She defeated the most fierce warriors on this land! What makes US think we can stand up against that beotch? :(
Posted on 03/07/2023 3:26:56 PM PST by daniel1212
In the Northeast woodlands the most feared and hated nation was the Iroquois — especially the Mohawk and Seneca. The Algonquian speaking nations and Iroquoian speaking Huron were particular enemies of the Iroquois. In the 1640s, the Iroquois unleashed a virtual genocide on the other Nations of the region, one that was not quickly forgotten.
The Ojibwa defeated a number of the Iroquois incursions and ran the Sioux out of their forested homeland onto the plains. The Ojibwa (Chippewa and associated bands) occupied more land than any other tribe ever has from Manitoba to Indiana and took over smaller tribes on their pursuit west.
In the Southeast, the Muskogean-speaking peoples made up the largest linguistic group and included the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole among others. These were know as the Five Civilized Tribes, but their martial abilities should not be underestimated. The Seminole, in particular were suppressed but never defeat by US forces. Creeks were the dominant people in Georgia during the majority of its colonial era.
There is no doubt the Crows were among the fiercest on the Plains/Yellowstone regions. Excellent horsemen, horse raiders, great hunters, epic warriors and iconic Chiefs. They were also among the most wealthiest in terms of horse numbers. They fought virtually every tribe on all sides to defend their hunting grounds and homelands with little to no "alliances" unlike the Sioux. The Sioux Indians were one of the most feared Nations, but they were actually a large alliance — Dakota, Lakota, Sioux, often siding with the Cheyenne.
In the Southwest, the Comanche were particular unfriendly to other bands, but the Pima seem to have been the Nation most feared by other tribes. The Comanche were noted for being fierce warriors who fought vigorously to defend their homeland. However, they were, at one time or another, at war with virtually every other Native American group living on the Southern Plains. Many historians debate whether the Comanche deserve their ferocious reputation.
The attacks of the Apache on the Pima Villages caused the Pima to develop their own unique militia organization capable of offense and defense. This “militia” had its antecedents in Pima auxiliaries used by the Spanish garrisons from 1694. In 1857. an estimated 300 Yuma, Mohave, Apache and Yavapai warriors attacked a Pima Maricopa village in one of the largest all native inter-tribal battles in Arizona's history. The Maricopa / Pima forces, some mounted on horses, surrounded the attackers before annihilating them. The attackers lost 200 killed to the Pima.
https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-most-terrifying-Native-American-tribe-to-get-in-a-skirmish-with-during-the-Indian-Wars-I-have-an-Apache-friend-who-swears-it-was-the-Pima-Tribe-who-I-really-know-nothing-about-I-always-thought-it-was/answer/James-Martin-2066
The author seems to contradict himself.
Twenty thousand - thirty thousand? - years of constant internecine warfare. And not even the wheel to be shown for it.
She defeated the most fierce warriors on this land! What makes US think we can stand up against that beotch? :(
Here in Connecticut the history of the Pequots says the tribe was essentially wiped out during the Pequot war somewhere around 1740 with the survivors being sold as slaves to the Seminoles.
Magically, legalized Indian gaming resurrected the tribe in the 1980s The Mohicans followed a few years later but the Golden Hills Pagusetts couldn’t quite get it together.
You mean they weren’t all peaceful innocent noble savages?
True. No significant contributions to advancing society.
The Hurons were certainly hated by the Ojibwa. In fact, the Huron’s name for themselves was “Wendat” or Wyandotte. The name “Huron” was what their enemies called them, and it essentially means “slob”.
CC
Well, thanks for that ear worm. The theme song for F Troop will be with me for quite awhile now.
Peach
“Many historians debate whether the Comanche deserve their ferocious reputation.”
Total 100% USDA Prime, gold plated bullshit.
An Algonquin woman told a Dutch West India company man about the Iroquois. She said, “ Not men! They are wolves!”
Yep
One of the American soldiers who raised the Flag on Iwo Jima was a Pima Indian from Arizona. Marine Ira Hayes, 22 years old WWll.
The Comanchees were vicous.
Hmmm...
I thought the Indians were driven off the continent, by the white devils, and ended up in SE Asia between Pakistan and China...
Unfortunately, once there, they had to deal with the Mongols...
a show that was ahead of it’s time! ;-)
Leisure
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One of the more common activities of leisure for the Lenni Lenape would be the game of pahsaheman: a football-like hybrid, split on gender lines. Over a hundred players were grouped into gendered teams (male and female), and would attempt to get a ball through the other team’s goal post. However, men could not carry and pass the ball, only using their feet, while the women could carry, pass, or kick.[28] If the ball was picked up by a woman, she could not be tackled by the men, although men could attempt to dislodge the ball. Women were free to tackle the men.[44] These gender-split rules highlight how a woman’s role in Lenape society was harmonious to a man’s role, rather than acquiescent.
Another activity common was that of dance, and yet again, gender differences appear: men would dance and leap loudly, often with bear claw accessories, while women, wearing little thimbles or bells, would dance more modestly, stepping “one foot after the other slightly forwards then backwards, yet so as to advance gradually.
Not kumbaya.
Remember Ethel Merman singing:
Like the Seminole, Navajo, Kickapoo
Like those Indians
I’m an Indian too
A Sioux, a Sioux
Just like Battle Axe, Hatchet Face, Eagle Nose
Like those Indians
I’m an Indian too
A Sioux, a Sioux
Some Indian summer’s day
Without a sound
I may hide away
With Big Chief Hole-in-the-Ground
And I’ll have totem poles, tomahawks,
Which will go to prove
I’m an Indian too
A Sioux, a Sioux
With my chief in his teepee
We’ll raise an Indian family
And I’ll be busy night and day
Looking like a flour sack
With two papooses on my back
And three papooses on the way
On the west coast, the Kwakiutl (Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw) in Haida G’Wai (Queen Charlotte Islands) were rampant slavers, raiding neighboring tribes regularly before the Europeans came.
But what about the pre-civilization utopia that the self-hating whites are always telling us about?
For a movie depiction that seems realistic enough to make liberals cry, check out the 1991 Canadian movie, Black Robe:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Robe_(film)
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