Saturday February 21, 2009, 8:47 pm
Native American are most
deserving of an apology
from the white man who stole
& thieved this
nation from them.

Native Americans still live
in more poverty than any other
minority group!!

Who will march or even riot
for their cause or their needs?

Who?..........

Plant trees for life on earth.

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Saturday February 21, 2009, 9:20 pm
Signed and passed on Thanks,Tom.

Saturday February 21, 2009, 10:22 pm
An apology would be a good start. Aid that gives a hand up would be the next step that would lead to self-respect and self-improvement.

Sunday February 22, 2009, 1:46 am
Noted and signed. Thank you Tom.

Sunday February 22, 2009, 3:32 am
Signed and noted thanks Tom

Sunday February 22, 2009, 3:40 am
THANK YOU, TOm!!!

Sunday February 22, 2009, 3:41 am
Signed, very much needed. Thanks Tom!

Sunday February 22, 2009, 4:09 am

From the 1927 Grand Council of American Indians

"The white people, who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call "assimilated," bringing the Indians into the mainstream and destroying our own way of life and our own cultural patterns. They believe we should be contented like those whose concept of happiness is materialistic and greedy, which is very different from our way.
We want freedom from the white man rather than to be intergrated. We don't want any part of the establishment, we want to be free to raise our children in our religion, in our ways, to be able to hunt and fish and live in peace. We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, or bankers....we want to be ourselves. We want to have our heritage, because we are the owners of this land and because we belong here.

The white man says, there is freedom and justice for all. We have had "freedom and justice," and that is why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not forget this."


Plant trees for life on earth.

Hopilegends.com/.......

Sunday February 22, 2009, 4:45 am

As always . . . Thank you, Tom!

Sunday February 22, 2009, 4:52 am
nOTED AND SIGNED....tHANKS

Sunday February 22, 2009, 5:15 am
Noted and signed.

Sunday February 22, 2009, 5:35 am
My heart weeps with sadness every day. We can not control what happened in the past, but we can do something about today. In each of our names this is allowed to continue as each of us represents the United States. How can we sleep while are beds are burning was a song written about the Australian aboriginal people, well I say the same thing for us in this Country. How can we sleep at night when the First People who lived here are still suffering greatly from deeds that were inflicted upon them. Today it needs to stop, today it needs to improve, not tomorrow, now, these people are human beings like everyone else upon this soil, they suffer, this ongoing tragedy must stop.

Sunday February 22, 2009, 6:46 am
Gladly signed!!! Thank you, Tom.

Sunday February 22, 2009, 7:15 am
Noted and petition signed with thanks, Tom.

Not only a written apology is in order but there needs to be restitution enacted as well.

Sunday February 22, 2009, 7:29 am
Gail.....Got that right!!

Plant trees for life on earth.

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Sunday February 22, 2009, 7:52 am
Noted & signed

Sunday February 22, 2009, 8:18 am
If you want a first hand look at how black and white your world really is, attend a
POW-WOW this summer.
Please Support Native American Pride.
Peace.

Sunday February 22, 2009, 8:35 am
Thank you Tom, petition gladly signed!

Sunday February 22, 2009, 8:56 am
I have a deep appreciation for the Native American people whom I call "the first people" in America. It is tragic to see how ignorant the white man can be as to the real history and culture of American. The new generation of the white man must be well informed so they do not associate the first people only as an opportunity to gamble in their casinos. Here in southern California when ever the first people is mentioned, the first thing that comes to their mind is the casino and gambling opportunity. This is a shame!! I say, when American history is taught, a class is dedicated to the first people! What was done to the first people must never be forgotten! I give Kudos to Steven Spielberg for his portrayal of American History with his TV series "Into the west". We need more attention like this to educate the next generation. Wado (thank you) Tom for the attention given to this matter!

Sunday February 22, 2009, 9:17 am
Thank you so much Stephen
for your insightful comment.

