Posted on 02/07/2010 12:00:07 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
I didn’t see anything about “North America” but will look again. Only saw America which in anyones mind would mean the USA.
If the Mohawks were really serious, they would be taking scalps. Where is their sense of historicity?
Frankly, when the pale faces have gone, their wampum needs to go also.
Start by looking up what “Native American” and “American Indian” mean. In that context, “American” refers to the continent, not The United States.
That is such a shame and it also goes on here in Hawaii with the Locals against the Whites which they consider intruders on their land. However I do see where the anger comes from. As an Indian let me say that our tribe got our hunting and fishing rights back plus a lot of other things to do with the land and there is no way that could have been done without our White friends helping us by writing to their congress persons etc. Indians have no voting block to speak of and can’t do much of anything without friends to help.
Well it’s their land, so they can do whatever they want. If some white person wanted to buy 500 acres of private land and say “No non-whites allowed”, they too would be well within their rights. The Constitution allows freedom of association and thereby non-association as well. Nothing to see here.
Do they permit other Native Tribes from living there? My son is half Seneca? I am 1/30th Arapaho does that count?
St. Lawrence Valley was not the original homeland of the Kanien’kehá:ka, who emerged south of there in present-day New York . Nor was it the homeland of the Iroquois nations, as had been theorized by some historians.
Instead, it was inhabited for centuries by a discrete Iroquoian -speaking people now called the St Lawrence Iroquoians . They lived in the valley as an identifiable people from the 1300s to the late 16th century, creating the villages of Stadacona, Hochelaga and others visited by explorer Cartier in the 1530s .
Evidence suggest they were driven from the valley or destroyed by attacks by the Kanien’kehá:ka, who wanted to control the fur trade and hunting in that area.
btw, Canada is the larger part of America.
And btw, It is Racist.
You astute observation has touched on the absolutely unspeakable politically incorrect subject. Genealogy is my hobby as a pure amateur. Records are my "meat and drink". Up and down the Trans Canada Highway we have First Nations Reserves. When the government decreed the native people as "First Nations" they sure opened up a can of worms.
Very few of the chiefs have a name from the original male inhabitant of the indigenous people. One of the well known names on the reserve is a pure scandinavian name. Originally it had two dots over one of the letters. I encountered one of these persons and he posed no threat to me..... but he had a sort of Viking look.
Another well known name is pure German on the reserve. I cannot say they look Germanic though. One chief has a pure Finnish name and he has all the characteristics by his photograph as of Finnish descent.
I am a somewhat bashful supporter of local native rights for good reason. For in 1850 the Robinson-Huron Treaty was signed. The natives call it the Huron-Robinson Treaty. I was indignant when they took over a beautiful natural island in the St Mary's River, between the United States and Canada. "Ought be jolly well locked up" and that sort of view.
I read the Treaty over and sure enough the little island had been ceded over to the natives, as long as the waters run and the winds blow. In 1850.Oh calamity, before Canada came into being (1867). Guess who made the treaty (drum roll)? Why it was a bunch of chaps from merry old England. Lieutenant Robinson and all.
Today the little island remains and no body ever bothers anybody about it. A bit of a digression from the ramifications of inter-marriage, but ironically, it one could trace the male ancestry back and back,in some cases, who knows? A renegade red-coat soldier would appear. A very French person would be the male line.
I have respect for the law abiding natives and their sensitivities. This does not extend to the Quebec reserves and their billions of illegal cigarettes for the miscreants that buy them. Nor for their lack of decency in not having a honest discussion with others.
I don’t know, go ask them. I do not think that 1/30 anything is enough to qualify you for anything. Probably 60% of everyone I know claims to be Cherokee, but can’t trace it or prove it.
Most of those "natives" look as pale face as me.
Not entirely true. One of my ancestors and his sisters were captured by Mohawks at Deerfield, Mass. in 1704 and taken to Kahnawake. My ancestor finally left after 12 years or so but his sisters stayed and married into the tribe. Their descendants live there to this day. It wasn't unusual for Eastern tribes to capture white settlers and integrate them into the tribe to replace relatives who had died.
Its still racist. Your failure to note it reflects on you.
But then again, you’re an Indian so its OK.
Sorry, anyone can be racist, no matter what color their skin.
Oh, and welcome to FR......
You are wrong, if whites trued that, they would be shut down very quickly, sued, and possibly jailed.
According to Bam Bam, Jessee Jackson is the street level leader of the black community and that is what he said on FOX before he went to ground over with his ‘Love Child’. I’m just repeating what the Black Leader of the Greatest Nation in History said unless you feel he isn’t a credable leader.
Lol! I hear that all the time even thogh their ancestors lived no where near the Cherokee. None of my ancestors married into the tribe but they were run out of North Carolina by the Cherokee in 1761.
Not according to the “Black leader of the Greatest Country in the World”; Jesse Jackson.
As a matter of fact I don’t think he’s credible, and I’m not accustomed to seeing people agree with his racist rants on Free Republic.
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