Op Thanksgiving zo leert men op VS scholen en zelfs aan de universiteit, herdenkt men dat in 1621 de pelgrims (tuig uit Europa) na de oogst samen met de oorspronkelijke bewoners (‘indianen’) aan tafel zaten. Een oogst die was behaald met de hulp en aanwijzingen van die ‘indianen’ .
Geen fluit van waar: Thanksgiving was in eerste plaats een feest n.a.v. een zelfs voor die tijd (1637) groot bloedbad dat senator John Withrop had laten aanrichten onder de Pequot stam, waarbij 700 mensen van die stam, inclusief vrouwen en kinderen, werden vermoord……..
Nog steeds hebben deze oorspronkelijke stammen geen rechten….. De aan hen, bij verdragen toegewezen gronden worden simpelweg onteigend als men vindt dat daar bijvoorbeeld een oliepijpleiding overheen gelegd moet worden, zoals de Dakota Access Pipiline (DAPL) of de Keystone (en de Keystone XL) pijpleiding, ook al weten de landelijke, regionale en plaatselijke overheden, dat deze pijpleidingen gegarandeerd op meerdere plekken zullen gaan lekken in de toekomst…….
Ach ja, wat verwacht je van ‘een land’ dat is gebouwd op de grootste genocide uit de geschiedenis, waarbij het overgrote deel van de oorspronkelijke bevolking werd vermoord…….’Een land’ gebouwd op leugens en extreem geweld………
Lees het volgende uitstekende artikel van Emma Fiala (en geeft het door!) op MintPress News en o.a gepubliceerd op Anti-Media, daaronder vindt u een artikel met video van Brasscheck TV, genaamd: ‘The theft of the New World’, waarin aandacht voor de legitimatie, die o.a. de kerk gaf aan de verovering van de ‘Nieuwe Wereld’ en de massamoorden die daarmee gepaard gingen…… Na de video en tekst van Brasscheck TV, nog een artikel geschreven door Tyler Durden, gepubliceerd op Zero Hedge, over de toestemming van de regionale overheid om de Keystone XL pijpleiding aan te leggen over grondgebied van Nebraska, dit terwijl een paar dagen daarvoor een grote lekkage in de Keystone pijpleiding werd ontdekt (dit wordt trouwens ook in het eerste artikel genoemd)……… Een beslissing die ‘uiteraard werd toegejuicht door de aandeelhouders, veelal ijskoud inhumaan geteisem dat maar één doel heeft: zoveel mogelijk winst maken, ten koste van wat dan ook……
How
to Be Less Ignorant This Thanksgiving
November
22, 2017 at 11:23 am
Written
by Emma
Fiala
A
day seen by many Americans as a day of celebration, a day for family,
and a day for giving thanks, is perceived by many Native Americans as
a day filled with ignorance, a day filled with anger and a day full
of mourning.
(MPN) —
While millions of Americans prepare this week to get into the
holiday spirit, beginning with Thanksgiving, how many are prepared to
view the day through an accurate lens? While to many Americans the
holiday serves as a reminder to give thanks, it is seen as a day of
mourning by countless others. The truth is: European migrants
brutally murdered Native Americans, stole their lands, and continue
to do so today.
Start
by acknowledging that almost everything taught about Thanksgiving in
most schools across the country is a lie. Most Americans remember
celebrations in elementary school in honor of Thanksgiving that
included activities ranging from coloring pages to parades to plays.
Everyone knows the drill: The Pilgrims fled Europe before landing on
Plymouth Rock. The resident natives taught them how to farm the land,
they all sat down for a big meal in 1621, and everyone lived happily
ever after in the United States.
This
brief history lesson is often followed by teepees made hastily from
paper bags and headdresses for all children in the classroom using
brown paper and brightly colored feathers. Some children are assigned
the role of Pilgrims while others are told to play Indian for the
day. Younger children make turkeys shaped like their hands while high
school students are allowed to glimpse a few select representations
of the gruesome battles involved in colonization.
