Indigenous in America.

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Indigenous in America

The hard truth.

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the US

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Stolen at birth

Sold like property

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

"“Much of this world vanished after Columbus, swept away by disease and subjugation. So thorough was the erasure that within a few generations neither conqueror nor conquered knew that this world had existed.” ― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus"
Following having their land stolen, their women raped, exploitation, and the mass genocide of the native american villages, the remaining were enslaved and relocated them from their own lands. Following the death from disease, slavery and down right murder from the Europeans the devastation was so great their numbers had been but down by hundreds of thousands of people.
“Rare is the human spirit that remains buoyant in a holocaust.” ― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By the 1800’s The native americans populations were forced to live on designated reservations. This was enacted by federal guidance and they were not allowed to leave. The reservations were like a prisoner-of-war camps as Natives They were left hungry, in extreme poverty and unable to sustain themselves through hunting, fishing or collecting traditional foods that they were normally accustomed to.
2023, treated like second class citizens on land that was stolen from their ancestors, they have to face major adversity for the simple basic human needs. By any measure, health care for Native Americans rank far behind other groups, despite a legal obligation on the part of the United States to provide health care to American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Native American communities face significant inequity in health care and health status compared to other U.S. populations. Native Americans face various environmental risks, including water contamination, dumping, air pollution, mining waste, and climate change.

There is a great article in written by Human Rights magazine: Vol. 43, No. 3: The State of Healthcare in the United States. This is a direct quote:


“Native Americans continue to die at higher rates than other Americans in many categories of preventable illness.”
“For Native Americans, 2 out of 3 with kidney failure have diabetes. In 2017, the IHS reported that it had decreased kidney failure from diabetes by 54 percent among Native American adults (American Indians/Alaskan Natives) between 1996 and 2013.”

How to join the fight and show my support.
The Native American Rights Fund.
Co-Founded in 1970 The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is a non-profit organization that uses existing laws and treaties to ensure that U.S. state governments and the U.S. federal government live up to their legal obligations.
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National Indigenous Womens Resource Center.
Their mission is to end violence against Native women and vision of restoring sovereignty for tribes to hold perpetrators accountable. We are committed to providing national leadership in this work by lifting up the collective voices of grassroots advocates in tribal communities.
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Suggested Reading

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States.
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Author)

“Free” land was the magnet that attracted European settlers. Many were slave owners who desired limitless land for lucrative cash crops. After the war for independence but preceding the writing of the US Constitution, the Continental Congress produced the Northwest Ordinance. This was the first law of the incipient republic, revealing the motive for those desiring independence. It was the blueprint for gobbling up the British-protected Indian Territory (“Ohio Country”) on the other side of the Appalachians and Alleghenies. Britain had made settlement there illegal with the Proclamation of 1763. In 1801, President Jefferson aptly described the new settler-state’s intentions for horizontal and vertical continental expansion, stating: “However our present interests may restrain us within our own limits, it is impossible not to look forward to distant times, when our rapid multiplication will expand itself beyond those limits and cover the whole northern, if not the southern continent, with a people speaking the same language, governed in similar form by similar laws.”
"Being stolen at birth does not give you the liberty of knowing your own family, culture or people."
Maria
Trafficking Survivor
Being stolen at birth does not afford you the luxury of knowing your own family, culture or people. I was sold in the late 1970’s as a part of a child trafficking ring that was linked to Euro-American people that would financially benefit from forcibly and unlawfully removing children from indigenous and undocumented immigrants (mainly of Mexican decent). They would impose a rapist to impregnate and immigrant or indigenous woman (in their eyes had no value) so that the could steal the child and sell said child to an affluent Euro-American family.
The adoptive family was not always aware of these conditions. It brings up the moral dilemma if you do not know all the facts in the choices you are making can you be held fully responsible for the carnage of the chaos it causes to the family that has lost their child.
In my case my biological mother suffered was 8 months pregnant when the traffickers received the payment for me so that mean she was induced EARLY and I was born and immediately taken when she was drugged and sleeping. I was 43 years before I ever has the chance to see her face. To hear her voice. To see the pain the echoed inside of her body and soul for all those years. It destroyed the lives of my siblings also who had to endure my mothers pain and depression over not knowing where her child was.
Before you think this was some back alley transaction between some gang members or guys with guns and masks… I need you to realize this was a part of a ring of prominent lawyers, doctors and law enforcement. The birth was at the bottom floor of a busy and popular hospital in California. I was one of what was thousands of children stolen and distributed to the east coast families paying top dollar for black market adoptions. Not all of the victims know the truth of their existence.  I can tell you first hand that for me the knowledge feels like more of a curse than an enlightenment. Sometimes I want to just go back to the Matrix.
– Maria

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Many indigenous women have gone missing or have been murdered in recent years, with very little attention from the authorities.

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