We stole their lands and killed the people by the millions. We've done our best to destroy their culture and lock the remaining people into little boxes called reservations.
Most importantly we've tried to drown their wisdom, their native knowledge about how to live on the land, in a sea of green paper money - the green frog skins.
Sitting Bull told the story about when he went to the east coast with the Wild West Show and he sat on a door stoop in a bustling New York City neighborhood. All the little kids, the street urchins, came begging for coins. When he got back home to South Dakota Sitting Bull told the people, "We are in big trouble. You should see the way they treat their children."
Not only their children are left to fend for themselves on the streets but the water, the air, the plants, and the animals are being destroyed by this grinding machine of capital uber alles
The white man's culture won the war but it is a losing civilization. It has no heart and no soul. It teaches greed and possession. It teaches fear and hatred and retribution. It's called the business model. Free market - which means the rich are free to exploit everyone else and they are very good at it.
Let the native people's love for the Mother Earth come into our hearts on this day. Let us remember our connection to all things - the things that crawl, the things that swim, the things that fly - all our relatives.
The white man's greed and hunger for control and domination is now a global disease. This system has to have more oil, more military bases, more guns and missiles, more warplanes and drones, more bombs and more warships than anyone else.
It's a mental illness and all of us living in this culture are afflicted with it on some level.
Let today be the day that we recommit to decolonizing our own minds. Let our minds and our hearts be free again. Free to feel the energy and connection with our relatives in the living world. Free to unshackle ourselves from the competition and consumption model. Let us learn again about cooperation and mutual respect.
Life is the great mystery. It is to be lived as a free human being, not as a slave to the green frog skin way.
Bruce
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