Posted on 10/19/2014 7:35:30 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic
It so happened that an 11-year-old boy came home from school one day and told his parents that the first European white people who came to America were so mean that they tried to kill the Indians by giving them blankets with smallpox germs. The boy’s father tried to use this as a teachable moment. He asked his son to think if that made sense, even if the first white settlers were that evil. How would they avoid getting smallpox themselves? The boy then let it be known that the American Constitution was written by the Iroquois Indians. The father informed his son that the Iroquois did not have an alphabetic written language, so they could not have written our Constitution. The boy thought about the smallpox contagion problem but would not be dissuaded from his conviction that Iroquois Indians wrote the Constitution.
It also happens that this boy is a direct descendant of those same earliest colonials he had been taught in the public schools to despise. The miseducated schoolboy (now older and wiser) is a 14th-generation American. He descends from an Englishman who, with his wife and eight children, in 1638 sailed on the Susan and Ellen to the land that came to be called New England. The boy’s forbears established the oldest privately deeded homestead in the United States in Windsor, Connecticut. Let us hearken back to that fateful moment on the rough dock in Braintree, England and picture Joseph turning to his wife Mary, as harried husbands do when embarking with a large brood on a lengthy journey: “Honey, didst thou remember to pack the smallpox blankets?”
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Hard data and references are hereby requested.
Barring appearance of same, we shall be forced to accept the lack of factual basis for your claim the “Iroquois civilization”was used as a significant source of anything during the creation of the Constitution.
It would be interesting to read what documents/sources you might provide to the FR community.
A Ward Churchill promised such, but never delivered.
“The boy’s forbears established...”
Forbears; izat some Indian name or just another illiterate writer?
In your mind, but historians can't find the proof of your claim.
“The boy’s forbears established...”
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Would that be the opposite of
Boy’s Againstbears”
In your mind, but historians can’t find the proof of your claim
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Hell, it MUST be true, I saw it on TV //sarc
(’Hell on Wheels’ highlighted it I believe)
At various times smallpox was used as a way to dispose of Indians, as they lacked any immunity to it, and our Army did give several tribes smallpox infected blankets.
You’ll be searching long and hard to find a contemporary source for that. The single source is an an off-hand speculative comment in a letter about an event the writer knew nothing about. It has since become gospel.
And yes, many ideas used in the Constitution did come from the Iroquois nation, which was a confederation of six Indian nations.
Some ideas were similar. Most of those attributed to them are also present in Scottish writings for the century or so prior, and though they could have gotten them from the Iroquois, the evidence they did so is sparse. Regardless, it is a bit much to say more than that the Iroquois came up with similar ideas on their own, and may have reinforced ideas spawned in the Scottish revolt as well.
Indictment.
After we hang all of the politicians, we must hang all of the teachers.
Supposedly there was the case of a British officer named Amherst who tried to give Indians smallpox blankets during the Pontiac War in 1763. There has never been any other evidence put forth of any other troops, American or British, doing something like that.
And for the record, leftist historians generously overestimate the numbers of Indians in N.America at the time of European settlement. Some historians claim there were 15-20 million Indians living north of the Rio Grande at the beginning of European settlement. There are no facts to support that large a number. 2-3 million is more likely.
Did many Indians die from diseases contracted from Europeans? Yes, because they had no immune systems that could counteract the diseases. But European settlers still died in large numbers from diseases as well. That was a risk of normal life for everybody back then. And to be sure, many millions of Europeans died from diseases (Black Death, bubonic plague) that came from other parts of the world. Life was brutish and short back then.
My own experience after reading numerous historical books is that while many historians (even ones identified as liberal) will be truthful in their accounts, a number of them have to be regarded with a grain of salt.
The evil white people gave the indians iphones with intentionally faulty GPS apps. They did this so the indians would go into the forest and get lost, never to return again. Bad, bad white people.
Poking the tiger in the cage is very unhealthy.
....and this particular tiger has a track-record of being a man-eater.
Nossir. The proper order is ‘politicians, journalists, union leaders, teachers’.
Of course, you’re right and I missed a few:)
You forgot lawyers ... or are they included under “politicians”?
Though not yet quantified, there was a large die-off among the Indigenous Americans, and seemingly before the Whites were recorded in America.
Plagues are plagues.
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