{"id":2180,"date":"2013-03-05T10:55:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T14:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2013-03-08T13:01:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T17:01:11","slug":"bounty-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/05\/bounty-hunters\/","title":{"rendered":"Bounty Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MNN. Mar. 2, 2013. <\/strong>US Senator Lindsay Graham admitted that 4,756 people were killed by armed unmanned US drones. Currently aimed at people in the Middle East, he said, \u201cSometimes you hit innocent civilians\u201d. Collateral damage! Obama\u2019s policy of assassinating Americans and designated \u201cterrorists\u201d abroad, without trial or due process, has historic roots. The US has a long history of passing laws to commit \u201clegitimate\u201d murders. Millions of Indigenous were officially murdered to steal Great Turtle Island and our resources.<\/p>\n

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<\/b>The custom in Europe was to behead enemies. The Europeans passed laws here to pay bounty hunters to kill, behead and scalp \u2018Indian\u2019 men, women and children. 125 million Indigenous were murdered in the Western Hemisphere. The victims were innocent. No crime was required. Just being of the Indigenous \u201crace\u201d! Cash or Indian head coins paid for our heads. Today\u2019s US 5 cent piece with the Indian head was designed to honor this program. First it was just the heads. The volume of murders made the load too heavy. Then scalps were accepted to make sure the killings continued. \"history<\/a><\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

We were falsely stereotyped as blood-thirsty savages. Settlers thought it was right to kill our families and drive them from their ancestral homes and steal their lands. Payment for Indian heads and scalps created wealthy entrepreneurs and families who are the ruling elite in US and Canada today.<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Governor Kieft of New Netherlands made the first payment for Indian scalps in the 1660s. By 1702 Massachusetts offered $6 for each Indian scalp. In 1756 Governor Morris of Pennsylvania offered \u201c130 Pieces of Eight [type of coin] for the Scalp of Every Male Indian Enemy, above the Age of Twelve Years\u201d, and \u201c50 \u2026 for the Scalp of Every Indian Woman\u201d. Today\u2019s genocide is disguised as Bill C-45 and other Admiralty statute laws to eliminate us \u201clegally\u201d.<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Massachusetts increased its payments to 40 pounds for a male, 20 for females and children under 12 years old. It was difficult to tell a man\u2019s scalp from a woman\u2019s, or an adult\u2019s from a child\u2019s \u2013 or that of an enemy from a peaceful Indian. Bounties lead to widespread violence against any Indigenous person, male or female, young or old.<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Canada has branded Mohawks as \u201cterrorists\u201d and \u201cinsurgents\u201d in their military training manual. We are a peaceful people with no history of attacking the US or Canada. Targeting us is premeditated stone cold murder. Obama thinks that drone strikes to kill citizens abroad is not quite murder as the push button is thousands of miles away. Push button murder is murder.<\/b>\u00a0As Jethro Tull sang: War Child<\/a>, dance the d<\/b>ays and nights away. Open your windows. I’ll walk through your doors. Let me live in your country. Let me sleep by your shores.”<\/b><\/p>\n

See: 1973 War Powers Act\u00a0War Powers<\/a><\/b> 1871 Appropriations Act legalized US genocide of Indigenous.<\/b>\u00a0Appropriations Act<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

[From information in Unlearning \u201cIndian\u201d Stereotypes \u2013 Council on Interracial Books for Children \u2013 and other sources. Philip Martin is a folklorist and book editor for Rethinking Schools.\u00a0<\/b>Rethinking schools<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/b>Daily telegraph on Drone kills<\/a><\/p>\n

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