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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

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To: Kid Shelleen
The Native American tribes committed atrocities against one another on a regular basis. They committed horrific acts against their own members (e.g., human sacrifice). Also, it's ignorant to refer to them as a single group. Each tribe had its own leadership and culture. It would be like referring to Europe without differentiating between countries.

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?

21 posted on 10/09/2017 2:46:56 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean while indigenous people were dragging their homes around behind them from place to place.


22 posted on 10/09/2017 2:47:12 PM PDT by abclily
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To: All

Scalping isn’t just from native America:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalping


23 posted on 10/09/2017 2:49:24 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

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.


24 posted on 10/09/2017 2:53:30 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: Zhang Fei

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.


25 posted on 10/09/2017 3:06:04 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Kid Shelleen

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.


26 posted on 10/09/2017 3:06:23 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: drpix

+1


27 posted on 10/09/2017 3:07:26 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: LottieDah

wreaked


28 posted on 10/09/2017 3:08:04 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Bigg Red

Thanks for the correction.


29 posted on 10/09/2017 3:08:54 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

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.


30 posted on 10/09/2017 3:09:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Well said.


31 posted on 10/09/2017 3:09:44 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

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.


32 posted on 10/09/2017 3:28:30 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

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.


33 posted on 10/09/2017 4:21:14 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: drpix

This could be a “planned parenthood” poster


34 posted on 10/09/2017 4:27:35 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: nonsporting

Spirit Cooking, sacrifice, and amoral demonic behavior


35 posted on 10/09/2017 4:29:20 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Fido969
Sicilian actor Espera de Corti cries because he can't get a job unless he pretends to be an Indian.

I saw these ads when I was a kid. Must everything I knew be a lie? Thanks for the post and the truth.
36 posted on 10/09/2017 4:39:00 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Found this:

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

37 posted on 10/09/2017 4:45:38 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Kid Shelleen

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.


38 posted on 10/09/2017 4:57:02 PM PDT by TheNext (Taxes are Hate !)
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To: Kid Shelleen

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’.)


39 posted on 10/09/2017 5:01:08 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: lizma2
Those pre-Columbian native Americans were such great environmentalist that they wiped out both the woolly mammoth and the wild horse from the western hemisphere, by excessively destructive hunting techniques.

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.

40 posted on 10/09/2017 9:02:04 PM PDT by drpix
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