Monday, June 18, 2012

The Birth of Wannabe Hunters and Their Hate

http://dnaconsultants.com/Cherokee/jews-indians-and-descendant-organizations-paper

One of the best articles I've read in a long time to explain the rise of the hate against Indian people in North America and the birth of the "wannabe hunter".

‎"In an article in the American Indian Quarterly that appeared the same year as Malamud and Tabori’s pieces, William Quinn distils his work experiences as an “ethnohistorian” at the Bureau of Indian Affairs into a sort of legal brief on the subject of Wannabe Indians. “The Southeast Syndrome: Notes on Indian Descendant Recruitment Organizations” argues that Native American cultural associations in that region of the country are not Indian tribes; they do not deserve federal recognition and in fact do not even qualify as “authentic.” In this position lurks a denial of Indian historicity that is similar to the disbelief many choose to harbor about the Jewish Holocaust. All Indians must “vanish” as though they had never existed. Quinn has a deep-seated antipathy toward any ethnicity that does not conform to the dominant, white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, male technocracy of contemporary America."---Yates