Posted on 11/13/2007 2:09:16 PM PST by Patriot62
Seattle Public Schools has distributed a letter to their teaching staff instructing them to be sensitive to the fact that for many Indian people, “Thanksgiving” is a time of mourning.
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My family is heavily peppered with Cherokee (Eastern Band)relatives,though, not enough for my generation to meet roll requirements. Anyway, I used to work at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park visitor center which borders the reservation. We had, at least twice a week, some tourist come up and ask what time they let the Indians out,and Could the Indians go off the reservation. My favorite was, "Are they dangerous"? My jaw would hurt at the end of the shift from smiling and not decrying the fact that these idiots should never have left their home.
My two favorite park questions were,"If I go up the mountain do I have to come down it to get back home?" and "What TIME do the leaves change colors we don't want to miss it?"
Only if your the Turkey.
I have speculated that if someone publishes an article on the health benefits of dog doo, it will appear at least once on their table.
When the girls were little, and we were traveling home after Christmas Eve with the inlaws, our route took us past a McDonalds (which was closed). "Pleeeeease can't we stop?", they'd cry, " We're sooo hungry?"
Now we make sure they're well fed BEFORE we go to grandma's house.
“My family is heavily peppered with Cherokee (Eastern Band)relatives,though, not enough for my generation to meet roll requirements. Anyway, I used to work at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park visitor center which borders the reservation. We had, at least twice a week, some tourist come up and ask what time they let the Indians out,and Could the Indians go off the reservation. My favorite was, “Are they dangerous”? My jaw would hurt at the end of the shift from smiling and not decrying the fact that these idiots should never have left their home.
My two favorite park questions were,”If I go up the mountain do I have to come down it to get back home?” and “What TIME do the leaves change colors we don’t want to miss it?””
Oh my....
Their casinos will be filled with white devils.
They didn’t “mourn” till the Left told them to.
If I remember correctly, it was a band of Washington Indians who were trying to figure out whether or not to ambush and murder Lewis & Clark when they discovered that the chief’s sister, Sakawajia, was traveling with them. She had been kidnapped as a child by other Indians.
Instead of slaughtering L&W, the Indians made friends with the expedition that facilitated the reunion.
You’re kidding!?!
Hey! For once it’s not California!
WAIT till I tell my full-blown Cherokee friend this one.....she’ll be laughing her head off....
Reparations, anyone?
R_Kangel: Well, of course you’re right...BUT... in a country where three innocent students could be lynched by the Duke faculty and Nifong simply for being White, and where the University of Delaware requires a “racism reeducation program” for all White freshman, and where a Florida elementary school teacher required students to honor Consiencious Objectors on Veterans Day, why would you expect Thanksgiving to escape the radical leftist mindset?
Never forget... Liberalism is a parasite that requires VICTIMS to feed on... trees, illegal immigrants, or in this case.. Native Americans.
Anyone who really wishes to know about the Plymouth colony and their relationship with the native tribes of New England ought to understand how the conflict began after some several generations of them getting along just fine: King Philip's War.
The short story is that the emerging leader named 'Metacom' (or, 'King Philip' to the European settlers) of a formerly friendly tribe called the Wampanoag possibly had his older brother murdered so that he could assume the role of Grand Sachem. Metacom's father was Massasoit, a long time ally of the Plymouth settlers who used their trading contacts with the Pilgrims against the Pequot, Narragansett, and Mohegan -- but that all changed once the greedy and villainous Metacom took control after his father's death.
Metacom planned raids against the widely dispersed settlers and even murdered an informant who brought word of Metacom's plans to the Plymouth colony. They attacked and massacred over a dozen smaller colonies until the pilgrims managed to get the upper hand by enlisting the Wampanoag's enemies against them in an alliance. The long bloody war was finally ended when Metacom was tracked down and killed by a combined force of Indians and settlers. Most Indians thought 'good riddance' to Metacom's blood-thirst for war and resolved to let bygones be bygones.
The author over at 'Oyate.org' that you linked to presumes that all Indian tribes were as one in thought, morality, and unified by some political means -- just because they're "Native Americans". They weren't. The politics of Indian tribes on this continent were vast and intricately complicated long before white men ever stepped foot on this land. They weren't a simple childlike race of people. They demonstrated the same decency, treachery, honor, depravity, nobility, conspiracy, and morality just like every other human being on the face of the planet.
It's far too simplistic and an insult to history to separate the years of peace and conflict of that time by dividing the sides into European antagonists and Native American protagonists.
Mark
Well, of course you haven't.
Only stupid white liberal hippie women who wish they were Indians talk like that.
I keep telling them 'Go burn the American flag on an Indian reservation and see what happens to you', but they never take me up on it.
"What-chu talkin' `bout, Willis?" I am a "native American!" I was born in Yonkers, NY, which is in the United States of America. Or at least it was, the last time I checked. Yup, there it is on Google maps!
Mark
Me too, B and touche’
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