The Canary Effect

Talking about a sad thing today and for once will like to begin with some statistics; 3 million killed in 3 years!!! Guess who I'm talking about? No? Well, it’s none other than Native Americans or should we call them Indians. Normally this is the kind of topic that wouldn't interest me at all. After all this genocide is long gone as some may say and what’s the whole point of recalling all this, right? The thing is that I feel it's an important issue in society today. Bear with me and I'll try to give this issue some relevancy (unfortunately there's a need for this in the world we live in, as people don’t see the importance of putting emphasis on social injustice these days). Relevancy we all need these days considering the issue at stake. That of the most victimized population in the world along Africa of course.

Don't know if the movie Django inspired me for this post or something else. But a fact is a fact, the Indian population in America is in a dead end. The sad thing is that awareness of this issue is simply not there. However, not all is so bad there are still people out there who haven't given up, for instance  the creators of the documentary The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man. Indeed, not only this documentary describes the harm done to Indians in the past, but also the way this issue is dealt with in modern - day America. Without giving away a lot of information about this movie, I can say that the prospects Indians have in America today are really bad and the state in which their communities are found in today are simply a shame. I perpetually try to portray this Ghettoization phenomena in my posts, but when I read and watched the details of contemporary Indian existence, I was dumb - founded by the nature and scale of this social disaster. I mean if you think about the fact that this population went from being 100% of the North American population to 0.99% today, you can easily get the appalling feeling I have.

So, the question is why the hell is this extermination of a nation still going on today or there is no extermination what so ever. I mean, the U.S.A went from slavery to segregation all the way to social independence for minorities, right? I mean it always positions itself as being one of the most freedom-loving countries in the world, right? How come we have this kind of stats when it comes to a people which are supposed to be native? All these questions and much more are answered in The Canary Effect, so if you are into opening up to this part of world history which has been forgotten for most part. Get the movie and watch it!!! Waiting for your feedback, Peace, Love and Unity...