Native American History

Native American History - Early History The History of Native Americans is both fascinating and in many ways, tragic. Estimates range from about 10 – 90 million Native Americans inhabited America at the time of the European arrivals. They had lived in the land many, many years before white man set foot on their soil... It is believed that during the ice age, they had traveled a land-bridge across the Bering Sound, from Siberia into what is now Alaska. They had gradually migrated across the land and southward into Mexico and beyond. The name “Indian” was given them by Christopher Columbus who mistakenly believed he had landed in the Indies. They have been labeled Indians, American Indians, and the now preferred Native Americans. They migrated to all regions of the land and were formed into many different tribes or nations... These were a people who adapted well to their particular regions and made wise use of all natural resources available. They believed in respecting the land and the abundance of gifts it offered. They became proficient fishermen, hunters, farmed crops such as corn, and built homes with whatever available resources their territory provided. Some of these included animal skins, sun-dried brick for adobes, or lumber for long houses depending on the regions. Native American History - Native Americans and the Europeans The Native Americans of the east coast met the new 16th and 17th century visitors from Europe with enthusiasm. They regarded these bearded white men as strange but were delighted with the steel knives, mirrors, copper kettles, and other intriguing novelties. The indigenous tribes were more than accommodating and hospitable. Without their aid, the first waves of settlers would not have survived in the land they knew little about. But in time the Europeans disregarded all respect for the valued land and resources and instead displayed insatiable greed and arrogance... The Europeans soon pursued their intent to conquer this new continent with brutal attacks and invasion. The Native Americans soon realized that the invaders would arrive in overwhelming numbers, as many “as the stars in heaven.” Initially, the people of this land tried to co-exist with the Europeans. But many more problems arose. With all their intriguing gadgets, the white men brought deadly diseases to the Native Americans. The colonists and explorers brought measles, smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, and many more devastating diseases. This drastically diminished the Native American population and annihilated entire villages. In addition to this, the arrogant attitude of the ever-growing whites led to the Indian Wars, the Indian Removal Act (1830), and in 1890 one of the worst massacres ever -- Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Here warriors, women, and children alike were ferociously slaughtered by the U.S. Cavalry. The U.S, government began Relocation Programs and the now famous Trail of Tears march where hundreds of Cherokee died from starvation, exposure, and illnesses. The Native American peoples were not only reduced in number but taken from their homes, stripped of their customs, and even forbidden to speak their native languages. Their children were taken from them and sent to schools to “civilize” them, forced to abandon every aspect of their heritage. In January 1876, the U.S. government forced them to live on ‘reservations’ where the majority of Native Americans still reside today... Native American History - The 20th Century Native Americans Some consider Native Americans as a resilient people. The Indian Citizen Act of 1924 offered official citizenship to the Native American tribes. This was partly due to the heroic service of many of them in World War I. Others like Jim Thorpe, Sequoyah, and Sacajawea have represented their people with greatness. There are well over 500 recognized tribal governments currently in the U.S. They are self-governed and considered to be sovereign nations of people within America. There are currently more than 2.48 million Native Americans, according to the 2000 census bureau. While most still live on the reservations, they are considered some of the most poverty-ridden areas in the United States. Unemployment is 5 times higher than the general U. S. population, according to the 2002 Bureau of Indian Affairs. As with many defeated, oppressed people, they have suffered tremendously from the plagues of alcoholism and suicide. These were once a vibrant and resourceful people. They have been robbed, humiliated, and removed from all they knew. Though many have tried through the centuries to civilize, Christianize, and Americanize the Native American people, there are organizations today that recognize the important heritage of these nations. For example, Wiconi International says “we want to see Indigenous people come to know and experience ultimate freedom, and deliverance from the powers of darkness that still prevail in lands and communities…” ... In the meantime, in view of the above, I say again to Ayn Rand, you are such a sick tootie-frootie of a Patootie when it comes to judging a people who were already existing in America for more than a thousand years before the white "trash" arrived to ruin everything that was so beautiful, so peaceful, and so delightful in America!. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Millions of Filipinos Have only a God to Worship, that's all.

