Abitconfusde t1_jcv9mno wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in The US government killed Lummi orphans for their land. White people continue to live on the murdered orphans land. This is the land that is beachfront in the middle of the reservation. by chiefswoneaglesloose
> What is, I wonder, the purpose of recounting these crimes? Do modern-day people want to identify with these victims to get something out of it? It's tough hearing about crimes where neither victim nor perpetrator are around
Is your argument that we should forget all of the bad things that happened more than a lifetime ago?
not-picky t1_jcw7jym wrote
No but in this case it's challenging to know what to do about it.
This story came up when the land became valuable to developers. It's important that the victims are orphans because there's conveniently, therefore no or vague records of the ownership claim. Lummi Nation then tried to cut off the water supply to the homes built there and it was later reversed by the government.
In the 1996 telling of it, the orphans sold the land after being tricked by doctors for bills? In this telling, they were straight-up murdered. The story gets worse every year!
I completely believe that Lummi Nation land was stolen. In fact all of America was stolen from native people. Even the Salish Coast tribes are fighting each other over land history, and the oral-tradition stories are hard to verify and bias towards a great injustice. I'm just not sure how to unwind all of that, or if it should be.
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