Medicine Men: Then and Now (Part 1)

AI Generated image of a traditional medicine man shaking hands with a modern woman doctor

Healing is something we all seek at one time or another. In these modern times, many turn to their physician, who then sends a prescription to their chosen pharmacy. If you can afford it, you take it as directed. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Yet the human race survived for thousands of years without pharmaceutical companies. Probably the most questionable thing about them is how they did all in their power to suppress natural cures.

Why?

A natural substance cannot be patented and thus assure income.

Of course it’s becoming more apparent day by day that the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry isn’t about helping people get well–it’s about profits. While this subject is ripe for discussing any number of conspiracy theories, that is not the point I want to make.

Rather, I’d like to illustrate similarities between methods used for thousands of years by indigenous healers (i.e., medicine men or, in some cultures, shamans) versus “new” alternative medicine approaches that eschew drugs for other means for optimizing health, both physical and emotional, which are more connected than most people realize.

Cover of Louise Hay's book "You Can Heal Your Life"

That is one of the most fascinating “breakthroughs” in relatively recent times. Much of this began with Louise Hay’s book, You Can Heal Your Life. A similar book that was my first introduction to the possibility is Feelings Buried Alive Never Die by Karol Kuhn Truman.

In his book, A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle states, “Suffering or negativity is often misperceived by the ego as pleasure because up to a point the ego strengthens itself through it. For example, anger or resentment strengthen the ego enormously. . . If you were able to observe the physiological changes that take place inside your body when possessed by such negative states, how they adversely affect the functioning of the heart, the digestive and immune systems, and countless other bodily functions, it would become abundantly clear that such states are indeed pathological, are forms of suffering and not pleasure…”

Cover of Eckhart Tolle's book "A New Earth"

He goes on to say, ” The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body…The pain-body is a semi-autonomous energy-form that lives within more human beings, an entity made up of emotion. It has its own primitive intelligence, not unlike a cunning animal, and its intelligence is directed primarily at survival…That’s why it thrives on negative thinking as well as drama in relationships. The pain-body is an addiction to unhappiness.

Cover of "The Making of a Healer" by Russell FourEagles

Here is what Russell FourEagles, a modern-day Native American healer, has to say about such emotions:

“We humans tend to hang on to too much baggage such as anger, guilt, and pain. We tend to keep inside the hurts and sorrows from losses of family and friends. We also hang onto other life losses such as money and material things. That little place the Creator gave us to store our hurts was meant to be used for just a short while, until we were ready to let them go. But instead, we stuff our heart boxes with more and more hurts and traumas until we learn from our life’s lessons or die. We may often carry this baggage for many lifetimes if we don’t learn to let it go…

“The addition of the new trauma has caused the heart box to swell, so that it presses uncomfortably against the heart and lungs. But then, in an unconscious ability the Creator gave us, we have stolen energy from our own cells to build a wall around our heart box… One way to unload our heart boxes is through the Oneida Fire Ceremony. The ceremony’s main function is for us to give all our painful memories and traumas to the Creator. We do this through writing things down and offering them up in prayer. This ritual helps us to heal and get stronger. In the process, we uncover ever and ever deeper old hurts.” (The Making of a Healer: Teachings of my Oneida Grandmother)

Cover of Dr. Bradley Nelson's book "The Emotion Code"

As far as the Heart Box is concerned, modern researcher and chiropractor, Bradley Nelson, states: “Trapped emotions can create a wall around your heart that can block you from living life to the fullest…Your subconscious mind–which knows no limitations–will sometimes use the energy of these trapped emotions to create a barrier or shield around your heart. Literally, it creates a wall of energy around your heart, to protect it…

“When you have a Heart Wall, you are not able to give love as well as you might, because that love energy that is in your heart cannot get out as well. (The Emotion Code: How to Release Your Trapped Emotions for Abundant Health, Love and Happiness)

Cover of Karol Kuhn Truman's book "Feelings Buried Alive Never Die."

The heart is not the only place that emotions can be trapped. As Louise Hay, Karol Kuhn Truman, and Dr. Bradley Nelson each explained, different feelings get stored in different organs. If you have specific health problems, its origin could lie in some past emotional trauma.

I invite you to check out one or all of these books for details.

Watch for more on this fascinating subject of how ancient beliefs about everything from healing to the true meaning of consciousness are coming full-circle with modern science.

