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500 Years
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I refuse to swallow the lie passed down for five hundred years of the brutal savage who must be contained, abused and always feared. While history would have us think that the conflict has been resolved. What I have seen with my own eyes tells me there is more involved than we hear and across the nation, we would just assume turn the other way than face the crimes we commit and the people we have betrayed, while history would have us think that the conflict has been resolved. What I have seen with my own eyes tells me there is more involved and I fear that a people who have struggled just to survive will lose a war supposedly over which has continued through 1995. For five hundred years Native Americans have endured a hand of oppression which has squeezed away their culture both brutally and systematically. These proud and noble nations now struggle to maintain their dignity while living under the auspices of the owner of that hand: a society which represents them as cigar holding statues in front of midwestern drug stores, and as the colorful mascots of athletic teams. America - it has been five hundred years. America - you have got blood on your hands, you are guilty. In the land of the free, home of the brave land of hypocrisy, home of the slave. You are guilty
