just watched this video, and, although I have been aware of it since an early age, I had never heard the numbers, 19 million ?  That made me sad. I have spent time on the navajo res in Arizona, and made a few good friends in the 4 corners area,in canyon de chelly. It is true that they were given the most desolate land possible. Canyon de chelly is spectacular, but it lies in the center of some very hard terrain. I guess I was lucky to see the pueblo in Taos, the oldest inhabited building in the country. The Red Willow people live there, and I believe they still live on their ancestors land, on the tail end of the rockies. They finally regained "Blue Lake" as part of their land during the Clinton administration. I believe the footage of the Indians dancing near the beginning of the film was on their pueblo.You can see the multi-level building in the left rear of the footage, very thick adobe.I was invited to a home deep in that building on Christmas several years ago, and it is quite remarkable. They do allow some tourists, but it is regulated to certain areas, and times. They warred more with the Spanish there, and then the whites. Look up Robert Mirabal, he is a great musician from that pueblo...

           I found that the attitudes towards our society varied greatly amidst the natives there, from great humor to great anger, and they were never herded from their land like most. They have kept a good part of their culture alive there, very beautiful compared to the other places I have seen.......

         There have been a couple of formal apologies from presidents over time, but not to the true genocide that took place, and unless it included alot of dialogue, face to face, it couldn't be more than a symbolic gesture.....I always thought that "Little Big Man" should be required viewing for history credit for students. It really showed the irony,stupidity,and hatred shown by the whites during that time, and some good examples of what it was like for the natives..Of course, it isn't a thorough history of the times, but it had something..............Big Peace Pipe Bubble Out !,,,,,,,,,,L,,,,,,T

These atrocities go beyond prejudice and control of land and natural resources.  There is a systematic ploy to annihilate indigenous people on every continent.  Why?  Original, native people are generational keepers of enormous knowledge about nature, healing, spiritual principles, and actual history that threatens the controllers' power.  

"Ethnic cleansing" or forced sterilization continues today in many places, like Australia, Africa, Tibet, and of course, the Gaza Strip.   Sometimes, individuals of particular note are targeted.  Recently, fourteen shaman were killed in Peru over a 2-year period, which effectively prevented their spiritual knowledge from being passed down.  The murders were apparently carried out by members of a neighboring christian church. 

I find the genocide of Canadian Indians particularly disturbing.  This calculated eradication of native people began in the mid 1800s and continued until the late 1980s, yet few people have ever heard about it.   The shocking chronology is listed on this page http://canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org/intro2.html.  The Hidden from History website http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx has a wealth of information about the Canadian holocaust.

This crap has been going on way too long.  Maybe we can begin to put an end to it by declaring that "enough is enough!"

The Natives of our land are The Maori, they arrived here not that much before the European settlers, our country I believe is the youngest to be settled on Earth. The early settlers did much the same as elsewhere, they took the land for the price of a few blankets, however through a document called The Treaty of Waitangi, where the Tribal Elders and the Governer General or really the Queen of England signed a pledge mainly to bring a halt to the wars and establish the rights of Maori. It is through this document that the Maori have more recently reclaimed where possible their lands, and if not possible they have been compensated in very large monetary terms. The whole process has created in some ways a real division between Maori and New Zealander.

We have for instance Maori ministers in our Parliment, you must have a portion of Maori blood in order to vote on the Maori roll. For some this divides our country, for me it keeps the faith with the first settlers (I say settlers as they are not really indigenous, in fact they say The Moriori  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori_people where here first) I believe all indigenous people will perform an important roll in our New Earth, we must therefore be strong for them where they cannot, and must stand with them against the continuing tyranny.

And in Africa it continues through "vaccination" programs that are really sterilizing people. There was much ado made about the pledges made by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett but this money going to the Gates Foundation has been distributing these vaccines in the name of good health.

Noa, thanks for the news about the Peruvian shamans, I hadn't heard about that before. I can imagine that TPTW were worried about too many westerners learning truth from these people as they traveled there for ayahuasca experiences.

    There is more to it. The Mayan factions had no written history, it was kept in their stories, and many of the shamans were the storytellers. These "hits" by the church have happened all through central america also. Martin Prechtel was one of them who escaped here, and has been on the "storytelling" circuit for years. By destroying the storyteller of a tribe, they destroyed it's history. Prechtel wrote many books about his experiences there in Guatemala, next to Lago Aititlan, and one in particular was about the attempts on his life, and his escape. As they destroy their culture, they lure them to become farmworkers amidst all the really nasty pesticides that we banned here long ago. In at least one case the rate of epilepsy went through the roof in the tribal population....They seem to work from many angles there too, just like in the short film above.......

