In replying, I’d hoped not to present the negative aspects of my intent over the more heartfelt, …but that, I suppose, is the rub ‘round these parts.  I stand corrected  (so often lately, it’s like I’m a tumor or an uncle buck to be radiated…heh-heh):

In saying, “especially considering the dogma u genuinely champion was the same-same dogma that took them out. “  what I should have said is, “especially considering the dogma u genuinely champion was the same-same dogma that helped to take them out.” 

& it did, & they were, and there’s absolutely NO denying that.  The buffalo nickel holds that history well in it’s design.  It certainly ian’t no apology, m’good bro, like some historians have tried to claim.  It’s much more likely a mock, a l’il joke between friends:  One buffalo, one injun.  These heathens were eradicated, their land far more valuable than their music & their generous spirits.  Chief Dan George’s prayer says an awful lot that is unseen by far too many about this l’il blue ball of water and soil that we occupy, pretty much with disregard.  An awful lot that has been forsaken.  So be it.  History, as well as pretty much all dogma, has been written by the “winners.”  Hey, my skin is as white as yours…; was baptized in a Catholic church, shown books by a Jewish neighbor, introduced to speaking-in-tongues @ the local Baptist how-do-ya-do, was offered an oily patch for m’shoe by a friendly neighborhood Pentecost, shown the wholly humble-hearted blues by this grizzled ol’ dark skinned brother who spent too many years in prison for heroin use…only to reemerge a blessed mentor & friend of lost children, walked the temples & shrines of Okinawa and read from the teachings of the Dalai Lama and Milarepa…& passages upon passages of every sort of Bible on the shelf…& went to Sunday school between the hallowed walls of the Church of Christ & took to heart the plays & books and films of some of the most well-meant people.  It was far too many soul-searching years before I found the sweatlodge I’d been questing for & all that it entails. 

You and I are of the same blood:  Earth. 

Gota get: Theatre today.  Love to talk later-on G..

Every sort of perseverant Peace.