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To: Free ThinkerNY

Most of those “natives” look as pale face as me.


3 posted on 02/07/2010 12:04:12 PM PST by Rodebrecht (No army can stop an idea whose time has come.)
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To: Rodebrecht

Looks have nothing to do with it. Neither do feelings.


12 posted on 02/07/2010 12:29:12 PM PST by fish hawk
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To: Rodebrecht; Free ThinkerNY
Most of those "natives" look a pale face as me.

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.

28 posted on 02/07/2010 1:38:19 PM PST by Peter Libra
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