CHEROKEE KID

We Are A "People" of the Rivers

 



As faithful readers of this blog know, I am part Cherokee (by now, we should all be).  But this story is not about me, its about a beautiful little girl whose adoption is before the Supreme Court.  Those of you who know our true history, know that the Supreme Court ruled more than a hundred years ago to uphold the human rights of the Cherokee.  But that old Indian Fighter and Exterminator, Andrew Jackson was in the White House at the time, and flipped the bird to the Supreme Court.  The extermination process, (explained to us by DeTocqville, who was here around that time studying our "Democracy"), accelerated; and the panoply of methods for wiping out the natives advanced.

 

The most effective methods used by whites to exterminate the natives (and to degrade, demoralize and subdue the other non-whites) involved the children of their "despised" groups.  We  have now, after more than a hundred years, come full circle.  The Supremes, are asked to revisit their earlier standing on the Cherokees. http://newsok.com/u.s.-supreme-court-wrestles-with-case-of-cherokee-child-at-center-of-adoption-dispute/article/3786861

 

My way of focusing on issues like this, is to take it in context of who we are as a people, and where we're headed.  If you think of it, we're really a "people of the rivers".  The Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Colorado, Columbia, and Rio Grande divide the large chunks of the lands of our origin.  Minor rivers and tributaries define the rest.  In spite of the continued attempts by Europeans and others who have invaded these lands, either "legally" or not, a basic definition of "the people" has evolved over the many hundreds of years of "bed swapping".  We are not who we say we are!  Instead, we're each the people we define through our behavior.  I think President Obama made that clear in his speech in Boston this morning.

 

Those in this country now, and those seeking to enter these shores for purposes of conquest on some scale, should take careful note of the people they're confronting, ignoring, or belittling.

 

Stay Vigilant!  Check your DNA.

 

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