Part one<\/p>\n
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The leaves were not the only things changing when September eased into October.
\nLike lightning bolts, news stories flashed across Indian country, articles that may never have reached Indian
\nreaders, or many others in America, if it were not for the Internet.<\/p>\n
The first of those appeared in The Guardian and described the financial dealings of grandfather Prescott Bush
\nwith the Nazis. England’s prominent newspaper documented the fortune gained by the Bush family from trading
\nwith Nazis and included a new lawsuit filed by Holocaust survivors.<\/p>\n
In Indian country, Prescott Bush was already in the news because of the entry in the Skull and Bones Society
\nlogbook, which states he dug up the remains of Geronimo.<\/p>\n
A delegation from Skull and Bones, including Jonathan Bush, the elder president’s brother, attempted to return
\na skull to San Carlos Apache leaders in New York in 1987. They refused the skull, that of a child. Although they
\nwere told to keep quiet about the matter, they refused. San Carlos Chairman Ned Anderson and Councilman
\nRaleigh Thompson spoke out.<\/p>\n
On sacred Mount Graham in Arizona, Thompson called for the return of Geronimo’s remains, to be buried in
\nthe place where Geronimo had requested, the Triplet Mountains of San Carlos.<\/p>\n
Then, Alexandra Robbins, author of ”Secrets of the Tomb”, told Indian Country Today in the fall of 2003 that
\nthe presidential race in 2004 could be the first time that both the Republican and Democratic presidential
\ncandidates, George Bush and John Kerry, were members of Skull and Bones.<\/p>\n
Robbins’ prediction came true. She also pointed out that far from being a nefarious fraternity at Yale University,
\nSkull and Bones is a brotherhood of power mongers whose goal is world political and financial control and
\ndomination. The most extraordinary fact, she said, is that members of Skull and Bones controlled the
\nproduction of the first atomic bomb.<\/p>\n
Then, the second story that rocked readers online in October was the allegation that two U.S. Border Patrol
\nagents in Eagle Pass, Texas, drowned three women immigrants, including a mother and daughter, in the Rio
\nGrande. In a separate incident, the two Border Patrol agents are also accused of drowning a man. A survivor,
\nwho was beaten, alleges the two Border agents watched as his brother-in-law took his final gasps of breath in
\nthe river. In the article by La Voz de Aztlan in Los Angeles, the survivor described the Border Patrol agents as
\n”bald like a skinhead” and the other wearing glasses.<\/p>\n
Finally, the third article in October that might have gone unnoticed if it were not for the Internet, was the
\nAssociated Press story of a New Mexico university purchasing a town for Homeland Security. The town of
\nPlayas, near Silver City, was purchased for ”anti-terrorist” training with an unnamed South American country.<\/p>\n
The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology purchased the former Phelps Dodge Corp. town, nearly a
\nghost town, for $5 million. The Department of Defense said it would work with a South American country on joint
\nanti-terrorist exercises, according to Tech President Daniel Lopez, who said he could not reveal the name of
\nthe country involved.<\/p>\n
Indigenous know well a similar school, the long protested School of Americas in Fort Benning, Ga., where Latin
\nmilitary leaders were trained and responsible for innumerable disappeared and dead indigenous in Central and
\nSouth America.<\/p>\n
During the past decade, the Internet has also been credited with saving the lives of indigenous in the Americas
\nwho are isolated and vulnerable. Jose Garcia, Tohono O’odham frequently in Zapatista autonomous
\ncommunities, credits the Zapatistas’ international campaign on the Internet with saving the lives of Mayan
\nZapatistas.<\/p>\n
”Otherwise, the Mexican government would have obliterated them,” Garcia said.<\/p>\n
When an article about the American Indian Genocide Museum in Houston from Indian Country Today was
\nposted on indianz.com, readers responded overwhelmingly and wanted more written about the American Indian
\nHolocaust.<\/p>\n
Steve Melendez, Pyramid Lake Paiute and president of the American Indian Genocide Museum in Houston,
\nsaid the Internet means global access to information.<\/p>\n
”For centuries our tribes never knew what it was to be united. Never before has information united our people
\nto the extent to which it has today. Today, we can search any archive in any museum or library throughout the
\nworld. We can borrow books online from any library in the world. Today, we can unite our people with facts of
\nhistory that seemed to keep repeating themselves over and over again.”<\/p>\n
Melendez said when President Bush signed H.R 884 regarding Western Shoshone land in Nevada last July, the
\nAmerican Indian Genocide Museum was given a national stage to point out that this tactic was used by Andrew
\nJackson and resulted in the Cherokee’s Trail of Tears.<\/p>\n
In 1835 Andrew Jackson’s negotiator J.F. Schermerhorn wrote to Secretary of War Lewis Cass and said, ”We
\nshall make a treaty with those who attend and rely upon it.”<\/p>\n
”Bill H.R 884 went against the wishes of six out of nine Western Shoshone Tribal Councils. By way of the
\nInternet, Indian country was made aware of every move the government made. As a result our Museum was
\nfortunate to be one of many voices crying out for justice and heard around the world.<\/p>\n
”This was possible through the Internet, which was able to link us globally.”<\/p>\n
The world has not become larger, not smaller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","yoast_head":"\n