Posted on 10/13/2014 1:32:17 PM PDT by Nachum
In a presidential action issued on Friday, proclaiming Oct. 13 as Columbus Day, President Barack Obama noted that a “new history” launched by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the new world included the history of American Indians, which he said is “marred with long and shameful chapters of violence, disease, and deprivation.” “In a new world, a history was written,” said Obama’s proclamation, required by a 1934 Congressional Joint Resolution. “It tells the story of an idea – that all women and men are created equal – and a people´s struggle to fulfill it. “And it is a history shared by
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Not only were numerous Indian tribes violent towards their neighbors, they were destroyers of the land. Yes, the Indians who are portrayed as staunch environmentalists, actually destroyed the land. They had a history of migration, moving to a new location after they had farmed the land to the point it no longer supported crops, hunted the land to the point it was devoid of animals and soiled the land with their garbage and human waste. Once that was accomplished, they picked up stakes and moved elsewhere.
“Movement is life. Movement is seen everywhere…. Movement was characteristic of our ancestors, who moved across the landscape like the clouds across the sky.”— Tessy Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo. NM
Obama is riding into the sunset a bitter man.
Yeh, it’s called reality!
I won’t ever support a fascist, even in jest.
Mussolini swung from a poll like he deserved.
But it isn't 100% accurate. Capt. John Smith did not have blond hair.
Well, native American tribes were violent with other native American tribes. Not to mention the violence they committed against white settlers.
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Yep. First Colonist from England with my surname was slaughtered about 1640, along with his wife, at Olde Jamestown in the Virginia Colony. Only their baby survived and was taken in by the maternal grandparents; thus allowing my ancestral line to continue and me to exist. All others of my surname stem from that little baby and later from freed slaves a couple of hundred years later who took on their former owners’ surname. ....The Indian chief who led the raid that killed around 400 was the Uncle of Pocahantas.
At every turn, in every way, 0bola seeks to damage, denigrate, discredit, and destroy America.
It’s not stupidity, incompetence, or madness.
0bama is deliberately, willfully evil.
Also, there were the cliff dwellers of the Southwest who essentially carved their homes into the sides of the high cliffs, providing protection from raiding tribes and animal predators. They subsisted by growing various foods on the land below. It’s thought that a long drought and little food led them to abandon their sites and migrate elsewhere.
There’s not a damned thing anyone can do about it now and bringing it up to try and lay a guilt trip on people whose only association with it comes by virtue of their skin color is racist in the extreme and solely intended to gin up hate.
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Great statement; and it applies to the constant braying about the old slavery days, as well! Thank you!
Never saw the Disney version of Pocahontas. Did it show how she became a Christian, married an Englishman & accompanied him to England before her untimely death?
NOT!
There was a major attempt by the Indians to wipe out the Jamestown colony in 1622, led by Opechancanough, the brother of Powhatan. Maybe that is the incident you have in mind—I doubt Opechancanough was still alive in 1640. Reportedly the Indians killed only the English settlers and left the Africans alone (present in Jamestown since 1619).
No, of course not. They have John Smith as tall and blond, whereas the real one was short and dark-haired. They leave the viewers most likely assuming that he will marry Pocahontas, and I don’t think John Rolfe is even in the movie (noteworthy not only for marrying Pocahontas but also for saving the colony by introducing a cash crop, tobacco).
You’re correct! It was 1622! I don’t know why I thought of 1640 when I was posting earlier... probably lack of sleep.
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