ALCOHOL
THE GREAT DREAM KILLER. WHEN I LOOK AT THIS PICTURE IT FILLS ME WITH ANGER. IT FILLS ME WITH RAGE THAT IT HAS A DEATH GRIP ON MY PEOPLE.HOWEVER IT WASNÕT ALWAYS LIKE THIS. I BELIEVE THIS IS HOW ALCOHOL WAS INTRODUCED TO NATIVE AMERICANS.
A LONG TIME AGO, WHEN THE WHITE MAN FIRST CAME TO THIS LAND FROM OVER SEAS, THEY DISCOVERED THE NATIVES. THEY DISCOVERED THAT WE WERE WILLING TO HELP THE STRANGE COLORED MEN. THEY DISCOVERED THAT TO US THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN DID NOT MATTER.
SOON THE WHITE MEN WERE SETTING UP FACTORIES EXPANDING WESTWARD.THEY WANTED MORE AND MORE LAND AND THE ONLY WAY THEY KNEW HOW WAS TO DO IT BY FORCE. ONE THING THAT HELD THEM BACK WAS THEIR RELIGION,Ó THOW SHALL NOT KILL.Ó THE DEVIOUSLY CLEVER WHITE MAN FIGURED OUT THAT SINCE HUMANS SUPPOSELY CAME FROM AN APE, HUMANS WENT THROUGH STAGES BEFORE BEING FULLY HUMAN.FROM A APE TO A BLACK MAN TO A YELLOW MAN TO A RED MAN AND FINALLY TO THE WHITE MAN. THEY CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT NATIVES WERE NOT FULLY HUMANS. THAT WE AND EVERBODY THAT WAS NOT WHITE WERE SUBHUMAN.
FROM THIS FRAME OF MIND THEY CONQUERED THE SPAINAIRDS TAKING THEIR LAND BY USING MILITARY FORCE. THEY CONQUERED THE BRITISH COLONISTS TAKING THEIR LAND USING MILITARY FORCE.
SO NOW IT WAS OUR TURN TO BE KILLED OFF. THE GOVERNMENT PREPARED THEIR MILITARY, BUT WHAT THEY DID NOT PREPARE FOR WAS OUR SWEET SWEET DEFIANCE. THE WHITE MEN WERE POWERLESS AGAINST US. WHAT WAS OUR SECRET WEAPON? WAS IT ALIENS SECRETLY HELPING US?
IT WAS THE POWER OF OUR LANGUAGE, OUR VOICE, OUR SONGS, AND OUR WORDS.THE WHITE MEN STOOD FACING US POINTING THEIR WEAPONS AT OUR HEADS. WE DID NOT MOVE. THIS FRUSTRATED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
THE MILITARY DEFENSE OF THE U.S. BEGAN TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT MADE US SO STRONG. THEY CAME UP WITH A PLAN. THEY SENT A SELECT GROUP OF WHITE MEN TO INTERMARRY WITH NATIVES. THE WHITE MEN BECAME ACCEPTED AND SOON THESE WHITE MEN WERE SENDING REPORTS OF WHAT THEY KNEW ABOUT THE NATIVES BACK TO WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON THEN WANTED TO KNOW WHO OUR LEADERS WERE, BUT WE REFUSED TO TELL THE WHITE MEN. ALL THE NATIVES, OUT OF TRADITION, KEPT THEIR MOUTHS SHUT.
WASHINGTON THEN BEGAN TO SEND ALCOHOL TO THE TRIBES. IN THEIR STATE OF WEAKNESS, THE WHITE MEN ASKED THE DRUNK YOUNG MEN WHO THEIR LEADERS WERE. THE YOUNG MEN, POINTING TO THE OLDEST MEN IN THE TRIBE, SAID THEY WERE OUR LEADERS. OUR POWER AND STRENGH VANISHED AT THAT MOMENT.
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