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To: heterosupremacist

Excellent! Real history would actually tell you about the bloody, brutal way life was for most if not all of the Indian groups, who were constantly attacking each other, fighting for dominance within their own language group, etc. It would tell you about how women were just traded around, how only the lucky captives got to be slaves, since usually they just tortured their captives to death, etc.

BTW, I was visiting a Pueblo in New Mexico a couple of years ago and the young man who showed us around - who was studying geology at the University - said that they were going back to “Indians,” because it was distinctively American and didn’t make them sound like anthropological studies the way “native Americans” or “indigenous peoples” did.

Columbus and the other Spanish or Spanish-funded explorers called them “Indians,” of course, because he originally thought he had found a route to India or the Indies, meaning the Spice Islands, and that these people were inhabitants of “Las Indias.”


49 posted on 10/09/2017 1:42:29 PM PDT by livius
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# 49 livius wrote~~~ "Real history would actually tell you about the bloody, brutal way life was for most if not all of the Indian groups, who were constantly attacking each other, fighting for dominance within their own language group, etc." The earliest Jesuit missionaries were astonished to learn the very first of the Iroquois Nation Indians they encountered had not yet invent the wheel!
52 posted on 10/09/2017 1:49:17 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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