Heritage

The time for accommodation is over. Despite all Christian tendencies toward mercy and defending our brothers and sisters from harm and villainy, there is in Ecclesiastes, a time for all seasons. There is guilt aplenty in America, and rightfully so in some instances, but hardly ever when it is weighed against the alternative.

I have, as a novelist dedicated to actual historical fact, often thought and wondered what might have been had we been able to better deal with Indians. I hesitate to call them either aboriginals or natives in the sense that they did not spring from the earth in the Western Hemisphere, at least not those in North America, they seem to have migrated from Asia. Testament to this is the statement of a Navajo friend who related that Navajo DNA links back to Mongolian sources. Do I know this as a fact? No. It’s his own research and I find no reason to disbelieve it. There is historical record of several tribes transiting from a particular northwestern area which would have been the land bridge existing between Asia and Alaska.

While there are a lot of better scholars on this issue than myself, it doesn’t matter to the argument that what we call aboriginals or natives are not. This does not take from them their conquest of a relatively open land, though there is evidence of a truly native North American human dating back before the invasion from the Northwest of Asiatic peoples, who somehow disappeared from history about the time of the arrival of these Asiatic people.

I base my beliefs on truly scholarly work, but I am not a scholar. I will quote from a work called “That Dark and Bloody River” by Allan W. Eckert. “The first human known to have existed on the Ohio River Valley were the Adena and the Hopewell cultures, the Adena preceding the Hopewells by a few centuries or more (perhaps as early as 700 B.C.) and erecting their distinctive conical burial mounds along the entire course of the river and its tributaries from present Wheeling, West Virginia, area down into and including the Mississippi River Valley.”

I can’t know what actually happened, but both cultures were gone by the sixth century. The point being that Americans continue to assume guilt for all things, for the treatment of the tribes they encountered, for Hiroshima, for slavery and we hold this guilt as Christians, even some that we were not involved in, like the conquest of South America by Spain and other Europeans.

What we have is hereditary guilt and this has been exploited by those who feel no guilt. Either they have absolved themselves of it by identifying with those who have been abused in the past, or opened their arms to anyone not European despite the attitudes and opinions of their neighbors.

In answer to history, we, the current generations, owe no apology but for those acts we have taken ourselves. To the present, we are being punished with our traditional guilt as the justification. If we hold onto this traditional guilt we will annihilate ourselves and that is no more our right to deny the existence of future generations of Americans than it is to annihilate previous generations of tribes. We cannot absolve ourselves of the past by creating a new genocide in the present.

My question about how we might have better dealt with the Indians comes down to the fact that in freedom we were not able to stop the inevitable turning of the wheel of societal change. If there is blame to be had, it would rest with the governments of England, France and Spain who first exploited the North American continent, not those who escaped or ventured to the New World. The treaties broken were of suspect nature anyway. The Iroquois and Cherokee were known to make treaties for land inhabited by other tribes. But these treaties were not broken by governments as much as by the freedom of individuals seeking out their fortunes in the frontier that could not be curbed by any government.

What I find is that the European frontiersmen were not so much unaware of the tribal cultures and beliefs as they were in absolute conflict with it. People say that the tribes did not have private property. If that were true, why did they go to war with the frontiersmen and their families of settlers? The tribes not only believed that they owned the land, but also the animals and plants that populated it. It may not have been owned by one person or another, but it was owned by the tribe itself. So, when some other tribe made treaties with the British or French for the lands of other tribes and then those lands were invaded by settlers to claim it under that treaty, it was not violating a treaty, but rather following an otherwise invalid treaty. So, who really stole the land?

That is not the case today. Some in our society have decided to commit the suicide of our culture, encouraging any and all foreign cultures to invade and replace. This, despite the fact that I know of no other more diverse culture as the American culture that has absorbed African culture, Indian culture, Asian culture and a vast array of European cultures that are diverse even among themselves. To pretend that somehow Americans are some pure white race is ridiculous, but that is the narrative largely driven by those who seek the eradication of the white race in totality. That’s as racist as it gets, first of all, and ignores reality completely.

But it isn’t the eradication of the white race that concerns me, it’s the eradication of the values that America has long stood for, including those absorbed from all other cultures that have put their brand on this land. It’s the very concept of individual rights and freedoms that is being eradicated none more egregiously than by the threat of Islam. It is equally endangered by those who seek to absolve themselves of traditional guilt. In order to make the absolution substantive, they magnify and invent instances that white Americans should feel guilt for and therefore lay down their defenses and allow themselves to be overwhelmed.

It’s a dangerous, radical trend that does not raise sufficient alarm. We are being encouraged to go the way of the Adena and the Hopewells; to just melt away into history, leaving our monuments of steel and glass as the only remnants of a vanished society.

When I write about Americans, I don’t just mean white Americans. We are, historically, made up of almost all other cultures, races and religions. Every one of which should be proud of their heritage and advancements of their cultures which have blended with European cultures to become something uniquely American. One cannot travel in the Southwest US without recognizing both tribal and Hispanic influences and where those combine with European culture produce something that is like few others in the world. It is something new, something brought about by conquest, whether that is valued or not is irrelevant. It would not exist but for conquest.

The trouble is, in attempting to eradicate the European influence, this onslaught threatens to degrade the advancements, return the land to something less, not more. The first target of these forces is the one thing that makes America what it is, the rule of law. The governments couldn’t stem the tide of European invasion because they didn’t have the force of law behind them. A free person will pursue their own interests regardless of warnings or admonitions. The rule of law, as we have seen, is failing everywhere at the behest of the guilt-ridden nihilists, leaving the US open to the capitulation of all favorable traits.

The only solution is to stop believing that somehow we are to blame. We’ve carried that guilt too long and now it’s corroding our resolve as the left pulls the only lever that has effect: traditional guilt.

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