Posted on 10/11/2021 2:25:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Every Columbus Day, we are treated to recycled howls from the left who insist the day be rebranded as Indigenous People’s Day, in honor of the millions of Native Americans displaced, enslaved, or killed during the centuries preceding the discovery of America. We hear terms like “colonialism,” “systemic oppression,” “cultural genocide,” and “stolen land,” thrown around.
Here is a brief list of the European Indigenous Peoples who were victimized by invading armies and migrations, by colonialism, systemic oppression, and cultural genocide, but whose sufferings are rarely if ever acknowledged by the left:
The Greek city-states
From 492 to 449 BC, Persia launched a series of invasions against the Greek mainland. This was after years of stealing their land across the Anatolian coast. The Indigenous Peoples of the Greek city-states eventually expelled the invaders, but not before Persian armies ransacked much of central Greece and razed Athens to the ground.
The Roman Republic
From 264 to 146 BC, the Indigenous peoples of the Roman Republic attempted to resist aggression and expansion of the Carthaginian Empire from North Africa into Sicily in what became known as the Punic Wars. The Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded the Republic by land, destroyed its armies and occupied it for decades. The Romans eventually expelled the occupiers and ended the 500 year Carthaginian hegemony of the Western Mediterranean.
Italy
During the 4th and 5th Centuries AD, the Huns of Central Asia (modern Kazakhstan) invaded Europe. After ransacking their way through the Balkans, Hungary, and Thrace (modern Bulgaria), they forewent an attack on Rome in exchange for continuous tribute money. A peace treaty was signed, with the unfortunate effect that the Indigenous Peoples’ signatories actually believed the Huns would honor it.
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It’s one of his best cartoons.
The biggest slave owners were the Turks. Every fifth Christian boy had to be given as slave to the Turkish sultan (dervisme).
The larges slave market was Kaffa (now Feodosia) on Crimea, where Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Rumanian slaves were sold to Turks. Women as sexual slaves, men for servitude. Turkish harems were almost exclusively “staffed” by European Christian women, as enslaving Muslims is prohibited by Koran.
Even during WWI, Armenian women slaves were sold in Istanbul.
On the other hand, In Wester Europe, the Trinitarian order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitarians
Was established solely to free Christian slaves from Muslim capturers.
Europeans captured and enslaved by Muslims (Turks, Arabs, Berbers) go to millions.
Indigenous People have two great days they can call their own.
June 25, 1876, Little Big Horn,
Aug 10, 1680, when the Pueblo Indians drove the Spanish out of New Mexico.
But n-o-0-0-o. They have to try and grab off a day honoring the findings of an Italian in the service of Spain!
Had Columbus never “Sailed the Ocean Blue” the new world would still have been found by Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500.
The Age of Discovery was upon the whole world at that time.
Here is my short list of how the Indians loved each other and only did the Happy Dance till the evil White Man arrived.
https://frontierpartisans.com/3942/crow-creek-massacre/
https://www.academia.edu/7907221/Mass_Grave_at_Crow_Creek_in_South_Dakota_Reveals_How_Indians_Massacred_Indians_in_14th_Century_Attack
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
http://westerndigs.org/skeletons-in-utah-cave-are-victims-of-prehistoric-war-study-says/
https://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/1991/12/01/scalping-victim/
http://westerndigs.org/infamous-mass-grave-of-young-women-in-ancient-city-of-cahokia-also-holds-men-study/
http://westerndigs.org/mass-grave-of-prodigal-sons-in-california-poses-prehistoric-mystery/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/2269-140630-colorado-torture-evidence
https://anthropology.net/2007/07/16/parallel-life-and-death-1275-ad-massacred-gallina-and-vanishing-anasazi/
https://ancientstandard.com/2007/07/17/csi-new-mexico-%e2%80%93-possible-genocide-ca-1275-ad/
https://archive.archaeology.org/9709/newsbriefs/anasazi.html
https://anthropology.net/2007/07/16/parallel-life-and-death-1275-ad-massacred-gallina-and-vanishing-anasazi/
https://www.ohio.edu/orgs/glass/vol/1/14.htm
And again, this is just my short list. I have many more of inter-tribal warfare before the white man showed up on the scene.
In the book Don Quixote by Cervantes, he tells the story of a young boy captured by the Turks. He survived by pretending to be a girl till rescued by the Spanish.
He did it because he found the Turks had a sexual preference for young boys.
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Saint Patrick was an English teenager when he was kidnapped by an Irish warlord on the seacoast. He was enslaved, taken to the interior of the island, and used as a shepherd. Eventually, the Holy Spirit guided him to escape. He walked for days until he reached a port, where he persuaded a ship’s captain to take him back to England. There, he studied for the priesthood and determined to return to Ireland to share the gospel with the pagan Irish. The rest is history. (Ripe for cancellation.)
It's why most of the royal families in the Arab nations look white. Beautiful progeny of the enslaved failed upward.
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