Indigenous People See Themselves In 'Avatar' - SMSC Gets
Minnesota 'Eagle Award' by Monica Davis Many indigenous people,
after looking at the new blockbuster, Avatar, see themselves in
the story. They see the storyline of land and human exploitation
as being their story, their history, their pain. The rape and
pillage of land and resources has been the bane of native
peoples since Columbus got lost and ‘discovered’ America. For
millions, 500 years after Columbus and subsequent European
"explorers"washed up on these shores, the cycle of resource
exploitation, native annihilation and land piracy continues to
playout. Precious metals, timber, energy resource exploitation,
along with environmental degradation, poisoning of water
supplies and air remain major problems for Native People in
North and South America, and around the world. They say Avatar
is truth.The Huffington Post noted that the people in Avatar
share a great deal with aboriginal people in South and Central
America, as well as Africa. Just makes me