces para poder de programar todo el desmadre tenemos que unir las fuerzas entre pueblos ya que todos tenemos las mismas luchas. Mis hermanitos no entienden pero todos los pueblos indigenas tienen las mismas luchas, programacion, muertes, desgracias, y pinche desastre un grupo no es diferente que el otro solamente la mente de nosotros que fue programa nos divide. espero que pronto se de programen y solo cuando pase eso podramos liberarnos……………………………………..

By: Arlene Bowman

Arlene Bowman — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:19:50 +0000

Reading this article was insightful and very informative, but it angered me as well for several reasons: it answered a lot about my question of why the June 5 09 genocide massacre of Amazonian Indigenous protestors at Bagua Peru by the Peruvian military and ordered by Alan Garcia was not covered by the mainstream news. It was censored out. Instead the election in Iran was covered. As long I know, most American indigenous people created their indigenous groups through the motto to exercise self-determination—I have always heard this since the early 70’s in the U.S. among the Dine’ (Navajo). In the late 60’s and early 70’s, young people in the U.S. began to address issues: Alcatraz, Wounded Knee, AIM and other resistances happened. AIM had some good and bad elements in regards to the people who managed it. It wasn’t perfect. The need to resist, change the racism and old stereotypes held by the public about First Nations people in the U.S. peaked in a peak in the early 70’s. Many groups in the U.S. resisted at the same time such as different people of color, women and gay people. I’ve noticed though whenever a major documentary airs on a major American tv network, the First Nations people’s struggle is excluded from the “history of 60’s Social Movements,” which I deeply resent. I had heard about the School of the Americas and their negative intentions. I did not realize these people from the School of the Americas still keep at it, pushing their negative agendas upon indigenous people in Centro and South Americas. This seems like a camouflaged “Manifest Destiny” philosophy used by writer John L.O’Sullivan in 1845. In the article, under the question of identity, this is exactly what goes on with indigenous people throughout US and Canada as well: “The constant bombardment of anti-indigenous propaganda in cartoons, TV shows, and newscasts is no accident. In the free-market, indigenousness is culturally devalued. Billboards on the highways between indigenous villages depict white-skinned consumers with absolutely no relationship to the land from which they consume. The mannequins in all the women’s clothing shops in Oaxaca City—the capitol of a state that is 70 percent indigenous—are all tall, skinny, and very, very white. The most prevalent cosmetic product sold to indigenous women is skin bleach. For indigenous communities in Mexico to claim their autonomy and territory is therefore a deeply urgent reclamation of identity.” This sheds a lot of light to understand about what’s going on. I knew indigenous people were a threat, but I didn’t realize the extent of the threat indigenous people are to Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Central America and South America. To exclude any information about us is one of the aims: to not educate the public. So what are solutions out of this? I am a Dine’ filmmaker. I have thought of doing what you do to teach Indian people or people who support this in the U.S. to make videos in their communities. And in the mean time, to keep making films or videos, documentaries or dramas about indigenous people because I do not know anything else as much as this. Besides I like it a lot, although it’s hard. There have to be ways out of this. I ran across your article because this was placed in an indigenous alternative news list. I am glad I did.

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By: Quetzalcoatl

By: Arlene Bowman