Undoing the Noble Crusade
Boulder Community Media (BCM) presents a documentary by Alan O'Hashi. “Undoing the Noble Crusade” is about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a freedom fighter for Native Americans and their mistreatment by the U.S. government. King wrote in his 1963 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 …We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its Indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade … Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. 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.”
The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) was modeled after the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, featuring NARF co-founder, John Echohawk.