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Why ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ Is Far Worse Than Columbus Day
The Federalist ^ | 10/09/2017 | Michael Graham

Posted on 10/09/2017 1:52:51 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

---SNIP--- if we really want to commemorate horrifying, unspeakable violence and oppression in the Americas, I’ve got the perfect holiday: “Indigenous People’s Day.”

“Long before the white European knew a North American continent existed, Indians of the Northern Plains were massacring entire villages,” says George Franklin Feldman in the book “Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America: A History Forgotten.” “And not just killed, but mutilated. Hands and feet were cut off, each body’s head was scalped, the remains were left scattered around the village, which was burned.”

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1 posted on 10/09/2017 1:52:51 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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Speaking of genocide didn’t those “indigenous people” grow tobacco. Even King James called tobacco a “noxious” weed. Millions of people died over the centuries from lung cancer, COPD and a host of other respiratory ailments from that noxious weed.


2 posted on 10/09/2017 1:59:06 PM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Hard times make for hard people.

The Indians were living in hard times.

What galls me is the papering-over of their history and the swipe at Americans of European Descent for being too “hard” on the Indians.


3 posted on 10/09/2017 2:02:59 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Kid Shelleen

Good post.


4 posted on 10/09/2017 2:06:17 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Kid Shelleen

One of the Roosevelt boys said: If it wasn’t for the white man, there wouldn’t be any Indians left...they killed each other.


5 posted on 10/09/2017 2:07:00 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Kid Shelleen

Skinning alive was also common practice among native American tribes. The entire false history that the white man came to America just to kill the peaceful native inhabitants is just another human sacrifice to the god of political correctness. Native Americans didn’t own North America—they lived in individual tribes separated by vast areas of no man’s land. They no more owned it than the wild jack rabbits and buffalo that lived there. They talk about Europeans spreading diseases, but plagues also appeared in Europe that came from America. Syphilis, for one, killed millions.


6 posted on 10/09/2017 2:07:14 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Kid Shelleen

As has been said many times, “The white man didn’t do anything to the Indians that they didn’t do to each other before he got here.”......................


7 posted on 10/09/2017 2:09:07 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: LottieDah

Tobacco saved the colonies in Virginia and Maryland. It was a ‘cash crop’ they could sell and get $$$ for.


8 posted on 10/09/2017 2:11:37 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Kudos to President Trump for denouncing ALL violence)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Like dummy NFLers who stood for England’s anthem and knelt America’s. The British empire had nothing to do with the slave trade.’


9 posted on 10/09/2017 2:15:48 PM PDT by nhwingut (Trump Pence 16 - Blow Up DC)
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To: Kid Shelleen

We should call it Cannibal Day.


10 posted on 10/09/2017 2:18:56 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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11 posted on 10/09/2017 2:22:24 PM PDT by drpix
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Sicilian actor Espera de Corti cries because he can't get a job unless he pretends to be an Indian.

12 posted on 10/09/2017 2:25:27 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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Yes it was a cash crop that wrecked havoc.


13 posted on 10/09/2017 2:32:48 PM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Excellent post.

The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz should be required reading for every American school child in High School.

Here is my review and summation:

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/06/review-of-true-history-of-discovery-and.html

Here is a link to the Amazon page:

https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Conquest-Mexico-1517-1521/dp/B0006AUI88/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=A8QGTS60G4HVAPYZN091


14 posted on 10/09/2017 2:33:02 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
The best historically correct description of the American Indians can be found in movies made during the silent movie era...Some of these were remade as recently as the 1990’s and the advance of politically correct revisionism is nauseating.
15 posted on 10/09/2017 2:33:11 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

The entire false history that the white man came to America just to kill the peaceful native inhabitants is just another human sacrifice to the god of political correctness.


Well said


16 posted on 10/09/2017 2:40:59 PM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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To: Kid Shelleen

Don’t forget that the native Americans who ‘lived in harmony’ with nature hunted numerous species to extinction including:

Mammoths, mastodons, aurocs, great sloths, saber tooth tigers, etc.


17 posted on 10/09/2017 2:41:23 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I’ve read a number of books about life’s on the frontier (Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky) with first-hand accounts. The natives were ornery cusses, you might say. They would lop limbs off captured enemies, roast them, and have the victim watch them eat him! They would open your abdomen, tie an end of your intestines to a post, and force you to walk around the post, wrapping your guts around the post.

We should honor this?

Besides, what the hell did they accomplish in 10,000 years? Maybe invent the wheel? Nope.


18 posted on 10/09/2017 2:43:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Kid Shelleen
Virginia doesn't celebrate Columbus day so if they want to call it, insert your own holiday reason day makes no difference to me.
19 posted on 10/09/2017 2:46:01 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: blueunicorn6
The Indians were living in hard times.

Every society and civilization on earth lived through "hard times." The difference is that some civilizations did something about it by applying human ingenuity and industriousness. That's a weak excuse for 10,000 years of nothing.

20 posted on 10/09/2017 2:46:13 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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