But we stole it fair and square!

I think Captain Codpiece is going soft in his (thankfully) final months in office. The US Park Service is considering returning half of the Badlands National Park to the Ogala Sioux. Clearly there is no oil there. Just don't anyone start thinking that this is any kind of precedent, OK?

Today in infamy - "because ethnic cleansing is so so American" edition

On this day in 1830 the US Congress passed the Indian Removal Act freeing up precious real estate for real Americans.

Is our childrens learning?

A Philadelphia area primary school apparently held a mock trial to determine if Columbus discovered America or whether Native Americans were already here. The "trial" ended up in a hung jury apparently and the Columbus supporters (think "Intelligent Design") crowed that the supporters of the Native Americans couldn't prove that they were "civilised". Isn't that the way all colonial tyrannies have justified their theft, rape, pillage and genocide; by claiming that the natives were uncivilised savages and not truly human?

Today in infamy

One hundred and seventeen years ago today a lawless group of heavily armed illegal immigrants masacreed over one hundred and fifty loyal Americans at Wounded Knee.

"Now get the fuck off our land!"

The Lakota tribe has seceded from the United States and about bloody time too!

(Link fixed!)

History is always written by the victors

If you are in any doubt how the conflict between the noble Christian Europeans, who came to the Americas to bring civilisation, and the simple pagan savages, who might be said to be the rightful owners of both continents, turned out you might wish to visit the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.