Alliance of Indigenous Nations International Tribunal Declares COVID mRNA Vaccines “Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction”

Today is Indigenous People Day, the antithesis to Columbus Day, the day designated to celebrate “the discovery of America,” which was what opened the door to European colonization efforts that ultimately tried to destroy American’s original residents.

10 Indian Commandments

As a People  with first-hand knowledge of what genocide is all about, subtle and otherwise, it’s appropriate for the Alliance of Indigenous Nations International (A.I.N.) Tribunal to “call ’em like they see ’em” and accuse world leaders of a depopulation agenda that used the COVID-19 mRNA vaccinations as a weapon of mass destruction.

Needless to say, no other world class organization has the guts to do so.

Why?

Because they were the very ones behind the effort, either as a government, organization, or corporation with an interest in the result.

Those of us who were accused of being “conspiracy theorists” and “antivaxxers” who placed our fellow citizens at risk with our refusal, have known this all along. What always made me question the vaxxers’ stance, especially those who made a violent display of their outrage, was simple:

If you took the vax, and you believe it works to protect you, then why do you care whether I do or not?

Ironically, they were more likely to spread it through shedding than those who refused to participate. Let that sink in.

Meanwhile, those who attempted to speak out about its risks and side effects were ignored or silenced, sometimes permanently.

Until now.

This volatile declaration does not mince words and backs it up with documentation to substantiate their claims. You can download a copy of the complete declaration below. I recommend reading it in its entirety. It’s only 11 pages long and contains links to cited studies. I have only touched upon the highlights in the remainder of this blog with some suggestions at the end for what you can do to support them.

One of the opinions included is that of Dr. Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law who was awarded a JD degree magna cum laude from Harvard’s Law School plus two PhDs. In 1985 Dr. Boyle drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 which was unanimously approved by both Houses of the U.S. Congress and signed by President George H.W. Bush.

Dr. Boyle labels the COVID-19 mRNA nanoparticle injections “an offensive biological warfare weapon with gain of function properties to make it more lethal, more infectious, and it also has HIV, the precursors to AIDS DNA genetically engineered into that.”

Dr. Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD, states, “COVID-19 nanoparticle injections…contain heavy metal contaminants and self-assembly nanotechnology heavy metals and nanotechnology” which have been found in human blood.

The Working Group for COVID Vaccine Analysis, which comprised an international research group of over 60 doctors, pharmacists, and other professionals, examined the contents from six different manufacturers using a cadre of sophisticated lab techniques such as scanning electron microscopy, inductively coupled plasma analysis, live blood image diagnostics as well as others.

Another research team examined hundred of COVIC-19 injection vials from Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca and found “countless tiny sharp metal objects. One researcher considered that severe effects from these impurities were “probably misdiagnosed by many pathologists as myocardial infarction.”

Other researchers found 94% of individuals who took the vaccine had self-assembly nanotechnology structures in their blood. The use of hydrogel polymers that self-assemble and self-spread was another substance found. These are called lipid nanoparticles, which include polyethylene glycol and SM-102.

Native American philosophy that no one owns the Earth
Native American view of land ownership.

The growth process often begins with activity from quantum dots, which blink and change color. These aggregate into spheres which then break open and create ribbon-like filaments that grow continuously, even after death. Later the hydrogel transforms the blood into sheets of polymer plastic. These clots can be seen with the naked eye, and obviously are a greater health risk than normal blood clots.

The blood clot of a C-19 vaccinated person showed remnants of blood fused with yellow, rubbery, plastic-like hydrogel substances. Attempts to dissolve these clots included using fuel injector cleaner, strong sulfuric acid, alcohol, and lye, none of which made any difference except for a minor reaction with lye. Dr. Mihalcea states that symptoms associated with long Covid can be correlated with these clots.

She further declares other effects possible with hydrogel as attempts at transhumanism where people are being unwittingly transformed without their consent.

Other testimony and peer reviewed articles support the conclusion that “COVID 19 injections and all mRNA injections are biological and technological weapons designed to harm, not to protect or to cure” after which they include a large list of diseases caused or contributed to by the shots.

Gene altering agents were also considered bioweapons.

The A.I.N declaration states, “The sheer number of destructive means is sinister and horrific on a plane and scale that mankind has yet to grapple with – for it implies an evil intent of disproportionate ability for this Tribunal to quantify in one declaration. This tribunal has difficulty fully articulating the level of evil that has taken place in the application of COVID- nanoparticle injections as biological and technological weapons onto humanity. The tragedy has historic proportions, due to the injection’s capacity for intergenerational harm.”