We must remember what has
been done to these innocent souls
as of the past & and
now in the 21st century.

The American indian
deserve so much more.
And, as far as the casino's
go at least they are
striving to make a legitimate
living as opposed to behavior
such as destructive rioting;
they are a quiet dignified people
in my opinion.

Plant trees for life on earth.

Hopilegends.com/.....

Sunday February 22, 2009, 9:19 am
Gladly signed,#65 and noted with thanks Tom.

Sunday February 22, 2009, 10:33 am
Noted & signed!

Sunday February 22, 2009, 12:17 pm
noted & signed... this should have been done when the U.S.A. did all the wrong against these Beautiful Proud People... its such a shame that the government keeps right on trying to administer to private sects (if I can call the Native Americans this for a minute) the laws of others... like what we did to the Native Americans.. do this or else.. will now they are putting another law on the Amish that has every wrong to what they believe in.. Toilets... & they are fined for every moment they don't.. we all know that they are in belief as the Native Americans.. why should our laws be push on them that have lived this way for centuries & harmed no one.. more APLOLIGIES should be forthwith coming from both our govenrment & states...noted & signed with lots of pride,, thanks Tom

Sunday February 22, 2009, 1:05 pm
Noted and Signed, thanks Tom

Sunday February 22, 2009, 1:52 pm
Glad to sign. Sad to realize it's still necessary. Blessed be all our ancestors who
went through untold suffering for what we enjoy today. We're blessed w/our present
& owe it to our future generations to clean up the mess left by those oblivious to
anything but the profit motive.

Sunday February 22, 2009, 2:02 pm
Petition signed.

TY, Tom.

Sunday February 22, 2009, 2:40 pm
In addition, I propose a museum in remembrance of the ethnic cleansing of the Native Americans be built in Washington, D.C. Also need one to acknowledge the African slave trade.
This concept is not meant to condemn modern Americans but to show that we recognize the wrongs that occurred to our fellow citizens during our history.

Sunday February 22, 2009, 3:39 pm
Petition signed. Apologies are not enough, but they are a start. I hope that it goes much further than that. There are a lot of things that need to be done and it's almost too late. Shame shame on those who are only caving in because they feel or look bad. Yes, it looks very bad. I admire people that have proud origins and should have a better destiny.

Sunday February 22, 2009, 3:58 pm
A museum for the indian Nation
sounds like a grande idea.

Plant trees for life on earth.

Hopilegends.com/......

Sunday February 22, 2009, 4:43 pm
How about closing the door and not letting anymore people come here, legal or illegal? Sending the illegals back home and limiting our population growth by banning all fertility clinics and making birth control free, that would be a step in the right direction!

Sunday February 22, 2009, 4:49 pm
Tim, thank you for signing "Petition to the United States Government for a written apology to Native Americans"

Thank YOU, Tom, and Carole,
who forwarded this to me.
noted. :-)

Sunday February 22, 2009, 5:00 pm
BB......You've got that right!!

It is very difficult to become
a citizen of another country,
far more than here. Seems we
just swing the doors open to
any foreigner who want to come
here for reasons not necessarily
to be a transformed American.

We need an American indian as
president of this country!!
Amen....Amen......

Plant trees for life on earth.

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Sunday February 22, 2009, 5:14 pm
Or at least in charge of immigration!
It costs $5,000.00 to get in to Canada and you have to have a valuable skill as well!

Sunday February 22, 2009, 7:12 pm
Yes the next President of the USA should be an American native, that would be great!!

Sunday February 22, 2009, 7:26 pm
So, we the American people have
put into office a minority.
Obama's selection & election
win was based on appeasement,
arm twisting & it was rigged
as I see it.

When will the American indian
get his chance at high political
visibility?

When?????
We, the American public seldom if
ever hear of the American indian
concerning anything socially,
politically or even the sufferings
denied them still. Seems it is always
about those other ones who never
stop in their whining & oh woe is me
business.

