Sunday, May 6, 2012

UN Official Demands U.S. Return Land To American Indians

(AmericanThinker.com) It's no use telling the busybodies to mind their own business. They'd be out of a job if they did that. But the UN's "special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples" says that the United States government should "return" some land it took from the Indians over the last 200 years.

I don't know what textbooks or movies this guy is watching or reading because the view of Native Americans he is describing went out of fashion in the 1960's. The real - and perceived - sins of the government in their relations with Indians are taught to every school kid in America, and as far as popular culture, there are a dozen or more films made in the last 2 decades that highlight the plight of Indians in a sensitive and historically accurate way - not to mention several extraordinary documentaries that have received wide distribution that tells the story of Native Americans with special emphasis on how white people have treated them.

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Posted By: Chris Carmouche