"If you want to control a population and keep them passive, keep beating them over the head and let them look somewhere else... give a God to worship." ... Noam Chomsky... I said it before, I say it again: Millions upon millions of Filipinos believe, have faith, and worship God who will provide for them in this world, if not, in the next world, - after death. This is WHAT Catholic schools, Catholic colleges, and Catholic universities have been and still are mostly about in the Philippines. Even the Secretary of the Department of Education is a Catholic - Christian Brother Fermin Ilustre - former president of De La Salle University. A typical university where its teachings are more about the business of NOT developing the healthy human spirit; but more about the spreading the sick holy spirit to keep and maintain the power, glory, wealth and authority of Catholicism in the Philippines for centuries yet to come. Poch Suzara Twitter# facebook# Google#

The Lies About Death

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. . . Steve Jobs I am told that since my dead great grandparents, dead grandparents, dead parents, and dead uncles, aunties, cousins, in laws, friends and associates, including dead classmates in La Salle grade school and high school - since all lived as good Catholics; all believed in the good Lord; and all had faith in God as our creator - they are now in the kingdom of God more known as heaven enjoying eternal salvation... Well, I ask: how come they are all still dead and buried and their bodies rotting in the cemeteries? For my part, as an atheist, I say: if we atheists must die, let us die sober, and not drunk with lies. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Dr. Jose Rizal

"He who wants to help himself should help others, because if he neglects others, he too will be neglected by them." - Dr. Jose Rizal ... Oh My dear Dr. Jose Rizal, in this already 21st century, we Filipinos do not care to help each other; but are still into that senseless "God helps only those who can help themselves." Since there isn't even a God existing here, existing there, or existing anywhere - we Filipinos continue to exist helpless as a people and senseless as a nation! ... Poch Suzara

The Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama was asked what surprised him the most; he said “Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.” Oh my dear Dalai Lama, it is truly regrettable, nay, despicable, that we have never heard about how great a man you are in the schools, colleges, and universities in our country; especially as own and operated by the Catholic church in the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

WOW! AYN RAND, YOU ARE SUCH A TOOTIE FROOTIE, NAY, A PATOOTIE

Now, I don't care to discuss the alleged complaints American Indians have against this country. I believe, with good reason, the most unsympathetic Hollywood portrayal of Indians and what they did to the white man. They had no right to a country merely because they were born here and then acted like savages. The white man did not conquer this country. And you're a racist if you object, because it means you believe that certain men are entitled to something because of their race. You believe that if someone is born in a magnificent country and doesn't know what to do with it, he still has a property right to it. He does not. Since the Indians did not have the concept of property or property rights--they didn't have a settled society, they had predominantly nomadic tribal "cultures"--they didn't have rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights that they had not conceived of and were not using. It's wrong to attack a country that respects (or even tries to respect) individual rights. If you do, you're an aggressor and are morally wrong. But if a "country" does not protect rights--if a group of tribesmen are the slaves of their tribal chief--why should you respect the "rights" that they don't have or respect? The same is true for a dictatorship. The citizens in it have individual rights, but the country has no rights and so anyone has the right to invade it, because rights are not recognized in that country; and no individual or country can have its cake and eat it too--that is, you can't claim one should respect the "rights" of Indians, when they had no concept of rights and no respect for rights. But let's suppose they were all beautifully innocent savages--which they certainly were not. What were they fighting for, in opposing the white man on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence; for their "right" to keep part of the earth untouched--to keep everybody out so they could live like animals or cavemen. Any European who brought with him an element of civilization had the right to take over this continent, and it's great that some of them did. The racist Indians today--those who condemn America--do not respect individual rights... Ayn Rand WOW! My dear Ayn Rand, you are such a Tootie-Frootie, nay, a Patootie! Are you saying then that during the 16th century, the Catholics from Spain had every right to conquer the Philippines and to civilize the filipinos with Catholicism? And if we Filipinos were never converted into Christianity - Filipinos today in this already 21st century won't be famous throughout the world as the SICK MAN OF ASIA for the greater glory of Jesus on earth as he is in heaven? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Endless Source of Filth in our Sick Country

