Reflect upon
the curious (Divinely Providential?) fact that the first full-scale
state-run penitentiary—the Eastern State Penitentiary—opened
in 1829, just
a year before Jackson’s “On Indian Removal” speech.
Jackson effected a “separate
confinement” of the native people.
He added a twist—he made them functionally invisible.
He exiled them within—“inside”America,
an inside not unlike that of prison which is commonly called The
Inside by inmates.
This act of exile to the interior
we see as ingestion. Instead of engaging
the native peoples, America eats them alive by
corralling them on “reservations.” They became, from
then on, not part of American culture—not even
honored as the penal “Intimate Enemy” was, for whom
the hope of penitential reformation was held out. Rather, they—much
like those vaporized at Hiroshima—became
America’s “shadow people.”
Fortunately, the
Presidential act of “removal” only removed
the native peoples from eye-sight. It did not remove
their presence among other Americans. They were not liquidated—they
still live among us (more aptly, we still live among them!). Regrettably,
their Trail of Tears is still
being trod.
Positively, for
Earthfolk, the reappearance of native peoples on the national/
international
scene holds out hope that their Dark Story will enable others—you—to
grasp the depth and death-grip that “dreadful fear” has
on “America.”
The “Indian Removal” narrative
is significant because it is an historically prophetic part
of the creatively imagined narrative of predatory globalization being
expressed through the Warrior’s Quest.
"Indian Removal" is a dark
theme that weaves seamlessly into that of both
the penitentiary movement and the slavery
movement.
Continue—"America's" slaves
