Posted on 10/09/2017 1:52:51 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Liberals want to demonize Europe and America, so they paint Native Americans as a unified group that was peaceful and loving. The truth is that both the Europeans and the Native Americans were savages, but the former was much stronger than the latter.
Finally, it's not right to retroactively apply today's morals to that time, much less to do so selectively. How many of those who want to rip down statues of Columbus have a problem with Communist greats like Lenin, Stalin, and Mao?
Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean while indigenous people were dragging their homes around behind them from place to place.
If these folks want to emulate “indigenous people” so much they should accept a 45 year lifespan, and give up their cel phones, computers, cars, and indoor plumbing. Oh, and hunt or raise their own food.
LOL! and true.
Read several years ago an article that compiled writings of the early French missionaries in the North East. Their descriptions of the tribes of the Iroquois nation were horrific. Eating body parts and children of those captured in front of the captured. They were savages! Later they sold their slaves to the Euros.
Europeans developed a lot of immunity to disease by domesticating and living close to animals (Although close proximity to flea infested rats didn’t turn out to well. (Blame global warming. It was unseasonably cold during those years.)) Native Americans hadn’t domesticated animals yet.
They hadn’t even invented the wheel yet! Although I did read an archeological article years ago that stated a pre-Columbus toy cart with a wheel was unearthed in Mexico. I guess nobody’s light bulb went off.
All in all most really hadn’t got much past the Hunter-Gatherer stage.
Next I will be told that the native people did not tame unicorns and use their rainbow farts to craft peace and plenty among all people.
+1
wreaked
Thanks for the correction.
Read some Allan W. Eckert historical novels. The dialogue is fictional but the events are thoroughly researched historical facts. There was a lot of sadistic brutality going on perpetrated by all sides. The Indians committed more than their share.
There were also people on all sides who rejected that brutality.
Times were different. A lot different.
Well said.
The myth of the noble savage.
Cannibalism, beheading and ritual sacrifice — the left loves this stuff. Many of their followers are not far removed from, or actually engaged in, many of these activities.
Well, you try to make a house out of three sticks and a buffalo.
Unless you got granite countertops, it’ll never sell.
OK, it would sell in San Francisco, but only for $4,000,000.
This could be a “planned parenthood” poster
Spirit Cooking, sacrifice, and amoral demonic behavior
The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492
William M. Denevan
Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
Abstract. The myth persists that in 1492 the Americas were a sparsely populated wilderness, -a world of barely perceptible human disturbance.- There is substantial evidence, however, that the Native American landscape of the early sixteenth century was a humanized landscape almost everywhere. Populations were large. Forest composition had been modified, grasslands had been created, wildlife disrupted, and erosion was severe in places. Earthworks, roads, fields, and settlements were ubiquitous. With Indian depopulation in the wake of Old World disease, the environment recovered in many areas. A good argument can be made that the human presence was less visible in 1750 than it was in 1492.
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~alcoze/for398/class/pristinemyth.html
As a child, we had a drawn illustrated Indian book showing pictures of their brutality. It was shocking as a kid to see those pictures.
no no no - claim it!!!
the American Indians are dual citizens - USA and their own nation. Leaving wypepo as the indigenous Dreamers of the USA. Plymouth and Jamestown were the first sanctuary cities!! (I heard it from The Five)
So, if your family got here in the first 100 years, Party!
(and if a messican wants to argue, remind them that by 1820, the Apache had wiped out or enslaved most northern messicans as American Plains Indians made north mexico their winter ‘raiding grounds’.)
And but for the evil white man, who reintroduced the horse (in its domesticated version) the noble red man would have also wiped out the buffalo. That's because only then were they able to hunt individual buffalo rather then use their prior method of hunting large mammals - stampeding entire herds of them over cliffs or bluffs.
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