Other contaminants like bacterial DNA (plasmids) and other DNA fragments. Plasmids are integration-competent DNA molecules…the very tools used in gene engineering to insert sequences into genomes, the tools used to insert DNA into human DNA.

The Tribunal further implicates regulatory agencies and governments for their deliberate silence in response to published data showing the risk, indicating “an implication of knowledge, collusion and intent to continuing the mass application of biological and technological weapons of mass destruction on the world population.”

The declaration also pointed out that the injections’ effects were “consistent…with the official United States doctrine of depopulation, as articulated by Henry Kissinger in his December 10, 1974 National Security Study Memorandum as adopted by the United States in collaboration with the United Nations.

Censorship of the facts and dangers is also called out as party to “state-sanctioned murder.”

Their conclusion declares the vaccines were “constructed by colonial powers to be deployed universally on mankind and on our original peoples as a priority group. As such colonial systems have only served to perpetuate the injustice of what can only be seen as a planned and executed murder and depopulation of mankind around the world. The lack of justice in colonial systems must be seen as by design and to further the application and deployment of bioweapons on the public…

Prophecies have noted that in these final days Indigenous Peoples will come into their own once again. Their ancient knowledge, spiritual practices, and view of the world where we are all connected are being recognized by enlightened individuals like never before. Clearly, A.I.N. is taking the lead in this Declaration, pointing out the elephant in the room that everyone else is ignoring.

Please share this information far and wide because the mainstream media is not going to do so. This International Tribunal has documented the nefarious intent of world leaders in creating the “plandemic” as an excuse to impose this toxic vaccine on mankind with the intent of committing mass murder.

If enough people read this report maybe the population at large will finally come to accept what “antivaxxers” have either known or suspected all along.

What will you as an individual do about it? Silence is not an option.

Here are some suggestions:

1) Share this blog on social media.

2) Print out a copy of the declaration and give it to your doctor, who was complicit in this heinous act.

3) Email a copy of the declaration to your congressional representatives and demand action against those such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and others at the National Institute of Health who orchestrated this outrage as well as the Federal Drug Administration who approved the vaccines and declare them “safe and effective.” (Safe and effective as what? A weapon of mass destruction?)

4) Provide copies for local leaders.

5) Support Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make American Healthy Again” agenda. His position on these vaccines now has additional proof that he is correct. All vaccines need an intensive review for their safety and effectiveness.

6) Demand accountability from organizations like the American Medical Association.

7) Sell your pharmaceutical industry stock since with luck they will take a strong hit.

8) Demand legislation condemning the perpetrators and that they be held accountable for mass murder under the Nuremberg Principles established following World War II.

9) Support lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies, particularly if you or someone you love has been injured by these bioweapons.

10) Start a petition demanding full disclosure, accountability, and prosecution of those involved.

11) Print T-shirts that say “Proud Anti-Vaxxer” and donate the proceeds to the Alliance of Indigenous Nations. (If you do this let me know. I will definitely buy one.)

12) Send copies of the report to your favorite podcasters and bloggers for additional coverage. That’s the only way this declaration will receive the attention it deserves.

13) Support groups like Judicial Watch (JudicialWatch.org), a non-partisan government watch-dog organization. Search for “COVID” on their website to bring up numerous videos

on the subject. In September 2024 they issued a 36-page Special Investigative Report, “The Judicial Watch COVID Project” of which I have a copy.  It contains further supporting information of COVID’s nefarious intent and urged the Department of Justice to open a comprehensive criminal investigation into the multiple scandals surrounding the government’s response to the pandemic. As a private organization with limited resources, other matters apparently superseded that action. Perhaps now with a different administration it will be activated. [NOTE:–I looked for a copy on their website but was unable to find it.] You can read the introduction to the document below.

Living in a Gift Economy with Reciprocity and Gratitude

Book Cover of "The Serviceberry"

Review of “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World” by Robin Wall Kimmerer

This beautiful little book gives you plenty to think about. The illustrations complement the text perfectly and help convey it’s sweet message. I expected it to be a bit longer, but it’s the expansion of an essay/article done previously.

