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While popular in revolutionary leftwing Europe, the romantic myth of the “Noble Savage” couldn’t be sustained in real-life Australia. In the 1890s, a Queensland missionary wrote: ‘The Noble Savage’ may exist as a romantic ideal within the covers of a book, but that secluded within the covers of the tropical scrub, and roaming wild his native forests, unfettered by the form and fashion of civilszation, he is a being very different in reality from the fallacious painting of his picture by a poet’s imagination. [i] Decades earlier, Captain Watkin Tench expressed his unfashionable displeasure of le bon sauvage: A thousand...

While popular in revolutionary leftwing Europe, the romantic myth of the “Noble Savage” couldn’t be sustained in real-life Australia. In the 1890s, a Queensland missionary wrote: ‘The Noble Savage’ may exist as a romantic ideal within the covers of a book, but that secluded within the covers of the tropical scrub, and roaming wild his native forests, unfettered by the form and fashion of civilszation, he is a being very different in reality from the fallacious painting of his picture by a poet’s imagination. [i] Decades earlier, Captain Watkin Tench expressed his unfashionable displeasure of le bon sauvage: A thousand...

Ancient Massacre Discovered in New Mexico -- Was It Genocide? Blake de Pastino in Jemez Springs, New Mexico National Geographic News July 12, 2007 Seven skeletons discovered in a remote New Mexico canyon were victims of a brutal massacre that may have been part of an ancient campaign of genocide, archaeologists say. The victims—five adults, one child, and one infant—were members of an obscure native culture known as the Gallina, which occupied a small region of northwestern New Mexico around A.D. 1100 (see New Mexico map). The culture suddenly vanished around 1275, as the last of its members either left...

You know, I've been trying to understand the bizarre ideological inconsistencies of the past week as our blue state liberals advocate Voltaire out of one side of their mouths and Russell Means out of the other. This spectacle of us "rednecks" being pummeled by a "tag team" of Charles Darwin and Sitting Bull has been bothering me for a very long time (for years, even). It's just that the whole issue has been omnipresent over the past seven days as the coasts fume at us for both rejecting Darwin and unforgivably altering the beliefs of "indigenous" religions (all that is...

What this war is not about By RICK SALUTIN Friday, January 3, 2003 – Page A13 Four things the coming war against Iraq is not about: It is not about terror. Proof A: No connection has ever been shown between Iraq and al-Qaeda; in fact, there is long enmity between their leaders. Proof B: U.S. leaders have clearly used Sept. 11 as a pretext to attack Iraq. Bob Woodward says in his new book that Donald Rumsfeld was already calling for Iraq's inclusion in the war on terror on "the day after"; national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told The New...