so i was reading on the huffington post that the UN wants the US to give mount rushmore back to the Sioux. which of course is the best news i have heard in AGES, so i was in a pretty good mood. especially because this could be very positive for my own peoples fight to free our nation from american occupation. after more than 100 years of oppression, HOW AMAZING IT WOULD BE to see my home and people free while im still alive!

but i doubt that america would EVER comply. throughout their history they have proven to be a nation of might is right, and they simply have bigger guns. we native people dont have big guns, we barely have anything after what happened when the big guns came. in any case i dont think america will comply. in reading the comments on the article, my mood went from bad to worse. out of nearly 50 comments only one had any positive sentiment, and even that voiced disbelief that the US would go with it. the rest were so racist i felt a barb was being driven into my soul. i wasnt sad, i skipped past that, i was just angry. how could these people be so sick!? i thought to myself. there is no other way i can think of to describe the kind of person who would voice such strong opposition to this small act of justice, this miniscule reparation for the horrific Holocaust wrought on these still suffering people.

it reminded me what we are seen as, even to this day, all native people. it reminds me that really very little if anything at all has changed for the better. we have been labeled "primitive" "simple" "less than human" for so long. our beautiful art, our ingenious creations deemed "crudely fashioned" "unschooled" "unrefined" even among the most scientific of circles, where prejudice is fabled to be discouraged. perhaps even the kindest of people harbor this programming somewhere. and i ask myself, how can we gain our freedom when we dont have the guns to take it by force, and nobody but us gives a damn?

i have to wait for balance to return to the world organically. violent, harsh, unforgiving calamity is the only thing that will clear a path for the earth to heal. it will come.

i guess this was a rant. well im off to smoke a little paka, water my plants, and feel better.