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NBC Journalist tweets that life was grand before the white people ruined 'this land'
American Thinker ^ | 03/08/2023 | Eric Utter

Posted on 03/08/2023 7:36:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind

NBC News contributing “journalist” Simon Moya-Smith, 39, who is also a lecturer at the University of Colorado at Denver, recently put out the following tweet:

“Before white people came to this land, there were no jails, no homelessness, no laws against homosexuality or abortion. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples emphasized health, housing, freedom to love who you love and the fact that we need Mother Earth. She doesn’t need us.”

 

Before white people came to this land, there were no jails, no homelessness, no laws against homosexuality or abortion. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples emphasized health, housing, freedom to love who you love and the fact that we need Mother Earth. She doesn’t need us. — Simon Moya-Smith (@SimonMoyaSmith) March 4, 2023

 

Simon Moya-Smith (Twitter icon)

This is an example of what we call “fake news.”

There may have been a dearth of jails, but prisoners of war could be captured, tortured, enslaved, or killed. Some tribes had “Blood Laws,” which referred to the widespread practice, particularly in the southeast, of revenge killing. Under this system, when someone killed a member of a particular clan, people from the offending clan had to kill one of their own to balance things out. (I’m guessing there was much debate about whom to sacrifice, not least amongst those who were in consideration.)

Some tribes were nomadic, but others lived in tepees. Tepees were made of animal skins and/or blankets wrapped around wooden poles and were typically about 10 feet in diameter. No doubt, a man’s tepee was his castle.


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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll take “Idiot” for $2000, Alex.


21 posted on 03/08/2023 7:46:40 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Europeans didn’t do anything to the native inhabitants that they weren’t doing to each other for thousands of years..................


22 posted on 03/08/2023 7:46:52 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

He has no idea of the fighting between tribes and the brutality. He also doesn’t seem to understand that many tribes were nomadic, taking from the land and resources and then moving on to another pasture then coming back later to reap again from the environment that tried to recover.


23 posted on 03/08/2023 7:47:05 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

And the OLD ones who couldn’t contribute nor fend for themselves? Sent out to wander and die.


24 posted on 03/08/2023 7:48:06 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: V_TWIN

This is what happens when real history is not taught in schools.

Too bad we don’t have at least a one way time machine to send these people back to their Nativist Nirvana.................


25 posted on 03/08/2023 7:49:03 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

I always find it funny how some people seem to think that if white people didn’t come here, all of North and South America would be filled with people happily foraging for their food, having dogs drag their travoys, and living in huts, teepees, wigwams, etc. They never stop to consider that North and South America would have eventually been found by someone else, quite possibly the Chinese. I wonder how the Indians would have faired under 500 years of Chinese rule.


26 posted on 03/08/2023 7:51:30 AM PST by euram (allALL)
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To: SeekAndFind

People who get to write articles like this do so with amazing blindness to the truth... and that is how you get to a position to write articles like this. You dig your eyes out with your own two hands and grope around feeling where the money is. Your bloodied hands have the money, but you will never see again. These are sick, stupid demented people. We should feel sorry for them and have contempt for their stupidity and greed.


27 posted on 03/08/2023 7:51:39 AM PST by BEJ
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To: Codeflier

SOOOOOOOOO-—What happened to the tribe in SW USA what disappeared so suddenly?

Disease?

Another tribe wiped them out?

They packed up & moved because they sought a better place???

Don’t ever remember hearing a valid explanation.


28 posted on 03/08/2023 7:53:20 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Codeflier

And the current information being disseminated about them IS BS. I really can’t stand morons like the Caucasian Faucahontas Warren who claims to be part Indian. Cherokee princesses must have been very abundant in America at one time but apparently went out with the buffalo when the white man decided all these millions of buffalo were going to screw up the ozone with their flatulence if something wasn’t done.


29 posted on 03/08/2023 7:53:33 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("I may be a white boy but I'm not stupid". - FJB at Black "History" event. Tell 'em Jo Jo!)
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To: MrRelevant

> Yikes , indians slaughtered each other for hundreds of years before white folks arrived. <

Yep. I once read an article about a French fur trapper who worked the Great Lakes around the time of the American Revolution. I can’t remember the names of the Indian tribes in the article, so I’ll just use A and B.

Well, one day the trapper went to visit his friends at Tribe A and couldn’t find them anywhere. So he canoed down to his friends at Tribe B.

“Where is Tribe A?” he asked the chief of Tribe B. “We killed them all,” the chief replied.


30 posted on 03/08/2023 7:54:11 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SeekAndFind
There were no laws against sacrificing your neighbor to the god of oogga-booga, shrinking his head and wearing it on your belt either.

It was paradise!

31 posted on 03/08/2023 7:54:13 AM PST by GaryCrow
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To: SeekAndFind
Last name "Smith". Wouldn't it be grand to trace his roots?

Before white people came to this land...the natives killed each other for control of territory and its resources, as well as for slaves.

Not sure there were many peter puffers at the time.

32 posted on 03/08/2023 7:54:13 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: SeekAndFind

These people are delusional. They invent things in their “minds” and actually believe them. If this thing hates Whitey so much, let it go to a place where there are no Whiteys, and report back in a year how life is in that place.


33 posted on 03/08/2023 7:55:11 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media and democrats are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho, hoo hoo. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, this land was much better when it was inhabited only by stone-age people having no written language or number system, no metallurgy, hadn’t even invented the wheel. Stone knives and bearskins, that’s the ticket.


34 posted on 03/08/2023 7:55:14 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Tommy Revolts

Don’t forget cannibalism among the natives!


35 posted on 03/08/2023 7:55:26 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: SeekAndFind
“Before white people came to this land,..." this simpleton would not have even been worthy of being kept as a slave by a conquering tribe.

"Liberalism" truly is a mental and spiritual disorder closely linked to the inablility to be able to think rationally and to learn from history and the reality of one's experiences.

Liberalism = Stupidism! (That is definitely a better description since there is nothing liberal about Liberals, except their stupidity.)

36 posted on 03/08/2023 7:55:48 AM PST by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone has been puffing on the ole wacky-weed pipe.


37 posted on 03/08/2023 7:56:01 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Oh look, a moron.
...there were no jails, no homelessness, no laws against homosexuality or abortion. For thousands of years...

38 posted on 03/08/2023 7:56:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Avataramore’itis... the thought that indigenous people were as beautiful as the animated versions of avatar.

indigenous peoples lived in perpetual fear of starving and being killed by other tribes or made slaves.

they moved around to follow the herd, but to also give the surround landscape a chance to clean up from all their fecal discharges.

they didn’t care about the environment, because they didn’t understand it, they were victims of it, dancing for rain and sacrificing offspring to bring favorable weather.

no, white folks came and conquered because the indigenous people were disorganized and couldn’t adopt.


39 posted on 03/08/2023 7:56:24 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: SeekAndFind

See here for more real Indian (no dot) historical news:
What Native American tribe was hated most by other Native American tribes? [Iroquois; Ojibwa; Sioux; Dakota, Lakota, Cheyenne;Choctaw; Chickasaw; Creek, Cherokee; Seminole; Crows; Comanche; Apache...?]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4136438/posts?page=78

The author seems to imagine that the North American Continent before the arrival of non-Indians was an Indian (no dot) Wakanda

Just goes to show that some of these people are swallowing their own propaganda.


40 posted on 03/08/2023 7:57:25 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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