I love the author’s insights based on her Native American heritage. There is so much wisdom there. The core message of the analogy to the serviceberry is reflected in the subtitle, “Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World.” Everything we have and need comes from the Earth as a gift. We should take only what we need. Greed and hoarding are not how nature operates. When do we attain the feeling of “enoughness?”

It’s message is also nicely expressed in Chief Seattle’s quote, “Take only memories, leave only footprints” from a speech he gave on honoring the environment.

Sharing builds friends and community. Giving back benefits both the donor and the recipient. She states, “Gratitude and reciprocity are the currency of a gift economy, and they  have the remarkable property of multiplying with every exchange, their energy concentrating as the pass form hand to hand, a truly renewable resource.”

She tells the story of a little wooden “Free Farm Stand” that was placed by the road where excess produce was left for people to take. The irony was that when winter approached and the stand was shut down, someone took the sign literally and actually took the stand itself! Fortunately, a young man in the area was working on his Eagle Scout Award and planned to build a new one as his project.

Many years ago I lived in a community that dated back to the 1800s where everyone knew each other. Probably more than half of them were related, progeny of the town’s founders. Our children played together, we shared our talents and our harvests. We bartered, eggs for fresh milk and various other exchanges.

This is fairly easy to do in a small community.  She mentions potlatches, which I was not familiar with, so I looked it up. The American Heritage Dictionary defines it as “A ceremonial feast among Indian tribes on the northwest Pacific coast to which the host distributes gifts requiring reciprocation.”

I have seen that on a smaller scale, where you would take a treat or dinner to someone and tell them to pay it forward to someone else as opposed to paying it back to the giver. To think this was a inherent part of Indigenous culture is thought provoking at the least.

These practices are more easily accomplished in small neighborhoods where everyone knows each other. It brings to mind something I read in Nancy Red Star’s book, “Star Ancestors,” about a great migration that occurred thousands of years ago. The people were advised not to stop and build cities, but of course some of them did.

If you look at cities today you can see the wisdom of that advice. In cities people lose touch with one another. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, clear back in the 18th Century, argued that humans were happier and more virtuous in a “state of nature.” Cities, civilization, and fancy social structures just made people fake, greedy, and miserable. He saw city life as the root of inequality and moral decay. He believed living close to nature, simple living, and smaller, self-sufficient communities — not the crowded, artificial world of cities, was the way to live. Centuries later, Henry David Thoreau echoed the same sentiment in Walden Pond.

Going deeper into that subject opens Pandora’s Box, so I’ll leave that for another day.

Indigenous cultures had a beautiful concept of community and taking care of one other. Small communities often operate in a similar manner. Each of us could start with our families by instilling the concept of giving, reciprocity, and gratitude, then expanding it to friends, neighbors, and relatives.

After all, it’s the family where such beliefs should begin.

You can get your copy on Amazon here.

Not the Way to Commemorate The Wounded Knee Massacre

Photo of remains of Lakota Sioux people and horses lying dead in the snow.
Remains of Lakota Sioux people and horses lying dead in the snow. (Library of Congress)

Introduction

Most people have heard of Wounded Knee and know it relates somehow to Native Americans without knowing the details. As the cliché states, the devil is in the details, so here is what you probably don’t know but need to about what happened that day in December 1890.

I am posting this in response to the news Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced recently that 20 soldiers involved in what happened at Wounded Knee would keep their military honors. Those soldiers include Mosheim Feaster, who was awarded for “extraordinary gallantry,” Jacob Trautman, who “killed a hostile Indian at close quarters,” and John Gresham, who “voluntarily led a party into a ravine to dislodge Sioux Indians concealed therein.”

Please read what follows, then consider what restoring those honors really says about our country.

Burial of the dead at the Battle of Wounded Knee, S.D.”
— Photo shows U.S. Army soldiers observing as Lakota dead are buried in a trench.
Burial of the dead at the Battle of Wounded Knee, S.D.
U.S. Army soldiers observing as Lakota dead are buried in a trench. (Library of Congress)

It Wasn’t a Battle

First of all, if you’ve heard it was a battle, you are sadly mistaken. It was a massacre. As many as 300 mostly unarmed men, women, children, and babies were gunned down by the U.S. Army under the command of Colonel James Forsyth. This ended the so-called Indian Wars. The story behind the 1890 massacre is long, deep, and complex, but I will do my best to condense it to the highlights.