THE significance of health and sanitation cannot be taken for granted in a decent society. Every civilization stresses the importance of cleanliness. Historically, cleanliness has been considered one of the important factors by which to judge whether a nation enjoys civilization or more at home with superstition. Waste management is the collection, transport, processing or disposal, managing and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and the process is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics, and indeed, to maintain and support the Tourism Industry. I said it before, I say it again: we are not orderly as a people. We are filthy as a nation. Look how we only dream over the prospect, but never get down to brass tacks in the task of cleaning the filth off in the Pasig river, Laguna De Bay, and Manila Bay. Not to mention also cleaning the mess off our bus stations and train stations; towns, barrios, and cities; public parks; police stations; bus and train stations; airports, harbors, and piers; keeping clean our public markets and public toilet facilities. Not to mention cleaning the filth behind our sick religion and sick politics in our country. Not by praying daily and nightly, but planting flower plants and re-planting cut down trees have yet to take serious roots as a part of our culture, custom, and tradition. In the meantime, we have yet to get real as to why we must, first and foremost, clean the dirt off our minds and the filth off our hearts. Especially in facing and dealing with the real source as to where the dirt and filth everywhere in our sick society comes from. After all, everything that is messy and dirty around us everywhere is the exact reflection of what we Filipinos learn from schools, colleges, and universities. Aside from a green revolution, what we need, however, is the revolution of our minds and hearts. Indeed, dirt that comes from our dirty system of education! Our schools, colleges, and universities are neither clean nor organized as educational institutions. They hardly teach the values of cleanliness in public, or the beauty of orderliness as a Republic. They are just commercial enterprises established only to make money, tons of money. Well, if the monies made have turned out to be dirty too - our officials in the government are just happy and proud and grateful to grab it for their own pockets. In the meantime, I should wish to ask our Secretary of Education Christian Brother Fermin Ilustre: Sir, when will you start doing your job in cleaning up the traditional Catholic mess out of our sick system of education! A nation cannot be radically reformed except by a radical reform of its values and beliefs as taught in schools, colleges, and universities! ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Only in Asia

In China, the Chinese love China. In Japan, the Japanese love Japan. In Thailand, the Thais love Thailand. In Malaysia, the Malaysians love Malaysia. In Vietnam, the vIetnamese love Vietnam. In Cambodia, the Cambodians love Cambodia. In Korea, the Koreans love Korea. In Singapore, the Singaporeans love Singapore. In Indonesia, the Indonesians love Indonesia. In Taiwan, the Taiwanese love Taiwan. In Laos, the Laotians love Laos. In Bangladesh, the Bangladeshis love Bangladesh. In the Philippines, however, the only Catholic country in Asia since 400 years ago, the Filipinos do not love the Philippines, but love only its Savior - Jesus, who was born as a Jew in a Jewish Land that was never converted to be a Catholic country. It is still today a Jewish State. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Saint John Baptist de La Salle

To touch the hearts of your pupils and to inspire them with the Christian spirit is the greatest miracle you can perform, and one which God expects of you." - Saint John Baptist de La Salle . . . Oh my dear Saint John Baptist de La Salle, what about touching also the hearts and minds of your pupils in school with the human spirit: to learn how to love each other, how to love our family, how to love the human community, and indeed, how to love our country down here? Isn't the endless fight of the holy spirit against the evil spirit all based a lot of childish nonsense? In the Philippines, most, if not all of the men and women with college education from La Salle university know only how to love God up there; especially by hating our country down here. Otherwise more known as the "Christian spirit." For my part, I am most proud and happy that I got expelled out of la Salle high school some 65 years ago... It is, in this way, that on my own initiative, I have learned to stop having faith in human stupidity. I have learned to stop loving Christianity. I learned to dump all of my useless love, needless respect, and mindless admiration for a silly divinity up out there. I only love my country down here. - Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God's House

The biggest job in the world is not running the White House; it's running God's House! Leonard Ravenhill... Wow! God is suppose to be existing here, existing there, and existing everywhere, and God has a house? Where is it located? In heaven? On earth? Or, in hell? Poch Suzara Twitter# facebook# Google#

