My LaDy AnGeLFaCe's blog: "NATIVE AMERICANS"

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept one; they promised to take our land, and they did. "Mahpiua Luta "Red Cloud" Oglala Lakota"

The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was.... The Country was made without lines of demarcation and it is no mans business to divide it.... I see the white all over the country gaining wealth and see their desire to give us lands which are worthless. The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of land and the measure of our bodies are the same. Say it to us if you can say it, that you were sent by Creative Power to talk to us. Perhaps you think the creator sent you here to destroy us as you see fit If I thought you were sent by the creator I might be I might be induced to think you had a right to dispose of me. Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully with reference to my affection to the land. I never said the land was mine to do with as I chose. The one who has a right to dispose of it is the one who has created it. I claim a right to live on my land, and accord you the privilage to live on yours. "Heinmot Tooyalaket "Chief Joseph" Nez Perce"

I am tired of fighting, our chiefs are all killed, the old men are all dead, the little children are freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children see how many of them I can find, maybe I shall find them amoung the dead. Hear me my chiefs, I am tired, my heart is sick and sad from where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. "Heinmot Tooyalaket "Chief Joseph" Nez Perce"

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heapen and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A peoples dream died there. It was a beautiful dream....the nations hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead. "Black Elk, Lakota"

This is the year 2007. As far as we know in the year 1492 the first "Holocaust" began against a race of people that were on this land for millenniums. The American Indian are still discriminated against in unbelievable ways. Treaties made in good faith, are not honored, and still being broken. Indian land and sacred ground, including burial grounds, are still being desecrated and taken away at the discretion of the American Government. The Yucca Mountains, are going to be a nuclear waste site dump, under Senate Joint Resolution 34. On July 9th, 2002 the Senate voted 60-39 to overturn Nevada's veto of the proposed high-level radioactive waste dump at Yucca Mountain, capitulating to the nuclear industry's well-financed lobby despite broad-based opposition from environmental and public interest organizations! The Yucca Mountains site lay on an earthquake fault. On June 15, 2002 there were earthquake tremors! The fact that this ground is considered sacred to the Shoshone and the Pauite never came under consideration. Yucca Mountain is located within the Western Shoshone Nation; the mountain and the surrounding area were NEVER deeded to the U.S. government. In fact, most of the area now used by the U.S. military for nuclear weapons testing and waste storage was explicitly recognized as Shoshone land. And who is the American Government....WE ARE SUPPOSE TO BE! The American Indian doesn't have the rights that any other minority race in this country is afforded. I hope this makes you stop and think!