Paralell: Palestinians // 'American Indians'

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There is at least one apparent parallel between what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians at the present time, 2012, and the actions of the American Government and Society against the Indigenous Peoples of the United States, starting mainly in the 1800's, and continuing into the present time(Read the book: 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' Author: Dee Brown).

 ...Or, is it that we are actually witnessing a simple progression of the very same--though perhaps evolved, society; with an evolved and expanded set of international social and political relationships, and a similar,  possibly evolved, lack of   intuitively appropriate--and humane, morals and practises?

There is a statement that makes its way around the social circles of the Internet. The statement contains an Historic photograph of  nineteenth century American Indigenous warriors, mounted on horse back and carrying rifles, while stoically gazing into the lens of the camera. The caption reads, 'Fighting Terrorism since 1492'. 

Terrorism is nothing new to us as the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; both North and South America. Although the face of North American-style terrorism may have been altered somewhat since it began over five hundred years ago, the reality continues to infuse our homeland territories and our common, Indigenous Community with the destructive tracks of this unabashed foe. As members of the Indigenous Tribal Groups of these lands, we have watched one another suffer through, and die as a result of, the various forms and tactics of this multi-faceted and Federally espoused, and on-going campaign of North American based, home-spun Terrorism. This brand of Terrorism  is made up of the DNA of North American non-Indigenous socio-political structure. 

At the present time, 2012, we watch as government assisted corporate activity continues the practise of the destruction, and indeed the decimation of our homelands and resources at the expense of our Indigenous practises of traditional sustenance and livelihood, Cultural Practise and self-determination.
Across Canada and the United States, Indigenous Peoples continue to lose additional portions of their traditional homeland territory and their natural resources, to the efforts of these governments and their corporate partners. Efforts of these Indigenous Peoples to protect their homelands and their resources against such encroachment are suppressed by these North American Federal Governments, through the use of their political power structure, which includes their bureaucracy, their law courts, their police and their militia.   Because the populace of these countries refuse to acknowledge any impropriety toward these Indigenous Peoples in regards to these historic and present issues, Indigenous Peoples all across the Americas continue to endure these draconian realities, essentially at the hands of both the American and the Canadian Society .
The underlying truth of this all is that, if the Government of Canada were to intervene in this historic practise of  the denial of the Human Rights and the Indigenous Rights of Indigenous Peoples of Canada, the entire structure of wealth distribution across Canada would shift in favour of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, and away from non-Indigenous Canadians. Historic legal, political, social, and financial wrongs would have to be corrected. Again this would place a huge burden, upon Canada and Canadians, of repatriation of Property and wealth to the coffers of Canada's Indigenous Peoples. And it will be a cold day in hell before the Government of Canada will ever consider, 'Doing the right thing,' in terms of honestly assessing and effectively correcting its historic and its present relationship with the Indigenous Peoples of Canada.