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How the West Was Lost by Native Americans
Frontiers of Anthropology ^ | 11-20-2012 | Dale Drinnon

Posted on 11/21/2012 5:24:18 AM PST by Renfield

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1 posted on 11/21/2012 5:24:29 AM PST by Renfield
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping


2 posted on 11/21/2012 5:25:09 AM PST by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: Renfield
Civilization and savagery cannot co exist. One has to lose to the other. <

The coming of the white man was a net benefit to the white man and the indian living in North America.

P.S. Everyone born here is a native American. No one group has the right to arrogate such a title.

3 posted on 11/21/2012 5:29:22 AM PST by Stepan12
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To: Stepan12

well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?


4 posted on 11/21/2012 5:33:57 AM PST by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Stepan12
Also, in some cases the native Americans were civilised -- I'm thinking of the Pueblo Indians -- and city dwellers

civilised is also a loaded word, do we mean a passed down culture or a city dwelling culture? Native epics etc? i mean, at what point do we say that for instance the English were civilised? Was it when they were Christianized? When the literacy levels went more than 50%?

5 posted on 11/21/2012 5:38:09 AM PST by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Stepan12

The idea that Native americans have some special rights is ludicrous. They were nomads. Conquering territory wa the rule both for the world and the indians at the time.


6 posted on 11/21/2012 5:39:02 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Renfield

Don't worry, we are all gonna end up on the US Reservation where we will need permission to do anything, healthcare, taxes, and rights will be gone. Joy.

7 posted on 11/21/2012 5:39:27 AM PST by Theoria (Romney is a Pyrrhic victory.)
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To: Stepan12

Who gets to define civilization and savagely?


8 posted on 11/21/2012 5:43:05 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: Stepan12

Who gets to define civilization and savagely?


9 posted on 11/21/2012 5:43:19 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: Renfield

Looks like a map of GOP cave-ins.


10 posted on 11/21/2012 5:43:35 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Cronos

“well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?”

Injuns!


11 posted on 11/21/2012 5:44:33 AM PST by mkboyce
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To: Cronos

“well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?”

North Asian migrants


12 posted on 11/21/2012 5:45:32 AM PST by mkboyce
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To: Renfield

It sucks to be a Neolithic people facing the forces of the Enlightenment. Europeans acquired the lands of North America through the accepted real estate transfer process used by Indians; conquest.


13 posted on 11/21/2012 5:45:51 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Renfield

ping


14 posted on 11/21/2012 5:52:54 AM PST by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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To: Renfield

When a culture without a wheel meets a culture with a wheel, guess who gets rolled over. — Darwin Rules


15 posted on 11/21/2012 5:53:54 AM PST by Lexington Green (Massive voter fraud - A stolen election)
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To: Stepan12
The coming of the white man was a net benefit to the white man and the indian living in North America.

Well, if you consider being dead a benefit over being alive, as is true of the millions that died of disease.

Of course, the disease deaths (which exceeded the actual killings of native Americans probably by a factor of 10) weren't deliberate, and they would have happened even if the Europeans had visited in small numbers to conduct multicultural diversity seminars and then left; of course there was no understanding at the time of how infectious disease was transmitted, either.

16 posted on 11/21/2012 5:54:55 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: Renfield

One word:

Rifle

Nuff said.


17 posted on 11/21/2012 5:55:58 AM PST by djf (Conservative ideals help the poor. Liberal practice help them STAY poor!!!)
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To: Cronos; Stepan12

>>well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?

Aboriginal Americans?


18 posted on 11/21/2012 5:56:17 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est.)
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To: muir_redwoods

Yes but it was the speed and sheer numbers of so many different conquerors that makes it so different.


19 posted on 11/21/2012 5:58:32 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: muir_redwoods

Yes but it was the speed and sheer numbers of so many different conquerors that makes it so different.


20 posted on 11/21/2012 5:58:44 AM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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