The Quiet American Apology to Indians
I don’t purport to speak for all Indian people here in the U.S. but I think I can say that overall, it’s been tough to bounce back from the whole conquest thing. It’s been the gift that just keeps on giving for many of us. The legacies of European conquest in the form of United States policies such as The Dawes Act, Relocation, forced sterilization, assimilation through relocation, forced attendance at government boarding schools and adoption of our children to say nothing of outright extermination have made a lasting impact on Native peoples. The White House Tribal Nations Conference earlier this month would’ve been a great time to read this apology before the public. Instead, President Obama took the opportunity to showcase his signing of an Executive Order to Expand Opportunities and Improve Educational Outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native students. The Order establishes an interagency working group of officials from many federal departments -- Education, Interior, Justice, Agriculture, Labor, Health and Human Services and Energy -- to come up with plans to increase capacity for Tribal Colleges and other institutions serving Native peoples. Overall, President Obama has a good track record in terms of keeping promises with Indian Country. He signed the Tribal Law and Order Act, renewed the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and settled the $3.4 million Cobell lawsuit over mismanagement of Indian trust fund in 2009. Louise Cobell gave her life working toward this settlement. Indian Country is still waiting for dispersement of those funds that would mean so much to many people -- folks like my cousin Delphine, who is confined to a wheel chair after a drunk driver plowed into her car. She lives on less than $700.00 a month in disability payments and makes do by creating very cool regalia and clothing for those on the rez.Canadian Life Settlements - News
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Louise Cobell gave her life working toward this settlement. Indian Country is still waiting for dispersement of those funds that would mean so much to many people -- folks like my cousin Delphine, who is confined to a wheel chair after a drunk driver
have escaped and “gone to town,” to a statistically much better life. Even that is tough – an immigrant off the boat from Bangladesh receives incomparably better settlement services than does an Indian migrant from northern Saskatchewan to Regina.
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