Hello everybody, Running River were here with AIM, PA [American Indian Movement, PA]. I just wanted to, I wanted to raise concern about something that me and a brother of mine were talking about; a little history here, in regards to the Native American indigenous peoples of Pennsylvania. Going back to about well, 1500s into the 1600s, there was a vigilante group here in Pennsylvania known as the Paxton Boys. The Paxton Boys was the equivalent to the KKK before Pennsylvania. And what happened with the Paxton Boys, under the discretion of William Penn, from 1601 until about 1645, was they were integral in pushing Native American villages and settlements out of Pennsylvania. And so what that has done, it has left a lot of discriminative and very arbitrary policies in place to this day, where a lot of the native, indigenous communities who once called Pennsylvania home are no longer here. And yes, there are small little communities that still reside here in Pennsylvania, but it’s not like how it’s supposed to be. We have the Delaware nation, the Lenape nation, that were here. We had the Susquehannock tribe that were here. And there’s speculation that that tribe no longer even exists, that they, they’re all extinct. Well, all these tribes that once called Pennsylvania home, and it just, it just baffles my mind that these tribes that were displaced by the settlers and this clan of vagabonds called the Paxton Boys, that that no one’s talking out and raising awareness about this group.
Like, whatever happened to the Paxton Boys? That’s the question that I want to put out there. They’re true people. They were involved in the Conestoga Indian massacre of Pennsylvania that happened right here in Pennsylvania, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. What happened to the Paxton Boys? They didn’t just cease to exist. Matter of fact, I’m under their impression that they evolved; that they’re no longer a vigilante group, that they’re more of them, through the generations, are now implemented in these police departments and in this Pennsylvania Commonwealth Government, and that we need to look into. I just wanted to raise awareness on this group called the Paxton Boys, because right now, we’re all focused on these groups called the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, but I think that’s keeping us distracted from the things that we really need to look [at], like in regards to Native American representation here in Pennsylvania. So let’s take a look at that. I just want everybody to wake up and focus your eyes there, because nobody’s been looking there, and there’s something there.
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