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Navajo Nation Bans Sale of Tobacco: Industry ‘Colonized a Product that Was Sacred’
Breitbart ^ | 11/16/21 | Penny Starr

Posted on 11/17/2021 12:15:43 AM PST by Impala64ssa

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Smoking is racist and cultural appropriation. In jr high they showed an anti smoking film to us young skulls full of mush, narrated by Dick van Dyke who called tobacco the RED MAN'S REVENGE.
1 posted on 11/17/2021 12:15:43 AM PST by Impala64ssa
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LOL I think I remember that Dick Van Dyke anti-smoking video. Mary Tyler Moore said she use to call him “Penis Von Lesbian” lol lol. That dude is almost 100 now


2 posted on 11/17/2021 12:59:03 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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Navahos and tobacco?


3 posted on 11/17/2021 1:10:55 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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4 posted on 11/17/2021 1:33:58 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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5 posted on 11/17/2021 1:41:35 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Cornpop was a good dude.)
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these tribes think that what some did on the far east coast somehow is related to them....from what I understand, the tribes fought and battled and cannibalized each other....

so the Spanish brought horses over....should the tribes now remove all painted horses from their history and culture?...I think so...they culturally appropriated something that did not belong to them....of course I'm saying this tongue in check.

6 posted on 11/17/2021 1:52:09 AM PST by cherry
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Didn’t some of the tribes consider people outside the tribe not to be people?


7 posted on 11/17/2021 1:57:31 AM PST by FreedomForce
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To: Impala64ssa

Blah blah blah - Evil white man - We are not responsible for anything we do.


8 posted on 11/17/2021 2:11:56 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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I'm so relieved Indian Country is safe from the scourge of "Colonized Tobacco".

9 posted on 11/17/2021 2:15:10 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Need to object to the Navaho colonization of Spanish horses.


10 posted on 11/17/2021 2:53:58 AM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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““They understand tribal sovereignty, and they understand all the economic opportunities that tribes are trying to do right now, including gaming,” Henderson said, who added that the ban including no smoking in Navajo casinos.””

Smoking addiction bad. Gambling and alcohol addiction good?


11 posted on 11/17/2021 3:08:32 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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I'm inclined to believe that Native Americans smoke wild grass...before Europe brought over some actual tobacco.

HOWEVER...since they say they introduced it to the "White Man"...reparations may be in order....TO US....for introducing us to this dangerous product,

12 posted on 11/17/2021 3:30:03 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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So ‘banning’ a product still requires ‘educating’ the population? Typical liberal mindset. They create a situation requiring policing, then because they are too incompetent to actually do that job, they have to spend gobs of money employing more liberals to persuade the population not to engage in using the illegal substance. (While at the same time arguing for the de-decriminalization of marijuana)


13 posted on 11/17/2021 3:52:07 AM PST by Tallguy
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Without any research, I seriously doubt that any Navaho in the desert Southwest ever saw or heard of tobacco prior to white man introducing the iron horse. (And native Americans never saw horses until they were imported from Europe.)


14 posted on 11/17/2021 4:06:00 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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we gave the Indians alcohol and they gave us tobacco


15 posted on 11/17/2021 4:08:29 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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Did the Navajos cultivate tobacco? I had the impression it was a south eastern plant. Did the Navajos use some other plant?


16 posted on 11/17/2021 4:10:19 AM PST by jimfr
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Oh, I should point out, that the Navajo crossed over to the America by boat, after the land bridge fell back into the sea, arriving in the southwest around 1300 AD. This was ten thousand years or longer after humans first inhabited the Americas, and only a few hundred years prior to the arrival of Europeans.

According to CRT, the winners of the second to last wars are the rightful owners of their place; as opposed to the winners of the last wars, who are to be considered to be invaders and colonizers.

According to the Declaration of Independence, government gains its rightful power from the consent of the governed, NOT from who won what war. Thus, we seek to end the endless cycle of wars of conquest, colonization, slavery and all forms of oppression. NOT continually re-fight the last war. We were and remain the true revolution in the world’s history. Replacing the rule of conquest with the rule of law.


17 posted on 11/17/2021 4:16:44 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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I like to whip out the churchwarden pipe and fill the bowl of sweet Cavendish at Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.

Love the warning label.

18 posted on 11/17/2021 4:23:11 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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(And native Americans never saw horses until they were imported from Europe.)

It wasn’t until around 1680 that the Pueblo’s came into possession of horses after running the Spanish back to Mexico. Until then most if not all the tribes were still walking. From there the horse population expanded and multiple Plains tribes had them.


19 posted on 11/17/2021 4:42:46 AM PST by Dusty Road (")
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Where’s my casino ?


20 posted on 11/17/2021 4:46:11 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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