Unfortunately,
the watered-down, inaccurate teaching of the first Thanksgiving
continues into junior high, high school and even into college, with
most Americans never actually learning the truth. If non-Native
Americans are to learn the truth of the day, it is best to go
directly to the source. While there were two parties involved in this
supposed great feast, most Americans reference only the story told by
the Pilgrims, only the story fed by the colonizers, only the story
shaped by textbook manufacturers over the years.
Celebration
of a Massacre
It
may come as a surprise to some that the first official Thanksgiving
Day was held in 1637. Feasts of thankfulness were commonplace in both
European and Native American circles long before the first meeting
between the Wampanoag tribe, which inhabited southeastern
Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and the Pilgrims when they first
landed back in 1621. In 1637, Governor John Winthrop called for an
official day of thanks to celebrate the massacre of more than 700
people from the Pequot Tribe, a gruesome and generally unknown start
to such a widespread and popular holiday. “This day forth shall be
a day of celebration and thanksgiving for subduing the Pequots,”
read the proclamation.
If
Thanksgiving is to be celebrated accurately, it must be viewed
through a Native American lens. The best way to do that is to ask a
Native American.
Watch
| Native Americans share their feelings about the history of
Thanksgiving and how it impacts their lives to this day:
Thoughts
and emotions communicated in this video, as well as in conversations
with Native Americans, are in stark contrast to the thoughts of
gratitude and love conventionally expressed by non-Native Americans
when it comes to Thanksgiving. A day seen by many as a day of
celebration, a day for family, and a day for giving thanks, is
perceived as a day filled with ignorance, a day filled with anger and
a day full of mourning. How can these incredibly conflicting views of
the same day and the same events possibly exist within the same
country?
Colonization
Then and Now
An
elderly woman is escorted to a transport van after being arrested by
law enforcement at the Oceti Sakowin camp as part of the final sweep
of the Dakota Access pipeline protesters in Morton County, Thursday,
Feb. 23, 2017, near Cannon Ball, N.D. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck
Tribune via AP, Pool)
Colonization
of this continent began long ago and continues to this day,
constantly shape-shifting but causing significant harm in all its
many guises. From the disappearance of Native women to the
fight for clean water,
and from the police murder of a Native boy to threats of the sale of
Native lands, the Native struggle against colonization is seemingly
unrelenting.
This
time last year, Native Americans and their allies were brutally
attacked by police while defending clean water at Standing Rock in
North Dakota. In freezing temperatures, water cannons, along with
rubber bullets, were used by militarized police to keep water
protectors at bay. Over the course of the entire struggle at Standing
Rock, excessive
force and violence were
used by police and hired security multiple times.
Police
confront water protectors on Thanksgiving Day in Mandan, North
Dakota, just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, after a
symbolic feast on the town’s main thoroughfare. (Emma Fiala)
On
Thanksgiving Day last year, a protest in the town of Mandan, ND was
met with a show of force while water protectors on the front lines at
the Oceti Sakowin camp at Standing Rock were attacked by police for
crossing the river at the base of Turtle Island. Native Americans and
their allies persisted and found
reasons to be thankful in
the face of oppression.
Recently,
a 14-year-old Native American boy, Jason Ike Pero, was killed by an
Ashland County Sheriff’s Deputy on the Bad River reservation in
northwestern Wisconsin. The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior
Ojibwe has
requested the
Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to open a
criminal civil rights investigation into the incident. They claim the
media and Wisconsin Department of Justice are trying falsely to
“describe Jason as being a troubled young man that acted in a
violent manner towards the deputy,” a tactic seen again and again
when it comes to police violence against minorities.
Just
this week, Nebraska’s Public Utility Commission approved the permit
for the Keystone XL pipeline, threatening Indigenous lands, despite a
major leak in
the Keystone pipeline just days prior. Pipelines and other
projects threaten Native
lands across the country, with the Trump administration seemingly
more focused on profit than on protecting both Native and national
lands.
