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The Rape of Pocahontas: Did We Eviscerate the Native Americans?
PJTV ^ | 6/10/2015 | Bill Whittle

Posted on 07/08/2015 3:50:43 PM PDT by Falcon4.0

In this PJTV series, we look at whether America is a country of hostility or prosperity. The first episode covers the treatment of Native American's. Should we be ashamed of the way our ancestors treated them?


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: billwhittle; pjtv
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To: publius911
American Indians didn't contribute a single thing to make my 20th Century existence any easier.

I guess you never took an aspirin. (The willow bark tea the natives used for a painkiller and to reduce fever contained that). Aloe Vera is another native remedy, and there are a host of other herbs which have contributed to modern medicine. Purple coneflower (AKA Echinacea) is pretty common as an immune ystem booster (Yup, native medicine).

I think the contributions are a wee bit thicker than you know.

41 posted on 07/08/2015 8:10:39 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: ought-six

That and the Natives were still technologically in the Neolithic age. The didn’t work metal, weapons and tools were still knapped from stone. Other than dogs, no domesticated animals that I know of. There was no way that they were going to fend off the influx of Europeans.


42 posted on 07/08/2015 8:11:06 PM PDT by X Fretensis
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To: ought-six
That’s it in a nutshell.

It wasn't so much out breeding, it was out-immigrating. The Yankees replaced some of their losses during the War Between the States much the same way (while the Southern ports were blockaded).

43 posted on 07/08/2015 8:19:18 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Falcon4.0

Nope. My family didn’t arrive till well after all the Indian wars and stuff were over. We didn’t have any part in it, so why should I feel guilty?

It’s stupid to hold grudges for hundreds or even thousands of years. Stuff happens. Deal with it. Get over it, and move forward.


44 posted on 07/08/2015 8:21:13 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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To: X Fretensis
The didn’t work metal...

Uhhhh. Yep, they did. They didn't work Iron, but they sure did work metal.

How prehistoric Native Americans of Cahokia made copper artifacts

Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America

etc.

45 posted on 07/08/2015 8:25:10 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Considering the Native Americans (depending on their tribe) were far from squeamish about practicing torture, rape, and slavery, no.


I knew a preacher who claimed the Indians never “practiced war” among themselves. He said when they had disputes they would have games and if one “touched the other” on top of the head it was considered victory.

Every time I say I can’t be surprised again by liberal idiocy someone comes along and makes me a liar.


46 posted on 07/08/2015 8:26:00 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Falcon4.0

My ancestors bought the land grant (1641, MD) from the two local tribes of Nanticoke and Powhatan who were fighting over it. That’s right, both tribes. Not guilty.


47 posted on 07/08/2015 8:26:49 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: wardaddy

ping


48 posted on 07/08/2015 8:36:49 PM PDT by Pelham (Deo Vindice)
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To: fulltlt

That is on my list to read.


49 posted on 07/08/2015 9:07:33 PM PDT by kalee
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
Well, the preacher had it wrong. They certainly did practice war among themselves. Four Bears is a fairly famous Mandan war chief who saw his brother get killed by a Ree who left his lance stuck in his brother to spite Four Bears. After a couple of seasons, Four Bears, who had kept the lance, decided to return it, and traveling by night and eating parched corn, snuck into the Ree camp. He found the owner's lodge, slipped in, and noticing he was asleep, had a meal from the pot over the fire. Then he 'returned the lance' by killing the former owner with it then went back to his village.

a little more on Four Bears

I think the Reverend was a mite mixed up about 'counting coup'. This was considered exceptionally brave to whack an enemy over the head with a 'coup stick' instead of killing him, and doing such earned eagle feathers as a symbol of bravery, but so did killing your enemy. The way the feather was painted or cut, depending on tribe, indicated the deed that earned it.

The meaning of head dress feathers

The meaning of different birds' feathers.

A group of Metis were attacked by Sioux while in camp. The Metis used Red River Carts and hunted for the Fur companies (Northwest Fur and Hudson's Bay Company). As such, they were crack shots, and handed the Sioux their arses during several separate attacks on the camp. When that little dust-up was over, the Sioux never again attacked the Metis.

The Chippewa (Ojibway), displaced by the Eastern tribes moving west, in turn displaced the Sioux from the lake country of Northern Minnesota and most of the pothole country (glacial moraine) of Northern and Northeast North Dakota. While that did not cause so much of a scrap, the Sioux later got horses and became the prairie warriors they were because of that displacement.

50 posted on 07/08/2015 9:10:50 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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>> Should we be ashamed of the way our ancestors treated them?

If the Left can disregard the Constitution, then we can certainly disregard its perception of history.


51 posted on 07/09/2015 12:18:28 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks. Limited metal work would have been more accurate.


52 posted on 07/09/2015 2:54:56 AM PDT by X Fretensis
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Did you actually watch the video Jack?
If you did then you would know that THAT is the message they where talking about.
JACK

53 posted on 07/09/2015 3:14:59 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: Shadow44

You obviously didn’t watch the video before you shot your mouth off, because they made that point.


54 posted on 07/09/2015 3:16:48 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: ASOC

You obviously didn’t watch the video either before you shot your mouth off.


55 posted on 07/09/2015 3:17:16 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: Huskrrrr

And You obviously didn’t watch the video before you shot your mouth off.


56 posted on 07/09/2015 3:17:50 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: publius911
Try watching the video. I think your jumping to conclusions about it's content.
57 posted on 07/09/2015 3:20:28 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: vetvetdoug

Point was made in the video that you obviously didn’t watch.


58 posted on 07/09/2015 3:22:05 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: buwaya
They were out bred and out-immigrated, and thus outnumbered. Euro-American losses could thus be replaced

And now the mescins and muslimes are out-breeding and out-immigrating whites. California is already lost.

59 posted on 07/09/2015 3:25:15 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: DesertRhino
You know what else jackasses do?
They jump to conclusions about content by reading a title.
You might try watching the video because your point is stated verbatim in it.
60 posted on 07/09/2015 3:57:29 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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