[smokingfrog]

[Humble Servant]

Looks like Elizabeth Warren to me.

[Last Dakotan]

They should have just used the printing press. Oh yeah, this is a culture that never invented the wheel in 5,000 years.

[ConorMacNessa]

Please excuse me while I barf my guts out! What did Sitting Bull contribute to our Nation other than a legacy of blood? I've had enough of this noble savage bull-hockey. My ancestors, Dead White European Males, and of course their doughty female consorts, built this Great Nation. The Indians, a people for whom I harbor no ill-will, were barely beyond a neolithic culture.

I'm tired of this tail wagging the the dog of American society. My high school used to be known as the Northwood Indians. Now they're known as the Northwood Gladiators. Did anyone consult the descendants of the Greeks, Romans and other ethnic peoples who served as gladiators in ancient Rome to ascertain whether they would be offended? Hell, no!

In this PC society, euphemism trumps the Truth. The Washington Post stopped referring to the Notre Dame football team as the "Fighting Irish" and began referring to them as the Irish. I've got a news flash for you, WAPO! We are the Fighting Irish and we're damned proud of it. We endured seven centuries of subjugation and threw off our chains not through meekness and politeness, but because we fought for it like demons.

I don't mean to go off on a tangent like this. But Harrington has his head up his kiester. Next to places like Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, or Ground Zero, this site is strictly minor league. I would add that there are many places outside the U.S., like the Normandy Beaches, Bastogne, Belleau Wood, Mt. Suribachi, and others, that far outrank this nondescript rock with primitive carvings on it as national historic sites. End of rant.



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[ansel12]

I would like to learn how the enemy that defeated our vastly outnumbered American heroes treated the POWs before I call them noble.

[driftless2]

I've got nothing against monuments honoring Indian-Americans. My argument is with the people who jump up and down saying we "stole" their land. Sure, we "stole" it. Just like they stole it from the previous inhabitants whom they killed or forced off their land. The Sioux were known for that. And as for a number of shameful episodes in our history where we treated a certain tribe or tribes shabbily or worse, we had other tribes who were at war with the shabbily treated Indians as our allies helping us with the killing or bad treatment. Not far from where I live is a monument near Ferryville, Wisconsin to the Blackhawk Indians who were killed by Federal troops in 1833. Little recognized is the fact that the Sioux, who were bitter enemies of the Blackhawk, helped the government with the killing. Two sides to every story.

But even given that, there were less than five million Indians north of the Rio Grande when the white man came to the continent. That means there was plenty of room. And there still is. It is a fact that primitive people, which we all were at one time, do not stay primitive forever. There's no way the Indians could maintain a hunter-gatherer culture indefinitely in the face of modern civilization. American Indians are the same as all the peoples of the world....adapt or perish.

[blueunicorn6]

They’re making the South wall of the Billings Sheraton a landmark, too.

“Eat me!” - now there’s art......