The Return Of The 7th

Over 500 years ago, intrepid explorers stumbled upon a new land that was richer than any place they could have imagined. The People who met them on the beach were primitive by European standards. They lived in crude huts, wore grass skirts and shells and walked barefoot through the jungle. Yet these humble folks, who had never seen a proper house, attended a school or church or trembled at the foot of a monarch, were wealthier by far than any of the Spaniards who braved the dangers of the sea in search of treasure.
Drooling at the thought of vast riches, the invaders, who imagined themselves superior to these simple people, believed their god wanted them to have all the wealth these new lands had to offer and immediately began raping, pillaging, and murdering these innocents described as “In Dios”, in God, by Christopher Columbus.

Spurred on by this first discovery, more and more ships were dispatched to “discover” new lands. Europeans, whose “civilization” had resulted in slavery of the peasant class, pollution of the rivers by human waste, horrible plagues, and wide spread starvation, were only too eager to grab a piece of the Promised Land. Because Indigenous People understood the concept of living in balance with Mother Earth, we had not exploited Her. There were no castles, no strip mines, no fences, no clear cut forests. Clearly we were not using the land.

We all know the story by heart. Nation after nation was conquered. Some tribes were completely wiped out. It began in the northeast with the early Indian Wars. Colonists declared days of Thanksgiving after Indian men, women and children were massacred, their heads often displayed on poles or kicked around the streets by white children in a macabre ball game.

We endured it when priests and nuns brought small pox infected blankets to our villages; when soldiers, by order of presidents and congress, imprisoned our Ancestors before sending them on Death Marches; when brown skinned children were ripped from the arms of loving parents and sent to “Indian Schools” where many of them perished alone and terrified, their little bodies unceremoniously buried in unmarked graves.

Nation after nation went on forced marches toward unknown lands, concentration camps and death.
In California white miners held “Indian Hunts” and murdered our People so there would be less opposition to gold mining.


Still we survived.

The 7th Cavalry, led by General George Armstrong Custer, employed Indian Scouts to help locate tribes on scheduled for imprisonment or extermination. I trouble understanding these Indians. Were they like the Nazi's who turned in members of their own families to curry favor with the Gestapo? Did these scouts actually believe the US government cared about them? After all, the official policy of the day was the “Only good Indian is a dead Indian”. In the end, these employees of the US Army were just as hated and expendable as any other Indian.

Ancient history? It is said that those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat if. We must not have learned these lessons since the same thing is happening to People in this country today.

Once again our Nation is being pillaged by a lesser people who only see us as a source of wealth. Banks and big business have been nationalized. Enormous debts are being racked up. Our children’s futures are bleak. Our money is being printed as fast as the presses can run, even though there is no real wealth to back it. Because of Federal programs such as Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac banks were “encouraged "to make home loans to people who couldn’t afford them, knowing full well that these homes would be lost.

Taxes are being raised to immoral highs punishing people who work hard. After all, it is the hard working people who make the money to pay for endless streams of social programs for those who can’t or won’t work. Many of these hard working people start businesses which employ others, but some of them are being forced out of business. New strict energy regulations will see the demise of many more businesses which makes me wonder where the government is going to find more funds to confiscate when this nation is bankrupt. Redistribution of wealth only works as long as there are people with money. When they are driven to their knees, which will pay for the ever expanding government welfare programs?

No matter how the United States came to be, our system of government was carefully crafted to make sure we would never be taken over by tyrants. The Iroquois People helped the whites write the Constitution which was based on their Great Law of Peace. As long as we follow the Constitution, our Nation will stand. But we are drifting further and further away from her provisions. Today we have political leaders who are morally corrupt, sexually perverse, and pander to special interest groups instead of serving the people. Yet we keep on electing them.

During the 1940’s we very nearly lost this country. My father’s generation fought 4 long years to preserve the United States Of America and keep it free from Communism. “The Greatest Generation” sacrificed everything for us. Today I am ashamed. Without a shot being fired, our country is being handed over to those who want to build a Socialist Nation.

During the Indian Wars, our People fought to the death to protect their children. But the children of today are being raped and their futures pillaged while the adults who are supposed to protect them are either doing nothing or cheering it on.

Some of us will fight to protect our children. We will not die whimpering. The soldiers are coming! Be strong!