Forum Post: Remember The Natives.

I grew up in a rural economically depressed area of Michigan. I am the child of a single mother. I spent much of my childhood hunting, fishing, eating food that was available and in season. I took corn from fields. Collected bottles by the side of the road for the 10 cent deposit.I also had grocery store food but could not rely on a steady supply.

The point of all this is, by living at least in part directly off of the land. I gained respect for nature and a different view of land ownership than most other Caucasians. I Think land should be managed by the people who live on it, not owned by individuals hundreds of miles away. The Native Americans have a long proud history of both patience and resistance. They lived here sustainably for thousands of years and it only took us 400 years to screw everything up. In Arizona racist idiots have the nerve to call the Spanish speaking descendants of the native people illegal aliens. They think Columbus was a nice guy and Custer a Hero. Custer was a genocidal maniac. He would send his main force out to fight the men while he and a few others rode into the village to kill women and children. Columbus enslaved the natives as soon as he got off the boat. By the way the boats were staffed by inmates from a Spanish prison. A few years in prison, a few months on a boat with just men, and suddenly a tropical island with naked brown women. Get the picture?