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Date Posted: 20:34:35 12/02/10 Thu
Author: Debbie S.
Subject: Re: ignorance
In reply to: marse 's message, "Re: ignorance" on 18:46:23 12/01/10 Wed

Marse,

I commend the community activities you have been involved in. I wish more Americans would step up and get involved instead of sitting around being entertained.

I for one, have done mission work at Twin Wells Indian School in Arizona, a Navajo, Christian school. A highlight was the privilege of being invited onto the reservation to meet members of the student's families and to worship with them. They prepared us a wonderful meal, fry bread and vegetables. We conducted VBS, built a gym, worked their thrift shop and helped organize the library. They can always use volunteers.

Currently, I am working with the Potawotomi Indians trying to find the correct historical place to put a marker in Johnson County, Kansas to mark the route taken on the Potawatomi Trail of Death relocation march (like the Cherokee Trail of Tears only on a smaller scale). Kansas and Oklahoma were main relocation destinations for Indians East of the Mississippi from the 1830s to the 1870s, after the Indian Removal Act of 1830. I have been researching the extraordinary works of missionaries such as Issac McCoy, Thomas Johnson and Father Benjamin Pettit in trying to set up missions to help the displaced Indians. Despite the atrocities committed by the government, there were also many individuals and churches that genuinely cared for the welfare of the Native Americans.

Debbie S.

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[> [> [> Re: ignorance -- marse, 05:18:14 12/03/10 Fri

Debbie, small world. I was involved with the Lakota tribe through a church group who have for years helped the tribe through a lot of trials and tribulations. I also was fortunate enough to meet a wonderful woman named Anna Mae Aquash during the early and mid 70's. She was an active member of AIM and in her effort to help the Native Americans she was killed. It was a very sad event. My little girl, Amanda..1980-1997, and my son Robert's Godmother was on the bureau of Indian affairs here in Connecticut. She moved to Puyalup Wa. and Passed several years ago. I helped with the re-burial of native american's (Nehantic) when the land was being sold and the land was being dug up( burial grounds) for houses that were going to be built. Their remains were being taken and put on display at museums....Several of us went and approached churches and ask if they could bury the remainns on their properties. A major fuss was made and the remains were finally laid to rest in a proper fashion....This upset my young daughter who had a gentle spirit. After her death, I approached the 2 large cassinos and ask if they could put up a marker for the Nehantic burial remains. It took 2 years but they did respond and the monument was set up. AND thank you for your previous comments you made to me in reference to another fuss on the board. It was appreciated....


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