11/17/11

Giago on heritage, language: how we the people screwed the Indians, part 4

Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji), Unity South Dakota, worries that technology is an inadequate teacher of Native culture. From Indianz:
The most adept country at eliminating the language and customs of the indigenous people was Spain. When Spain invaded Native nations from South America to California the first thing they did was to separate the children from their parents, use the parents as slave labor even separating husbands from wives, and begin a process of total immersion in the religion and language of Spain. The US set about eliminating the customs and language of the Indian tribes by following the proven methods of the Spaniards: separate the children from their traditional teachers, their parents and grandparents, force them to speak English only, and coerce them into accepting a new religion by catechists skilled in the art of mind control.

6 comments:

Duffer said...

whoa . . . Dude, that's like, heavy . . .

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

just kiddin

larry kurtz said...

Oh, good grief: 'duffer' refers to a golfer with a high handicap.

freegan said...

Chippewa Cree tribe cashes in on high-interest online loans

larry kurtz said...

The Missoulian has the story.