The predators are extremists —
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Norton, Katzman, Escott, Chudacoff, Paterson, Tuttle. "A People & A Nation." Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 52-53.
Separatists were the first to move to New England. In 1609 a group of Separatists migrated to Holland, where they found the freedom of worship denied them in Stuart England. But they were nevertheless troubled by the Netherlands' too - tolerant atmosphere; the nation that tolerated them also tolerated religions and behaviors they abhorred. Hoping to isolate themselves and their children from the corrupting influence of worldly temptations, these people, who were to become known as Pilgrims, received permission from a branch of the Virginia Company to colonize the northern part of its territory.
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Puritans, Indians, and Manifest Destiny. p. 49.
The fact is that to the Puritan, the Native American was the instrument of Satan. For Cotton Mather the Indians were "doleful creatures who were the veriest ruins of Mankind, who were to be everywhere on the face of the earth"; and even Roger Williams, the great friend of the Indians, said they were devil - worshippers.
who use religion as justification for genocide.
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According to the Massachusetts Records of 1676-1677 a day was set apart for public thanksgiving, because, among other things of moment, "there now scarce remains a name or family of them (the Indians) but are either slain, captivated or fled."
"In a little more than one hour, five or six hundred of these barbarians
were dismissed from a world that was burdened with them."
"It may be demanded...Should not Christians have more mercy and
compassion? But...sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents.... We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings."
-Puritan divine Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana
Perhaps this was another verse extremists used to justify genocide.
"O daughter Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us! Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock!"(Psalm 137:8–9 NRSV)
Or this one.
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And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. . . . Then they said to [the priest], 'Please inquire of God to learn whether our journey will be successful.' The priest answered them, 'Go in peace. Your journey has the Lord's approval.' . . . Then they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and went on to Laish, against a people at peace and secure. They attacked them with the sword and burned down their city. . . . The Danites rebuilt the city and settled there." (Judges 18:1–28 NIV)
The above are tragic instances of genocide from 1492 to the mid to late 1600’s. Approximately two hundred years later, the Navajo fell victim to extremists. Here is but one instance.
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In January 1861, Manuelito, Barboncito, Herrero Grande, Armijo, Delgadito and other rico leaders agreed to meet Colonel Canby at the new Fort being built, Fort Fauntleroy (later changed to Fort Wingate). The leaders promised it was best to live in peace and promised to drive the ladrones from the tribe that were causing the problem.
Peace lasted until September 22, 1861, at which time the Navajos felt they had been cheated during a horse race at the Fort by the soldiers. Navajos, women and children, were shot and bayoneted. After the massacre no Navajos were seen around the Fort.
In the meantime, the Civil War was underway and there were battles near Santa Fe between the Confederacy and the Union Army, with the Union Army defeating the Confederates at Glorieta Pass. That being done, Brigadier General Carleton, Commander of the U.S. Army of New Mexico Territory turned his attention to the Navajos. He called the Navajo land, "a princely realm, a magnificent pastoral and mineral country." "The Navajos were wolves that run through the mountains and must be subdued."
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Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee pgs. 16 - 20
And this time of friendship, the Navajos went often to Fort Fauntleroy (Wingate) to trade and draw rations from their agent. Most of the soldiers made them welcome, and a custom grew up of having horse races between the Navajos and the soldiers. All the Navajos looked forward to these contests, and on racing days hundreds of men, women, and children would dress in their brightest costumes and ride their finest ponies to Fort Wingate....
The Navajos, squaws, and children ran in all directions and were shot and bayoneted. I succeeded in forming about 20 men.... I then marched out to the east side of the post; there I saw a soldier murdering two little children and a woman. I hallooed immediately to the soldier to stop. He looked up, but did not obey my order. I ran up as quick as I could, but could not get there soon enough to prevent him from killing the two innocent children and wounding severely the squad. I ordered his belt to be taken off and taken prisoner to the Post.... Meanwhile the colonel had given orders to the officer of the day to have the artillery (mountain howitzers) brought out to open upon the Indians.... after the massacre there were no more Indians to be seen about the post with the exception of a few squaws, favorites of the officers.
What do extremists do, when they can’t exterminate everyone they want to? Extremists revert to softer methods, like pitting one tribe against the other after being unsuccessful with complete annihilation. For example, because of root-and-branch cultural genocide of all Indian Boarding Schools, a fluent speaker of their tribes’ language is mocked for speaking their language by other assimilated tribal members.
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Chapter 131. What is the difference between "gendercide" and "root-and-branch genocide"? Gendercide is the systematic killing of a specific gender, male or female. Gendercide typically targets a community’s adult male population because they are perceived to pose the most threat and opposition to the genocidal regime. Root-and-branch genocide is very similar to gendercide and typically accompanies or succeeds a gendercide against adult men. The “root” refers to the women in their child-bearing years. They are targeted for their potential to bear children of a new generation that will oppose the regime. The “branches” are the children. Children are targeted because they may grow either to fight and take revenge or to give birth to a new generation of resisters. In the modern era, gendercides against “battle-aged” men are more common than root-and-branch genocide.
Remember that the vast majority of white society wished the American Indian (all tribes) exterminated, and polarisation was used as a preliminary step
6. Polarisation
Propaganda is employed to amplify the differences between groups. Interactions between groups are prohibited, and the moderate members of the group in power are killed.
Extremists blame the victims after polarisation. For instance, a Missing or Murdered Indigenous Woman “runs away,” or MMIW is about “domestic violence” among indigenous families, not the predominantly white males who go the reservations to rape. And in the next case (warning — extreme sarcasm), it’s about all the Navajo and Hopi fighting in a “range war” - not about the government stealing tribes’ water.
