Richard, according to Hitler, he based his racial policies on those of the US. If anyone is interested in this topic, I have a book coming out in the next several months entitled Holocaust of Native America: An Introduction. Achukma Hoke George Ann >From: Richard Wilson <imafo2002@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [CHOCTAW-SE] slavery >Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 12:22:40 -0700 (PDT) > > Halito All: > > I have much today to discuss so I must do it in >several postings as it covers disparate topics. I >cannot resist the discussion about the treatment of >our ancestors. Now I know this is not appropriate so I >will only begin on this site and will transfer the >debate to the other list if anyone chooses. However, >our people are in terrible distress and danger not >seen since the "Termination Period". Now I am going to >disagree with people who have been quite helpful to >others. Please don't take this personally, because it >isn't. I only do this because I think it is very >important and we must keep informed. I will not bring >it up or discuss it on this site again. > We must remember that the history books are >written by Euro-Americans for consumption by >Euro-Americans and the indoctrination of immigrants, >children and other races into the glories of Western >thought, history and superiority. In other words, with >an Euro-centric and/or Euro-Americentric bias. > Secondly, I am very happy to let the past go, if >there were only some remorse on the part of the >government, powerful and wealthy individuals as well >as the numerous multi-national corporations who >continue to perpetrate this genocide against the >American Indian. If you don't believe this, lets just >take a look at recent and current history. > First let me begin with a person by the name of >Raphael Lemkin. Raphael Lemkin was hired by the >Carnegie Foundation to study war crimes in the "Third >Reich" and to propose international legal solutions. >He is also the person who invented the term >"genocide". >Lemkin gave the term genocide a 5-part definition, >which I don't remember verbatim, but I certainly do >remember all of the main elements. Genocide is the >occupation and forced removal of sovereignty and/or >political control and/or power from a people, which >might also include changing the national language, >destroying cultural institutions and churches, etc. It >is the forced removal of a people from their land. It >is the use of forced labor and/or labor under very >dangerous conditions and very poor wages. It is the >causing of the population of a people to decrease in >its ability to reproduce. It is the destruction of >their economy. Finally, it is extermination. You >didn't have to have all of these things occurring to >have genocide. The Nazis might have some people in >slave labor and starved them, thereby reducing their >ability to reproduce and slowly exterminating them; >while with other groups they may have occupied their >country, eliminated sovereignty, changed the national >language, etc. > Although the U.S. led the way for the "genocide >Convention" it fought any passage of the treaty every >step of the way. First, along with the U.S.S.R. and >China the U.S. eliminated various parts of the >genocide definition until it became virtually useless. >When the various proposals were sent to Capital Hill >for study, various senators and congressman objected >against having Raphael Lemkin testify, because he >wasn't white and was Jewish. An internationally >renouned jurist and the person who invented the term >genocide was prevented from testifying in our >legislature because of anti-semitism. > After years of fighting this treaty, making the >definition useless and building in protections for >itself that no other country has, and after >considerable world condemnation, the U.S.became the >last country to sign the treaty in the 1980s, very >reluctantly I might add. > Now why might the U.S. do this? Well in the 1940s >in the south African-Americans were hanging from trees >like"strange fruit" to borrow a line from a song made >famous by Billie Holliday. The African-American also >could not vote in the south. The American Indian after >being drafted into service in one war without the >benefit of citizenship, but yet volunteered at a >higher rate than the general population in all of the >wars of the 20th Century and had a better record than >any other group, i.e. desertion, etc., then was forced >to accept U.S. citizenship with the passage of the >American Indian Citizenship Act. > Now how does the U.S.reward this loyalty and >bravery? Well, with allottment, removal and >termination. All of these things done to >African-Americans and the American Indian, not to >mention other groups,would have been violations of the >"genocide Treaty" using Raphael Lemkin's definition of >genocide. That is why the U.S. > > > > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes >http://finance.yahoo.com > > >==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== >Need more CHOCTAW information. 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