This can’t be correct. We’ve been told the Indians were just sitting over her singing kum ba ya.
They’re Arabs and the white men are the-guess what?
Twenty thousand - thirty thousand? - years of constant internecine warfare. And not even the wheel to be shown for it.
An Algonquin woman told a Dutch West India company man about the Iroquois. She said, “ Not men! They are wolves!”
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