Posted on 08/28/2014 3:47:25 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Good point. In fact, the Indians thought they were pulling a fast one by trading the land for blankets and beads, etc.
They thought they were getting something for nothing since everyone knew that you didn’t own the land.
See our numbers, from the latest sources, in “A Patriot’s History of the United States.” This is tripe.
See our sidebar “Did Columbus Kill All the Indians” in our “Patriot’s History of the United States.” The number in the US/Mexico is now put at 15-40m (numbers vary wildly).
Long before Columbus landed, okay he didn’t get to the mainland... the native population was reduced by war and disease amongst themselves. Their population had been reduced from - maybe that many - to much much much less. They may have gone from a more advanced state to one of pretty primitive in a matter of 2 or 3 generations.
THEN the “white man” came....
Er, that’s 15-40m existing, total, in N and Central America
It’s standard leftist drivel. We cover this in our sidebar “Did Columbus Kill All the Indians” in “Patriot’s History of the United States” and my book “48 Liberal Lies” which has a chapter on this.
The German spoke of “decades” of responsibility for the Holocaust. We have had many decades since the end of the Civil War, and many decades since the Civil Rights Acts. I’d say enough decades have passed for everyone to stand on his own two feet. Racism persists, but not all of us are responsible for it. Go after those who actually practice racism.
Er.....I said north of the Rio grande.
Unfortunately, if you look at the sidebar in my book, most demographic historians and demographers don’ t make that distinction. Could be one that I missed. Most of them in their “North American” estimates include modern day Mexico.
I had a sociology prof. in college who was a hysterical (he thought the Bush I admin was trying to murder the Indians) advocate of immense Indian populations in the area of the present U.S. His "specialty" was/is N. American Indians, and he occasionally gets his articles printed in the local rag. He never presented any proof, and I've never seen any proof that Indian populations were any more than 2-3 million. No big cities, no huge stationary populations, no remains of millions of people.
I understand, but I’m telling you that even the numbers of the groups you mention have been steadily revised downward. My point is that TOTAL numbers have been moved downward decade by decade.
Thanks I just looked up your book and plan to buy it.
I won't disagree.
The Deerfield Massacre in the early 1600s showed they had fight in them; they just didn’t have the numbers. They played an active role before and throughout the Revolution (I’ve seen the site of the massacre at Ellenville NY where they joined with Tories); afterwards it was just a slow push westward for them...
There certainly is no justification for evicting them from it, even if they were just “borrowing it” from Mother Earth and Father Moon...
I’ve been to Deerfield and seen the burial mound there. Quite sad - beautiful country.
Dude, who in the hell said it was ‘’their’’ land? They migrated here from somewhere else too and they were hardly ‘’the happy children of the forest’’, ok? I’m sick of hearing what ‘’we’’ did to the Indians. Point of fact I didn’t do squat to them and in the long European emigration didn’t do them too bad at that.. The horse, firearms, iron and steel implements and casino gambling.
Did I miss the MEGA SUPER DOOPER BARF ALERT?
I didn’t do anything to them; it was “their land” by the fact that they were living on it, then forced off. Sort of you like if someone came onto your land and pushed you off (with extreme prejudice if necessary).
I have no illusions about what life was like in pre-Columbian America, and hardly presented it as “happy”.
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