NATIVE-AMERICANS SPEAK OUT!Vi Waln: Indian people have been terrorized for centuries in US http://64.38.12.138/News/2011/001467.asp

If you believe that America “honors” us by using the names of our tribes or famous leaders you might be suffering from the effects of colonized thinking. This means you think like the wasicu and they have your mind right where they want it to be. Do you feel pride at the fact that there is a military helicopter called the “Lakota?” I don’t. Winona LaDuke said “This was one of the most expensive single campaigns to find somebody, bin Laden. And the reality was, is that the Geronimo campaign, the campaign against the Apache people, was one of the most expensive wars ever waged by the United States government.

You know, for 13 years, they spent millions of dollars, essentially. Five thousand soldiers, and additional, went after these people, relentlessly, for that long period of time. So, from the military’s perspective, that’s a little of how they were looking at it . . .

The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That’s what we would call it. You’ve got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You’ve got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go ‘off the reservation, into Indian Country.’ So what is that messaging that is passed on? You know, it is basically the continuation of the wars against indigenous people.”