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To: Age of Reason
I'm sure your right. But the FACT the indians wiped out 1/3 of the European population defuses that argument a bit...that the dirty old white men caused untold deaths. HA...not in those numbers.

Oh come on it didn't take much for those savage women to accommodate those white men. That's why they're called savages.

26 posted on 10/06/2007 7:51:57 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)
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To: shield
I'm sure your right. But the FACT the indians wiped out 1/3 of the European population defuses that argument a bit...that the dirty old white men caused untold deaths. HA...not in those numbers.

You are making a big deal out of 1/3 of the European population.

Are you aware that the death rate in many parts of the Americas was twice that, or more?

The California missions and Spanish pueblos, for example, led to a death rate in the coastal areas where they were founded--just during the mission area--of about 90%.

28 posted on 10/06/2007 8:00:07 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: shield
Oh come on it didn’t take much for those savage women to accommodate those white men. That’s why they’re called savages.

Yeah, like those Spanish Conquistadors were really a civilized bunch.......

30 posted on 10/06/2007 8:11:49 PM PDT by dusttoyou (FredHead from the git go)
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To: shield

The term “savage” is derived from the Spanish “salvaje” meaning “one who needs salvation.”


47 posted on 10/06/2007 10:04:22 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: shield

Long before the fist Europeans went to John Wayne territory, the Iriquois of upstate NY (one of the so called civilized tribes), were known for their raiding party techniques.

They would raid an enemy’s camp when the men were away hunting, kill all young men capable of fighting, blind the elders so they became a burden on the enemy tribe, rape and/or kidnap women for slaves, and gather up the infants who they ATE on the way back home. They would place the heads of the eaten children on stakes facing backward toward the enemy in order to unnerve any following enemy from retribution.

That’s why they are called savages.


65 posted on 10/07/2007 3:46:25 AM PDT by anton
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