I’d like to propose that all states in America be required to teach the history of their Indigenous people (it might be helpful to note that America still doesn’t have an indigenous peoples day in all states in America, but we have days to honor people from other countries, federally and what a slap in the face that is for indigenous peoples of the Americas!).  America is among one of the only countries in the world that does not federally acknowledge or teach the history of its original people. Since so much of what Americans have been taught is not the truth, (regarding Native Americans and their history), it is imperative that the government correct this problem.  I am asking that Native American history be taught as a course within itself, in every middle and high school in America, at the very least and this includes modern day trafficking.

What is happening right now in regard to sexual assault and trafficking and what has happened in the past to the Native peoples of this nation, is so extensive that it could not be covered by one page in a history book.  This needs to be a whole curriculum and it is imperative that people learn the truth.  So much of their history has been omitted, if not all of it. It’s time America join the rest of the world to accept the truth, and teach it, so we can move on.  It is even beyond time for an apology, but acknowledging their existence both now, and of the past is a start.

A couple of years ago I watched a video for a song called “Fist in the Air” for the MMIW crisis, and there is a line in the song that says something to the effect that “Dogs get more attention when they go missing.”  That was so profound, not in just hearing it, but I immediately revisited this petition, and realized that a petition for the dogs in Korea was getting more attention, and signatures and I said to myself “Oh my God, we Americans are awful!”  I had already been watching as much as I could of the MMIW videos where YouTube hosts and families comb the concentration camps labeled reservations looking for bodies but I can’t finish any of them. The videos are so upsetting and I can’t believe that so many Americans continue to ignore this epidemic.  I really feel that this is the truest example of hatred and prejudice that exists in America today, because God knows that most of us would be infuriated if trafficking and assault happened to our own daughters, yet we are so insensitive and cognitively dissident towards another group of people who are suffering with this alone.  The craziest part of this is that we’re violating native Americans on their own land, and some people go as far as to claim that it’s their land.  I am Native American, and have a tribal card as do my children and we are not asking for things even with proof of who we are.  This ignorance is where, omitting history is extremely dangerous.

If, and when this trafficking were to happen to any other race in America, people would be outraged and America would look like World War III had come through or an apocalypse of some kind visited its shores.  So, in realizing that Americans have a long way to go as far as reconciling with the indigenous peoples on their own land, I cried, and I’ve been silently crying ever since while simultaneously watching other groups of people complain about oppression daily and constantly obsessing about it, while not even realizing that people who live in the same nation they live in (who technically own the nation they live in) are suffering more than they are (this is one of the best cases in the world of biting the hand that feeds you ).  I am appalled by how self-centered and narcissistic some Americans are and it’s high time we learn who the Spanish and Portuguese really were.

I have published three books so far and as a descendent of all the colonizers of the Americas, which includes Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Canada, the United States, and more, I am telling the world, especially America, that there’s so much much more to American history than we have ever known or will ever want to know.  Our history was told in reverse or backwards, or what have you and this misinformation is causing a lot of violence in America, even more division than we have ever had since the times of Columbus, and exploitation of the people.  

I think there are a lot of Americans that do not realize that their own ancestors also exploited the American Indians, and more and I think when we realize that all the races were involved in trafficking peoples, and that while the trafficking of people (mostly children which is despicable!) is at its highest rate ever, we haven’t even started to talk about that because we’re so busy talking about lies from 500 years ago, only then will we realize we have all been bamboozled!  it is downright scary how undereducated we truly are!  I wish for peace and love for you and the world.

I hope that you will sign my petition. Thank you and be blessed in your life’s journey!

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