Who Speaks for Crazy Horse? (2019)

Re:Who Speaks for Crazy Horse? (2019) by ryandrake on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:50AM (#27907847)

> How to even begin making amends for a multi-century campaign that literally erased a continent's worth of civilizations off the face of the earth? Massive reparations maybe? Massive land reform?

This is the right question. What is an effective process for the descendants of oppressors and the descendants of the oppressed make amends and move past it? If we can't answer this, our descendants will be quarreling about it forever. 1000 years from now, someone's going to say "Well my Native American great, great, great X 40 grandfather was oppressed by your white great, great, great X 40 grandfather, therefore blah blah blah." It might never end. There are feuds today that go back 1000 years. It's kind of ridiculous. How do you solve it?

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Re:Who Speaks for Crazy Horse? (2019) by boomboomsubban on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:02PM (#27908022)

This makes it seem like the injustices are all ancient, when this story is an example of non-Indians profiting off the continued misery of Indians. Both government and private oppression is still common, the first act should be resolving as much of that as possible.

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