Standing Rock Water Protectors 2016
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
The need for the rewriting of history books has never been more obvious, as the true history of this land is revealed. The current politicians are like a homeopathic cure -- a little poison to cure the disease of racism and oppression.
It is a disease rooted in the genocide and slavery which this nation of deception was built on. Many are too young to remember the oppression and manipulation by the border town media 40 years ago, when Native people were often tortured and murdered in the border towns of Rapid City, South Dakota, Farmington and Gallup, New Mexico, Flagstaff, Arizona and elsewhere.
The censorship and media spin continue today, as does the murder of the innocents.
It is a nation in denial.
Notes: The need for authentic history books:
This column serves as an encouragement to Native and African American authors to write the true histories, revealing the truth of the United States history of the genocide of Native Americans and kidnapping and slavery of African Americans, as well as the current government-encouraged racism and terror.
Parents, home schools and independent schools will have these books for future generations, regardless of the decisions by public schools.
There is a need for more authentic history books written for preschool through high school, books that are written in common language.
'Rethinking Columbus' is a great collection that was censored by Tucson schools. The authors in the blacklisted book include Buffy Sainte Marie, Cree, and Rosalie Little Thunder, Lakota. The books were loaded up and removed from classrooms. It took months, but I was able to locate a couple copies in libraries and book stores.
Rosalie Little Thunder's letter describes the massacre of buffalo at Yellowstone National Park. It includes a personal family story of massacre and survival and her arrest at Yellowstone. Above all, Little Thunder's letter describes the significance of the slaughter of buffalo. Buffy Sainte Marie was among those censored when Tucson schools blacklisted "Rethinking Columbus." This is the song by the same name:
https://youtu.be/bTqV1pnQoos And yet where in your history books is the tale
Of the genocide basic to this country's birth?
Of the preachers who lied? And the people who died?
How a nation of patriots returned to their earth?
Where does it tell of the starvation hell?
As the children were herded, and raped and converted?
And how do we rescue the missing and murdered?
My country 'tis of thy people, you're dying
