What you have labeled 'native americans' are the survivors of centuries of genocide. Lost are the elements of culture that are discarded during crisis, just like during Hurricane Katrina when New Orleans was demolished. People ran for their lives in all directions with nothing but what they had on, which may have been nothing at all.
When translocated, 'memory' after trauma is insufficient to recover all the elements lost. Words of favorite things become distorted, just slightly. No photographs NOW -- no momentos -- no documents -- no IDs -- no music -- no 'historical facts' -- just what you are TOLD by others remains with you.
And just as the pieces are being put back together, it happens again. And again. And again.
NativeAmericans, as you call them, 'OriginalPeoples,' or 'SURVIVORS' as I call them, were in a similar position, repeatedly over a very long period of time. The 'music,' itself, became unrecognizeable to me, personally, and even that which remains today is so far removed than just a century ago that comparisons become meaningless.
YOU DID THAT TO THEM and PRAY about it once a year on the day of 'thanks for the genocide of 'not our kind of people.'
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