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To: Eva

‘Pull this’? I’d say what was ‘pulled’ on the indigenous peoples is/was far worse than the loss of a little land and a few million dollars will mean to the present population. I wonder how you’d react if you were informed by the present -day media that your entire religious group were being systematically murdered and their belongings turned into the capital profits for the killers; wait, I take that back. I already know...


65 posted on 09/12/2009 11:15:16 AM PDT by Daemyon
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To: Daemyon
I think that you are a victim of the post modernist revisionist history. The Indians joined the British against the colonists, raiding and massacring women and children, burning their homes and fields. One of my ancestors returned home to find his wife and children all scalped and his home burned. He joined Sullivan's Raiders and avenged his family. They had been peaceful farmers in the Wyoming Valley of PA.

After Brant joined the British, the colonists began to see the Indians as the enemy, much like the British. Any treaties that the tribes made with the British were seen as voided. That's how it usually goes when you pick the losing side.

The lunatic left has been promising the Indians that they will return their lands to them, return the country to the way it was in the 17th century. It's a trick. The Indians might get some benefits, but not what they think they are going to get. For instance, did you know that the tribes are completely left out of the proposed Obamacare? Nothing will change for the tribes under Obamacare.

66 posted on 09/12/2009 12:28:40 PM PDT by Eva (union motto - Aim for mediocrity, it's only fair.)
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