A Tribute to the Women of the Sioux Nation

Sculpture unveiled recently in respect and honor of the women of the Sioux Nation. It is called 'Dignity' and is the work of artist Dale Lamphere.  What beauty and power and dignity.  Thank you to the women of the Sioux who inspired it and Dale Lamphere the artist who did the work and brought it about. John Throne.

Below is a short excerpt from my present book about the brutality and genocide against the  indigenous people of North America. John Throne.

"The Native American and Inuit people were the first known inhabitants of this huge land mass. They travelled, traded, hunted and gathered from coast to coast and the Arctic to the gulf. They were a multitude of different tribes, mainly of hunters and gatherers who lived collectively within themselves and had many different languages and cultures. Their world, a type of primitive communism, with an estimated 60 million people, was to be destroyed by developments in another continent.

Small elites in Europe accumulated large amounts of capital by seizing the land and wealth and surplus product of their own peasant, feudal and working classes. Transforming this into capital they financed expeditions led by members of their own elite to plunder the globe. Wherever they went they measured up the land and resources and labour power and with swords slashing and crucifixes flying seized these and took them into their own private hands.

What was to become the United States of America and also Canada had vast tracts of highly productive agricultural land, it had mineral and oil wealth in great amounts – these were all privatised and stolen by these newly arrived capitalist and slave-owning elites. This was done through violent occupation and genocide against the native people and by violent oppression of all working people. The US ruling class was, from the beginning, a brutal and violent class, it came to power through brutality and violence and genocide.

Excerpt for my book - "We'll Take A Cup Of Kindness yet". Available at Books.ie  My other book - The Donegal Woman - is also available at Books.ie  See details of both books on this Blog. The first time I heard Beethoven's fifth symphony was in the home, the small shack, of an Inuit man in northern Canada with whom I was working in an an iron ore mine. I am in the debt of the indigenous people of North America.  

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