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Michelle Obama: 'Our Government Outlawed Indian Religions'
CNS News ^ | April 9, 2015 - 10:41 AM | By CNSNews.com Staff

Posted on 04/09/2015 11:19:06 AM PDT by drewh

On Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama addressed a gathering at the White House that focused on the topic of creating opportunity for Native American youth. The White House posted her prepared remarks online.

The full speech, as posted by the White House, can be read by clicking here. Here is an excerpt from the First Lady's remarks:

You see, we need to be very clear about where the challenges in this community first started.

Folks in Indian Country didn’t just wake up one day with addiction problems. Poverty and violence didn’t just randomly happen to this community. These issues are the result of a long history of systematic discrimination and abuse.

Let me offer just a few examples from our past, starting with how, back in 1830, we passed a law removing Native Americans from their homes and forcibly re-locating them to barren lands out west. The Trail of Tears was part of this process. Then we began separating children from their families and sending them to boarding schools designed to strip them of all traces of their culture, language and history. And then our government started issuing what were known as “Civilization Regulations” – regulations that outlawed Indian religions, ceremonies and practices – so we literally made their culture illegal.

And these are just a few examples. I could continue on like this for hours.

So given this history, we shouldn’t be surprised at the challenges that kids in Indian Country are facing today. And we should never forget that we played a role in this. Make no mistake about it – we own this.

And we can’t just invest a million here and a million there, or come up with some five year or ten-year plan and think we’re going to make a real impact. This is truly about nation-building, and it will require fresh thinking and a massive infusion of resources over generations. That’s right, not just years, but generations.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: indianreligions; michelle; michelleobama; nativeamericans; religion; rfra
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To: drewh
Then we began separating children from their families and sending them to boarding schools designed to strip them of all traces of their culture, language and history.

Kind of like how the left demands that no images of Indian history are celebrated by sports teams.

21 posted on 04/09/2015 11:25:55 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: drewh

That’s the same thing she wants to do to Christians, btw


22 posted on 04/09/2015 11:26:26 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: drewh

Yes, Poverty at this scale DID NOT happen overnight, it took 40 years of LBJ’s ‘Great Society’ and $8Trillion to buy this much poverty


23 posted on 04/09/2015 11:26:31 AM PDT by Mr. K (I)
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To: drewh

White people should be put on Reservations. How about everywhere south of the Mason Dixon extended to California?


24 posted on 04/09/2015 11:26:35 AM PDT by Leep (To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
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To: drewh

Then we began separating children from their families and sending them to boarding schools designed to strip them of all traces of their culture, language and history.

A practice the left continues today.


25 posted on 04/09/2015 11:26:39 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: drewh

Good grief.


26 posted on 04/09/2015 11:27:05 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: cuban leaf

She gets her history books from Noam Chomsky and other biased and lying sources


27 posted on 04/09/2015 11:27:50 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: drewh

Did she Google this ?


28 posted on 04/09/2015 11:28:11 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
-This is all part of removing Andrew Jackson from the $20 and replacing him with some feminazi.


29 posted on 04/09/2015 11:28:20 AM PDT by JPG (Lefty reporters doing battle with Sen. Cruz will continue to be chewed-up and spit-out.)
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To: drewh

Bet there were a few Dems involved, after all they had plenty of experience from the way they treated black people via Jim Crow.


30 posted on 04/09/2015 11:28:21 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: ColdOne

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31 posted on 04/09/2015 11:28:36 AM PDT by therapsida (i)
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To: fatnotlazy
Yep. It’s all whitey’s fault.

Ypu. Look at all those white Cavalry Troopers:


32 posted on 04/09/2015 11:29:03 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: taterjay

And they’ll deny that that’s what they’re doing even while the trains are running to the camps.


33 posted on 04/09/2015 11:29:21 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: drewh

Michael (or Michelle), Not to worry. Before your old man and Valerie Jerkoff — er Jarrett — are done, this country will BAN the perverse cult known as ISLAM!


34 posted on 04/09/2015 11:29:21 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: drewh

All the truth in Black and Whitey


35 posted on 04/09/2015 11:29:25 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: carriage_hill

Some Indian tribes are doing very well, due to development such as casinos and resort hotels .

Is this an attempt to start a liberal monologue, along the lines of other liberal talking points? We will dredge up the sins of the past and yack endlessly about how people were victims ??

Heck maybe we will even see liberals.talk of reparations for Indians, similar to talk of reparations for slavery.


36 posted on 04/09/2015 11:29:33 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: drewh

PREP FOR **REPARATIONS**


37 posted on 04/09/2015 11:30:17 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: JPG

Sacagawea is on the dollar coin , but do you use it , nope


38 posted on 04/09/2015 11:30:24 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: GeronL

Bingo!


39 posted on 04/09/2015 11:31:03 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: cuban leaf

“What’s her point?”

To stir up discontent.


40 posted on 04/09/2015 11:31:18 AM PDT by GilesB
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