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To: Pokey78
In reality, Pocahontas's fellow Algonquin Indians were preyed on by the Iroquois...

Some of my ancestors were the Huron, and the Iroquois did the same to them. Of course, our problem was that we allied ourselves with the French white men, who were not very good fighters even back in those days.

Of course, we were not as good of fighters as the Iroquois, so that may have had something to do with it.

13 posted on 07/18/2006 8:05:29 AM PDT by sima_yi
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To: sima_yi

Perhapsyou should sue the Iroquois for reparations? ;)


28 posted on 07/18/2006 8:20:59 AM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: sima_yi

If I recall correctly, the Iroquois exterminated [absorbing the few survivors] the Erie Indians - so the Iroquois could control the fur trade with the whites. Kumbay - frickin' - ya.


56 posted on 07/18/2006 8:56:54 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: sima_yi
Some of my ancestors were the Huron, and the Iroquois did the same to them...

And the Huron were known to be some of the fiercest, and barbarically cruel, of the tribes.

No group of peoples has a lock on inhumanity to man - If only two people were left on the face of the earth, I suspicion they would be at one another's throats...

Why the facts that the aborigines of the Americas warred with another is supposed to be largely unknown is merely the supposition of someone who has not read the histories and documentations.

It always amuses me when someone learns something for the first time themselves, they assume no one else ever knew either...

:o)

73 posted on 07/18/2006 9:25:05 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (LINCOLN: "...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time")
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To: sima_yi
Actually, they have this quite backwards. The Algonkin preyed on the Iroquois, the Mohawk, and the Seneca for nearly 2000 years, and other than the Ojibway, are considered one of the oldest genetic lines in North America.

Otherwise, the story is dead on.

155 posted on 07/19/2006 3:51:56 AM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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