And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) >Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:35:10 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Rightwing anthropologists > >Today's NY Times front page has the latest in a series of attacks on >indigenous rights from the world of anthropology. In recent months, we have >been treated to various "anthropological" right-wing assaults: > >1) The Indians of the Southwest practiced cannibalism. Political >implication: It doesn't matter if Europeans exterminated Indians, since >they did it to themselves as well. > >2) Skeletal remains near the Columbia River in Washington State "prove" >that Caucasians preceded the Indian historically. Political implication: >land claims are meaningless because who knows who the original inhabitants >were. > >3) The convention of the American Anthropological Association was devoted >to a discussion of the "population problem." This is a euphemism for "too >many people of color." One of these cryptofascists with a PhD pointed to >population concentrations in Latin America and described them as "cancerous >tumors" on the face of the earth. > > >Today's NY Times reports on the "investigations" of anthropologist David >Stoll, who has revealed numerous inconsistencies in "I, Rigobertu Menchu". >This boils down to 2 main points. One, that the land claims of her parents >were not really directed against rich Spanish landlords, but members of her >own extended family. Two, that she was much better educated than she let >on. Rather than being an illiterate Indian, she was educated in Catholic >schools. > >While it is absolutely scandalous that Menchu and Elizabeth Burgos, who >collaborated with her, would make things up, we have to be clear what the >real agenda of people like Stoll and the US government is on this question. >They want to whitewash the Guatemalan regime of Rios Montt, who killed more >than 100,000 indigenous peoples in a bloodbath that lasted over years, one >that would cause Pinochet to recoil in horror. > >The movement for indigenous rights extends from Canada through Guatemala >and there is evidence that their land claims are being taken seriously, >despite setbacks to the Nisga'a, etc. The murderers and land thieves are >seeking desperately to tarnish the reputation of everybody involved in this >struggle. Our goal should be to hammer away at the bigger truth. Whatever >fictions may be present in "I Rigobertu Menchu", the larger fact is that >our client state in Guatemala was guilty of genocide. > > >Louis Proyect > >(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html) > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment ...http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ `"` `"` `"` `"` `"` `"`
