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The purpose of digging up
bayonet's
still sticking in the backs
of America’s
natives,*
is not to redress the wrongs
in kind,
But to take the opportunity
to honor the
old Dakota saying,
"We will be known forever
by the tracks
we leave," and
to follow Jesus' example from
atop the cross:
Wrongs are righted best
doing what
the enemy expects
least: "Forgive them, for they
know not what they do."
Luke 23:34
*Trail
of Tears: 1830 Indian Removal
Act, where for nearly a
decade,
entire tribes of Native
Americans
were forced at gun and bayonet
point
from their thousand-year
ancestral
lands into temporary concentration
camps, and then marched,
often on
foot, with scarce food and
water,
for hundreds of miles to
the most
bleak of reservations, where
it was
subtly hoped they would
eventually
and conveniently perish |
