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- From: Peshewegunzh <beaver.cs.washington.edu!gnosys!mthvax.cs.miami.edu!mamia!peshe>
- Subject: Re: Native Alaskans "Poachers"?
- Message-ID: <9211091743.AA04568@mamia.tecumseh.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:43:48 GMT
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- Original-Sender: Peshewegunzh <mthvax.cs.miami.edu!mamia!peshe>
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- The statement was repeated that the views from Indians who
- are Americans from the lower 48 can't be applicable to the
- situation of Alaskan natives.
-
- That's inaccurate, of course. Indians and Eskimos of the north have
- had to deal with the same assaults on them by Europeans as in
- other areas of North America. We can be sure that when European
- voices arise among us, counseling division and disengagement from
- each other they are not in our interests, but in those who oppose
- us. Tehcumseh, the Great Unifier, was feared by our opponents because
- he sought to reveal to us how powerful we could be together in
- protecting our own mutual interests against those of the conquerors.
-
- In my own case, I am not a citizen of the United States, yet in no way
- do such European-imagined boundaries abolish the Indian nations which
- prexisted British North America, and then Canada and the United States.
- In fact, American law recognizes this, and it applies to natives of the
- far north just as equally as to those in the south.
-
- Moreover, there are some folk who can't engage in any discussion without
- voluminously disagreeing about everything and anything, without apparent basis
- other than satisfying some odd motives of their own. In their own
- minds I am sure they have become irrefutable and unassailable, but it does not
- appear that way to others. And those others quickly lose interest when
- they realize such individuals also seem impervious to reasoning
- together.
-
- For those who might believe that accusations, about 80%
- of male natives being arrested being completely false,
- I urge you to check the statistics for any jurisdiction in
- the U.S. and Canada. In some, it is much higher. Such were the
- findings of such non-native groups as the U.S. Senate Subcommittee
- on Indian Affairs and various Canadian Royal Commissions. Let me
- emphasis that these findings applied to all states and provinces,
- including the far north.
-
- It is a strange phenomenon when a white person who has married a native
- should pose as a defender of natives, while twisting facts, subtly and
- otherwise, to the detriment of those natives. When a person is related
- to them, it veers very near to a form of abuse. I urge such people
- to examine the motives in their hearts, and reconsider their actions.
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