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/06/peru-shaman-murders

• Dan Collyns in Lima
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 6 October 2011 18.31 BST

Peruvian shaman Pedro Tangoa performs a ritual involving the hallucinogen ayahuasca. Some suggest that the use of such psychoactive plants may be one reason the murdered shamans were targeted. Photograph: Reuters

The Peruvian government is sending a team of officials to a remote region of the Amazon jungle to investigate the deaths of 14 shamans who were killed in a string of brutal murders.

The traditional healers, all from the Shawi ethnic group, were murdered in separate incidents over the last 20 months, allegedly at the behest of a local mayor.

No arrests have been made over the deaths, which took place in and around Balsapuerto, a small river port in Peru's vast Amazon region on its northern border with Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil.

The prime suspects, however, in the disappearance of one victim and the murder of another are the mayor of Balsapuerto, Alfredo Torres and his brother Augusto.

The two men were named in a report from the public prosecutor's office in the nearest town of Yurimaguas, which said seven of the victims had been shot, stabbed or hacked to death with machetes. Local people identified all of them as curanderos or native healers, said the vice-minister of intercultural affairs, Vicente Otta.

The Roman Catholic church in the area has reported the death of seven other shamans whose bodies have yet to be found, Otta said, adding that territorial disputes and political disagreements also pointed to the mayor being "one of the instigators of the slaughter".

He said that the murder suspects had sought to "legitimise the killings " by blaming the victims for the high level of infant mortality in the area.

Torres has denied the allegations in interviews with local media. Calls to his office went unanswered.

The public prosecutor's report also details the testimony of a survivor of one attack. Bautista Inuma was mistaken for a shaman and received gunshot wounds and had an arm hacked off before he managed to escape.

Roger Rumrrill, an expert on Peruvian Amazon cultures and a government adviser, said some of the victims' bodies were thrown into rivers, to be devoured by piranhas and other fish.

He alleged that the mayor, who is an evangelical Christian, ordered the killings on hearing that the shamans planned to form an association. He said the mayor's brother was known in the area as a matabrujos or witch killer.

"For Protestant sects, the shamans are possessed by the devil; a totally sectarian, primitive and racist concept," he said.

Shamans in the Peruvian Amazon use psychoactive plants such as the jungle vine ayahuascafor spiritual ceremonies. As early as the 16th century, Spanish and Portuguese missionaries described its use by native people in the Amazon as the work of the devil.

"Until now the death of 14 curanderos who are the depositaries of Amazon knowledge wasn't worth the attention of the press," Rumrrill said. "That's an expression of how fragmented and racist this country is. A centralised country which continues to look at its interior with total indifference."

The National Institute for the Development of Andean, Amazonian and Afro-Peruvian Peoples estimates that there are around 330,000 indigenous people in Peru's Amazon region, about 1% of the country's population of more than 29 million.

Gregor MacLennan, Peru programme coordinator for the NGO Amazon Watch, said: "The death of these shamans represents not just a tragic loss of life, but the loss of a huge body of knowledge about rainforest plants and the crucial role shamans play in traditional medicine and spiritual guidance in indigenous communities."

Thanks for the story Noa, that's very interesting.

   This is freaky ! Especially attacking this one level of Shaman. In the Incan medicine wheel, you start in the south, then the west,north, east. These jungle shamans ,If I remember correctly work in the west. It is said that they stop on the wheel, and do their work there. I assume it is a calling of sorts. But there are so many "types", and "levels" of shamans, just in the Incan wheel, it does seem that it would be related to the ayahuasca. Jeez, some of these guys have been brought here, or have trained others to do the ceremonies, and hold the space, for people to do it here. Sounds brutal ! , and I hope it stops. A big peace bubble to Peru !!,,,,,,,,,,,,T

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Hi guys,

I saw a thing recently where Henry Kissinger openly called for the depopulation of the 3rd world in order to shore up those resources for America, he said it should be the highest priority as it is a matter of National security...., that is genocide and theft...., and we have been actively doing this for centuries,...Africa is enormously wealthy...but it will belong to the people unless someone kills them all....and the US is planning to be that someone.....

Shamans deal in reality.......there are few things that scare politicians and corporations more than reality.....with 14 less Shamans the people will be that much easier to control, manipulate and steal from.....

L

Jez