Posted on 07/03/2020 10:32:20 AM PDT by Stravinsky
Yeah. So?
Bump
That quite effective and lucrative,too. They don’t likum the white man but they did his wampum $$$.
There is nothing sacred about Indian lands because most are dumps and they do not tend to their lands. My wife is Sioux and Cherokee. None of her family identify as native American for several generations.
Uh, no.
Yep. Indians run the gift shop there. A sham. Film Flam. Chicanery. I wanted my money back when I went there.
Interesting info; however, I’m not convinced that projectiles are very good evidence.
When carving “flint”, or points from obsidian, there is not a lot of variety in the final product.
Obsidian fractures or breaks conchoidally, no mater where it comes from and points from North America would look pretty similar to ones from Europe.
I worked on a cattle ranch in Nevada and a local cowboy could take obsidian and make an arrowhead in about 30-minutes. He was so good at it he used to inscribe his initials on them so they couldn’t be passed for artifacts.
His points look just like the old ones from the area and look a lot like the European points.
Remove all the casinos and I’ll think about it.
I’m not interested in the opinion of a bunch of drunks looking for more space to open another casino. Mt. Rushmore is a magnificent piece of art, created despite enormous physical challenges. It is a tribute to the art and engineering genius of its creator.
Is slave owning Confederates who were defeated don’t get a say in what monuments get to stay, then why should slave owning Indians who were defeated get a say?
The old TIME-LIFE book EARLY MAN showed how to make an obsidian point. Very interesting.
I did it for a while using old mirror and thick window glass. Unfortunately mine all looked like flat glass with a chipped edge.
That’s true too.
Most of the Sioux chiefs at that time wanted to sell the Black Hills anyway. Only Crazy Horse stood in the way as he had already murdered over 400 whites in the area.
As for the treaties, you are correct. the Big Chief had no real power, as that was vested in the warrior societies, and any warrior society chief that did not want to go along with the treaty could still go on the warpath. ALL the Society chiefs had to agree to the treaty, but individual warriors could still, and often did, opt out.
People today do not understand the cultural differences in such treaties. They think the Big Chief agrees, and that is that. It is not!
***Get jobs like everybody else.***
we had a group of Navajos come in to our power plant and rebuild it. They did an excellent job, so they can do well if they want to.
The first time I saw it was when I was 19 years old. Obviously I won’t live to see it finished, but the prototype is pretty cool. ;)
It’s absolutely true of those tribes that were within the 13 colonies. The only loyalists anywhere within any of my ancestral lines turned up to have descendants on the Guion-Miller Rolls, the Indian census of the Eastern Cherokee.
I’m currently reading “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.” These four presidents aren’t the ones who wronged the Sioux. But they were indeed terribly wronged.
Soros handing them over booze money
and what land did the Sioux get pushed out of before ending up in southwestern minnesota and SD???
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