The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the...
I agree with you, but I'm trying to explain that it's not ridiculous for native peoples to link the two and be suspicious. It's not reactionary to watch your people die and say "hey all the stuff that helped to kill my people is bad." I'm not trying to throw out science, I just want to contextualize.
It's not a superstition when they literally killed your family. Being skeptical of Western definitions of progress doesn't mean anarchoprimitvism.
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I agree with you, but I'm trying to explain that it's not ridiculous for native peoples to link the two and be suspicious. It's not reactionary to watch your people die and say "hey all the stuff that helped to kill my people is bad." I'm not trying to throw out science, I just want to contextualize.
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I guess we disagree on the nature of reactionary then, which is fair enough.