Especially the founder of the Democratic Party?
Posted on 08/10/2009 11:40:34 AM PDT by yoe
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs passed a resolution by voice vote last week apologizing "on behalf of American people" to all Indian tribes for the mistreatment and violence by American citizens.
Senate Joint Resolution 14, sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), states that its purpose is “to acknowledge a long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies by the Federal Government regarding Indian Tribes and offer an apology to all Native Peoples on behalf of the United States.”
In Section 1A, No. 4 of the resolution states that the apology is on behalf of U.S. citizens for harm they have done to “Native Peoples.” In the resolution, native peoples are defined as people who “inhabited the land of the present-day United States since time immemorial and for thousands of years before the arrival of people of European descent.”
“Apologizes on behalf of the people of the United States to all Native Peoples for the many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on Native Peoples by citizens of the United States,” the resolution reads.
Requests by CNSNews.com for clarification of the language in the bill were not answered by Brownback’s office by press time, but Brownback issued a statement on Friday about the passage of his resolution.
“I am pleased that my colleagues have decided to move forward with a formal apology from the federal government to Native Americans," Brownback said. "This is a resolution of apology and reconciliation, and is a step toward healing divisive wounds.
“With this resolution we have the potential to start a new era of positive relations between tribal governments and the federal government,” Brownback said.
“For too much of our history, federal-tribal relations have been marked by broken treaties, mistreatment and dishonorable dealings. With this resolution, we can acknowledge past failures, express sincere regrets and establish a brighter future for all Americans,” he added.
Neither Brownback’s statement nor the resolution says whether the apology is on behalf of U.S. citizens who are alive today or U.S. citizens who lived in the past.
Co-sponsors of the resolution were Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Tim Johnson (D-S.D.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.),Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.).
Maybe Mr. Brownback would like to start a reparation counsel for the grievances that are sure to follow.
What idiots we elect...mr. Brownbeck should be getting to the bottom of the abuses that H.R.3200 is trying heap upon All Americans and trying to stop Cap & Trade...the War on Carbon....as the man said, America has "useful idiots" for.......
Especially the founder of the Democratic Party?
Brownback’s an agent of the dark side. He plays the abortion issue like a fiddle, and he talks a good game, but he’s a bad, bad man.
Now, will the various barbaric Native American tribes thus offer up their apologies to those tribes they brutalized before European settlers arrived?????
My family were Federalists and Wigs, don’t blame me.
Reperations are already paid to the Indians and have been for years. Average pay is about $3800.00 a month. They need to ask if the Indians are willing to appologize for their massacers of the white people.
sorry sorry sorry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhrmtXeR1gs
Look What The Federal Government Is Doing To The First Americans! Bruce Babbitt Confronted!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xeo6IY5Dh0
Look at the third world country within our own borders and feel the shame of our government’s failure.
Who will do something?
Also, let’s pass a federal resolution that provides apologetic relief for the treatment of the Irish immigrants, or the Asian immigrants, or the Italian immigrants. Or, maybe we can get the U.N. to put together apologies for each and every instance of one country engaging in barbaric and brutal behavior towards each of their victims???? What a waste of time and tax dollars.
Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk are still my favorite Presidents. This country would be about half the size it is today without them.
Old Hickory could kick the shiite out of any modern day democrat.
What is it with all this mea culpa crap from our politicians? The Indian tribes were enslaving and massacring each other for centuries before one European ever stepped foot on the continent. Cry me a river.
Wouldn’t it be much easier and cheaper for the government to simply post a fill-in-the-blank apology form from the US government.
That way, anybody who wants an apology can simply go online, fill in their name and their complaint and download it in seconds.
Aren’t the casinos enough of an apology already?
Read the Constitution. If the fed lived up to what can be found there and account for the billions in “missing’ trust funds for lands they forcibly acquired, I think that would go much further than an apology.
I would like an apology from the idiots that put the current crop of pols in office.
There is plenty for the federal government to apologize for - the treatment of Americans of Japanese descent during WWII, the government’s treatment of the natives, the attacks at Ruby Ridge and Waco, BATFE raids on innocent homeowners, you name it. In some cases, the crimes warrant the high-beam short-rope treatment.
I’m not much for Brownback, apologizing for success, or feeling bad for the crimes of others (just because I more closely resemble the perpetrators than the victims). This should be about holding the GOVERNMENT to account, from the muscle following orders to the leaders calling the shots. This should NOT be about apologizing for actions taken in war, and should not be about elevating equally bad conduct by the other side with noble trappings.
