Posted on 03/22/2017 4:23:07 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
Warriors of the Powhatan Confederation, led by Chief Oprechancanough, attacked the English settlements around the Jamestown area in Virginia. By the time the warriors withdrew, they had killed 347 men, women and children. This was about 1 in 4 settlers in the area.
I think this was portrayed in the movie “New world”
What a massacre!
Well, karma’s a B!TC#
It wasn’t a very fun time in Ireland or Germany at the time either.
Life was pretty hard all over to make America look like a good prospect.
Well actually the movie is called “The New World”.....
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0402399/
I think one of Elizabeth Warren’s ancestors was involved in the attack. Liawatha Warren.
They were attempting to establish a new policy for dealing with illegal immigration. Unfortunately for them, public pressure against the new policy prevented complete implementation.
I wonder if there is a lesson in the outcome of that flood of unwelcome immigrants, one that we would be wise to learn from.
I suspect they were upset at the illegal immigrants that took their land, welched off their deer, refused to learn Algonquin, dressed funny and prayed to so god in the sky.
The Noble Red Man, living in harmony with Mother Gaia and all her creatures in a world of blissful peace and balance.
It was a Savage Nation and the Powhaten Confederacy failed to implement proper immigration controls.
There is a lesson in there somewhere.
It has to do with Allahwahoo Whackbar.
On this date, the Arab League was formed.
What year?
No cheating!!
I thought the Indian thing was suburban middle aged women sitting in a circle and tapping on drums like tards.
But ... I thought the Europeans were always the aggressors. Surely they must have deserved the murder and rapine visited on them by the pastoral natives.
Was cold as hall then, cause they were in the Little Ice Age.
25 years later both sides of my family came out of England to the Jamestown colony. They did not stay but traveled up the Chesapeake to World’s End where they settled, presumably peacefully. 400 years later their descendents remain in the same area, The Parks and the Foxwells, original settlers, not immigrants. These were people with nothing except passage for the trip who came to dig a home out of the earth and scrape a living from the sea and soil just as the Indians did a millenium before.
Hard times? They were not simply hard times. They were impossible times when going to a strange and dangerous land with nothing was preferable to staying and dying young and hungry.
We do not have any records from these people. They left no diaries, no paintings, only the earth where they settled. I have visited their graves, some from the 1700s and walked through one of their homesteads from the same time. These are my roots.
My people were here before any government, before, even, towns and farms. My ancestors brought civilization to this land. We welcomed the immigrants who came later. We lived beside the Indians, building villages together. We fished the same waters and farmed the same land.
There was not so much romance about these lives as there was the breath of freedom from oppression by domineering governments and landownders who stole every penny they could find. It was worth living with neighbors who could turn murderous, but almost never did. It was worth it to eat one’s own food and build one’s own home. Later it would get bad again.
Today it is worse than where we came from. We are robbed, dominated, murdered, lied to, and cheated every day of our miserable lives. So we elected ourselves a warrior and have charged him with killing the beast that devours. And we have promised him he is not alone. We stand with him shoulder to shoulder.
Together we will destroy the beast or be destroyed. We will not submit. We did not come here to submit. This is our land and, by God, we intend to keep it.
Hear, hear!
Not quite “Dances With Wolves,” was it?
Good to know You, Louis.
Keep Your Powder Dry!
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