Reply #53: Part of why that is, is that the Native Americans have been so cowed [View All]

[KitchenWitch]

into compliance that they do not often protest.

Case in point, A few years ago there was a situation where the Minneapolis Police allegedly dropped two drunken homeless Native Americans off in the parking lot of a housing project, urinated on them (it was found later that the urine was not from the police), and basically left them to freeze to death (it was about -20 degrees F). A small march was organized by AIM and Clyde Bellecourt, to go from the housing project to city hall. Simultaneously, the African American community organized a march from a church in north Minneapolis to city hall.

The mayor and some high mucketymucks from the police department held a meeting with the people who participated in the march (both marches) and the meeting was intended for the Native American community to air their grievances with the police, but the African American contingent basically bullied their way in and took over, so many of the less outspoken Native Americans present did not get to speak. Granted, they could have chosen to be more assertive, but assertiveness has been categorically exterminated from their culture.