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[Jaysun]

"They should go home and rethink what they did to the native population."

Malarkey. Whose fault is it that they were worshiping animals, living in buffalo skin huts, smoking dope, and fighting each other with sticks when we got here? Whose fault is it that many of them have now become avid whiskey drinkers? I'm tired of hearing it.

[Born to Conserve]

We bought that land fair and square from the French, and if the indians have a problem with it they can go collect from Frenchie.

[2banana]

Before Indians were running casinos and selling cigarettes tax-free in North America, they were a stone-age people before the "pale face" came. They had not learned to domesticate animals, they had no written language, they used only stone tools and they had not even yet invented the wheel.

They had never seen a horse, a metal knife, a cart or a plow.

They also commonly practiced slavery, genocide and cannibalism against other tribes. No matter how many times you watch "Dances with Wolves" and "Pocahontas," it will not change these facts.

In terms of population percentage loss, the worst war we ever fought was King Philip's War in 1688. King Philip was an indian chief (also known as Metacomet). The indians burned down whole villages. The Colonists' population was small in 1688 and a good percentage of that population was killed in the war. The indians lost the war.

The Indians sided with the French in the French And Indian War (1753). The indians lost the war.

The indians sided with the British in the Revolution. The indians lost the war.

The indians sided with the British again in the War of 1812. The indians lost the war.

As the Americans moved west, fighting was constant on both sides. The indians started quite a few (but not all) of the fights. The indians lost everytime.

The judgement of history is merciless.

[MplsSteve]

I suppose doing a re-creation of the Washita battle would be out of the question too...?

[Cogadh na Sith]

Didn't Lewis and Clark carry muskets for this kind of thing?

[Jagdgewehr]

Don't they have a casino to run?

Abolish the reservations.

[Travis McGee]

"They should go home and rethink what THEY did to the native population."

Um, THEY are not L&C. THEY died a couple of centuries ago.

[familyop]

Those ain't injuns. Them's Europeans wearing makeup.

[ZULU]

I generally am sympathtic to the sentiments of Native Americans, but this group is out of their minds.

[Professional Engineer]

ping

[mudblood]

The re-enactors should have scared them with their magic light-making stick (flashlight). Or, failing that, threatened to suck away their spirits with their magic flash-box (camera). If they don't like being poor, they should move to a city, get a job, and save/invest the wompum they make as best they can, like anyone else.

[G.Mason]

Shall we play cowboys and indians again?

[ApplegateRanch]

With all due PC respect, WTF is so horrid about the loss (replacement) of their old "culture"?

Do they refuse cars, houses, antibiotics, vaccines, water-heaters, electricity, telephones, firearms, cheese & butter, et-infinitum-cetera?

And begging the question, do they bitch and moan about the White Man destroying their previous ancestral culture, and creating the one they now piss and moan about losing, by introducing the horse?

Did their early chiefs sit around the camp fire, chomping on buffalo roasts, bitching about the "good old days" of hunting on foot, while the women carried everything on their backs?

If they like it so much, they could emulate the Old Order Amish, and eschew the Evil White Man's culture, and live in a tepee. Burning sticks to cook & keep warm. Hunting-gathering, without "W-M Commodities to tide them over if they aren't successful. Without refridgeration & caning. Drinking willowbark tea for their arthritis at 30, secure in the knowledge that in less than 10 years, their suffering will be over.

In the meanwhile, they can watch the Medicine Man wave the eagle feather, and administer herbs and "sacred clay" to their 2 year old son, who is coughing his guts out, and burning up with fever.

Or, do they just want it both ways, and keep the hand-outs coming?

Begging another question, but in the case of these protesting Lakota, just whose culture did their ancestors destroy, and how gentle and "sensitive" about it were they, when they invaded and occupied "their" 'sacred' Black Hills about 300 or so years ago?

[rabidralph]

FYI: The Native American museum has just opened today in DC.

[F16Fighter]

This is yet a another example of professional grandstanding "protesting" by Tree-Huggers and the Left...

Without the MSM -- whom they know will orgasmically report this crap -- these people would blow away like one more insignificant leaf.

[reagan_fanatic]

I've got a brother-in-law who is part Cherokee who constantly pisses and moans about lost Indian culture and the evils of the white man.

I just tell him this - if you hate white culture that much, then give up your computer, your automobile, your television and DVD player, tear off your clothes, put on a loin cloth and move into a damn teepee.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"I went as a peaceful emissary and asked in a kind way if they would leave," said Alex White Plume, a Lakota from Pine Ridge, S.D., who led the protest. "They should go home and rethink what they did to the native population."

How much money are you taking from the casinos, Alex?

Maybe you should go home and rethink how dependency on vice corrupts the native population.

You seem to be a prime example of that.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

PUlleeeze. And the PC crowd raises hell about celebrating southern heritage. But if it is Indian heritage, some of what we all know was not too damn glorious at times, that is a very profound thing.

Let the Native Americans remember their culture and history, but leave the hell alone those who honor aspects of our White forefathers.

If not, and they want to play that, "we are victims card." Then let us damn those peoples who met the Europeans that day on an Atlantic shore. The first words out of their mouth was, how, here, have a smoke.

By fostering the evil weed of tobacco upon and addicting us to a hell that has killed hundreds of millions around the world, and continues to do so yet today.

People who live in glass houses and et al.

[RightWhale]

From the strength of protests we might assume that the protestors are wrong in their premises. If they were correct, everyone would know and there would be no need to protest.