Re: hakka: A lesson from Navajo for Hakka

[Poong <fspg@itsa.ucsf.edu>]

At 12:55 AM 7/14/98 -0400, sllee wrote:
>
>I just watched an interesting program on the TV History channel about
>Navajo natives used their unique language to code and decode military
>commands in WW2. . . . Another tragedy and ridiculous issue is the
Navajos, as one of the original settlers of the "American" continent, did
not have the right to
>vote until much later after the WW2(1957?). The Navajo coders also did not
>receive any  awards after the War for their contribution, and they remain
>privates.
The Navajos, like all Native Americans, were considered "property" of the
USA government and not citizens until the 1960's! Over and over again
Native Americans were driven off their land, given poor land and driven off
even that land as soon as someone discovered something valueable on that
land. This is happening even today as uranium was discovered on Navajo land
and the Navajos are being driven off their land yet again.

--Francis Poong
>^..^<