Reply #119: Nothing is being done

[Orwellian_Ghost]

The languages, myths, art, spirituality, and cultural practices of the Native American culture is fading into history to be lost forever; to be mused over in later years by the historically curious as a novelty.

The Native Americans are faced with either being totally assimilated by the Western Culture - or dying out on the many reservations, kept there, out of the way and out of mind, by supposedly beneficent governments; ignored and forgotten by the citizens of those nations. The highest rates pf poverty in the nation are on the reservations.

It is spiritual and cultural genocide, as the great civilized masses of North America - and indeed the world - scurry pell-mell into the future, focusing on gadgets and consumer goods as "save the whales" and "save the children" and "save the earth" become the battle-cries of the various subcultures... not that those are bad things; they aren't, and they are needed.

But - the American Indian Cultures from southern-most tip of South America to the northenmost tip of Canada and Alaska are left behind, an afterthought, a mote of dust caught up in the tornado of "progress."

Relegated to symbolic and denegrating mascots for sports teams, insulting icons for various holidays, and stereotypical villains for the movie industry; shoved off - out of site and out of mind - to die out on reservations.

It is spiritual and cultural genocide by default and by intent, by marketing and media pressures, by willful and knowing ignorance. It is so easy to turn aside while saying "not my problem."

And; nothing has been done, nothing is being done...