Celebrating
Thoughtfully
Once
the truth is acknowledged, how do non-Natives move forward? The
Thanksgiving tradition is now so deeply rooted in American culture
that doing away with the holiday completely is unrealistic, and would
further do little to repair the harm that has been done over the
years.
Here
are some suggestions on how Americans can avoid the traditional
whitewash and hypocrisy, and tailor their Thanksgiving
celebrations thoughtfully:
-
Donate
to local Native American organizations or to those fighting
to protect their lands. -
Cook
traditional Native foods. -
Invite
a Native neighbor and listen to what they have to say. -
Teach
family, friends, children an accurate history of Thanksgiving and
colonization, using these books suggested by American
Indians in Children’s Literature. -
Make
an informed decision with family and decide together whether
celebrating Thanksgiving is appropriate and comfortable.
When
it comes to halting and healing from colonization there is much work
to be done. Thanksgiving Day and it’s brutal history are an
excellent and timely place to begin.
By Emma
Fiala / Creative
Commons / MintPress
News / Report
a typo
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The
theft of the New World
HOW
DID THEY JUSTIFY IT?
Government
terror, Hidden
History
IT
STARTS A LITTLE SLOW – THEN IT GETS GOING
It
starts very slowly, but then when it gets to the point it is begins a
fascinating story.
Have
you ever wondered how European powers justified coming in and taking
the New World?
After
all, it belonged to someone.
We
all know the European powers used violence, but they also operated
“under the law.”
What
law are we talking about?
The
savage “Doctrine of Discovery in the Name of Christ.”
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Nebraska Regulators Approve Keystone Pipeline Route Days After South Dakota Leak, Shutdown
by Tyler Durden
Nov 20, 2017 11:29 AM
TransCanada received its final required pipeline route approval, winning Nebraska’s permission to build its long-delayed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline across the state… just days after a 5,000 barrel spill in South Dakota shut the pipeline.
decision will almost certainly be challenged in court.
Just a few short days after 210,000 gallons of crude oil spilled in South Dakota, Bloomberg reports that Nebraska’s Public Service Commission voted three to two Monday, removing one of the last hurdles to the Calgary-based company’s construction of the $8 billion, 1,179-mile conduit (1,897-kilometer), which has been on its drawing boards since 2008.
For those who aren’t familiar with the project, the pipeline links Canada’s Alberta oil sands to U.S. refineries. While a portion of the pipeline has been operating, part of it had still not been approved by state regulators… until today’s decision by Nebraska.
(Héééé! Altijd al gedacht dat Nederland één groot redneck gat was!)
However, as Bloomberg notes, the commission approved an alternative route.
Jane Kleeb, president of the environmental advocacy group Bold Alliance, said green-lighting an alternative route may have helped the commission reach a “middle ground solution.”
At the same time it opens new questions that she said her group would explore in federal court. She argued the secondary route wasn’t adequately vetted.
That view mirrored a dissenting opinion filed by Commissioner Crystal Rhoades. She wrote that TransCanada didn’t meet “the burden of proof” in proving that the pipeline is in the state’s public interest, and she said the alternative route needed more study on both the state and federal level. For example, she said, Nebraska’s Department of Environmental Quality didn’t analyze the alternative route at all in its 2013 report.
“It is clear” TransCanada “never intended it to be considered,” Rhoades said.
In its post-hearing brief, TransCanada told the panel its “preferred route was the product of literally years of study, analysis and refinement by Keystone, federal agencies and Nebraska agencies,” and that no alternate route, even one paralleling the Keystone mainline as the approved path does, was truly comparable.
TransCanada’s share price is up on the news…
Notably, with Nebraska’s go-ahead in hand, TransCanada still must formally decide whether to proceed with construction on the line, which would send crude from Hardisty, Alberta, through Montana and South Dakota to Nebraska, where it will connect to pipelines leading to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. The company’s open season for gauging producers’ interest closed late last month, and TransCanada executives have indicated that they’ve secured enough shipping commitments to make the project commercially worthwhile.
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