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They Ate People Like Beasts: Sarah Winnemucca Tells of the Red-Haired Indians of Nevada, 1858-1860
Unworthy History ^ | 4/8/24

Posted on 09/10/2024 1:03:55 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

In this video we read from "Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Their Claims," by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, published all the way back in 1883. This tells of the Pyramid Lake War that broke out in 1860 between the Piutes and the white settlers near Genoa, Nevada. It also tells the Piute legend of the red-haired cannibalistic people whom the Piutes exterminated several hundred years before this book was written.

Transcript linked below video.

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TOPICS: History; Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cannibals; genoa; gingers; gingies; godsgravesglyphs; history; indians; nevada; piute; piutes; pyramidlakewar; sarahwhopkins; sarahwinnemucca; sitecah
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To: LambSlave

I hear ya.
Lost a liberal friend of 10 years because she idolized the” mystical “ Anasazi.

Then I told her they proved they “ mysteriously disappeared “ because they’d essentially cannibalized themselves into extinction.

She called me a liar, slammed the phone and I never heard from her again.

I live in an area horribly affected by the French and Indian War.
(And the unhappy locals prior to that)

One day the Indians slaughtered the entire 92 person population.
Whomever was living in my 300 year old house did not make it to the fort built for these raids, 4 miles away.

We dug post holes one time and found the burned remains of a log structure about 2 feet down.

We’re told the soil deposition rate moves with that era.
Gave me the heebie jeebies.

Nice natives

My house is kinda creepy , honestly.

Sometimes living in an “ historic “ house isn’t all the happy it’s cracked up to be.

My grandfather had a massive cardboard box full of arrowheads that popped up every time he planted crops.
Probably 200 pounds of them or more.


61 posted on 09/13/2024 1:07:09 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again . https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FU)
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