To the editor:
We offer comment from an Indian perspective regarding a Sept. 22, 2010 letter about some “pastor with guts.”
As individuals read our letter I would ask them to put themselves in the Native American’s position of from once being the true owners of the landmass known as North America to being paupers and strangers in their homeland. This letter is meant to respectfully enlighten your readership regarding how our homeland became someone else’s country.
Before there can be true forgiveness from their God, the transplanted euroamericans must first recognize, acknowledge and accept the fact and truth of how euroamericans stole our homeland through genocide and how today they continue to hold onto their ill-gotten gains through willful denial.
As for the loss of their spiritual equilibrium? That was lost when euroamericans, in 1492, began their bloody genocidal trek across our homeland culminating with the remaining few Indians being imprisoned on those euroamerican-made concentration camps known to us as Indian reservations.
The sin of coveting what does not belong to one is exactly how euroamericans managed to steal our homeland.
As for those time-honored values of their forefathers, I would say that the present generation continues to live and display those time-honored values of genocide, hatred, theft, violence and denial.
If the nation state that has come to be known as America ever was truly one nation under a higher power it must have been prior to 1492 when our Turtle Island was populated by 120 million real human beings living in love, peace, balance and respect.
Our medicine shamans speak of a day of reckoning and of atonement coming for the genocide of the real human beings of Turtle Island.
For the individuals who need objective academic written facts they should read the books “American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World” by David E. Stannard and “A Little Matter of Genocide” by Ward Churchill.
Dan Ennis, Saugam
Wulustukyieg Nation
