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5/9/2006
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Out Of The Shadows
Author: Editors Report Source: Indian Country Today
Title: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
The Abenaki of Vermont are the latest Native people to emerge from the shadows. Their long-sought state recognition, made official amid great celebration May 3 in a bill-signing on the Statehouse steps, does not change their history or the fact that they have always known who they were. But it signals a dramatic - almost overnight - end of the official hostility that made their struggle for survival so harrowing.
This is a time for celebration and honoring of the courageous tribal leaders and non-Native friends who made this day possible. Abenaki spokesmen united in thanking Jeff Benay, chairman of the Governor's Commission on Native American Affairs, for giving his time and effort selflessly over past years to help Native individuals and families at all hours with everything from matters of state policy to personal grieving.
This is a moment for rejoicing, but we feel it is also a moment to reflect on the meaning of the state recognition bill and the dark history that it brings to an end.
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| Heartfelt | May 9th. at 12:23:57 pm EDT
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LD Wolverine (Edmonton, Ontario) - Email Me
My most sincere and heartfelt congradulations go out to the Abenaki people during this time of celebration.
As we go about our day to day lives, working, sleeping, playing, loving, mothering, dating, whatever...it is so easy to forget what a monster man is. How horrible we can be and how ugly we can treat those who should be our brothers and sisters in humanity.
Let this remind us that horrors and atrocities are able to happen here in the West, they are not something that "just doesnt happen here". We have our shameful history, our skeletons in our closets that every now and again peek out to remind us of how we once were and how we could be if not for constant vigilence.
It sickens me to the core, how the Abenaki people were treated and how people who were considered to be good honest citizens, acted in what they believed at the time to be the proper lawful manner. They probubly thought that it was a very good and forthoughtful thing they were doing but now, looking back on it as we are, we see how terrible it actually was.
Makes you want to stop and think about what we are doing now. When we do something, stop and think of how our children and grandchildren will think of our actions 60 years from now...would we be ashamed?
Good Question.
Peace out.
Linda
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