Native Sun News Today: Navajo elders continue long fight on disputed land
Dineh elders: ‘We are protesting on behalf of global society’
40-year-old Navajo battle is compared to DAPL standoff
By Talli Nauman
Native Sun News Today
Health & Environment Editor
nativesunnews.today
BIG MOUNTAIN, Ariz. –– Comparing themselves to the water protectors who defend the Missouri River from the Dakota Access Pipeline construction in Lakota Territory, relocation resisters recently observed their 40th anniversary here in Navajo-Hopi lands with a call for volunteers to help elders keep traditions alive.
“If you are experienced from other battle fields, like Standing Rock, North Dakota, and seeking to continue your learning and contribute to peace, this is one of the places – Big Mountain,” they said in a written missive.
“This 40-year Dineh experience may be equal and similar to the fight at Standing Rock,” they told the Native Sun News Today.
Located in the Four-Corners plateau of the U.S. Southwest, Big Mountain encompasses most of the northern portion of the so-called “Hopi Partitioned Lands,” an area in which a 1974 Presidential Executive Order called for forced eviction of traditional, non-English-speaking Navajo, or Dineh, under the Navajo-Hopi Relocation Act or Public Law 93-531.
Here's the history about that.
(Sarcasm warning) because the US government wanted to help, they put the Hopi Nation in the middle of the Navajo Nation.
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The Hopi reservation was originally a rectangle 55 by 70 miles (88.5 by 110 km) in the middle of the Navajo Reservation, with their village lands taking about half of the land.[19] The reservation prevented encroachment by white settlers, but it did not protect the Hopis against the Navajos.[7]
The Hopi and the Navajo fought over land, and they had different models of sustainability, as the Navajo were sheepherders. Eventually the Hopi went before the Senate Committee of Interior and Insular Affairs to ask them to help provide a solution to the dispute. The tribes argued over approximately 1,800,000 acres (7,300 km2) of land in northern Arizona.[20] In 1887 the U.S government passed the Dawes Allotment Act. The purpose was to divide up communal tribal land into individual allotments by household, to encourage a model of European-American style subsistence farming on individually owned family plots of 640 acres (2.6 km2) or less. The Department of Interior would declare remaining land "surplus" to the tribe's needs and make it available for purchase by U.S citizens. For the Hopi, the Act would destroy their ability to farm, their main means of income. The Bureau of Indian Affairs did not set up land allotments in the Southwest.[21]
The Dawes Act destroyed the Hopi’s ability to feed their families, survive, and thrive. The US government took full advantage of normal conflict between these two tribes, who never fought over religion. To the contrary, it served the US national interest, when during Trails of Tears, the government sought to prevent tribal conflict with Fort Smith.
The Navajo Nation and the Hopi Nation did not get their “Fort Smith.” They got, after extermination, after genocide denial -
Denial has become an integral part of genocide; not to take this aspect into consideration is to fail to comprehend a major component of the dynamics of extermination.1
They got polarized again.
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5. Polarization
In the polarization stage, groups are further driven apart by extremists. Those who did not participate in the previous stages are forced to separate themselves by the targeted group through intimidation by extremists. The U.N. cites Kristalnacht, when hundreds of synagogues were burned in 1938, as an example. In this stage, Dr. Stanton argues, moderates are key to preventing the furtherance of genocide. Involvement of outside groups would include providing security for these moderates and combating the extremists.
Now that the general history is stated, let us get more specific. The US with its Dawes Commission to this day with all its actors and directors owe both of these tribes all the benefits of having land in trust. Do you think after Between December 1974, when the law was enacted, and July1986—the deadline the law stipulated for relocating its indigenous inhabitants—12,000 Navajo and 100 Hopi had complied with the law and relocated, that extremists would make it right? Think again. After all that divide and conquer, do you think the US government wanted the smaller or larger tribe to win?
The May 19, 2019, decision sustained the Hopi Tribe’s efforts to put land into trust over the objection of the Navajo. The objection was ruled “untimely” because the Navajo Nation had not filed them within the 30 days of the notice’s publication in the local newspaper. In fact, the Navajo Nation’s objection was lodged nearly two and a half years late, in August 2016. The land had been placed in trust in December 2013.
On December 16, 2013, the Acting Western Regional Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs placed 210.85 acres of land into trust at the request of the Hopi Tribe. Three days later, a legal notice was published in the Arizona Daily Sun, a Flagstaff, Arizona newspaper, that provided written notice of this action. The land, known as the Twin Arrows Property, was placed in trust for the Tribe pursuant to Section 5 of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act of 1996, P.L. 104-301, 110 Stat. 3649, as amended.
The Navajo Nation unsuccessfully argued that it should have been given written notice since the Nation was listed on a road easement found in the Coconino County records. The Code of Federal Regulations, amended in 2013, actually allows for notice that land is being put into trust by two different means. One way is for an interested party to notify a Bureau of Indian Affair’s official in writing of his or her interest in the land. The official is then obligated to provide the party written notice when the land goes into trust. The second way is for the official to notify the public at-large by publishing the decision in a newspaper.
Remember the propaganda, blaming the victims, that framed it as a "range war?" No. It’s always been the United States government versus the Navajo and Hopi tribes in this; similarly, same shit different century with scouts and buffalo soldiers. All the tragic instances of genocide on US soil have just one goddamned perpetrator and manipulator, and everyone not white are its victims.
Author is a member of the Metis Nation of the United States