[news] "The Worst Shooting Rampage in American History?": A Native Perspective on Virginia Tech

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

"I can't take one more of these headlines," said Joan Redfern, a member of the Lakota Sioux tribe..."Haven't any of these people ever heard of the Massacre at Sand Creek in Colorado, where Methodist minister Col. Chivington massacred between 200 and 400 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, most of them women, children, and elderly men?"..."My intention is not to downplay the horror of what has happened this week in any way. But we have a 500-year history of mass shootings on American soil, and let's not forget it."

  


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