Back in 1888 a Northern Paiute from Nevada named Wovoka had a vision during a total eclipse of the Sun. He began sharing what he saw, that the Earth would soon perish, then come alive again in its original, pristine state with lush prairie grass and herds of buffalo, which Native people as well as their dead would inherit for their eternal existence free from suffering.

Remains of Lakota & horses after Wounded Knee.
Remains of Lakota & horses after Wounded Knee massacre. (Library of Congress)

The conditions to receive this great blessing included living harmoniously and honestly, cleansing themselves often in body, mind and spirit, and shunning the ways of the whites, especially alcohol. They were told not to mourn the dead because they would be resurrected. Prayers, meditation, singing praises to the Great Spirit, and especially dancing, were taught as well as the charge to lay down their weapons and no longer fight, with each other or the white man.

A great gathering with representatives from many tribes occurred at Walker Lake, Nevada, where a Holy Man taught them these principles of peace that Wovoka promoted, along with a specific dance, song, and prayer. It was originally known as the Dance of Peace.

But like most religions, even those of divine origin, original teachings and directives were changed and perverted by those seeking power. In this case, it was Sitting Bull and others, who had not been to Walker Lake to hear its intended purpose, but interpreted the teachings to indicate victory over the white man and restoration of their lands. It’s entire meaning and purpose were twisted and it became known as the Ghost Dance.

Remains of Chief Spotted Elk a.k.a. Big Foot after Wounded Knee massacre.
Remains of Chief Spotted Elk following massacre. (Library of Congress)

While many tribes continued to perform the dance according to its original peaceful intent, some adopted Sitting Bull’s new interpretation as a victory dance. As word reached the U.S. Government, they feared a massive Indian uprising, and in response outlawed the dance in November 1890 and sent out troops to enforce the edict.

Kicking Bear and Short Bull, who had both been at the gathering at Walker Lake, led their followers to the northwest corner of the Pine Ridge Reservation. They invited Sitting Bull, perhaps to explain to him the dance’s original purpose. Before Sitting Bull could leave, however, he was arrested by Indian police. A scuffle resulted in which Sitting Bull was killed as well as seven of his warriors.

Spotted Elk, a.k.a. Big Foot, and his followers were on their way to Pine Ridge as well at the behest of Red Cloud, a proponent of peace, hoping to restore tranquility. General Miles sent the Seventh Cavalry under Major S.M. Whitside to intercept them, finally locating them to the southwest at Porcupine Creek, about 30 miles east of Pine Ridge.

The Indians offered no resistance and were told to set up camp for the night about five miles westward at Wounded Knee Creek. Colonel James Forsyth arrived, took command from Whitside and ordered his guards to place four Hotchkiss guns in position around the camp. There were about 500 soldiers and 350 Indians, 230 of which were women and children (67%).

On the morning of December 29, 1890, the soldiers came into the Indian camp to gather all firearms. While some Indians were aware of the dance’s true nature, some saw it as Sitting Bull had, and wanted to resist. Spotted Elk urged nonviolence, but when one of the soldiers attempted to roughly disarm a deaf Indian by the name of Black Coyote, the rifle discharged.

Other guns immediately echoed the first shot. As the Indians ran for cover, soldiers began firing the Hotchkiss artillery, pursuing some who fled and killing them.

Dick Fool Bull, a child at the time, was an eyewitness. He was traveling with his parents and uncle to join the others at Wounded Knee, but delayed. (The following account was recorded by Richard Erdoes and included in his book American Indian Myths and Legends.)

It was cold and snowing. It wasn’t a happy ride, all the grown-ups were worried. Then the soldiers stopped us. They had big fur coats on, bear coats. They were warm and we were freezing. I remember wishing I had such a coat. They told us to go no further, to stop and make a camp right there. They told the same thing to everybody who came, by foot, or horse, or buggy. So there was a camp, but little to eat and little firewood, and the soldiers made a ring around us and let nobody leave.

Then suddenly there was a strange noise, maybe four, five miles away, like the tearing of a big blanket, the biggest blanket in the world. As soon as he heart it, Old Unc burst into tears. My old ma started to keen as for the dead, and people were running around, weeping, acting crazy.

I asked Old Unc, “Why is everybody crying?”

He said, “They are killing them, they are killing our people over there.”

My father said, “That noise–that’s not the ordinary soldier guns. These are the big wagon guns which tear people to bits–into little pieces!” I could not understand it, but everybody was weeping, and I wept, too…The next day, we passed by there. Old Unc said: “You children might as well see it; look and remember.”

