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Hidden within the 2.3 billion acres that make up America today, are 310 individual Killing
Fields are continuing the genocidal policies to exterminate the people and their cultures
trapped within their borders... as if that's not surprise enough, this has been ongoing for over 180 years.
The 1 million people caught in America's Killing Fields are the invisible minority that nobody
thinks or cares about, including themselves. They have lost all hope, live daily with anguish
and despair, and they feel helpless to change things because they fear change more than
anything else. Anytime things changed, it's only gotten worse... they fear the devil they
know to the devil they don't.
Over two million people have managed to escape the Killing Fields, but even they find it
difficult to turn back and help the brothers and sisters they left behind. The solution
seems too difficult, far too daunting, and is truly a situation that resembles David
vs. an entire army of Goliaths. They think "What can I do, I'm just one voice?"
Part of the problem is that it is far to easy for most Americans to just turn and look the
other way, selfishly thinking "it doesn't affect me so it's not a big deal" or "that's
just the way it is and it's always been that way", this results in a "It's not my job to fix
this" mentality. And that's just fine with big brother Uncle Sam and the members of Congress.
But it isn't fine with me, and it's not fine with the Tecumseh Federation, and things do not
have to be this way. My generation and the generations that follow have the power to
facilitate change. This simply must be the last generation of BIA-interred Native Americans.
The genocidal policies that continue unabated in America's Killing Field's today were established
during the Jacksonian Era by a Congress dominated by slaveholders and racists who believed in
white supremacy. Our forefathers knew their "quick fix" for the Indian problem - "forced
removal" - would require a better solution to be determined by a future generation. They
figured it would take a generation or two at most for this to happen,
but boy were they ever wrong.
Federal policies changed during Nixon's presidency in the 60's, which was the last time America's
Killing Fields were put under the microscope. Nixon's administration laid out a timetable
of 10 to 20 years, for the Killing Fields to be eradicated, but they were not... and
today, we are rapidly approaching 10 generations of genocidal policies.