The American indian have something
many don't have & that is pride & dignity
of who & what they are.

Plant trees for life on earth.

Hopilegends.com/.......

Sunday February 22, 2009, 7:30 pm

I am privileged to be your friend, Bette.

Thank you!

Sunday February 22, 2009, 9:04 pm
It Makes Me Laugh When Yanks Have A Go At australians For The Aboriginals Treatment ... Put Your Words At Your Nazi Government.
We australians Feel For Aborigines (Noongahs, Koori's etc) Well I Do & I Accepted Our Governments appology.
The True Americans DESERVE More than appology!!

Sunday February 22, 2009, 11:45 pm
Self-determination and land rights for all Indigenous peoples of the world - including the Indigenous people of Palestine!!!

Sunday February 22, 2009, 11:54 pm
Palestinians Had Their Home STOLEN BY materialistic PIGS Sorry Humans.

Monday February 23, 2009, 12:28 am
BB K wrote:

"How about closing the door and not letting anymore people come here, legal or illegal? Sending the illegals back home and limiting our population growth by banning all fertility clinics and making birth control free, that would be a step in the right direction!"

Yes, it would be a step in the "right" direction - a step toward the political RIGHT-WING, joining such "admirable" politicians as Adolf Hitler and Bennito Mussolini. But would it be just? Would it be egalitarian?

Now, first of all, no-one is illegal.

Second of all, the first world is so prosperous because it plundered the wealth of the Third World, devastating the Third World economies, and using that wealth to build up first world economies. Plus, the first world is continuing to oppress and exploit the Third World, so the people of the Third World certainly have the right to experience relative freedom from that oppression, and to share in the prosperity which is being taken from the Third World (the first world takes U.S.$500 billion net from the Third World each year).

Plus, most immigrants to the USA are Indigenous Americans from "Latin America" and "the Caribbean" - and so they certainly have as much right to live in the USA as people of European ancestry do. Also, many of the other immigrants to the USA were taken to the Americas as slaves from Africa - they are not in the Americas by choice - plus the people of European ancestry benefitted from slave labour during the slave economy, and have benefitted from it since, because the USA has exploited the Americas for many decades - so those people of transported African slave ancestry also have the right to live in the USA.

Plus the USA invaded Mexico in the "Mexican American War" in the 19th century, and stole half of Mexico's land. I'm talking about the land that is now called "California", "Nevada", "Arizona", "New Mexico", etc.. The people of Mexico - most of whom are Indigenous Americans, anyway - are therefore entitled to live on that land.

Monday February 23, 2009, 1:13 am
Noted and signed. Thank you Tom.

Monday February 23, 2009, 1:14 am

[From KOLA - thanks]

‘Words matter’
Some Natives react uncomfortably to Obama’s inaugural speech

By Rob Capriccioso
Story Published: Feb 9, 2009

WASHINGTON – The reviews from Native America are in regarding the inauguration of President Barack Obama, with many having made treks from far and wide to join in his parade; to offer policy advice; to be a proud part of history. Post-inaugural glow is gone, however, now that some have taken time to analyze the intricacies of his words from Jan. 20, and not all reviews are positive.

Many have taken particular notice of the following paragraph from his speech:

“For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus – and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.”

To many, that segment of his address – pored over for hours by speechwriters, advisors and Obama himself – was a poignant call for Americans to come together. But to some Indians, the words, especially “the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve,” were downright jarring.

“I don’t think he was referring to Indian tribes, but I do think the words are disturbing,” said Robert Odawi Porter, a Seneca law professor at Syracuse University. “What the president was speaking to was the erasing of ethnic lines of distinction on a global level – lines of distinction which differentiate humanity – of which indigenous peoples are a part. So, in that sense, I’m concerned about the president’s apparent desire to see the ‘tribal’ lines that distinguish peoples from one another disappear.”

Porter, a senior policy advisor to and lawyer for the Seneca Nation of Indians noted that beyond his reading, some Natives have taken the president’s words quite literally.

