text: Let's acknowledge the big picture.  Throughout recorded history indigenous peoples have been subjugated by more powerful invaders.  It is still happening today in Central and South America and, in a more subtle fashion, here in our country.  I trust we all know the sordid history of our treatment of Native Americans......they had something we wanted....we took it.  We took the land, took the resources, destroyed the cultures, and exterminated those who resisted.  
  
  Only within the past fifty years have we seen the "indigenous peoples' movement" coalesce and exert enough strength to more effectively protect their lands, their culture and their rights.  I'm 74 and the term I'm going to use is passe' and an anachronistic cliche'.....I'll use it anyway..."RIGHT ON!"  regards, Gary Crum