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WICHITA NORTH HIGH SCHOOL, KANSAS

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Questions for an Indian mascot school district

Why are you so proud of the the racism of the past that you want to continue it?

If you can show you truly honor Native American religious symbols why don't you stop hiding behind closed doors and

DEBATE OUR PEOPLE IN PUBLIC ABOUT YOUR ABUSE OF NATIVE AMERICANS?

 

DO THE ADMINISTRATORS, TEACHERS AND STUDENTS OF NORTH HIGH SCHOOL WHO WANT TO MAKE NATIVE AMERICANS INTO THEIR MASCOTS KNOW THE REAL BELIEFS AND PRACTICES OF NATIVE AMERICANS?

DO THEY KNOW...

  • The eagle feather and headress is a religious symbol!
  • The medicine wheel is a religious symbol!
  • Native American spiritual teachings about the symbols that they as non practitioners they use for their fun time, but never teach the true religious symbolism of. Symbols such as, buckskin clothing, song and singing, the drum, family and childbirth?
  • Native Americans do not separate their lives into separate secular and religious sections as the US Government wants to. Everything the Native American does is part of the Great Spirit and every aspect of life is represented by a symbol that is part of the Circle of Life. These are the same symbols that are abused by public schools who falsely claim they do not use religious symbols

DO THE STUDENTS OF NORTH HIGH UNDERSTAND...

The 95-98% death rate of Native Americans at the hands of invading Europeans constitute the most horrible genocide known to recorded history.

  • The making of Native Americans into mascots is only one aspect of the European introduced practice of forcing Native Americans and non-whites into a racial subclass.
  • Columbus introduced the practice of exploiting anything and everything from Indigenous Americans and that the "Indian" mascot is another part of this practice?
  • those religious symbols and beliefs, and the suffering Native Americans paid for those beliefs, throughout history?
  • the suffering and the racial hatred that their name sakes of the Red Creeds went through simply because of the color of their skin and their religious beliefs?
  • A primary characteristic of racial supremacists is mocking other religions by non practitioners who make up false meanings to the religion? Do you know that if you do not practice Native American religion that you do not know what it means and you will not protect its significance
  • Sell out "Indians" were sought out and bribed by the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas and have been used ever since as false deal makers and spokes-persons for real Native Americans. An example is the pseudo-Indian counselor at North High School who teaches Native American Students they should be mascots for the school district. She is paid by the district to buy and sell Native American religion in public school just as the "hang around the fort" Indian sold out his people .

THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS CONJURED UP PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC SURVEYS WHICH CLAIM MAKING NATIVE AMERICANS INTO MASCOTS HAS WIDE SUPPORT.

WE CAN PROVE THEY ARE DELIBERATELY MISLEADING JUST AS THE HISTORY BOOKS THIS DISTRICT FORCES ON STUDENTS ARE MISLEADING. WE KNOW YOU SUPPRESS THE HISTORY AND THE TRUTH OF THE GENOCIDE AGAINST NATIVE AMERICANS SO YOU CAN HAVE A FANTASY FEEL GOOD HISTORY INSTEAD OF PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH A REAL EDUCATION.

WE KNOW YOU REFUSE TO DISCUSS OR DEBATE THIS TOPIC WITH US AS SILENCE IS YOUR ONLY DEFENSE.

WE KNOW YOU HAVE HIRED UNDER EDUCATED "INDIAN-LIKE" COUNSELORS TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO PLAY WITH NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGION. WE KNOW YOU HAVE BRIBED SITE COUNCILS AND PSEUDO INDIAN ADVISORS WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF JOBS AS SCHOOL AIDES AND WITH OTHER PAID POSITIONS IN THE DISTRICT.

HOW THIS DISTRICT KEEPS PREFERS TO LIE IN ORDER TO KEEP ALIVE THE BIGOTRY OF THE PAST

WE PUBLICLY STATE THAT ANY PERSON WHO CLAIMS THERE IS TRUE WIDE SPREAD PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR MAKING NATIVE AMERICANS INTO A RACIAL SUB-CLASS OF MASCOTS IS A LIAR. WE WILL BACK THIS UP WITH A DEBATE IN PUBLIC TO PRESENT THE ISSUES.

WE ASK THESE LIARS TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING SUPPORTIVE PERSONS, SOMETHING WHICH THEY HAVE FAILED TO DO:

1. Any African American who will publicly state that he/she wants to have their race made into mascots just as the Native American has been.

2. Any African American who will publicly state, that Black history has no meaning in the present and the history of slavery forced on blacks, the death of 60 million Africans while on slave ships crossing to this continent, the 500 year breaking up of Black American families for breeding purposes and the denial of civil rights to Black Americans is a thing of the past and should not be mentioned in the discussion of a black mascot or logo.

3. A religious Jew, knowing of the genocide against European Jews conducted by a dominating Christian nation of Germans, who will state that it is his desire to have his race and religion made into mascots by Christians and non-Jews in the United States and that he encourages any non-Jew to adopt the popular stereotypes about his people as the imagery for those nicknames, logos and mascots just as has been done to Native Americans.

