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Movie makers interested in Hannah Duston story
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| August 23, 2006
| Shawn Regan
Posted on 08/24/2006 3:02:10 PM PDT by Pharmboy
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To: Pharmboy
Two weeks later on March 30, Duston escaped with her nursemaid and a young boy from an island in the middle of the Merrimack River near present-day Concord, N.H., by killing and scalping as many as 10 of her captors. WOW!
To: AnotherUnixGeek
She didn't do it, "just for the fun of it". She did the scalping, so she could claim the price on their heads.
To: NonValueAdded
Ditto, though in my case, distant.
To: Guenevere
Nor sure about the Cherokees. In some tribes, your one eight would put you in the money.
To: Pharmboy
I'm sure if you traced your geneaology you would find that you have some Dunston blood in you. or Emerson or Webster...
To: GoLightly
In the money for what?
What if 1/16?
Great grandmother married very young...(she was absolutely beautiful)...
..I think she ran away from home.
Dad was always confused if she was 100%, or only 1/2....but she looks totally 100% to me.....
If 1/2, that would make me 1/16, right?
...My grandmother would have been 1/4, Dad 1/8, I 1/16.....
Or I might be 1/8
To: Pharmboy
My Wife is a tenth generation grand daughter of Hanna Dustin.
I walk softly around her. : )
To: ExcursionGuy84
Why'd she slay her infant girl so brutally? She didn't kill the baby, the captors did.
The baby was only a few weeks old, and was hungry. They wanted her to make it stop crying, but would not let her stop to feed the baby.
What happened to the captors was a result of them killing the baby.
To: AnotherUnixGeek
I don't think I'd take the time to hack their scalps off or otherwise mutilate them... It was a wild tale even then. She did it to prove her story, and there was a bounty for Indian scalps.
They paid the bounty to her husband.
To: Holicheese
"In the new version. The child will be killed by an evil corporation run by a white Christian. "
Bush's fault.
To: Pharmboy
Yeah, when it comes to survival whatever sex...
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posted on
08/26/2006 1:50:30 PM PDT
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
" I don't think I'd take the time to hack their scalps off "
Yes, I'm sure you are way more righteous than she.
To: Dan(9698)
Keep the cutlery away from that lady!!
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posted on
08/26/2006 2:11:11 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Every single day provides at least one new reason to hate the mainstream media...)
To: Guenevere
Did you say she was half? Oops, then 1/16th would be correct.
People who are *1/8th* are eligible to be members of many tribes. Each tribe sets its own standard for membership. For many, if not most tribes, 1/8th is a ticket only to a rich cultural heritage. I used to associate with a woman who was semi-active with her tribe, did pow wows, had a jingle dress & the like. She wanted to make sure her kids learned that half of their heritage, even with their Hispanic surname. Have you checked with her tribe, to see if they have any records about her?
One of my GGMothers married at about age 16. My GGrandDad was about 28 & robbed a cradle! I met her once. She was very old, frail & senile, but remembered enough about my dad to call him "you devil, you". He never outgrew that. lol
To: GoLightly
My dad always hedges the percentage...
.he thinks she was full....but might have been 1/2.
She was very tall....high cheekbones...darker skin.
Whether 1/8 or 1/16....is fine with me.
To: Pharmboy
Keep the cutlery away from that lady!! When we visited the statue, I had her stand beside it and hold up her hand while I took a picture.
The holding up of her hand was so I could remember which was which.
To: SF Republican
My husband's grandmother was Indian but I'm not sure from what tribe. She lived in Ogdensburg area and had very high cheekbones and black hair. (and 19 kids!) They were French Canadian but she had a lot of Indian blood in her.
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08/26/2006 5:33:46 PM PDT
by
Marysecretary
(Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
To: webstersII
Yes, I'm sure you are way more righteous than she.
I'm certainly not as much of a savage as she apparently was. You?
To: AnotherUnixGeek
Ever been through anything remotely similar?
Probably not. Therefore you aren't really qualified to judge her.
Did you consider that the people of that time chose to honor her? They did not view her as a savage, even though they knew full well what she had done, in fact they considered her a hero.
To: webstersII
Ever been through anything remotely similar?
Probably not. Therefore you aren't really qualified to judge her.
Have you? If not, what qualifies you to judge her conduct as anything other than savage?
Did you consider that the people of that time chose to honor her?
The Indians who murdered her child were probably honored by their people at the time as well. So? Savagery is savagery - approval from the people around you doesn't make barbaric conduct ok.
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