My Vanishing People
Consequences of Losing
But can all the blame lie with outsiders? Perhaps the culpability lies partly with us as we refused to stand together and were easily divided by years of tribal warfare and that division made it easy for us to be conquered (so to speak) and the tragic consequence of that was losing our lives and our land.
Even though we lost, we were always a force to be reckoned with, even being a people of few numbers with a separation in tribes and widespread dissent on how to handle the newcomers. Without agreement and strength in alliance, we were doomed to fate, so Americans of today better take note or we're destined to have history repeat itself, as it so often does.
In addition, while facts are casually mentioned and we ruminate about history, the individual side oftentimes gets lost in the message and because of that, I'd like to share something a little more personal.
I'm an American Indian woman but I don't know what that means because my two languages and my unique cultures are foreign to me and nearly extinct. There is a part of me, an essence of being, that's lacking, perhaps even searching. What runs through my blood is all but lost; a world I will never know but always miss.
Published by Donna H. Davey
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5 Comments
Post a CommentPaul, I'm well aware of what happened to my people. On many occassions I will put something out there to predict or judge a reaction, or in other cases, to illicit a response - such as yours.
Understood
You are a confusing person Donna. In the "did you know" section you write, "the population decline" of Native Americans " has been the subject of controversy and debate". There is no controversy - the native people of the America's were driven off their lands, slaughtered, lied to, and the few who remained to pick up the pieces of their destroyed cultures were sentenced to second class citizenship. Native American's shouldn't blame themselves at all for their demise at the hands of barbaric conquerers. Honestly Donna, I mean no disrespect, but come on.
Nicely written.
Beautiful. God bless.