4. Any Christian who will stand up and say Jesus would make as good a school mascot as the man wearing sacred eagle feathers, and that he encourages non-Christians to use the image of Jesus for their entertainment at ball games and school assemblies. Common practice will include a young girl leading the band dressed in a choir robe short enough to see her underpants when she jumps in the air.

These factors as they apply to other races and religions are all part of the making of Native Americans and their religious symbols into racial and religious mascots in public school. It is the supremacist who does to another race and religion what they would never stand for against themselves.

IF YOU BELIEVE NATIVE AMERICANS ARE MASCOTS THEN YOU MUST BELIEVE ALL RACES AND RELIGIONS SHOULD BE MASCOTS, OR YOU ARE LIVING THE LIE OF RACIAL SUPREMACY

By keeping the oppressive images and practices begun in a time of openly declared hatred for Native Americans you continue racism and religious bigotry. By doing this you continue the hatred, and take on the shame and responsibility for past wrongs. Wrongs that should only remain the burden of those who have passed away instead of your shame in the present.

Why, if you are not ignorant of the true meaning of the religious symbols you play with, do you refuse to discuss or debate face to face with macot activists? Is it because your only defense for religious bigotry is keep the facts away from students and the community?

Is it because you do not have real respect for Native American religious symbols but instead are having a love affair with your fantasy? A real human being does not hide away in fear declaring others to be less than you, but will talk in counsel, something you are afraid to do.

Were the 20 Wichita North High School, students of the Native American, All Nations Club, who endorsed the Indian mascot in the fall of 1996, told of the deaths of the children buried in the mass grave at Wounded Knee, shown in the photo above? Why not?

HAVE THE STUDENTS OF NORTH HIGH BEEN TOLD???? ...

By ignoring the true meaning of Native American religious symbols and building on the established practices of religious bigotry, you have failed to understand or adopt the most fundamental concepts of Native Americans. Instead you have adopted the lies and fantasies created by a hateful past to rationalize Native Americans as a racial subclass. The reality is that you continue to steal from and destroy them.

If you actually respected and admired Native Americans and our religions you would know the true history of how Native Americans have been treated, you would teach the effects of this in present and you would insure that the religious symbols of Native Americans are respected and protected, you would insure that they are treated equally to any other.

You have done none of this.

By abusing Native American religious symbols for selfish purposes you have failed to adopt respect and equality which is the basis for what is really valued in Native American beliefs.

Instead you are keeping alive the philosophy and means of genocide that were established by invading Europeans over 500 years ago.

HAVE THE STUDENTS OF NORTH HIGH BEEN TOLD OF THE TRUE HISTORY OF HOW THEY ARE ONLY ONE MORE CHAPTER IN THE NON INDIAN LEGACY OF FALSEHOODS TO JUSTIFY TAKING & TAKING & TAKING & TAKING....

  • SPANISH IN THE AMERICAS:
  • The land called Turtle Island now known as the Americas was claimed under the Christian Cross and that the death and destruction and genocide to Native People was done in the name of Jesus Christ? A religion whose membership made their fortunes and power by killing Native Americans in their homes.
  • These same Christian Churches still refuse to acknowledge or respect Native Religions, if they did they would step forward in every town in the United States and demand equality and respect for the Native American people.
  • Columbus and the Spanish when meeting Native Americans read the "Requirement" to them. The "Requirement" states, Now you must become a Christian and adopt the ways of the Church. We warn you now that if you do not we will take your children and you will be subjected to anything we desire to do you including enslavement and death. Do you know you have adopted this requirement when you tell Native Americans today that you will do what you want with their religious symbols.
  • Columbus was directed by the Holy Roman Church to seize children as this was the way to control the adults who would resist except to protect their beloved familes.
  • Columbus' most lasting influence brought to the Americas is promoted to this day by public schools. 1. The introduction of the concept of a racial sub class. (He introduced slavery of Native Americans with a lifetime count of 5,000 taken from the continent, more than any other single individual) 2. The practice of exploitation of Indigenous People for building personal wealth. (He built the plantation system in the Americas while searching for gold)
  • Balboa, Cortez and others, "The Spaniards cut off the arm of one, the leg or hip of another, and from some their heads at one stroke, like butchers cutting up beef and mutton for market. Six hundred, including the cacique, were thus slain like brute beasts... Vasco ordered forty of them to be torn to pieces by dogs." This was repeated over and over by the Spanish.
  • Spanish conquistadors and their accompanying Padres bragged in writing about the pleasure they found in testing the sharpness of the yard-long rapier blades on the bodies of Indian children, so also their dogs found the soft bodies of infants especially tasty. Their journals are filled with detailed descriptions of young Indian children routinely taken from their parents and fed to the hungry animals.
  • When searching for gold in the Americas the Spanish killed Native Americans for dog food.
  • ENGLISH IN THE AMERICAS:
  • about small pox infected blankets given to the cold and hungry Great Lakes tribes
  • The English Puritan Colony at Roxbury, Massachusetts, openly conducted a campaign to exterminate Native People and like Hitler finance it with the slavery of massacre survivors.
  • The English Christian immigrants, Puritans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and others conducted a vigorous trade in Indian slaves, with Charleston SC being the main port of trade
MASSACRE AT WOUNDED KNEE:

  • That Sioux at Wounded Knee were gathered into a valley and massacred for their religious beliefs, the color of their skin. There was no war or conflict between the Ghost Dancers and the US military yet they were killed under a clearly displayed white flag of peace raised while under the supervision and protection of the US Government after being ordered to assemble as a group in a ravine.

