Reply #121: What history did we honor?

[Cherchez la Femme]

Geronimo died a prisoner of the U.S. He regretted his surrender. I remember reading he complained that the U.S. did not honor (at least parts of) the deal made for his surrender and the surrender of his people (sorry but I can't find the book & I dare not speculate on exact instances if I don't clearly remember).

The Native Americans, you couldn't say they were decimated since the advent of the white man on these shores -- decimated only means 1 in 10 were killed... the Native American population was closer to 1 in 10 left alive;
and this country was far from done fucking around the indigenous people, oh no.

And then, albeit allegedly, filthy rich drunken white boys desecrated his grave, defiled his corpse;
and still are defiling it to this day.


So I'm wondering what did we honor?
What history did we honor?
Who did we honor?



First thing I thought of when I heard the code word was "so, we're still playing cowboys and indians?"



So many responses have been tone deaf and defensive...