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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 660545" data-attributes="member: 571">Forced assimilation is never a good idea. Then you have those occasions when American Indians* tried adapting to the White Man's ways, only to get dumped on anyhow. The Cherokee for example, whom some considered more white than the Whites. (BTW, there is a Cherokee band still living in Georgia, nobody wanted their land, so they got to stay.) Even today the Indians are still working through the shock of conquest, with the U.S. government and so-called do gooders doing their best to insure our aborigines stay dependent on them.Now for a mini rant: I am a Native American. Yes, my ancestry is as Western European as you can get, but I was born in this land, my ancestors back 8 generations or more were born in this land. I am a Native American, and I resent the implication that I somehow don't belong here. I am just as native as anybody who's forefathers came over Beringia millennia ago. This is my home. This is where I was born and where I shall die. I will never kowtow to the guilt trippers and the politically correct. What was done in the past cannot be undone, no matter how hard one bemoans the wrongs inflicted upon a people. It is time we started dealing with the present, and the generations to come. Let the dead bury the dead, be you concerned with the living.*On one of the last good episodes of Politically Incorrect with Bill Mahr Bill had a pair of American Indian activists on. The two men dominated the conversation, which is probably why Mr. Delicate Ego didn't have them back on again.In any case, Bill asked them both what they preferred to be called. They looked at each other, and admitted that neither was comfortable with "Native American" as applied to the American Aborigine, since it excluded millions of people who were, whatever their race, native born Americans. Then one pointed out that until the White Man came, they had never thought of themselves as a people. So they had never invented a word for themselves as a people. So the two of them figured that "Indian" was a good a term as any.So all you Indians out there, be proud of it. You've got tons to be proud of.A Proud Native American Who Sunburns on Overcast Days<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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