Senate Committee Apologizes to All Native Americans for Violence and Maltreatmen

[Chris_]

Senate Committee Apologizes to All Native Americans for Violence and Maltreatment by U.S. Citizens

CNSNews.com) – The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs passed a resolution by voice vote last week apologizing "on behalf of American people" to all Indian tribes for the mistreatment and violence by American citizens.
 
Senate Joint Resolution 14, sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), states that its purpose is “to acknowledge a long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies by the Federal Government regarding Indian Tribes and offer an apology to all Native Peoples on behalf of the United States.”
 
In Section 1A, No. 4 of the resolution states that the apology is on behalf of U.S. citizens for harm they have done to “Native Peoples.” In the resolution, native peoples are defined as people who “inhabited the land of the present-day United States since time immemorial and for thousands of years before the arrival of people of European descent.”
 
“Apologizes on behalf of the people of the United States to all Native Peoples for the many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on Native Peoples by citizens of the United States,” the resolution reads.

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Neither Brownback’s statement nor the resolution says whether the apology is on behalf of U.S. citizens who are alive today or U.S. citizens who lived in the past.

These idiots apologized for something they didn't do to people who are dead.     And DUmmies will feel good about it.   

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[djones520]

I'm actually kinda suprised it took this long for that committee to do that.  Not saying they should have, just suprised they've only just now done it.

[Chris_]

But it won't keep them from screwing over the tribes on oil leases and casino licenses.......then strong arming  them for campaign contributions,,,,,,,

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[DumbAss Tanker]

There was a lot of ugliness both ways, but unintended diseases gave the colonists the upper hand far more than unbridled greed or any other vice. 

Once one group completely had the ass-kickin' boot on, it was an unfortunate but inevitable attribute of human nature that it would get a workout.  The consequences are more genteel nowadays, 'resettlement' or legalized theft of land from the weak group by the strong; back in the day it was more blood and steel, like the origin of the phrase 'To Hell or Connaught.'

[RightCoast]

Great we have all come to terms with what happened, now can we tax the full take from Reservation casinos????

[DumbAss Tanker]

Great we have all come to terms with what happened, now can we tax the full take from Reservation casinos????

There ya go, tryin' to provoke another dang war...

[RightCoast]

There ya go, tryin' to provoke another dang war...

My little plug for the military/defense-industrial complex

[JohnnyReb]

BOY am I glad that first load of pilgrims weren't a bunch of bleeding heart liberals. My ass would still  be stuck in England.

[vesta111]

BOY am I glad that first load of pilgrims weren't a bunch of bleeding heart liberals. My ass would still  be stuck in England.

Yeah well how about the Natives apologising to us whose ancestors brought them all the necessities of life and made their life easier. 

We did not really want any trouble with the indigenous population, we were not attacking their city's and towns in order to acquirer their goods.

The one thing that I have wondered about is the story about the very early pilgrims meeting up with an Indian chief that spoke English and had, some said gone to Europe and come back.

This was all so long ago, who really knows what went on back then.

I do trust the diary's of the French Priests that came to Canada to save souls, they put their lives on the line and often lost them.  Their letters to France and personal diary's are priceless today, they recounted the times as they were with no politics involved.

What ever, history is in the past, we should be moving toward the future,

So when do we apologise to the Germans and Japanese for defending ourselves ???

[djones520]

Yeah well how about the Natives apologising to us whose ancestors brought them all the necessities of life and made their life easier. 

We did not really want any trouble with the indigenous population, we were not attacking their city's and towns in order to acquirer their goods.

The one thing that I have wondered about is the story about the very early pilgrims meeting up with an Indian chief that spoke English and had, some said gone to Europe and come back.

This was all so long ago, who really knows what went on back then.

I do trust the diary's of the French Priests that came to Canada to save souls, they put their lives on the line and often lost them.  Their letters to France and personal diary's are priceless today, they recounted the times as they were with no politics involved.

What ever, history is in the past, we should be moving toward the future,

So when do we apologise to the Germans and Japanese for defending ourselves ???

Erm...  are you smoking crack?  That first indian that the Pilgrims met who spoke English, was because an English trader was skimming the coast, saw some Indians, and captured them to sell as slaves.  The first English colonists did pick fights with the natives.  And lets not even forget our policy of veiled genocide against the western indians in the 1800's.