The powerful and hard-hitting documentary, American Holocaust, is quite possibly the only film that reveals the link between the Nazi holocaust, which claimed at least 6 million Jews, and the American Holocaust which claimed, according to conservative estimates, 19 million Indigenous People.
It is seldom noted anywhere in fact, be it in textbooks or on the internet, that Hitler studied Americas Indian policy, and used it as a model for what he termed the final solution.
He wasnt the only one either. Its not explicitly mentioned in the film, but its well known that members of the National Party government in South Africa studied the American approach before they introduced the system of racial apartheid, which lasted from 1948 to 1994. Other fascist regimes, for instance, in South and Central America, studied the same policy.
Noted even less frequently, Canadas Aboriginal policy was also closely examined for its psychological properties. America always took the more wide-open approach, for example, by decimating the Buffalo to get rid of a primary food source, by introducing pox blankets, and by giving $1 rewards to settlers in return for scalps of Indigenous Men, women, and children, among many, many other horrendous acts. Canada, on the other hand, was more bureaucratic about it. They used what I like to call the gentlemans touch, because instead of extinguishment, Canada sought to remove the Indian from the Man and the Women and the Child, through a long-term, and very specific program of internal breakdown and replacement call it assimilation. America had its own assimilation program, but Canada was far more technical about it.
I know from experience in my own family of how our people were taken off the rolls because we were
Modoc and not Klamath indians. My Great Grandmother was shipped down and forced to attend the Indian School, she was from Alaska Tlingit tribe. My Great Grandfather, who also was forced to attend was Modoc. To turn away your own people is a form of Genocide and just what the Government wants. This is a little older Documentary, but rings true.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Water Meeting in Eureka on Oct. 19th
Attached is the actual recording of the two hour meeting held in Eureka California on Oct.
19th. If you want to hear another prospective other than the Dept. of Interior's point of view.
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19th. If you want to hear another prospective other than the Dept. of Interior's point of view.
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Modoc War special on OPB
I have not seen this yet, but it might be worth viewing. I missed the screening in Klamath
Falls on Nov. 1st but it can be seen on the following dates.
Tue. Nov. 8th 8:00 pm, Thur. Nov. 10th, 1:00 am, Fri. Nov. 11th 11:00 pm, Sat. Nov. 12th 4:00am,
Sun. Dec. 4th 9:00 pm, Fri Dec. 9th 5:00 pm. Again on OPB, called the Oregon Experience.
Not sure what channel it is on your provider.
Falls on Nov. 1st but it can be seen on the following dates.
Tue. Nov. 8th 8:00 pm, Thur. Nov. 10th, 1:00 am, Fri. Nov. 11th 11:00 pm, Sat. Nov. 12th 4:00am,
Sun. Dec. 4th 9:00 pm, Fri Dec. 9th 5:00 pm. Again on OPB, called the Oregon Experience.
Not sure what channel it is on your provider.
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