LETTER: UNM needs to focus on American Indians

Editor,

UNM faculty, staff and its students have no understanding of other races except their own kind.

I guess that mentality comes from their parents’ upbringing and from society’s bleak outlook on Aboriginal cultures and the gritty nature of “the white man’s” oppression of “colored” peoples in America and around the world. Historically, Native Americans have been erased into near extinction while the rest of the Anglo world multiplied into overpopulation and even today wastes what little resources are left.

I hope that Masayesva Jr. can overcome the stereotypes that non-Indian people have created. I pray that people will listen to the truth and eventually accept what popular society has done to destroy what was so precious to the “Indian” and the land.

America’s manifest destiny has left the American Indians high and dry with little hope of repairing itself. My greatest wish in this life is to have all the luxuries that city society takes for granted and to be able to create a new society in my native land. But with the racist viewpoints of “cultured society,” the oil barons (George W. Bush) and the New Mexico government, we the victims of decades of oppression have lost sight of what’s right and just.

I also think that the next president of UNM should be more considerate of American-Indian rights because the past two presidents have not done anything to address this issue.

The only real remedy is to let “us,” the true Americans, live like the rest of society, in peace and freedom, so men like me can create a new society for my children and their children.

Someday that has to happen, if “you” let it.

Samuel Bowman

Future UNM student