The
native first people of the Americas—“dreadful fear”
The second thread in America’s
Dark Story is the seminal and ongoing relationship
between the native first people and the Indo-European immigrants and
their culture.
This relationship clarifies how deeply embedded “dreadful
fear” is in
the psyche and soul of “America.”
The story of “American
Indians,” “Native People,” “First
People,” “Native Americans,” the “Red Men,” etc.,
was written at the moment of “first contact” and continues
to be told, revised and fired by ongoing debates about facts, interpretations,
the need to make moral and actionable demands on American governments at
every level, and the value of radical actions to redress perceived wrongs.
The historical interpretations
range from an
“Ooops! Sorry, really
didn’t mean to do that!” to a
“Both sides are to blame!” to
an indictment of intentional
“Genocide!”
The history is significant. The histories written—by all sides: left,
right and center—are significant. In the main, they all handle the
same “facts.” Each then creatively imagines a story that they
claim is the true historical story.
Of great concern to Earthfolk is that these revisionist or “new” histories,
in the main, fail to tell their own Dark Story. For us, no historical story
is useful unless it includes both its Light and Dark stories.
Continue—Indians
