Are you scratching your head over this one?
The Native American tribe leading the movement to change the name of the Washington Redskins plans to open a $20 million casino that pays homage to the work of L. Frank Baum, who was born in this village outside Syracuse and later wrote “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”
Just one problem with the Oneida Indian Nation’s Yellow Brick Road Casino: A decade before Baum wrote one of this country’s most celebrated children’s tales, he campaigned for a Native American genocide.
“The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians,” he wrote in late 1890 for the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer in South Dakota. “Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; it’s better that they should die than live the miserable wretches that they are.”
Two weeks later, Baum, the newspaper’s publisher, reiterated his point in an editorial written after the slaughter of as many as 300 Sioux at Wounded Knee. He demanded that the U.S. government “wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth.”
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3 comments:
Shows you how cognizant this tribe is of their oppressors. Maybe some Jews will open a casino adjacent to this one and call it "The Eagle's Nest" in honor of SS officers.
It does show a level of naiveté on the part of this tribe. It is sad that they listen to people who do not know history. This is what is wrong in Indian Country especially in those nations that have acquired wealth. This is not to say that all tribes are incompetent. There are a few who are prosperous and have been. The reason they are successful is they worked to get what they have and the profits they make from their businesses are put into the tribal infrastructure.
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