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Short History of the First People from California.
We cannot fully address any environmental issues while all the time we - with intent do not respect the First People of California and the Bay Area in particular. It is a joke when our legislators at the local, State, and Federal level make rules, pass ordinances, and mandates and fail - again and again to respect the First People of California - in San Francisco, the Muwekma Ohlone.
Our local, State, and Federal legislators have failed to respect the First People of California and more the First People of San Francisco the Muwekma Ohlone.
Up to 1924 it was fine to murder Native Americans and get $5 for a scalp. In fact California governors passed edicts to kill the Native Americans and encouraged stealing Native American land.
It is a shame today that most Whites think they were here for hundreds of years in California. They fail to understand that the Native Americans were here for thousands of years and that this is indeed their land.
We cannot talk about environmental justice - pretending that all is well with the First People. The only genuine owners of the land we call California.
The San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner have failed again and again to address the injustice meted out to the First People and to the Muwekma Ohlone.
The Muwekma Ohlone were Federally Recognized up to 1927 and then illegally removed by L.A. Dorrington - a Bureau of Indian Affairs Agent.
The Verona Band of Native Americans in the Bay Area, the records at Mission Dolores, many documents and facts from the Presidio of San Francisco - strongly favor the restoration of Muwekma Ohlone and being put back on the Federal Register - as soon as possible.
It is a shame that today many so called fake environmentalists - fail to respect not only Mother Earth but the Rights of the First People:
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/t/tumminia/MEMORIAL.HTM
Francisco Da Costa
Director
Environmental Justice Advocacy
Up to 1924 it was fine to murder Native Americans and get $5 for a scalp. In fact California governors passed edicts to kill the Native Americans and encouraged stealing Native American land.
It is a shame today that most Whites think they were here for hundreds of years in California. They fail to understand that the Native Americans were here for thousands of years and that this is indeed their land.
We cannot talk about environmental justice - pretending that all is well with the First People. The only genuine owners of the land we call California.
The San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner have failed again and again to address the injustice meted out to the First People and to the Muwekma Ohlone.
The Muwekma Ohlone were Federally Recognized up to 1927 and then illegally removed by L.A. Dorrington - a Bureau of Indian Affairs Agent.
The Verona Band of Native Americans in the Bay Area, the records at Mission Dolores, many documents and facts from the Presidio of San Francisco - strongly favor the restoration of Muwekma Ohlone and being put back on the Federal Register - as soon as possible.
It is a shame that today many so called fake environmentalists - fail to respect not only Mother Earth but the Rights of the First People:
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/t/tumminia/MEMORIAL.HTM
Francisco Da Costa
Director
Environmental Justice Advocacy
For more information:
http://www.muwekma.org
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Great. Putting them on the federal register is fine, but what, exactly, are you going to do then? No one is going to evict the present occupants in favor of Indians. No reservations are involved. In fact, there is essentially no culture left to save. If you are interested in the local languages, I can point you to sources that are working for their revival. It won't be easy, since the last living native speaker died in the 1930s. There is a project at UC Davis, and there are people in Santa Cruz who are working on Rumsen, but it's a difficult issue. Let me know here if you are interested. By the way, Rumsen, like the other Costanoan languages, has a very interesting type of verbal morphology. Lots of suffixes, lots of pronominal morphology that is of interest.
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I think the whole concept of ownership is the root of many problems. I think that it was these Westerners with their Descartian approach that brought the diseased concept of ownership to this land.
I wonder if the original peoples would even want to be called owners of anything.
Sharing, reciprocity and community are alien to western culture and have been for some time. Whereas the traditions of many original peoples know only sharing reciprocity and community.
And as much as original peoples have suffered under the fist of western culture, the whole thing is eating itself at this point. We are all fucked at this point. Even the rich assholes who steer the decrepit boat will drown if we follow the current course.
What are a few parcels of spent land gonna do to repair the horrors of a civilization bent on devouring itself?
There must be a better way for the population of original peoples to strike at the root of the problem. After all the traditions of original peoples are much better suited to solve problems than the linear, selfish traditions that have come from the Descartean earth-gobbling machine.
Why lower yourselves down to participate in this destructive concept of ownership?
I wonder if the original peoples would even want to be called owners of anything.
Sharing, reciprocity and community are alien to western culture and have been for some time. Whereas the traditions of many original peoples know only sharing reciprocity and community.
And as much as original peoples have suffered under the fist of western culture, the whole thing is eating itself at this point. We are all fucked at this point. Even the rich assholes who steer the decrepit boat will drown if we follow the current course.
What are a few parcels of spent land gonna do to repair the horrors of a civilization bent on devouring itself?
There must be a better way for the population of original peoples to strike at the root of the problem. After all the traditions of original peoples are much better suited to solve problems than the linear, selfish traditions that have come from the Descartean earth-gobbling machine.
Why lower yourselves down to participate in this destructive concept of ownership?
It's a native thing you wouldn't understand.
We KEEP our mother, not acquire her.
We KEEP our mother, not acquire her.
The philosophy of not owing anything and sharing everything makes sense within the thinking and living of the First People.
If the First People were the care takers and they did take care of the Earth - then why would they permit the Strangers to pollute and abuse the Earth? Pollute Minds and kill the Soul?
