At 1:24 PM -0500 11/30/99, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Native Americans have no reason to give thanks for Thanksgiving, I will agree.
>Our (all of us) treatment of the Native Americans was unpardonable and
>still is
>today.  It does no good to say I have never personally ill-treated a Native
>American, just as it does no good to say that I have never ill-treated
>Blacks or
>any other groups that have received ill-treatment.  The societal
>structures that
>exist and the advantages I have always enjoyed are there, to a large degree,
>because of what has happened in the past and who it has happened to.  You
>cannot
>cut yourself off from all of history and say that none of it has anything
>to do
>with you.  It is all connected and we are all connected.


It's true that we can't change the past, but if you're interested in doing
something now and into the future to benefit the remaining Native
Americans, then check out http://www.narf.org


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