Such is the case with elder Kahentinetha Horn, who wrote in a recent column for the Mohawk Nation News that she believes Obama “sneaked in the intention to ignore us when he said that ‘the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve.’”

The newspaper publisher believes Obama’s words to be “all the more devious” because they come “in this velvet glove that claims that it’s being done in a spirit of cooperation.”

When asked by Indian Country Today about the contentious line, White House officials seemed aghast that anyone would suggest a negative meaning behind Obama’s words.

In an official statement, Amy Brundage, a White House spokeswoman, said: “President Obama was not referring to Native American tribes in this line of his inaugural address. As he said and demonstrated throughout his initiatives during the campaign, the Native American community has a partner in the White House with President Obama.”

That measured response aside, behind the scenes, White House and transition officials did not take kindly to the query – which has become all the more reason for caution from some Natives who are asking, “Does he really get it?”

One of his questioners, Angela Wilson, a Dakota activist and teacher who often goes by the name Waziyatawin, points out that it was Obama himself who made so much of the “words matter” theme during his campaign for president.

“People question if words matter. Words do matter. Words challenge us to reach higher. Words are a catalyst for change and words motivate us to chase our dreams. …” he said in a February 2008 campaign speech.

“I’ve had real issues with Obama all the way along,” said Waziyatawin, in trying to understand the viewpoint of the president and his White House. “While I can really only guess at what is in the mind of the new president, I do think that he would like the world to be color-blind, and I do think that he believes Americans and American values represent the pinnacle of progress and civilization. With that in mind, his vision of America seems to be an inclusive vision in which all peoples, indigenous and non-indigenous alike, are all living the American dream with equal access to health care, jobs, education, etc., and equal opportunity. In that vision, the lines dividing all ‘tribes’ – whether they are national, cultural, or even corporate groupings – would become irrelevant as we all embraced our common humanity. Indigenous populations should be offended by this, just as we should be offended by the celebration of American patriotism exhibited during the inaugural festivities, and just as we should be offended by his recent denial of America as a colonial empire.”

Waziyatawin referred partially to Obama’s often positive invocations of America’s founding fathers and his recent reference of Americans as the “heirs of those early patriots.”

She wrote in a recent letter to the Minneapolis Star Tribune that she has specific problems with Obama’s continued celebration of the legacy of Abraham Lincoln – the same man she holds responsible for the mass lynching of 38 Dakota warriors in what she calls “the largest, mass, simultaneous hanging from one gallows in world history.”

That lynching in Minnesota, she noted, “was part of the U.S. policy of extermination and forced removal that allowed for the theft of Dakota homeland and the ethnic cleansing of our people.”

Yet, as many press accounts have noted, Obama was proud to be sworn in on Lincoln’s Bible.

Waziyatawin and others say it is time for Obama to take his “words matter” theme to heart.

Not all Natives – nor even a majority – feel the same way about Obama’s words. But even some who made the great trek to Washington were left with a waft of disenchantment after his inaugural address.

“I thought the speech was appropriate for the Americans given the lean times ahead for the U.S. economically,” said Doug George-Kanentiio, the co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association. “But it left out the drama, the call to action, the summation of that great vision which has compelled Americans to endure and create.”

The Mohawk writer also noted that Obama himself never referred to Native people directly or in the oblique.

“[W]e have yet to register with him as a people who matter,” said George-Kanentiio, who watched the speech from the National Museum of the American Indian, of which he is a former trustee. “We were eclipsed in every instance at the inauguration except for those few who marched in the parade. We did not intrude and that was sad. But it does reaffirm our separation from the great masses and that is, after all, why we have what is ours and act as we do.”
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Monday February 23, 2009, 2:16 am
OK Simon, well, thats interesting, an Australian opinion.
The title of this story is Sign Petition: The United States Government Should Apologize To Native Americans, I don't think they mean all indigenous people of the world.
There is a line of reasoning that says we are all immigrants so we should allow all immigrants. I was saying we should not have been immigrants and allowing more would make it worse, but lets hear from North American Indigenous people.

