Tim Phelps is setting out on his bike to ask the current President to issue an official public apology to all Indigenous People for the mistreatment they have faced.

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Our country, the United States of America, was originally inhabited by Indigenous Peoples. With the arrival of European people, that dynamic shifted, and shifted dramatically during the ensuing years. During that time the Native tribes in this country were murdered, overrun, had their land taken away, were forced onto reservations, had their children forcibly removed to boarding schools, and were themselves forced to assimilate into a white Euro-centric cultural dynamic. They had their customs and beliefs stripped from them for no reason other than being different from the new dominant culture.

With this petition, we ask the President of the United States of America to offer an official public apology on behalf of the Government of the United States of America to ALL the tribes in this country and it’s auspices for the mistreatment and cruelty they have incurred.

This small gesture will start a long-overdue process of healing and also give recognition to the beautiful cultures they have always brought to this land.

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Dear Mr. President ,

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Our country, the United States of  America, was originally inhabited by Indigenous Peoples. With the arrival of European people, that dynamic shifted, and shifted dramatically during the ensuing years. During that time the Native tribes in this country were murdered, overrun, had their land taken away, were forced onto reservations, had their children forcibly removed to boarding schools, and were themselves forced to assimilate into a white Euro-centric cultural dynamic. They had their customs and beliefs stripped from them for no reason other than being different from the new dominant culture.

I’ve signed this Petition for Apology asking you to make an official, public apology on behalf of the Government of the United States of America to ALL the First Nations Peoples of our country and its auspices for the cruelty and mistreatment they have incurred over the last five hundred plus years. This small gesture, I believe, will start a long-overdue process of healing some of the trauma they have experienced.

* I do this paying my respects for all the horrendous acts of cruelty perpetrated against them all these years.
* I do this to hopefully start the process of healing from all the trauma they have incurred.
* I do this because the time to start healing is long overdue.

Sincerely,
[your name will go here]
[your email address will go here] [your location will go here]

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Recent action takers

CAROLINE V.Henderson

Ting T.Lyons

Emily M.Colorado Springs

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Cherie M.Lyons

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Michael R.Estes Park

Andrea R.Longmont

James C.Loudonville

In addition to the online petition, Tim Phelps will be riding a bicycle from his home in Colorado to Washington, D.C. to pay homage to all the Native Peoples forcibly displaced from their homelands and marched to reservations.

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