NATION OF SHAME?

Americans need to look into its’ past to know where it is going in its’ future. We are a country that has had a great deal of bloodshed occur to get us to this point in history. I think this is why we must pay for our sins. I believe that the things that we have done to the Indians or should I be politically correct and say Native Americans.
Anyway the point of this article today is that the people who were here to greet our forefathers have been nearly decimated throughout the centuries since white men first set foot upon these shores.
There are some areas of our history which should shame all of us, and the treatment of the Indians would be one of those areas. Let’s see, the first people here were assisted by the natives, so that they could survive and even with their help the first colony could not survive. Ever since those early days we have repaid the Indigenous people by killing the men, women, children, and animals, as well as stealing whatever land that we did not destroy in some fashion.
It has been a long time since we did Indian killing in such numbers as we did during the mid to late1800’s, when it was pretty much a sport to kill Indians and the more the better. However, we found other ways to destroy these people through moving them across the country, infecting them with small pox laden blankets, and Americanizing those that were not killed or maimed.
There is just so much hate that our country has expended on destroying the people who were here when the nation was young;and just like the civil war and everything else that has happened to this country it is a reckoning or karma which we must pay back before we can move forward.
I have been a believer in karma for a long time and the basic principle is that all that is good, brings good and those things that are bad, brings bad to you. It is a good philosophy because it always has you trying to do good things and better yourself. It is most definitely self interest in some cases, but the wonderment of the karmic philosophy is that it is so general as to not be relevant to our life experiences, because you are still doing your “selfish” karmic thing and the worst that can happen is that you have done some good in the world and made it a better place even if it is only a brief moment in time.
One of the best karmic laughs I have had is in the past several years as many of the tribal councils have been approved to have casino's. It is highly appropriate that Americans will spend their hard earned money to assist the Indians if they ever choose to just buy back their country. How unique and American this tale would be!
Daniel Carvel Kepler