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Native Americans — Where does blame lie?

Author: Brion

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Among the many hot political subjects is that of the Native Americans. Ask anyone about them and they’ll probably tell you about a nature-loving people who were massacred and driven out of their own land, and then add how truly sad that was. It is absolutely true that many Indians were killed needlessly by white settlers and that they were driven from their land unrighteously. The right-winged seem to maintain a cold silence and tend to look away when confronted about the subject. The left-winged seem to love to rot in their own guilt about the subject, very publicly.

I think the most important question is: “How does this injustice cross over into modern days, to whom will justice be served?” It would be logical that if we were truly sorry we would return the land to its rightful inhabitants and try to compensate them for their lost land and loved ones. But no land is returned, no effort to reimburse is made.

Of course, the idea of serving justice is futile because the individuals who were responsible have long since passed away. I live on this land, but I am not personally responsible for the Indians’ loss.

To political figures I say this:

Learn to accept that those tragedies are in the past and that nothing can be done to undo them.

The most justice that anyone could do to the Native Americans is to not let their culture, their religion or their characters fade away. Know who they were, acknowledge the crimes committed against them, and keep their story alive, and you shall bear no guilt for what happened to the Native Americans.