Aaron Huey: America’s native prisoners of war

Hueys speech did not define justice but the injustices forced upon the Lakota Indian tribe. The American government has forced them to POW camps and pretty much abandoned them.

“The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, ‘My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They’re killing each other. They’re killing themselves while we watch them die.’” -Huey

This quote sums the speech up, the Lakota were not given justice, they were stolen from, lied to, massacred. and now America acts like its their own damn fault? NO they didnt chose to live in shanty towns, Americans put them there, They didn’t chose the house infested with black mold, Americans put them there.

To see such a proud people as the Lakota Sioux broken, depresses me.

Justice would be offering healthcare to the reservation to lower the rate of TB, Infant mortality, and cervical cancer.

Justice would be ,giving the reservation a better school system

Justice would be helping in anyway possible.

Justice, like huey said would be to give back the black hills, Like we promised.

But sadly, unless you have the money to buy it, justice does not exist, or else we would not have achieved manifest destiny.

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