Monday February 23, 2009, 3:21 am
Christian Burgess, you should be ashamed of yourself. You said "It Makes Me Laugh When Yanks Have A Go At Australians For The Aboriginals Treatment ... Put Your Words At Your Nazi Government."

Your stupid and insensitive remarks were directed at my friend Dandelion G., who said "How can we sleep while are beds are burning was a song written about the Australian aboriginal people..."

Dandelion has every right to compare the plight of Native Americans with Native Australians. She should know. She is Native American, not a "Yank" as you called her. Dandelion is also a wonderful kind caring person who's philosophy is "The Golden Rule, and Mitakuye Oyasin, which means We Are All Related....We Are Related to All." If you had bothered to look at her page, you would have known this. And that her son is in the Army. You have in effect called him a Nazi. I think you owe them both a HUGE apology.

And Simon Wood, you are also Australian, right? Isn't it a little arrogant and hypocritical to say you are for the "self-determination and land rights for all Indigenous peoples of the world" when you conveniently ignore your own country's long history of genocide, ethnocide, colonial oppression and apartheid against the indigenous Native Australians, the Aborigines? Driving them off their traditional lands. Hunting them for sport like they were animals. Massacring whole tribes when they fought back. Raping their women. Sexually abusing their children after forcibly removing them from their families to deliberately break their connection with their culture. Denying them the right to vote. Denying them equal pay and the right to an education. And the discrimination still goes on today, doesn't it?

Does the name "Black Friday" ring a bell? Friday, August 17, 2007: Three bills passed which empowered the Australian government to intervene in the lives of the Aboriginal people despite their widespread anger and objections across the nation. Why? To legalize the theft of even more Aboriginal land where valuable minerals have been found. Here is a video about the Native Australian genocide.

But wait, there's more. Many of Australia’s colonial and post-colonial policies and practices are a major factor in the problems of Papua New Guinea today, and cause some Papua New Guinean leaders to have serious reservations about their Australian counterparts. And let's not forget that your country leads the world in export animal cruelty! Maybe we should all boycott Australia. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Monday February 23, 2009, 3:26 am
And to everyone else, thank you for your relevant, intelligent and interesting and civil comments and support for this Native American petition.

Monday February 23, 2009, 3:50 am
As I've strongly concluded for many years the American indian & the Jews of Nazi Germany have suffered a thousand time more than blacks.

Jews vowed at the end of WW2 never again would they allow their people to bake in ovens of political power. The American indians of all their nations have quietly endured & moved on to help their own without much fanfair.

Blacks on the other hand have made it clear that they too will never endure again. The difference between blacks & the jews & the American indian is action & behavior to get what they wanted.

Blacks have since the 1960's repeatedly rioted, raped, burned & scorched entire towns to voice anger in the most violent behavior ever seen in modern times. And, in return they only ecpect a smack on the hand for behaving like two year olds. Seemingly they want what they want as a two years does when they throw an all out temper tantrum.

Actions & behavior often is stamped on a peoples memories wether as individuals or a group. When I watched the blow by blow account of the after math of the Rodney King L.A. riots I personally was horrified beyond belief of what was happening via live television.

The filmed & eye witness beating of Reginald Denny goes way beyond anything anyone could ever bear to have watched!!!!! In case many of you who never saw or heard of it Denny was nearly beaten to death live on television with a fire hydrant by four young strong black men as a helicopter filmed it all......It was shown live across the U.S. with every blow. Denny would have died right then and there had it not been for four blacks who did not know each who watched it all and all ran to rescue him. The four blacks have been honored many times for what they did that day.

But, this riotous two year old behavior by blacks has happened over & over again. People feared the summers to come for many years. People prepared for riots in light of a verdict involving blacks all across the country & epecially so in the summers.

