Censored on April 18, 2005, finally published on 09/28/06.
Of all the things that were censored, the most heart breaking are those
comments from Big Mountain, where the people have suffered so much and
been so oppressed.
I asked for ICT to publish a correction on the article, “Suffering and
strength at Bosque Redondo," but ICT refused. The article was published
when the Fort Sumner monument was being dedicated.
I am happy that these comments can now be published, in a few words. ~Brenda Norrell
Louise Benally of Big Mountain remembered her great-grandfather and
other Navajos driven from their beloved homeland by the U.S. Army on
foot for hundreds of miles while witnessing the murder, rape and
starvation of their family and friends.
“I think these poor children had gone through so much, but, yet they
had the will to go on and live their lives. If it weren’t for that, we
wouldn’t be here today.
“It makes me feel very sad and I apply this to the situation in Iraq.
I wonder how the Native Americans in the combat zone feel about killing
innocent lives.”
Looking at the faces of the Navajo and Apache children in the Bosque
Redondo photo, Benally said, “I think the children in the picture look
concerned and maybe confused. It makes me think of what the children in
Iraq must be going through right now.
“The U.S. military first murders your people and destroys your way of
life while stealing your culture, then forces you to learn their evil
ways of lying and cheating,” Benally said.
The newspaper refused to publish a correction:
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410763
Reprinted under the fair use doctrine of international copyright law.
Indian Country reporter censored & terminated. TAKE ACTION NOW! & Censorship, the other genocide, killing of the spirt. by Brenda Norrell