Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it."

We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade.

"...Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles of racial supremacy.

Oh that’s dope! Nice to meet you regardless, relative. 🥰

Peter Marksman - L’Anse Band. Are we cuzzins? lol

My 4th-great grandfather signed the Treaty of 1854 which ceded Ojibwe land on the north and western shores of Lake Superior to the US Government. It also established reservations in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

It stresses me out to start over but I dislike threads and that other place is 😫

Perfection.