Dear Viewers,
I Show that in this Vedio Whose land are you?
It’s easy, in the heat of arguing about border walls and law enforcement, with outsiders surging at the southern border, to ignore the waves of invading immigrants nobody wants to talk about.
Whose land are you on?
Take a moment and look down. Under your feet, below the floor, beneath the pavement, is land. This land stretches from border to border, from one ocean to another, across 48 states. This ground is America.
But all the vineyards and corn fields, the highways and urban towers, from the beach bungalows to the mansions - this land we call America, is an immigrant’s land.
Before the immigrants came, every inch of this land belonged to others.
So on the 4th of July, as parades and patriots and patrons celebrated America’s birthday, did anyone pause to acknowledge the people whose land we started a country on?
Clear Lake is a cool body of blue water near the lush wine country of Northern California. Near it, in retaliation for the killing of two white men, a company of soldiers and armed settlers surrounded a small island sheltering an estimated 400 Pomo Indian families, and with cannon, rifles and bayonets killed 60 men, women and children, and then another 75 fleeing down the nearby Russian River. Two white men were wounded in the exchange.
The massacre in the spring of 1850, remembered as Bloody Island by the families of Robinson Rancheria Pomo Indians today, is notable not because it was horrific and important, but because America has completely forgotten it happened. It is simply one incident among many forgotten others, part of the cruel episodes that marked the removal of America’s indigenous peoples from the homeland they’d occupied here for thousands
and thousands of years. By immigrants who belonged to us.
Between 1776 and 1887, our American government and citizens acquired roughly 1.5 billion acres of the continent’s best land from the Native American residents, by violence, trade and purchase, trickery, treaties or war, debt and bribery. (To see a time-lapse map of the process from historic records, go here.)
What’s curious is that in the enlightened, woke 21st Century, there is a blanket of national silence about the subject. Even as the country is engaged in rounds of loud and contentious arguments about immigrants and immigration, legal and otherwise, no one seriously mentions the first people to face their invasion.
Isn’t it time to formally and publicly acknowledge, at least once a year, on the birthday of our nation, the people we immigrants pushed aside to do it?
It’s a very different situation in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where indigenous people were also replaced by hordes of European immigrants. In those countries before public meetings, celebrations and events it’s considered appropriate - and in some cases, mandated - to formally declare the proceedings are happening on the traditional lands of native peoples.
“I acknowledge that we are here today on the land of the Guringai people. The Guringai are the traditional owners of this land and are part of the oldest surviving continuous culture in the world. I pay my respects to the spirits of the Guringai people.”
Perhaps it’s too much to expect, as the formal celebrations got underway July 4th in Washington DC, that the President might spend a very brief moment of his time to acknowledge that before Independence, the land surrounding his feet at the Lincoln Memorial, once belonged to the Piscataway, the Anacostank, Pamunkey, Mattapanient, Nangemeick, and Tauxehent people.
More than 5 million Native Americans still live in America, today.
In today’s hyper-charged political climate, the idea of admitting our own immigrant status may not sit well in some circles. Some may feel it’s not their responsibility to account for the actions others took in the past. Some may feel it’s unnecessary, or dismiss it as an exercise of liberal guilt.
Even some indigenous groups have criticized such declarations, concerned they may become a hollow gesture to ease consciences, while avoiding the very tangible issues of the reservations, the dispossessed, the native American communities struggling with poverty and unemployment. Modern issues of water rights, federal recognition, and stewardship of the land.
But maybe that is why it’s now time we start doing it. To spark a discussion about immigration in this country that doesn’t artificially begin somewhere in the Trump Administration, or the Obama Administration. Maybe it’s finally time we go back to the very start of the immigrant experience in America.
I hope that this vedio helpful for you.
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