Yes, that was then & this is now. Right? Memories linger and stay. People hear & talk about the riots, the memories through each decade.

What has dawned on many through the years is the American indian, the jews, and the poor of the Applacian hill country never rioted, burned and scorched their land, murdered in retaliation for what they were never given or felt they were denied.

The poverty of whites & reds mattered no more than that of blacks. Poor whites in hill billy country and the American indian just were as neglected but, they did not suffer from the gimmes', or I want because I'am.

I can really understand why Obama's grandmother was afraid of blacks. But, many people have less fear than trust in them for they never stop laying guilt trips on an era long gone to get what they want.

I sincerely Obama does what needs to be done for "all" the people & not just for half of what he is.

These are my thoughts, my opinions & like myself you have the freedom to read, remember or forget every word of it.

Plant trees for life on earth.

Hopilegends.com/........

Monday February 23, 2009, 4:35 am
I guess the Zionists 100 year rape, pillage, murder and ethnic cleansing in Palestine has been overlooked in your above post...

Monday February 23, 2009, 4:36 am
ty Tom, your insight is appreciated, all peoples in all countries who have faced genocide deserve to be heard, what country can claim they are innocent of spilling blood for gain, ever? If not the exploitation of humans, then that of animals, it is all self serving and our people deserve recognition. Imagine what the Chiefs went through watching their people corralled like cattle, knowing they were all on a death trail. This is only heart breaking, signed and will forward.

Monday February 23, 2009, 5:23 am
SIGNED AND NOTED.

Monday February 23, 2009, 6:38 am
Signed, noted and appreciated as well. Linda aka Falcon's Feather

Monday February 23, 2009, 7:02 am
Thank you Tom.
I'm trying to send the petition link to all my Native American contacts and their groups. An apology will never be enough but it raises more awareness and perhaps will help the young Native generations, if it is followed by positive actions from the government, according to the requests of each Nation.

Monday February 23, 2009, 8:06 am
Pete.....I speak only of what I'm most familiar with. Also, that part of the world has been at each others throats for centuries. If all the countries killed the other off the planet I'd not bat an eye.

I live in America, not over there.

The racial issues here in America is important to me. Too many people have been over looked because blacks continously make sure they are at center stage in all matters of the public interest. And, their demands are all too often self centered & project anger & hatred at evey opportunity.

Native Americans & poor whites simply plug along as best they can without raiseing color, hurl racist comments or riot as to why they are poor or near destitute as many American indians are.

I'm most concerned with the motivations behind people like Al Sharpton. Without other more positive goals in place people like Sharpton will always have an income.......Think about that for awhile. People like Jeremiah Wright will stop at nothing to rip this country apart racially while the American indians & poor white silently sit on the sidelines of their rants & raves of so called denials of........What?????????

Obama can & must pay attention to these groups of American indians & poor white. Yes, there really are very poor white families as well as American indians.

Obama has the will, the power & the right to get the American indian & poor whites the help they need financially & educationally!!!!!!!!

As I wrote those mid east countries will never stop fighting which is religiously based & will go on untill the end of time.

America should stay out of it & mind what goes on here & keep our money here too!!

Plant trees for life on earth.

Hopilegends.com/........

Monday February 23, 2009, 10:48 am
I agree with the fox up there...apology is only the first step, payment is due. But I would be very careful about donating to organizations that could be manipulated by government lobbyists. Also with the natural fuel companies that were scamming the people.

Disgusting bunch of 'repugnant'can jerks!

Monday February 23, 2009, 11:21 am
I only see acceptance of the indigenous people in Australia, by the people who have commented here. The comments are apologetic to the Aborigines and understanding of the plight and racism here in the U.S. Thank all you "blokes" from Australia for the critical words and objectivity about the U.S. Nazi government of late. We have lost our way in the world since Corporate America has taken over our media and government and written our laws since the 1950's. President Eisenhower warned us of the corrupting forces from the very wealthy and his insight from knowing corporate power after WWII has come to be our fascist government to date. Obama is trying to change things, but the repugs-Nazi dumb sheeites are fighting every step and will keep pushing back on real reform.