Education is Far More Precious than Indocrination

No doubt, the key to our spiritual growth as a people and to our scientific development as a nation is via "education." Unfortunately, what we acquire in the Philippines is not "education," but "sick indoctrination." Indeed, schools, colleges, and universities are Catholic establishments where we learn to love not our family, to love not our country, and indeed, to love not humanity down here; but learn only how to love a sick divinity existing somewhere up out there. Is it any wonder that most men and women, even boys and girls, in our country, do not enjoy the freedom of thinking? but enjoy only the freedom of fucking. We produce three babies every minute of the day and night; or, 180 babies every hour; or, 4,320 babies every day; or, 129,600 babies every month; or, 1,555,200 million babies yearly! After our women deliver daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly - babies to inhabit our poor and backward country, our men have also been indoctrinated to openly and publicly declare that "WE ARE PROUD FATHERS!" In the meantime, millions of the nation's children live off garbage in the streets of our major cities. We are even indoctrinated to believe that God has always loved us Filipinos and has always blessed the Philippines for being the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century. In the meantime, I asked it before, I ask it again: What value has our freedom of expression if, as children in schools, colleges, and universities - we are never taught to value the free play of free thought inside or outside, in front or in the back, below or on top - the playful arena of free ideas? Indeed, what value has the freedom of expression if we are never encouraged to question, for example, the destructive influence of sacred beliefs, parental prejudices, or even to challenge the validity of ecclesiastical authority? For my part, I always enjoy the freedom to make mistakes or, more to the point, - the freedom to be able to learn from my mistakes. In this way, I will always, to the end of my days, embrace the freedom of expression as one of life’s most precious of freedoms. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Horror that is America is Disgusting

US soldier Bowe Bergdahl 'was disgusted with Afghan war and ashamed to be American' Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, a US soldier being held prisoner by the Taliban after disappearing from his base had told his parents he was disgusted with the Afghan war and ashamed to be American. A United States soldier being held prisoner by the Taliban after disappearing from his base had told his parents he was disgusted with the Afghan war and ashamed to be American. Sgt Bergdahl criticised his superiors, calling his battalion commander a "conceited old fool", By Ben Farmer, Kabul Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, now 26, has been held for almost three years and is the only American soldier held by the insurgents, after going missing in a south eastern province of Afghanistan. The American military has never detailed the events of his disappearance, but there were reports at the time that he had just walked off his base in Paktika province after completing a guard shift. His family, from Hailey in Idaho, have now released an email he sent days before his disappearance in which he spoke of his disillusion with the American military. "The future is too good to waste on lies," he wrote in the email obtained by Rolling Stone magazine. "And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be American. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting." Sgt Bergdahl criticised his superiors, calling his battalion commander a "conceited old fool", and said the American army was composed of "liars, back-stabbers, fools, and bullies". He concluded by saying: "I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting." His disappearance triggered an intense manhunt as troops were pulled off planned operations to search for him. At the time, Afghan officers taking part in the search said they had been told Sgt Bergdahl had suffered some form of breakdown. A Taliban statement said he had been captured after falling behind on a patrol. He is not classified as a deserter and is listed as "missing-captured." Since his capture, he has appeared in a number of hostage videos released by the Taliban, in which he has pleaded for his release. He is believed to be held in northwestern Pakistan. His parents have recently begun giving interviews about their son's imprisonment after becoming frustrated with the failure of official efforts to free him. American officials had tried to broker his freedom in a swap for five Taliban leaders currently held in Guantánamo Bay US military prison in Cuba. The transfer had been conceived as a "confidence building measure" to kick start wider talks between the enemies to find a political settlement to the conflict. The initiative appears to have stalled in the face of opposition in Congress to concessions to the Taliban. Meanwhile the number of American troops who have died in the decade-long conflict on Thursday passed 2,000 according to the icasualties website, which compiles casualty figures. Oh my dear US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, thank you for being honest, truthful, and courageous in the real sense of the word. You are, indeed, a rare and a great American. I salute you. If only there were more of you as American citizens - there will be peace, sanity, and tranquility in this world of ours! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Jaime T. Licauco