I think there needs to be an apology as to how they treated Catholics during the Mexican War, and how Irish Immigrants were treated, and Japanese in California during the war, and how poorly the Italians suffered in Italy, and how 60,000 Spaniards fleeing their Civil War were rejected by Roosevelt in 1939. I guess we all have sometime hurt and offended someone else.
can i buy a “u”?
<“With this resolution we have the potential to start a new era of positive relations between tribal governments and the federal government,” >
Awww hec, they just want to tax them.
Note that this is the same government that is telling Americans “trust us” when it comes to taking over health care.
So does that mean every Democrat in Congress is apologizing to Todd Palin for how their party and their friends in the press have treated him and his family since last summer?
The Custer family is still waiting for an apology.
Are you 25% Indian? Are you from an approved tribe? If so, you should apply. I have Sioux in my background but not enough to qualify. How much do you believe Indians on the reservations get from the government. Google it and see what you come up with.
Of course not. Then of course there are the settlers they attacked and scalped.
So what does that have to do with what your white ancestors did??? Nothing that I can see. Stating a bad does not make a good.
The Casino is not near enough. You go on down there now and chip in. By the way, if you want to see what government run health care is going to do for you, go visit a reservation.
Wow. A new era. Just like that. I wonder if a intertribal council will now issue an apology to the citizens of the United States for occasionally, you know, committing murder and mayhem every now and then. Will that start a new era, too?
How about we let them keep enough sovereignty to do their gambling casinos and tax free cigarettes, and they carry on as best they can, and everyone stop all this touchy feely nonsense. New era. I can’t believe he actually said that.
And in a similar vain, the Roman municipal Government apologized to the Sabines and the Etruscans (and the Greeks, Gauls, Romanians, Austrians)...
Scusa! Pardonnez mois! Entschuldigen Sie mir bitte!
And may I also take this opportunity to apologize for the sins of my great great great grandfather against the any of the here present freeper people’s ancestors.
Desculpame Mucho! I didn’t mean for him to do it - honest!
Urbi et Orbi I apologize and as I flagellate myself crawling on hands and knees to Santiago de Campostela, I will pray for the sins of my long dead forebears against the long dead forebears of others (so that I may conveniently distract myself against the real sins of today, being committed by the living against the living, including the unborn).
I’m sorry!
I don’t know much about Indian owned casinos, are they tax-free? If so, and the feds are trying to make nice nice just to get taxes applied to them, SHAME on Brownback and his friends for doing this!
I want an apology from the local parishes of Slonim, Myzrycz and Vilna for the many pogroms that occurred during the middle ages. I’ll apologize for my great great grandpa for selling a pillow case to a local peasant that had a hole in one corner. I apologize to any old man that I might have accidentally jostled on the subways when I lived in NYC. Any old women, too. As for you young-uns, shift for yourselves.
Has Spain apologized to Mexico yet?
“So what does that have to do with what your white ancestors did???”
My white ancestors didn’t do a damn thing (though a couple of them did kill some Yankees during the unpleasantness of 1861-65). Before that, all my ancestors (on my father’s side) were in Germany. On my mother’s side, they never left England (and my mother didn’t leave England for the US until after WWII). Not one of my ancestors ever fought an Indian, and in all probability never even saw one.
Actually, the tribes that sided with the French in the French & Indian War, with the British in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and with the South during the Civil War were choosing between invaders, and consistently choosing the invaders who lost each of these conflicts. Once you do that, you’re no longer defending your land, but playing power games within the given framework of living with your invaders. It’s a dangerous game. Play with matches and you might get burned.
The Natives that died from conquest and diseases from the Spanish is estimated at 70,000,000. (it is in one of my books but can’t find it right now)
No. They’ll only apologize to Todd Palin’s descendants after they kill him.
Then I guess this has nothing to do with you. Move along, you are not involved here.
It’s ironic that Brownback from Kansas should support such a resolution, as white settlers in Kansas were all the time getting set upon and butchered by Indians. Kansas was known as Red Kansas because of the Indian depradations (it was also known as Bloody Kansas because of the internecine fighting during the Civil War). Kansas saw its share of gore.
I want an apology from the Europeans for driving the Neanderthals to extinction....
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