There is NO doubt the worst abusers of Mother Earth are mostly White Folks. They will steal, pollutute, and then try to abate, mitigate, and clean up always after the fact.
They do this because they are greedy. They do this because what they see they want - now. They lack spirituality and you see that in their eyes of greed and always wanting more.
In the process of getting back on the Federal Register the Department of the Interior has a host of rules and regulations.
If Indian Tribes are not on the Federal Register they are second class citizens. The paradox is that this is their land. It was stolen, treaties broken, and promises not kept. Why not remind the jerks about the facts?
The Department of the Interior wants the tribes to establish ownership. They want the tribe to establish a family tree that goes back hundreds of years. They want the tribe to produce documents of all these facts and more.
In the interim these bastards will kill the tribal people. Pass edicts to claim scalps - this was done till 1924 in California. Destroy the language of the clans and tribes. Force Native American children into boarding schools to destroy their culture and teach them Western ways. Do anything and everything to demean the human spirit of the Native Peoples. They even sold children as slaves. They of course killed thousands of women and children and men in cold blood.
This philosophy of sharing and not acquiring - being the keeper of Mother Earth fails when you deal with the devil and the ways of the devil. It fails with the people from the dark side.
The Hopi people have revealed these facts long before the strangers came. Even today the Tribal Elders - few that practice and are in touch with the Great Spirit - know what I speak off.
Recently the United Nations celebrated 60 years of its founding - right here in San Francisco .Lip service was paid to the First People. I made sure I made some statements that encouraged others to see the facts and give credit to the First People. Tribes that own their land are sovereign nations. On sovereign lands - others should not come and dictate. The United Nations respects the Tribes and those that live on Tribal Lands. Others that are party to the United Nations - agreed to follow and abide by the mandates.
We all know that this country is a Republic. There is no - one to one person vote. The Electoral System that once served Slave Mastes and Rich Folks - today is faulty and does great disservice to democracy.
Do we have a dictarorial democracy? Do we have some folks that think what is good and right for them - is not right for others? Do you think it is fine to allow these ignorant, arrogant, inept, uneducated, mostly jerks to get away with murder?
The constitution of the United States was influenced by the Six Tribes - the Great Confederacy. This system was in place for thousands of years - much before the strangers came to this land to seek freedom. What they did is took away freedom and today practice license. Which is abuse of freedom.
We can share and take care of Mother Earth. We are duty bound to teach those that pollute the Earth, Minds, the Soul - better stuff because they are ignorant..
Francisco Da Costa
If the First People were the care takers and they did take care of the Earth - then why would they permit the Strangers to pollute and abuse the Earth? Pollute Minds and kill the Soul?
There is NO doubt the worst abusers of Mother Earth are mostly White Folks. They will steal, pollutute, and then try to abate, mitigate, and clean up always after the fact.
They do this because they are greedy. They do this because what they see they want - now. They lack spirituality and you see that in their eyes of greed and always wanting more.
In the process of getting back on the Federal Register the Department of the Interior has a host of rules and regulations.
If Indian Tribes are not on the Federal Register they are second class citizens. The paradox is that this is their land. It was stolen, treaties broken, and promises not kept. Why not remind the jerks about the facts?
The Department of the Interior wants the tribes to establish ownership. They want the tribe to establish a family tree that goes back hundreds of years. They want the tribe to produce documents of all these facts and more.
In the interim these bastards will kill the tribal people. Pass edicts to claim scalps - this was done till 1924 in California. Destroy the language of the clans and tribes. Force Native American children into boarding schools to destroy their culture and teach them Western ways. Do anything and everything to demean the human spirit of the Native Peoples. They even sold children as slaves. They of course killed thousands of women and children and men in cold blood.
This philosophy of sharing and not acquiring - being the keeper of Mother Earth fails when you deal with the devil and the ways of the devil. It fails with the people from the dark side.
The Hopi people have revealed these facts long before the strangers came. Even today the Tribal Elders - few that practice and are in touch with the Great Spirit - know what I speak off.
Recently the United Nations celebrated 60 years of its founding - right here in San Francisco .Lip service was paid to the First People. I made sure I made some statements that encouraged others to see the facts and give credit to the First People. Tribes that own their land are sovereign nations. On sovereign lands - others should not come and dictate. The United Nations respects the Tribes and those that live on Tribal Lands. Others that are party to the United Nations - agreed to follow and abide by the mandates.
We all know that this country is a Republic. There is no - one to one person vote. The Electoral System that once served Slave Mastes and Rich Folks - today is faulty and does great disservice to democracy.
Do we have a dictarorial democracy? Do we have some folks that think what is good and right for them - is not right for others? Do you think it is fine to allow these ignorant, arrogant, inept, uneducated, mostly jerks to get away with murder?
The constitution of the United States was influenced by the Six Tribes - the Great Confederacy. This system was in place for thousands of years - much before the strangers came to this land to seek freedom. What they did is took away freedom and today practice license. Which is abuse of freedom.
We can share and take care of Mother Earth. We are duty bound to teach those that pollute the Earth, Minds, the Soul - better stuff because they are ignorant..
Francisco Da Costa
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