In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.
I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.
For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.