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To: Jimmyclyde

I had a colleague at NYU, since dead, who wrote in a book review that his ancestry was part Indian and that in his opinion American Indians often behaved with excessive cruelty. Torture was a regular part of their culture.

There was much to admire about the Indians, too. But the bad has to be taken with the good. Rewriting history to make loonie PCs feel more comfortable isn't the way to deal with the problems of the past.


6 posted on 06/14/2004 6:13:32 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Human sacrifice and cannibalism were also known among the savages that inhabited early
America....

That was simply the way it was....for a while we made it better....seems to be returning to the depravity that once was...

So whose the savages now...?


9 posted on 06/14/2004 6:24:26 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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