'These are those days,' saith The LORD. 'I am healing the wounds! On both sides. There will be forgiveness that will look and sound so strange, particularly to white men’s ears.... There are some yet in this government that had almost rather die than to apologize to the red man. But they’ll do it anyway. And you’re going to hear it. And you’re going to see it. And you’re going to say, “My, my, my, The LORD told us that was going to happen!” There are going to be public apologies, because it is My Spirit and I said they would....
'And the witchcraft that has bound the red man for so many years will flee in stark terror of My Spirit,' saith The LORD, 'the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.... These are My people,' saith The LORD, 'and I’m claiming what’s Mine, and I’m claiming it now....'
Those prophetic words from the Lord were delivered by Kenneth Copeland 20 years ago, on Sept. 20, 1995, during Kenneth Copeland Ministries’ Minneapolis Victory Campaign. Almost five years later, on Sept. 8, 2000, during the celebration of the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ 175th anniversary, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Kevin Gover issued a public apology for the “historical conduct of this agency” to the American Indian and Alaska Native people, and called for the Bureau to “live in the year 2000 and beyond as an instrument of their prosperity.”
In part, an impassioned Gover said:
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