How to Heal Yourself Through Visualization. Seminar by Jaime T. Licauco June 7, 2014... Oh my dear Jaime T. Licauco, there is no such thing as healing through visualization or vituperation or visitation or even by revelation or circumlocution or deception or even by prostitution... Even in and then out of the hospital cured of a disease, we are still dying whether we like it or not... Sir, the day we are born is the day we begin to live in a dying body. All the healing in the world cannot stop that reality, not even by the power and grace and beauty of a silly divinity... In the meantime, the trouble with Jesus is that can only save you not before death, but only after death! Hijos de tootie-frootie y patooties, Conio! What a super Son of a God Jerk... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

A God not of Mercy, but a God of Mediocrity

"God's judgment is certain, but so is His mercy." Philippine Star, June 3, 2014... Oh God, my dear God, thus far, what has always been certain is that you are only always omni-absent. Never omnipresent. Come on God, where in hell are you? why are you always hiding? In the bible you used to speak with Moses face to face. How come you never bother to speak to me face to face; specially as you know that I no longer believe in you as a God of mercy but only as God of mediocrity? ... In the meantime, you are really happy and proud of yourself that you had created a mad and an insane world for us poor humans to live in? ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

War of Ideas

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity... Dwight D. Eisenhower... For my part, I love war; but only the kind of war where we fight not with bullets and guns; but with ideas against other ideas as one can see its sensibility, intellectuality, its sanity, its benefits for humanity. Poch Suzara

J.K. Rowling, Author of Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling is no longer a billionaire. . . The billionaires club has hit J.K. Rowling with a banishing spell. According to the newly updated Forbes Rich List, the Harry Potter author has gone from billionaire to millionaire (several hundred times over, of course). She apparently broke a few rules of how to stay rich by giving away a lot of her fortune — reportedly $160 million of it — to charity and by paying her top-rung British taxes. There’s no way that the socially minded Rowling, who once lived on welfare, gives two Quaffles about her standing on the list, and no one should shed a tear over a stratospherically rich woman becoming slightly less so. But I always liked knowing that an author of imaginative, timeless, honest-to-goodness books became a billionaire. On the contrary, J.K. rowling is far far richer than ever. After all, the worst kind of poverty is the poverty of the mind and heart... while the greatest of wealth is the health of the mind and heart. Poch Suzara

Overpopulation Good for the Philippines Says Catholic Bishop

Bishop Gilbert Garcera of the Diocese of Daet, the capital of Camarines Norte, believes overpopulation has been advantageous to the Philippines and to the world because it has increased the number of overseas workers and migrants who could send remittances back home while taking care of ageing people abroad and spreading the Christian faith... Contrary to the aims of the reproductive health (RH) bill, Garcera said the huge Philippine population could be part of “God’s plan for Filipinos to be caregivers to ageing nations whose populations had become stagnant.” Oh my dear Bishop Gilbert Garcera, you are such a cheap liar and as corrupt as any of our corrupt politicians in the government. What is good for all of us Filipinos is to know first what exactly is God's plan of which you yourself haven't the foggiest. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Poor Soldiers

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in... George McGovern . . . This is a minor evil... The major evil, however, is when soldiers are trained to just do or die and never, but never question what it is exactly that they are ordered to die for. For freedom and democracy? what a lot of hogwash! Since war has always been big business, the job of soldiers is to make the filthy rich minority get richer; and to keep the filthy poor majority get poorer! That's all! . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Is that What You Are a Great God About?

If you are tempted to lose patience with another, stop and think how patient God has been with you." - Philippine Star, June 2, 2014. . . The Lord's Prayer. . . "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into TEMPTATION, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.". . . Oh God, my dear God, don't you have better things to do with your time and energy other than just to lead us not into TEMPTATION? So that you can endlessly continue to deliver us from evil? Is that what you are a great God about? HUH? NO KIDDING? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Poverty of the Worst Kind

If I give you a penny, you will be one penny richer and I'll be one penny poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too. Albert Einstein... Indeed, the worst kind of poverty is the poverty of the mind and heart... Such Catholic horrors have been and still are what our schools, colleges, and universities have been mostly about: a sick Catholic system of education that makes us happy and proud of our sick existence in this world as the Sick Man of Asia, specially for the greater glory of Jesus on earth as he is in heaven. Poch Suzara