Deep damage done to Native Americans

How to live in hope, by Charles R. Pinches:

"CHIEF PLENTY COUPS, of the Crow Nation, guided his people through the deep crisis brought by the invasion of the white man.  Shortly before his death in 1932, he said to his biographer:
'When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground, and they could not lift them up again.  After this, nothing happened.'

This was the chief's way of describing both individual PTSD and cultural PTSD.

In a Des Moines Register editorial, Reverend Bill McGill stated:
"The Christian coalition should stop preaching the lie that this country was founded on Christian principles and values, and teach their children that only a godless people would be responsible for Indian genocide and African enslavement."

From Martin Luther King's book, Why we can't wait: "Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race.  Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations."

An appropriate response by white oppressors would be repentance and restitution.