Posted on 11/24/2023 3:38:43 PM PST by fwdude
Following complaints from Native American groups, Minnesota's long-standing state flag and seal are undergoing an overhaul partly due to "racist undertones" supposedly on display. The state's 2023 legislative session led by Democrat lawmakers ordered both be changed because they've been deemed offensive to the Dakota and Ojibwe tribes as well as unattractive to the eye.
As it currently is, the historic 174-year-old seal—centered on the Minnesota flag—depicts a Native American atop a horse riding away into the sunset whilst a pioneer plows a field in the foreground with a rifle leaning on a nearby stump. "Native Americans have condemned this image for its depiction of a white settler encroaching on Native territory," the Minnesota Reformer wrote.
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I think it “honors” the Indians.
YES INDIANS!
They are NOT “native Americans”. There was no “America” before white European settlers created it.
We WON the war for the land.
***The events in question happened about 1200 years ago. ***
Yep. LONG before the White Man was around to take the blame! What ever happened to all that peace and love and them only doing the Happy Dance before the “evil White Man” arrived?
Another issue is indians had no common law among them or even within their tribes and nations. If they could take it and defend it it was theirs. They also had dynamic borders for their territory, hunting grounds, etc.
Both issues put them in conflict with people-from-outside-their tribe. Settling in ‘their territory’ was taken as an invasion into their tribal territory whether it was occupied or not. In some instances the indians had to attack settlers. Otherwise it would show weakness to competing indian tribes, lest they also invade their territory.
In such a lawless system annihilation, assimilation or accommodation were the result. Most American indians assimilated into American society. Accommodation/indian reservations were not available until the 1800s.
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