  • The intention and pleasure found by the US Government in murdering families of Native Americans was so widely practiced that photographers, reporters, Church priests and fashionably dressed white couples made outings of following troops. They assembled in buggies and wagons around the campground in order to watch the shooting take place just as they would watch horses or dogs run. Soldiers ran back and forth among the bodies of children and women for seven hours shooting any one who move

  • Bodies of the victims lay four days in the frozen land while wolves fed on them at night. US troops and souvenir hunters took scalps, moccasins, dresses, pants, pipes, and clothes from the bodies which were shipped home to their children and wives.

  • 10 Catholic Boarding school boys were murdered in a group, still wearing their gray school uniforms. Even though they had adopted the ways of the Christian Church and lived as white people they were in the eyes of whites only animals fit for slaughter.

  • 20 Medals of honor were given to US troops for killing over 200 women and children and more than 100 unarmed men.

    ANDREW JACKSON'S TRAIL OF MURDER AND THE CHEROKEE NATION:

  • Half the Cherokee Nation were murdered in the two decades that spanned Andrew Jackson's Trail of Murder. This forced death march of Cherokee to Indian Territory, was conducted against them because of their religious beliefs and the color of their skin. It was preceded by a reign of terror in which Cherokee were lynched and displayed in public to terrorize families. Cherokee homes were raided by roving white vigilantes. No Cherokee was allowed justice as it was against the law for any Native American to appear in a court of law for any purpose.

  • The theft of Cherokee land and property and the campaign of terror was conducted by intruders into the Sovereign Cherokee Nation as treaties negotiated specified that squatters were to be expelled by the Federal and State Governments. The only expulsions conducted despite repeated submissions of thousands of names to the government were of those who supported the Cherokee.

  • The treaty of removal was never approved by the Cherokee Nation, as well as being declared by the Supreme Court of the US to be illegal, thus leaving the majority of the Southeastern United States still in the ownership of the Cherokee Nation.

  • The large number of Christian Cherokee who were murdered in the events leading up to Andrew Jackson's Trail of Murder and in the aftermath of removal make this act of terrorism the largest single act of hatred directed against Christians on this continent. Yet Christian Churches have ignored the persecution of their own kind. These churches still have failed to educate, protect or uphold the Christian Native Americans of today in their efforts to establish respect for their beliefs. Churches have been saying, in essence, that Christian or not Native Americans are simply the wrong color and are not worthy of the same dignity of any other Christian.

  • The appearance of the Indian mascot was simultaneous with the taking away of Native People's tribal -spiritual world by allotment. While Indian life was being destroyed they were being replaced in schools with false identities while being made into mascots.
  • CHRISTIAN CHURCHES TOOK CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES:
  • Indian children who remained with in their family's tribe and neighborhood of their family were taken away from their parents and sent to boarding schools where they were beaten, shaved called dirty redskins told they are savages, told that Christians were there to save their souls then beaten repeatedly in attempts to prove it.
  • The Christian Church owned and operated Indian boarding schools which were segregated from the white society as none of the White world wanted to associate with them. Meanwhile in the White schools Indians were celebrated as entertainment objects and animal sports mascots whose religious symbols were falsely tied to violence serving the white man's sport and pleasure.
  • While Indian children were being taken away from their families and made to grow up without father or mothers, sisters or brothers at their sides, the Boy Scouts of America played "Indians" with their religious symbols told they were honoring Indians then went home to their parents sleeping in their own homes and their own beds. The Indian children went back from jobs and school work to sleep lined up in dormitories with out a parent's love to guide and protect them.

HOW CAN YOU CALL the INDIAN MASCOT AN HONOR?

WAKE UP AMERICA AND STOP LYING TO THE NEXT GENERATION

INDIANS ARE PEOPLE NOT MASCOTS!

DO STUDENTS OF NORTH HIGH KNOW...

  • none of these children who suffered alone in dormitories grew up with their parents
  • none of these children killed in massacres or starved to death were given the chance to grow to high school age like them?
  • Do American students know the truth of what happened and understand enough of their history?

HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE IT IS A GOOD THING TO MAKE MASCOTS OF THE VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE?

HOW MANY OF YOU SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT?

  • " If you don't like the mascot, then don't send your kids there."
  • How many of you support this statement that Indians who tell bigots to stop abusing their religious symbols should leave mascot schools, go to another or shut up in a land that they came from?

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