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To: Lester Moore
No Europeans ever moved into an area that was not already the Country of an indigenous population.

That's ignorant too. The Pilgrims settled where they did because a year or two before an epidemic had completely wiped out the tribe that had lived there...except for this guy named Squanto. The land was empty and uninhabited.

Early English settlers treated indian tribal leaders as nobles...ones they might fight with, as they would in Europe, but as nobles. Pocahontas went back to England as a lady and the wife of John Rolf...not as some sub-human.

103 posted on 11/24/2005 6:24:43 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

The local tribes near where the Pilgrims settled had suffered from several plagues just before the Pilgrams landed. However, Squanto was not of their tribe. He was simply an employee of the land sales and settlement company Captain John Smith was running in England.


117 posted on 11/24/2005 6:35:03 PM PST by muawiyah (u)
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To: lepton
That's ignorant too. The Pilgrims settled where they did because a year or two before an epidemic had completely wiped out the tribe that had lived there...except for this guy named Squanto. The land was empty and uninhabited.

I think you better reread about ol' Squanto.

175 posted on 11/24/2005 7:25:58 PM PST by Lester Moore (The headwaters of the islamic river of death and hate are in Saudi Arabia.)
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