{"id":20757,"date":"2015-03-03T05:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T10:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=20757"},"modified":"2015-03-02T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T04:31:08","slug":"wizard-of-oz-and-the-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2015\/03\/wizard-of-oz-and-the-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"“Wizard of Oz” and the Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The Oneida tribe has been leading the charge against the Washington Redskins\u2019 name.\u00a0 But now that tribe is itself caught in a controversy over its plans to open a casino in Chittenango, N.Y.\u00a0 That was the home of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<\/em>. \u00a0 Plans for the casino, to be named \u201cYellow Brick Road,\u201d would honor the local author.\u00a0 But it turns out, Baum, as a newspaper writer in 1890, advocated the extermination of all Indians, including, presumably, the Oneida.<\/p>\n

From Tribe fighting Redskins name plans \u2018Oz\u2019 casino despite author\u2019s racist past \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians,\u201d he wrote in late 1890 for the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer in South Dakota. \u201cWhy not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; it\u2019s better that they should die than live the miserable wretches that they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Two weeks later, Baum, the newspaper\u2019s publisher, reiterated his point in an editorial written after the slaughter of as many as 300 Sioux at Wounded Knee. He demanded that the U.S. government \u201cwipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the whole article<\/a>, which reports that the Oneida want to go forward with the tribute to Baum because his family has apologized for his words.<\/p>\n

What interests me is not the Oneidas\u2019 inconsistent behavior nor the controversy over the names of sports teams.\u00a0 I am struck by Baum\u2019s open, casual, advocacy of genocide.\u00a0 I guess the mindset in some circles used to be that if you don\u2019t like a group \u201cit\u2019s better that they should die\u201d so that you should just \u201cannihilate\u201d them.\u00a0 This attitude helps to account for what the Nazis did to the Jews.\u00a0 That thoughtful, whimsical, nice-seeming figures like Baum could think this way suggests that this sort of thing could bappen again.<\/p>\n

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