There were dead people all over, mostly women and children, in a ravine…people were frozen, lying there in all kinds of postures, their motion frozen, too. The soldiers, who were stacking up bodies like firewood, did not like us passing by. They told us to leave there, double-quick or else. Old Unc said: ‘We’d better do what they say right now, or we’ll lie there too.’

So we went on toward Pine Ridge, but I had seen. I had seen a dead mother with a dead baby sucking at her breast. The little baby had on a tiny beaded cap with the design of the American flag.

Then, adding insult to injury, starting in 1927 the federal government sponsored the carving of four presidents’ faces on Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, sacred land to many tribes to this day, for which they fought with everything they had to retain. Furthermore, it was originally given them, then taken back in typical “Indian Giver” fashion when gold was discovered.

There are credible reports that the Holy Man who taught the gathering of Native Americans at Walker Lake was none other than Jesus Christ. Whether or not you choose to believe that is up to you, but clearly the teachings reflected what Jesus taught.

Yet it was supposed “Christians” who slaughtered these innocents and the Pope authorized it through a Bull. Pete Hegseth professes to be a Christian. What Christians have done in the name of religion should be horrifying to any civilized person, from the Inquisition to the Crusades.

I am a white woman who is about as white as you can get. My maternal heritage goes back to Connecticut in the 1600s. My paternal grandfather came from France, my paternal grandmother was French Canadian. Perhaps somewhere in my genealogy someone married a Native American, but as far as I know, that is not the case. I would be proud if it were.

I have done a wealth of research related to writing the Dead Horse Canyon trilogy with my coauthor, Pete Risingsun. It was a startling revelation “how the West was won.” It’s now obvious to me that we stole this land from its original inhabitants. They have been slaughtered, the target of genocide, treaties repeatedly broken, and promises not kept for hundreds of years. In reality, Indigenous peoples were treated better by the English and French than by the U.S. government. The United States has treated people better who attacked us during World War II than they have those from whom they stole this land.

Let that sink in.

The government even initially denied Native American “birthright citizenship” because, even though they had lived here for thousands of years or longer, it was not yet the United States when they were born.

If I were related to any of those 20 men who received “honors” for their part in the Wounded Knee massacre I’d be ashamed to admit it. I am horrified by what they did to say nothing of outraged that someone who claims to be a civilized person would condone such barbaric, heartless actions.

Forsyth was later charged with the killing of innocents, but exonerated. In 1990, Congress declared it a “Tragedy” in a bipartisan resolution. Even Major General Nelson A. Miles, who sent the Seventh Cavalry to intercept those heading for the gathering as noted earlier, condemned the Wounded Knee incident as “the most abominable military blunder and a horrible massacre of women and children.”

And yet, over a century later, our current Secretary of War wants to honor them.

What despicable human being could possibly see anything honorable in what happened that day? In the Post-WW II Nuremberg trials the allies rejected “I was only following orders” as a defense for war crimes. The Nuremberg Charter specifically said that acting under orders was not enough to free you of responsibility — it might only be considered when determining punishment.

Principle IV of the Nuremberg Principles states, “The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.”

It appears that what is considered immoral action by Nuremberg standards today was okay in 1890 thanks to the Pope.

What is wrong with this picture?

It’s my opinion that Hegseth represents the worst of the white man’s world and epitomizes the “Manifest Destiny” mentality, the very reason that people of color see whites as the enemy.

Have we not learned anything or evolved beyond barbarism in a hundred years? 

If this is how war crimes are judged today by the Secretary of War, in full violation of the Nuremberg Principles, then Hegseth should be impeached at least, preferably ousted, for leveling such an insult on people who have suffered enough over the past five hundred years. As far as I’m concerned, the blood of the victims at Wounded Knee is on his hands every bit as much as Forsyth, Miles, and all the others.

If you agree, please comment below, forward this blog, and notify your congressional representatives of your opinion on this matter.

Photo Credits: Library of Congress

References

Waldman, Carl, Atlas of the North American Indian, (c) 2009, Infobase Publishing

Brinkerhoff, Val, The Remnant Awakens, (c) 2018 by the author

Erdoes, Richard and Ortiz, Alfonso, editors, American Indian Myths and Legends, “The Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee” as told by Dick Fool Bull in the 1960s and recorded by Richard Erdoes, (c) 1984

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