NP Native Americans-related

[Steve Maas]

Resurrecting a venomous p-list debate from a time long ago (early in the 
MDMD).  You can look it up....

The BIA Chief(Kevin Gover, a Pawnee) also mentioned "...the deliberate 
spread of disease...," as referred to in M&D.  The earlier flame war 
degenerated into one or two folks castigating Buffy Sainte Marie for the 
lack of historical proof of the allegations in her songs.  Those same folks, 
to use a currently-fashionable cliche, equated absence of proof with proof 
of absence.

     Steve Maas

Doug Millison wrote:
>WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the federal Bureau of
>Indian Affairs apologized Friday for the
>agency's "legacy of racism and inhumanity" that included
>massacres, forced relocations of tribes and attempts to
>wipe out Indian languages and cultures. "By accepting
>this legacy, we accept also the moral responsibility of
>putting things right," Kevin Gover, a Pawnee Indian,
>said in an emotional speech marking the agency's 175th
>anniversary. Gover said he was apologizing on behalf
>of the BIA, not the federal government as a whole.
>Still, he is the highest-ranking U.S. official ever to
>make such a statement regarding the treatment of
>American Indians. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/
>story.cgi?id=2569580851-761

>(Pynchon deals with this in M&D, GR, and elsewhere, if
>you need a Pynchon angle for this post.)

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