-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 10/11/99 1:17:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> The museum's director, Richard West, said the institution would be dedicated
> to ``presenting the Indian perspective.'' By ``Indian perspective,'' West
> means the fulminations of activists who think Columbus was the father of
> genocide and the 7th Cavalry was the Nazi S.S. on horseback.
>
> To emphasize the point, those attending the ceremony sang the anthem of the
> American Indian Movement, a militant gang best known for its terrorist
> action at the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975, which left two FBI agents
> dead.
Well, well. This is interesting. I think it is time to set the record
straight myself. The "militant gang" that is/was AIM, and two FBI agents
dead. I guess that is the fault of the American Indians. Never mind the
fact that the Fed's went in there on bogus charges, that they may have opened
fire first, and that they never identified themselves as Federal Agents until
long after the Indians were attacked and, quite rightly, wished to defend
themselves. Never mind that they hold Peltier in jail on trumped up charges
for a crime he could not have committed because he wasn't even present, never
mind that they won't give him the medical aid that he needs. The facts in
most case like these are that both the Indian and the "white man" are guilty
of great cruelty and killed many. Typically there is an attempt to swing the
pendulum the other way in order to "make up" for all the years we've been
subjected to the propaganda of only one side. Historical displays of this
type, and history in general, can never be truly objective, since we can
never know with certainty what occurred, and even if we did we could never
rightly choose in every case which items to display or write about as the
"most important," we certainly cannot write or display everything. I am just
about fed up with this type of thing. All of the sudden the FBI is good and
the Indians are bad. Why can't they all be humans and be a little of both.
Nothing but posturing.
posturing.
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