LEARN OF AND REMEMBER THE INJUSTICE DONE HERE TO THOSE WHO ALREADY LIVED HERE

NO PEACE IS REALLY WON WHILE EXTERMINATING OTHERS

WHILE YOU GIVE THANKS
REMEMBER THE SACRIFICE
OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

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"...when justice is overlooked and only equality is granted by assimilation..... and our humanity is debased......then we know that the fight to survive has begun"
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'The Signals for change' by Solomon Cyr.
"Darlin' Dont Cry" Buffy Sainte-Marie and the Red Bull ~ Singers.

THE TRAIL OF TEARS

" Between 1790 and 1830 the population of Georgia increased six-fold. The western push of the settlers created a problem. Georgians continued to take Native American lands and force them into the frontier. By 1825 the Lower Creek had been completely removed from the state under provisions of the Treaty of Indian Springs. By 1827 the Creek were gone. Cherokee had long called western Georgia home.

...In 1830 the Congress of the United States passed the "Indian Removal Act..."

Native Languages of the Americas: Cherokee (Tsalagi)

History: The best-known episode in Cherokee history was also the worst: the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians...Though prominent Americans like Davy Crockett and Daniel Webster spoke against Removal, and though the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional, President Andrew Jackson sent in the army. Fifteen to twenty thousand Cherokee Indians (along with Choctaw, Creek, and other tribes) were rounded up and herded to Oklahoma in the winter of 1838-1839. Driven from their homes without being allowed to collect their possessions first, even their shoes, the Cherokees were no better equipped for an 800-mile forced march than people today would be. Between four and eight thousand Cherokee people died of exposure, starvation, disease, and exhaustion along the Trail of Tears. If you understand this, both the extent to which the Cherokees had adopted American standards of civilization before the Removal and the ultimate futility of it, you will go a long way towards understanding the Cherokee mentality and also the attitudes of other Indian peoples towards us.

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Cherokee Morning Song

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Samuel's Memory - Cherokee History
Samuel Cloud turned 9 years old on the Trail of Tears. Samuel's Memory is told by his great-great grandson, Michael Rutledge, in his paper Forgiveness in the Age of Forgetfulness. Michael, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is a law student at Arizona State University.

Cherokee History
by Ken Martin

Pictures of Our Nobler Selves - Cherokee History

The Book: Great Speeches by Native Americans for $2.50 as of today, November 27, 2008 - governmentally designated "thanksgiving day"

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BEAUTY NEEDS NO TRANSLATION

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I'll Remember You
Uploaded by elziebean100
This is the 13th of 13 parts uploaded by elziebean100 of the movie Fried Green Tomatoes.
The story is based on the novel by Fannie Flagg.

Sometimes a song stands out in a movie. And I'll Remember You does - written by Bob Dylan, performed by Grayson Hugh in the rolling credits of Fried Green Tomatoes. At 2:29 of the youtube video, the song begins.

Lyrics

I'll remember you
When I've forgotten all the rest,
You to me were true,
You to me were the best.
When there is no more,
You cut to the core
Quicker than anyone I knew.
When I'm all alone
In the great unknown,
I'll remember you.

I'll remember you
At the end of the trail,
I had so much left to do,
I had so little time to fail.
There's some people that
You don't forget,
Even though you've only seen'm
One time or two.
When the roses fade
And I'm in the shade,
I'll remember you.

Didn't I, didn't I try to love you?
Didn't I, didn't I try to care?
Didn't I sleep, didn't I weep beside you
With the rain blowing in your hair?

I'll remember you
When the wind blows through the piney wood.
It was you who came right through,
It was you who understood.
Though I'd never say
That I done it the way
That you'd have liked me to.
In the end,
My dear sweet friend,
I'll remember you.

"Friend, don't be a perfectionist. Perfectionism is a curse and a strain. For you tremble lest you miss the bulls-eye. You are perfect if you let be. Friend don't be afraid of mistakes. Mistakes are not sins. Mistakes are ways of doing something different, perhaps creatively new. Friend don't be sorry for your mistakes. be glad for them. You had the courage to give something of yourself. It takes years to be centered; it takes more years to understand and be NOW."
Frederick Perls

The video below is presented with graphics and music by David Kettlewell, a harper and musicologist who uses film and other media to educate the whole person: "musica humana" - the human harmony where each of us is a strand in the weaving together of the rich whole tapestry of life. Working from his red timber farmhouse by Lake Leaf-Sea, where the farming land meets the forest in northern Sweden, using the harp, film, and the Macintosh to help people feel good about themselves.

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Be
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Black Sea Don Cossacks: Odnozvutjno gremit
from their concert at the Old Church of Ytterlännäs, Northern Sweden, July 2008; conductor Slavil Dimitrov. This Russian folk song is much loved in Sweden with its Swedish text "Jag har hört om en stad".
Uploaded by davidtheharper
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Silent Night

Amazing Grace in Cherokee

Music is a spiritual experience