Native Americans are the people of America and before that name was used many names were used that identified their lands. We committed genocide and destroyed entire tribes and attempted to wipe out all Native Americans. We are fascist Nazis to even think we had the right to do this at any time in history. Today all the dumb brain numb folks for McSame and and dumber S. Palin are so ignorant and religiously righteous Nazi types that they still think our genocide against the indigenous people of N. America was or current racism against them is justified.

We need to separate Church=Corporate from State now! Sign my petition please:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/separate-church-corporate-from-state


We need to not only apologize and present gifts of honor and respect and make National Holidays for Native Americans, but pay some of our property taxes back to our land's owners. The money needs to be used for housing, health, and education. Similarly this needs to be done in Israel to Mexico and Australia.

European influence in the world is that of fascist supremacists. If we do not acknowledge our crimes against humanity we can not start building a truly pluralistic world with respect for all people and life forms on the planet.

One World

Peace

Monday February 23, 2009, 11:25 am
We need ACTIONS, not words. And change in the way aboriginals are treated--I realise it took 40 years [a generation] after the Civil Rights Act to see some real PROOF--yes, "seperate but equal" is the 1950's mentality. Better schools, RESPECT, and a cognisance with Native cultural traditions would be a big step forward, too.

Monday February 23, 2009, 11:30 am
There's a definite correlation between the Palestinians and the Native [ahum! why is the word to decribe 'them' "NATIVE"?!?] people's plight...

Monday February 23, 2009, 11:36 am
NOTED & SIGNED & THANKS TOM.....

Monday February 23, 2009, 11:36 am
Janet.....I sometimes say Native Americans & sometimes say American indians. I've been catrated on both. So, I'll say what seems to suit my mood in the future unless the head of the indian nation personally write & corrects me.

And, I'll stay away from any comment on the Paletinian situation as I fail to understand in depth what has been going on for a thousand years over there.

Plant trees for life on earth.

Hopilegends.com/....

Monday February 23, 2009, 12:51 pm
signed with Comments-
# 212:
12:46 pm PST, Feb 23, Rafael Apollo Lido, Minnesota
Oh! If ever there was an apology owed-this is it-not that many other peoples of color and race were not brutalized one way or the other by the policies of this country but these were the Aboriginals and displaced, savaged, debased and marginalized or virtually eliminated. For instance-many of them were wise sages and great orators whether in their native language or English. I hope with the apology that is overdue that there comes with it an interest in the truth about many of the Chiefs and leaders of the tribes and people are encouraged to learn more about the tribes themselves. And to look into the truth about the brilliant Geronimo and his great ability to communicate-his farsightedness and mystic qualities, the great and valiant warriors and the brilliant Ojibwe Chiefs Hole-In-the-Day the elders and the younger, among so many others.

Depicted as either stereo-types in the cowboys and Indians dramas to enthrall Americans and raise American children up with an image that was so distorted and perverse they were blinded to knowing more about these great peoples. It is no wonder that my dear friend Marlon Brando was so enamored and involved with Indian rights although his work and his passion were taken out of context. I sign this as much for him as the great spirits of this land called the Native Americans, themselves.They were here long before anyone else and a higher consciousness now and reason should prevail to bring this long undone apology to pass.

Monday February 23, 2009, 1:14 pm
"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."

- Chief Seattle, Native American.

Monday February 23, 2009, 3:56 pm
TY Tom Signed..I too think that much much more than apology is needed..issues of poverty, education of choice, housing, heating in Winter, healthcare and land rights too.

Monday February 23, 2009, 6:01 pm
Noted and signed.

