Posted on 03/05/2020 7:30:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Evidence points to the upper James River Valley near the present location of Lynchburg, Virginia. They were likely pushed there by the more aggressive Powhattan related tribes.
Anyway, about 1430 a.d. or so, the Little Ice Age was evident in the northern region and the Huron (among others) moved down from Canada to press the Siouxian tribes to move on. Not being as aggressive, they did so.
The first group or Mandan band, over the course of the next century or so, made the long trek to the Knife River Valley south of present day Mandan, North Dakota. They picked this spot not only because of the fertile soil which reminded them of their Ohio River Valley homeland but because it was isolated enough that they figured they'd be left alone for at least a century or two, which they were.
The other Sioux tribes didn't want to go this far and stayed in present day Minnesota where they were eventually pushed further west by the Chippewa (from Canada) and the white man. The Chippewa actually did more killing and displacement of the Sioux, but you'd never know that by reading revisionist history.
In fact, the revisionists would like you to think they came from the lower Mississippi River Valley (a partial truth, at best, since the Ohio empties there) and moved north. However, the Mandan have a long tradition of facing their dead toward the Ohio River Valley, which makes it harder to blame whitey for the displacement.
The Comanche were a very marginal tribe in the Wind River area of present day Wyoming and were barely surviving. Closely related to the Shoshone in language, they decided to move to the warmer climate of Texas once they became master horsemen.
They were a warrior culture. To pretend otherwise is dishonest.
And slaves
And torture
And gang rape and sexual humiliation
Comanches were really good at it
Their women did most of the torture ..imagine that lol
There was also a charmingly common practice of torture, slavery and cannibalism heaped on the victims of Native American aggression in North America.
They were cultural norms over much of the continent, before the blessings of Christianity and the European enlightenment spread among them.
You are welcome.
Right. Pretty much every culture in those days - white, red, black, etc. - was a warrior culture. But that doesn’t fit the PC narrative, of course.
And as for the Aztecs - who ripped the hearts out of living captives - today’s PC crowd would have you believe that the Aztecs were just a simple, happy people. Sorta like the Quakers.
Scholars consider their temples to be one of the great mass murder sites in the world.
It is estimated that over time millions of people were killed in their religious ceremonies.
Cortez did the world a great favor in overthrowing the Aztecs.
Indian on Indian is kind of like Black on Black in modern times..
Doesn’t really count.
The obsessed racialist loony left and the race baiters hope it never ends.
If blacks stop killing each other many on the left are out of a lucrative gig.
The Hopi were terrified of the Navahoe as one example. Native history is complex and to see them as a single group is historically incorrect and pandering. When the Puritans landed the natives there were seeking an alliance with the settlers against their own foes.
Exactly!
In the early 1700’s, the Cheyenne took the Black Hills from the Kiowa.
In 1776 the Lakota Sioux defeated the Cheyenne in war and took the Black Hills from them.
About 100 years later the US did the same to the Sioux.
Why does the first conquest confer legitimate title and the second doesn’t?
Apparently the natives around the area of the Californian redwoods did a lot of cut and burning. So much so that the forest there now is LARGER than the days before the white man,
The Aztecs were hated universally by the tribes they held in tribute. Cortez managed to unite those tribes in defeating the Aztecs.
"Lovelock, Nevada, is about eighty miles northeast of Reno. It was in a cave near here, in 1911, that guano miners found mummies, bones, and artifacts buried under four feet of bat excrement. The desiccated bodies belonged to a very tall people - with red hair."
Unless the plot of land you’re sitting on was uninhabited when the current owners got there someone killed someone else to get it in the past.
The lands that are currently the United States were fought over and killed over countless times over the last 15,000 years or so. White men were just better at it than the “native americans”, we put an end to all the killing.
Silly argument.
Modern treaties are not invalidated simply because people hundreds or thousands of years ago warred against others.
Following this argument, civilization is not valid because some ancient people were not civilized.
For that matter, no Homo Sapiens are native to anywhere except the Garden of Eden or Africa's Great Rift valley, depending on which creation story you fancy,
Their women did most of the torture ..
So Liz Warren should have claimed to be Comanche?
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