Stop The Construction the TMT Telescope on Mauna Kea and the Arrest of Mauna Kea Protectors

[Hekate]

176. As much as I am pro-science, I am even more troubled by the arrogance and dismissiveness ...

... In this thread toward the land and culture of native peoples.

Are all of you so cavalier toward the sacred lands of the Hopi, Zuni, and Navaho? Are their religions and sensibilities only so much hoodoo to you? Are the treaties that protect what they have left completely worthless to you good progressives?

It would be a good idea to at least try to understand that for many non-Western religions, the land itself is sacred and part of their identity as a people.

Americans ripped Mainland Native American tribes from their lands again and again, and ripped away much of their identity in the process. We are right to be ashamed of that part of our history. We are a wealthy nation because of what our ancestors stole from them.

Hawaiians have nowhere else to go, and they didn't ask to be annexed to the US. They don't have treaties and they don't have reservation lands. What they do have is their culture, and a tie to the Old Religion that even the Christians among them feel a kinship with.

If they called this belief system "ecological protection" would you understand it then?

Ignorance and narrow mindedness sometimes masquerade as enlightened scientific outlook. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy (science).