Posted on 02/07/2005 3:29:27 PM PST by edfrank_1998
MONDAY, Feb. 7, 2005, 2:31 p.m. 'Little Eichmanns' prof to speak here
Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor whose remarks comparing the victims of the World Trade Center attacks to a World War II Nazi war criminal, is scheduled to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater on March 1, a university spokesman said. Churchill, chairman of Colorado's ethnic studies department, was invited to Whitewater by a group of Native American students.
Churchill was scheduled to speak last week at Hamilton College in upstate New York but administrators there cancelled the appearance, citing clear and present danger of violence.
His writing, titled, "Some People Push Back," describe the nearly 3,000 who died in the World Trade Center attacks as "Little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolph Eichmann, who helped Hitler with plans to exterminate Jews from Europe during World War II.
-By Meg Kissinger
This isn't some racist genocide as Native American activists have portrayed it. The settlement of the American frontier was just another episode of the clash between a hunter/gatherer civilization, which requires huge amounts of land to support a small population, and agriculturalists, who support far larger numbers but limit the herds. This clash has been going on ever since domestic agriculture was invented in Mesopotamia thousands of years ago. The agriculturalists always win.
(Please, I know there were some Native American agriculturist tribes, but they occupied a very small part of the American landmass.)
Here's another from his essay:
"Hence, it can be concluded that ravings carried by the "news" media since September 11 have contained at least one grain of truth: The peoples of the Mideast "aren't like" Americans, not least because they don't "value life' in the same way. By this, it should be understood that Middle-Easterners, unlike Americans, have no history of exterminating others purely for profit, or on the basis of racial animus. Thus, we can appreciate the fact that they value life – all lives, not just their own – far more highly than do their U.S. counterparts."
I've been to ogrish and viewed videos of beheadings. He's wrong about them valuing "all lives, not just their own - far more highly than do their U.S. counterparts."
The Native Americans have made an enormous mistake by staying on the reservations. The European-Americans made their own painful transition from an agricultural to an industrial and urban economy. This has been very painful for the rural areas that have lost population and whole towns as fewer farmers are needed. By staying on the reservations, the Native Americans place themselves in an economically untenable position - there's not enough work in those rural areas and never will be.
Why wouldn't the land look empty to the Indian agriculturalists as well?
That is the main problem with your Thesis.
"Most of your post doesn't make much sense."
Sorry. But some of the ancillary stuff that might have confused you is just too much work to explain properly.
Aren't 90% of college students "native Americans"? Perhaps they should check and see whether any of these people are really Indians.
Me too.
You said:
"My whole point of being annoying about this is that his essay points out a truth of our existence on this planet. That groups of humans struggle for dominance and that is the way it has to be."
That's the nature of the beast at any level. I think the difference is our "dominance" is a dominance that permits an individual to think or do pretty much what he wants (within societal limits established as laws). Opportunity dominance, if you will. Other systems of government and society don't like or want that (see WWII and Hitler or any number of current demagogues).
Our republic is different. In a sense, our message is "Knock off the foolishness and let's make some money." And the individual has an opportunity to share in that.
Groups struggling for dominance within our republic could be call political parties, among others. We manage to hold our elections without warfare, for the most part. And we don't impose our system on others without provocation or reason. We left governments in Europe pretty much the way they were after WWII (active monarchies remained and republics like Germany restored). We didn't arbitrarily impose our system on everyone. I don't think Churchill would make that distinction.
I don't think he's out for political gain, I think he's just trying to cash in. He's a tenured professor (granted he just resigned his department chair and dropped about $20k in salary) but still pulls in a good buck and is active as a speaker. And he doesn't do that for free. There's a contact point at the link below where you can find out his speaking fee. Note that he promotes himself as a member of the Keetoowah Band Cherokee. This contrasts greatly with that 1993 letter.
I don't know about labeling him a traitor or enemy, I'd call him more of an academic "Howard Stern." That's what keeps him in the news and those speaking fees rolling in.
A form of "opportunity dominance," if you will.
found at: http://www.speakersandartists.org/People/WardChurchill.html
Ward Churchill
From a Native Son: Conquest and Colonization in the Americas
Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Band Cherokee) is one of the most outspoken of Native American activists and scholars in North America and a leading analyst of indigenous issues. He is a Professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado. Churchill serves as Associate Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America at the institution. He is also co-director of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement and vice chair of the American Indian Anti-Defamation Council.
Churchill’s many books include Marxism and Native Americans, Fantasies of the Master Race, Struggle for the Land, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, From A Native Son, Critical Issues in Native North America, The COINTELPRO Papers, Indians R Us?, Agents of Repression, Since Predator Came, and A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas.
In his lectures and numerous published works, Churchill explores the themes of genocide in the Americas, racism, historical and legal (re)interpretation of conquest and colonization, environmental destruction of Indian lands, government repression of political movements, literary and cinematic criticism, and indigenist alternatives to the status quo.
Churchill is also a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, has served as a delegate to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations (as a Justice/Rapporteur for the for the 1993 International People's Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians), and as an advocate/prosecutor of the First Nations International Tribunal for the Chiefs of Ontario.
Topics
Media
Multiculturalism
Native Americans
Police Brutality, Abuses
Political Prisoners
Covert Operations, CIA, FBI
Racism
Environment
U.S. History
Film & Video
History of the Americas
Human Rights
Engagements
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA Apr. 5, 2005
And a current message from AIM:
found at: http://www.aimovement.org/moipr/churchill05.html
AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT GRAND GOVERNING COUNCIL
MINISTRY FOR INFORMATION
P.O. Box 13521
Minneapolis MN 55414
612/ 721-3914 . fax 612/ 721-7826
Email: aimggc@worldnet.att.net
Web Address: www.aimovement.org
This guy must be gay its the only way to explain such lunacy.
He was to get $3,000 for speaking at Eastern Washington University (since cancelled, see link below). Plus whatever he'd get from book and cd sales at the event (he's got plenty of those). I'm getting more and more convinced that he's about the money.
found at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Speaker%20Canceled
I read your entire reply and got the same opinion based on your statement.
The scary part is not that this um.. (gentleman) has this opinion. What is scary is that he is using his influence (read authority) to mold young minds.
When the American Indians fought back they didnt do so nicely. They attacked women and children and promoted genocide. War is sad on any side. This is not war it is eradicating murders and criminals who use victems to hide behind.
I was born here and so am a NATIVE American, and a veteran and a family man, and a Christian.
Incase WARD reads this and would care for a pop in the snoot, it could be arranged.
American and Damn proud of it!
Wiping them off the planet? That's the second moronic thing you've said. Of course not all Muslims are a threat to the United States and even those with an ounce of common sense know you don't wage war on the innocent. It would appear you fit the Eichmann moniker as much as Eichmann himself.
I don't know if the Genocide was systematic but blah, blah, blah...
That's what the Eichmann metaphor means, and that's how you recklessly and immaturely implied it. When you take world history in high school you'll learn about such things. Mean time you probably should sick around DU...it's more your speed.
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