Forgiveness Ceremony Unites Veterans And Natives At Standing Rock Casino

The Huffington Post ^ | 12/05/2016 04:55 pm ET | Jenna Amatulli

[The_Media_never_lie]

On Monday, Native Americans conducted a forgiveness ceremony with U.S. veterans at the Standing Rock casino, giving the veterans an opportunity to atone for military actions conducted against Natives throughout history.

In celebration of Standing Rock protesters’ victory Sunday in halting construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, Leonard Crow Dog formally forgave Wes Clark Jr., the son of retired U.S. Army general and former supreme commander at NATO, Wesley Clark Sr.

This was a historically symbolic gesture forgiving centuries of oppression against Natives and honoring their partnership in defending the land from the Dakota Access Pipeline.

[The_Media_never_lie]

No apologies for the Indians who tortured white settlers, before they killed them, raped women, killed children, and brutalized other Indian tribes. None of these guys in the photos look old enough to have served with Gen. George Armstrong Custer, but I could be wrong. Maybe they should just smoke the peace pipe and forget it

[madison10]

More snowflake stuff. As you stated NA not as innocent as they claim by any stretch.

[lee martell]

I suspect their victory to be shortlived. Obama is near the end of his tenure and has less time to ‘play nice’ with them.
He’ll leaving this unfinished business at Donald’s doorstep.

[headstamp 2]

Greetings from our alternate reality.

[clintonh8r]

Frack ‘em....

[FredZarguna]

You are forgetting the Wounded Knee was a NATO police action.

So... totally appropriate.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Their ancestors are from Asia.

[T-Bone Texan]

By every metric, the violent neolithic savages benefitted greatly by their utter subjugation at the hands of the white man.

You can keep your tree bark soup Kemosabe, I’ll just pop an Advil.

[T-Bone Texan]

BTW, this is all a Soros op.

Just throwing it out there for folks not hip to that.

[CMSMC]

Wonder if the kid is anything like his old man? I remember an Air Force 3 Star referring to Wesley Sr. publicly as “Windsock Wes” some years ago for his inability to take a non-political stand.

[BipolarBob]

Also they were at one with nature and there was peace amongst the different tribes and game aplenty for all until the white man came and spoiled it all.

/s

[bboop]

Went to a small museum in Kansas on a genealogy dig. There was an ‘Indian atrocities’ section, with text: “We must never forget the atrocities done to the early settlers by the Indians.” They then proceeded to name them - skinning alive, raping women, killing children, torture - all of the above.

[Figment]

The injuns don’t own the Missouri river and should be out of the picture

[Gator113]

This stuff makes me want to gag.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Almost. There are fewer of them now.

But if it weren’t for the Christian conscience of the paleface, fewer could have been well nigh zero.

Anyhow, the Indians who do the best are the ones who do not wallow in pity parties... and this is a place where the paleface has sometimes done them wrong. To wit: I loathe the way that lefties gin up minority racial identity grievances. Indians’ culture, without interference, tends to the stoic, and by nature they wouldn’t be complaining a lot about the depredations of the paleface, but rather keep on being attuned to nature as best they can. Indians are being played by paleface lefties. Indians would be wise to haul out the proverbial tomahawk and just cut that nonsense off.

[ErikJohnsky]

here’s a good song about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McksfOIIPDk&;

no, I’m not gonna be ashamed of the fact that America expanded westward as Russia did eastward, China did westward, and a million other countries.

[righttackle44]

Hey, Media-Liar-In-Chief. My great-great-great grandmother and her famiy were attacked by the federalized Colorado Volunteers during the Sand Creek Massacre. She survived and walked to Indian Territory and was attacked again by the cowardly dastard, Custer. (That's the battled portrayed in the movie, Little Big Man.

This is Congressional testimony of what the federalized Colorado volunteers did:
I saw the bodies of those [Indian people] lying there cut all to pieces, worse mutilated than any I ever saw before; the women cut all to pieces ... With knives; scalped; their brains knocked out; children two or three months old; all ages lying there, from sucking infants up to warriors ... By whom were they mutilated? By the United States troops ...
— John S. Smith, Congressional Testimony of Mr. John S. Smith, 1865

So, when you get to hell, you can tell Chivington and Custer how proud you were of what they did to the Cheyenne people.

[vpintheak]

OK....
Can we finally move on now!?

[cherry]

the history of the world is one of human travels to different lands, sometimes conquering, other times just settling....

the Indians came from somewhere else....

and its not like they were not war like, cannibalistic and cruel to newcomers or fellow Indians....

[Vesparado]

This vet not only doesn’t feel guilt but is actually grateful for the American Indian/US Army “interaction”.

If Great Great Grandfather “Trooper Tenth Cav” (only name which has come down to us via family lore) hadn’t bivouacked with his unit near a west Texas Indian village, I would be without the Indian and Black DNA which forms a part (albeit a small part) of my biological heritage!

As a “child of the west”, the “irregularity” of my lineage does not trouble me ... there are, I confess, other even more “colorful” episodes.