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- From: s1mbm@isuvax.iastate.edu (michael bruce mcdonald)
- Subject: Re: Question of Nativity
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:39:22 GMT
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- In article <9301061453.AA16852@mamia.tecumseh.edu>, Peshewegunzh <beaver.cs.washington.edu!gnosys!mthvax.cs.miami.edu!mamia!peshe> writes:
- >Original-Sender: Peshewegunzh <mthvax.cs.miami.edu!mamia!peshe>
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- >Besides being incorrect, genetically and otherwise, this is an
- >attempt to diminish us as merely another facet of the new European
- >order rather than being the rightful owners and occupants of this
- >continent. Send this idea back to the Hell it must have come from.
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- Peshewegunzh, I think I understand the anger which prompts this statement,
- and certainly agree that "Siberian-Americans" is a foolish and
- unfortunate formulation.
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- Even so, does it really further your cause to insist on the notion that Native
- Americans are the "rightful owners and occupants of this continent"? Is such
- ownership--and the sort of understanding of occupancy that follows from the
- notion of ownership--consistent with the traditional worldview of your
- people? Does our discussion of the justice and dignity your people
- require--and that Euro-Americans had damn well better learn to see are
- required of *us*--truly depend on this notion of "rightful ownership"?
- It just seems to me that an ideological position that insists on justice in
- accordance with this idea of "rightful ownership" is bound to be self-
- defeating as a point of discussion with Euro-America, however important it
- is to insist on this point within your community.
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- Respectfully,
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- michael mcdonald
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- >American Indians are *not* "Siberian-Americans". Get real. Learn
- >some history (if it still has any meaning in academia).
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- >Peshewegunzh
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- >peshe%mamia.UUCP@mthvax.cs.miami.edu
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