Forgotten Natives

World celebrates Barrack Hussain Obama. True it is a great moment in the history that a black man is elected as President of USA. But I gave a second thought to it when my Italian friend asked ‘why a native Indian can’t be President?’ It is true world seems forgot about the plight of native Americans, about a a culture being wiped out from the history. It reminds me what Oscar Wilde told to his American host at a party, ‘You Americans are philistines who’ve invaded a sacred temple of art’. Native Americans never believed in possessing the earth as private property instead they worshiped the nature. They never exploited nature for material gain which begun with the invasion of Europeans. The ‘sophisticated whites’ considered native’s way of life and culture as primitive and uncivilized.
The real American culture and history is that of Native Indians. They are the original people of north America. But they are removed from the pages of American history. I learned in school that ‘Columbus discovered America’. We children repeated that on and off during my school days. Later I thought how Columbus can discover America that is already there. Now I view it as a cruel joke. Unfortunately history is that of ‘winners’, losers are forgotten foreve So today’s America is that of Europeans, Africans and Asians. Probbly Native Americans are a closed chapter there.