Remember the words of Tecumseh in his plea for a united Indian front as he spoke to the Osage in 1811, when he said: Brothers – We all belong to one family; we are all children of the Great Spirit; we walk in the same path; slake our thirst at the same spring; and now affairs of the greatest concern lead us to smoke the pipe around the same council fire! Brothers – We are friends; we must assist each other to bear our burdens. The blood of many of our fathers and brothers has run like water on the ground, to satisfy the avarice of the white men. We, ourselves are threatened with a great evil; nothing will pacify them but the destruction of all the red men. Brothers – If you do not unite with us, they will destroy us, and then you will fall easy prey to them. They have destroyed many nations of red men because they were not united, because they were not friends to each other. The only difference between then and now is that the genocide of First Nations cultures is based on policy and paper, not guns and ammunition. Can First Nations together fend off another full frontal attack on our collective rights? Ekosi firstperspective.ca/index.php/news/27-fp-archive-files/1432-when-is-consultation-consultation#!/ccomment
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 04:02:11 +0000
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