Tuesday February 24, 2009, 2:35 am
Yes, please, once and for all, let's apologize to the Native Americans. I agree 100%... It was a terrible affair in American history as were many other chapters. Let's understand what happened, apologize and go on remembering. Let's also remember what happened to others including African Americans. But we should also remember that we can't go back and right the wrong. It is over and a tragedy. Instead let's begin all over again and help others and try to understand others....

Thursday February 26, 2009, 12:29 am
US lawmakers honor Apache chief Geronimo
Published: Monday February 23, 2009







The US House of Representatives on Monday approved by voice vote a measure honoring legendary Apache warrior Geronimo's bravery 100 years after his death.

The nonbinding resolution honors his life, "his extraordinary bravery, and his commitment to the defense of his homeland, his people, and Apache ways of life."

Geronimo -- known as Goyathlay in the language of his Chiricahua Apache -- died in 1909 at nearly 90 years of age at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

He had been held as a prisoner of war for more than 20 years after surrendering to the US military on the understanding he would be allowed to return to his homeland and people.

The resolution also "recognizes the 100 anniversary of the death of Goyathlay as a time of reflection of his deeds on behalf of his people."

On Febuary 17, twenty of Geronimo's descendants filed suit in a US federal court seeking "to free Geronimo, his remains, funerary objects and spirit from 100 years of imprisonment at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the Yale University campus at New Haven, Connecticut and wherever else they may be found."

The remains would be returned to Geronimo's wilderness birthplace in the western United States for a true Apache burial, a key facet of the native American tribe's culture.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_lawmakers_honor_Apache_chief_Ger_02232009.html

Thursday February 26, 2009, 12:54 pm
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
Geronimo

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
Geronimo

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.
Geronimo

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
Geronimo

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
Geronimo

While living I want to live well.
Geronimo

Thursday February 26, 2009, 1:11 pm
Rafael......Beautiful......

Thank you.

Plant trees for......Life on earth.

Hopilegends.com/......

Thursday February 26, 2009, 2:18 pm
i think we need way more than an apology and restitution for our abuse and criminal acts towards the native indians in north America.
to honor them properly i feel there should be a National Holiday dedicated to the native indian so that we may show our respect and gratitude for their major contributions to our culture and history.

Thursday February 26, 2009, 5:23 pm
Bergman thought of Gawd as a spider who wove webs to trap mankind in, so the spider could witness the suffering... The spirit helpers of the natural world are people living in harmony with the real natural world. Gawd is an extension of the worshiper of Gawd, dawG. I mean religious figures are historical fantasies that represent omnipotent wishes of the believer. Zeus to Jesus are alpha male comic book characters.

The Native Americans had better religious and naturalistic views of our world than any religious inquisition corrupted gawds from Europe. Boy do we owe Native Americans an apology!

The problem is many are still offending the 1st people with their righteousness from the gawds of the Nazi style genocide that came with materialists and the Christians. Have we no shame or cultural maturity?

Thursday February 26, 2009, 7:08 pm
Signed, noted, forwarded. Thanks, Tom.

Thursday March 12, 2009, 4:15 pm
How do you say your sorry to thousands of Indians that have been killed by the government. Our children were put in government schools run by the Catholic church,Anglican,United churches. They were beaten and raped and sterialized. Forced not to speak their language and keep at the schools for nine months of the year not seeing their family. In Canada 150,000 Indian children in government schools run by Catholic,Angelican and United Churches were beaten,raped,steralized used for medical experiments and put in mass graves. American Indian have been frozen without heat,forced to live with mole in their homes and degraded for hundred of years. How do you say your sorry The United States Government? Margo Seven Oakes

Thursday March 12, 2009, 11:40 pm
Signed.. Change should of happened 200 years ago, yesterday and the day before that.. Enough wasting money on overseas issues.... The Indigneous peoples of this land need much more than an apology. It is a disgrace to think about the arrogance of the European conquer of this country.... to think they were so above it all to mistreat people... We need to address these issues right now!... Petition signed..!!!!!!!