Times have really changed things for me being I am sixty-eight years old now. With technology being the main driving force of change.
Not only has it affected communications but also, the fabric of society, of friendships, families, schools, and communities.
My people i.e. Indians, natives, indigenous, all of those have gone through some major changes not all of it for the good. As history shows and continues to grow.
With being the solo people of a region, to visitors, intruders, and conquerors, coming into our domain.
These in turn produced changes within tribes which bled into trade, jealousy, alliances, and warfare. All this over land, hunting areas and of course living space.
Yes, all this over a pasture!
A piece of real estate!
A cleared piece of land not being utilized right by those on it. why someone could do better with it. Their technology was better at clearing land than ours.
Yes, we had it until someone saw it and wanted for themselves.
Why they could do better with it than an old ndn could.
As the anthem goes “this land was our land, not your land from the gulf stream waters to the redwood forest this land was meant for me and not you.
But as with all great powers they wanted it, claimed it, and renamed it America!
The fight to stay on the land was aided by the French, and British yes them too. With guns and ammo but when the aid dried up so did the strength to fight. Technology had a big hand in this battle.
There is still a battle going on to keep certain rights and land, how this will turn out over time who knows.
Though in this we do have freedom to protect our rights somewhat. It does come with a cost of how much we value freedom and how will the powers that be react let alone those who occupy the land now.
Today another in Europe a war is being fought over the same idea of freedom.
With Russia invading Ukraine another people wanting to live in peace. In land even!
Will it play out as other nations support disappears? Will it become as some might say “it’s just a pasture, right?”
Always remember 9-11 a day that lives in infamy. May God bless us.