Wonderful reflection and thoughtful insights. I love the work of peace you are doing. Please be careful, as you know, peaceful demonstrations are then categorized a violent hooligans and riots. It all starts with a simply "unlawful" conduct or "unlawful assembly," then the unlawful part becomes resisting arrest, which becomes people characterized as rioters. That's what happened to BLM, a peaceful protest that ended up with Trump nationalizing the fiction claim of "antifa" destroying property and the looters (meaning inner city blacks) burning down stores and stealing. 3.3 million peaceful protestors are not categorized equivilant to the white klan protestors on the "other side," creating a "balance" that looks to be a moral balance. It's how history gets shifted.

Which is how "from sea to shining sea" eradicated the truth and created a false narrative that masks a depraved past. Today we use "delicate phrases" I've been reflecting lately to cover a much crueler past. Was the Shawnee Nation really "displaced." Were the citizens of the Takoa Nation just really "on some land" in Washington state? Were the Onigum Nation citizens just roaming around on some land? The point being that there were nation-states. These are countries that had claimed the land, had a central leader as head of structure of government, established towns and agricultural mechanisms for storage, a system of national defense, housing for children and marriage, systems of marriage recognition.

Is it mere "displacement" when their individual countries were invaded after the Civil War, they were pushed out, their land seized and then sold off at Auction by the foreign government that invaded them? Then that foreign government built on their national "lands" cities and pushed the original citizens of the lands off to some "rez"?

These country names I mention are taken from the 1911 "auction" notice were the US government auctioned off the national land they seized by force from those people, like the Onigum citizens located on what we call "Minnesota." By minimizing these Onigum citizens and referring to them as some "native indigenous" group, aren't we not dignifying them? Was it done in order to justify a "genocide" whereby the American government claimed, conquered, stole, and auctioned off the country of the Shawnee? It was done by force, there's no doubt to that.

I've wonder what "we" have done really, us "Americans" when "we" spread from "sea to shining sea." It seems the "Palestinians" were on "their land", like the Shawnee, for a thousand years before white men stepped off the boat in 1920, from negotiations in Europe with the British in 1917, from the Zionist plan they drew up in the 1890s, to "take their claim" on a place they had not inhabited for a thousand years. As you know, Religion is a choice, and religions convert people. That's how the Christians and the Jews became white after 400 AD. Our government has now labelled an entire people as "terrorists", a dehumanizing label like the used to call "Indians" as "savages." It seems to me little more than a name to justify this six-month siege.

Thanks again.