Fulfillment of Prophecy: the Eagle and Condor and Embracing Our Indian Children

*This is different from everything else we’ve been hearing and reading about the border child immigrant crisis. A native American take on the place of migration in indigenous beliefs. This matters because a vast number of Latinos in the U.S. carry indigenous blood in their veins. While I understand there may be differing native perspectives, this could be a good place to start thinking about the humanitarian crisis from a place outside of the mass media story mill. VL

By Matt Remle, Last Real Indians

Prior to European colonization, indigenous peoples throughout the lands we now call the Americas existed as originally free peoples. We were allowed to live as free peoples to follow in the ways of our ancestors spiritually, culturally, economically, linguistically and geographically with no restrictions to rigid ideologies, or borders.

Vast trading networks stretched well across Turtle Island with various tribal Nations trading medicines, ceremonies, goods, and knowledge. While inter-tribal conflicts would occur from time to time, usually due to encroachment on traditional hunting grounds, rarely, if ever, would conflict arise between tribal Nations to the point of campaigns of mass extermination.

Charles Eastman (Dakota 1858-1939), a noted author, wrote that inter-tribal conflicts were often settled by what we would describe today as contact sports. Certainly a look at one of the historical uses of the sport we now call lacrosse is one such example. Albert White Hat Jr (Lakota), wrote that one of the reasons the Hunka, making of relations ceremony, was created was to make relatives with other families, tribes, or bands that one may be in conflict with.

Colonization, slavery and genocide radically altered the traditionally free movements of indigenous peoples of this land. As I hear the reports of Indian children fleeing their violence ridden homelands of Central American only to be imprisoned, and usually deported, by the descendants of illegal European immigrants I am reminded of this new, and restricted, reality.

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Matt Remle is a contributing writer for Last Real Indians.

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