Posted on 04/12/2002 1:30:40 PM PDT by Andy from Beaverton
Next of Kin
"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it." - Mahpiua Luta (Red Cloud) of the Oglala Sioux
By Reality Macedonia Research Team
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Experiences of Balkan peoples, the road kill of the New World Order, eerily resemble the sentiments expressed by native Americans...
Source of most quotes: the book "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown (1971). [Page numbers indicated in square brackets.]
Anti-native media bias
"The whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told." - Yellow Wolf of the Nez Percés, [pp. 300.].
 Sitting Bull |
"If a man looses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it he will find it, and that is what the Indians are doing now when they ask you to give them the things that were promised them in the past; and I do not consider that they should be treated like beasts, and that is the reason I have grown up with the feelings I have… I feel that my country has gotten a bad name, and I want it to have a good name; it used to have a good name; and I sit sometimes and wonder who it is that has given it a bad name." - Tatanka Yotanka (Sitting Bull), Hunkpapa Dakota/Sioux, [pp.390].
"If it had not been for the massacre, there would have been a great many more people hew now; but after that massacre who could have stood it? When I made peace with Lieutenant Whitman my heart was very big and happy. The people in Tucson and San Xavier must be crazy. They acted as though they had neither heads nor hearts… they must have thirst for our blood… These Tucson people write for the papers and tell their own story. The Apaches have no one to tell their story." - Eskiminzin of the Aravaipa Apaches, [pp.188].
 Geronimo |
Aggression and Genocide
| "You talk of peace. If we make peace, you will not hold it." - Pizi (Gall), 1868 | "This elaboration is way out from the crisis. Refusal of dialogue mean escalation of crisis" - DPA Non Paper |
 Spotted Tail |
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"I told the officer that this was very bad business: that it was very bad for the commissioner to give such an order. I said it was very bad; that we ought not to fight, because we were brothers, and the officer said that that didn’t make any difference; that Americans would fight even though they were born of the same mother." - Nicaagat (Jack) of the White River Utes, [pp. 349].
Promises, Bribes, Treaties, Despair
| "No white person or persons shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy any portion of the territory, or without the consent of the Indians to pass through the same." - Treaty of 1868 between the Government of the U.S.A. and the natives, [pp.261] | "Reaffirming the commitment of all Member States to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other States of the region" - UN's Security Council Resolution 1244 |
"Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows... What has been done in my country I did not want, did not ask for it; white people going through my country... When the white man comes to my country he leaves a trail of blood behind him... I have two mountains in that country--the Black Hills and the Big Horn Mountain. I want the Great Father to make no roads through them. I have told these things three times; now I have come here to tell them the fourth time. - Mahpiua Luta (Red Cloud) of the Oglala Sioux, [pp.101].
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk." - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse), [pp.262].
"You fought me and I had to fight back: I am a soldier. The annuities you speak of we don't want. Our intention is to take no present." - Pizi (Gall), 1868
"My friends, for many years we have been in this country; we never go to the Great Father's country and bother him about anything. It is his people who come to our country and bother us, do many bad things and teach our people to be bad... Before you people ever crossed the ocean to come to this country, and from that time to this, you have never proposed to buy a country that was equal to this in riches. My friends, this country that you have come to buy is the best country that we have... this country is mine, I was raised in it; my forefathers lived and died in it; and I wish to remain in it." - Kangi Wiyaka (Crow Feather), [pp.261].
"I never want to leave this country; all my relatives are lying here in the ground, and when I fall to pieces I am going to fall to pieces here." - Shunkana Napin (Wolf Necklace), [pp.263].
"The lana known as the Black Hills is considered by the Indians as the center of their land. The ten nations of Sioux are looking toward that as the center of their land." - Tatoke Inyanke (Running Antelope), [pp.262].
"When I was at Washington the Great White Father told me that all the Comanche land was ours, and that no one should hinder us in living upon it. So, why do you ask us to leave the rivers, and the sun, and the wind, and live in houses? Do not ask us to give up the buffalo for the sheep. The young men have heard talk of this, and it has made them sad and angry. Do not speak of more…
If the Texans have kept out of my country, there might have been peace. But that which you now say we must live on is too small. The Texans have taken away the places where the grass grew thickest and the timer was the best. Had we kept that, we might have done the things you ask. But it is too late. The white man has the country which we loved, and we only wish to wander on the prairie until we die." -Parra-Wa-Samen (Ten Bear) of the Yamparika Comanches, [pp.236-237].
"Although wrongs have been done to me I live in hopes… Now we are together again to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends advise me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe white man any more." - Motavato (Black Kettle) of the Southern Cheyennes, 1864, [pp. 67].
Terms of Betrayal (AntiWar)
Rambouillet Repeated? (AntiWar)
Constitutional Changes Under Pressure Of A Military Aggression (MIA)
Macedonia's Futile Surrender (AntiWar)
 "They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it." - Mahpiua Luta (Red Cloud) of the Oglala Sioux |
"I wish to address to the citizens of your country and to tell that they have a great future of stability, security and prosperity, bringing them closer to the European family by each new day." - Javier Solana, after signing of the Framework Agreement in Ohrid "Our aim is solely to remove Slav forces from territory which is historically Albanian." - Ali Ahmeti, NLA warlord "What we want is for Macedonia to be a protectorate, run by outsiders." - Aziz Polozhani of the DPA |
Imagine some nutcase claiming that North America was first inhabited by Pilgrims and that Indians came later to live on Pilgrim's land. One would point to the toponyms like Mississipi, Mississauga, Hauppauge, Toronto and hundreds of others. many others.
The equally ridiculous claim is that Albanians were first inhabitants of Kosovo and Macedonia. All toponyms are slavic, Albanians use them in slightly changed form (Kosova instead of Kosovo, Tetova instead of Tetovo etc.)
That would be Fusion, right?
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