In answer to your question, why the inactivity and lack of outrage? The answer: they haven't, in their history, lost land.
I donated immediately, RTed the link, and got a LOT of retweets. I'm in Ireland. I know it's a different group of Native Americans, but when the starving people in Mayo were turned away from the hunting lodge and left to die on the mountains, the Choctaw Indians raised money to help.
We don't forget, we who have lost land, or had it taken from us. That's not to say grudges are held - lots of water under the bridge now and we've had more than enough chances to f*** up all by ourselves - but we don't forget.
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Date: 2012-08-27 09:57 pm (UTC)In answer to your question, why the inactivity and lack of outrage? The answer: they haven't, in their history, lost land.
I donated immediately, RTed the link, and got a LOT of retweets. I'm in Ireland. I know it's a different group of Native Americans, but when the starving people in Mayo were turned away from the hunting lodge and left to die on the mountains, the Choctaw Indians raised money to help.
We don't forget, we who have lost land, or had it taken from us. That's not to say grudges are held - lots of water under the bridge now and we've had more than enough chances to f*** up all by ourselves - but we don't forget.