To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
***I consider what was done to the Cherokee one of the vilest things. They had their own written language of sorts even before the Europeans,***
Anyone who actually believes that should repeat the 3rd grade.
To: Minus_The_Bear
***Anyone who actually believes that should repeat the 3rd grade.***
Check my post and you will see I was quoting someone else and answered about something else.
I know also of the Treaty of New Echota, the kidnapping of the delegates, the removal and the wave of murders that swept Oklahoma as Cherokee killed Cherokee in revenge over this.
To: Minus_The_Bear
***I consider what was done to the Cherokee one of the vilest things. They had their own written language of sorts even before the Europeans,*** Anyone who actually believes that should repeat the 3rd grade.
That was my comment, not his...and I mangled how I wrote it. I never intended to convey that they had a written language before the Europeans had written languages.
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11/24/2005 8:38:14 PM PST by
lepton
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