-----Original Message----- From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 4:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Perelman wrote: One minor point. From the standpoint of subjectivity, the slaughter of the Native Americans was a holocaust. Many people were intent on wiping out the indigenous population to make way for "civilization." Michael, With all due respect to this "minor point" the slaughter of "Native Americans" IS not only WAS a genocidal holocaust. There are new forms of "infected blankets" being used but the intention is the same--extermination of Indians as Indians through "redefinition", blood-quantum rules by BIA, gross theft and mismanagement of Trust Funds, undervaluation of owed royalties to Tribes and Nations, underfunded Indian Health Service Clinics, stolen lands through unconscionable contracts and fraud, murders of Tribal activists, harassment and murder of activists by FBI and other US Government Agencies, coerced or deceptive adoptions, forced assimilation in Residential and Boarding Schools, coerced or deceptive sterilizations of Indian Children, summary certification of extinction/termination of whole Tribes/Nations by BIA and cumbersome procedures for recertification, refusal to move against Tribe/Nation destroying drugs and alcohol by BIA and law enforcement agencies, rigging Tribal Elections to place sell-out Indians in Tribal Councils... and on and on and on. If your in my area and have some time let me take you on a tour of Reservations that no outsider could ever see unescorted. Genocide IS going on Right Now; it is not a matter of history and not the present. take care, Jim
