The Human Tragedy Runs Deep (and is right under my feet), but change is coming! We will prevail… or perhaps not: Extinction
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Important History to Remember: …The California and Oregon Indians experienced one of the most brutal genocides in American history through three waves of colonization by the Spanish, Mexican and American periods that systematically dehumanized, enslaved, raped, and murdered the ancestors of today’s survivors until they were forced into hiding their identities and cultures.
Many people don’t know that the state of California paid bounty hunters for Indian scalps, reimbursed by the United States government.
Many people don’t know that treaties made between California Indian tribes and the state never made it to Washington DC, and many people don’t know that there are no federally-recognized California Indians tribes from Santa Ynez just north of Santa Barbara to Lytton, just north of San Francisco.
But, this outcome of genocide, doesn’t mean that survivors from these tribes don’t exist or care for their ancestral territories. There still exist many sacred sites to the often un-recognized California Indians. These sites are cared for, and represent unbroken spiritual ties to the land since time immemorial.
(excerpt from: https://medium.com/bioneers/valentine-lopez-bioneer-alumni-to-speak-up-to-protect-sacred-site-near-san-francisco-at-the-un-a0674fcb23ac )
In 1995, Carl Sagan saw what was happening and predicted the future:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and whats true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), the lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
This passage is from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark