Posted on 08/10/2009 11:40:34 AM PDT by yoe
Has Spain apologized to Mexico yet?
“So what does that have to do with what your white ancestors did???”
My white ancestors didn’t do a damn thing (though a couple of them did kill some Yankees during the unpleasantness of 1861-65). Before that, all my ancestors (on my father’s side) were in Germany. On my mother’s side, they never left England (and my mother didn’t leave England for the US until after WWII). Not one of my ancestors ever fought an Indian, and in all probability never even saw one.
Actually, the tribes that sided with the French in the French & Indian War, with the British in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and with the South during the Civil War were choosing between invaders, and consistently choosing the invaders who lost each of these conflicts. Once you do that, you’re no longer defending your land, but playing power games within the given framework of living with your invaders. It’s a dangerous game. Play with matches and you might get burned.
The Natives that died from conquest and diseases from the Spanish is estimated at 70,000,000. (it is in one of my books but can’t find it right now)
No. They’ll only apologize to Todd Palin’s descendants after they kill him.
Then I guess this has nothing to do with you. Move along, you are not involved here.
It’s ironic that Brownback from Kansas should support such a resolution, as white settlers in Kansas were all the time getting set upon and butchered by Indians. Kansas was known as Red Kansas because of the Indian depradations (it was also known as Bloody Kansas because of the internecine fighting during the Civil War). Kansas saw its share of gore.
I want an apology from the Europeans for driving the Neanderthals to extinction....
No race is immune to a stain of blood, every race has it’s share of blood. The real lesson is not to look back and obsess about what has happened, the only right thing to do is to try to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
I understand. My ancestory goes to the Rosebud Sioux, which is very poor. The Miwoks, in my area, are not an approved Tribe, therefore don’t get the same rights concerning casinos. The casino’s in the area do not pay federal taxes but the money must go to the tribe that runs the casino.
Have you contacted the BIA concerning Federal pay?
When I want you to “apologize” on my behalf, I’ll let you know. I suggest you on the left apologize TO the American people, not FOR them!!!
“Move along, you are not involved here.”
Who appointed you as the arbiter of who can and cannot participate on any given thread?
Where is the apology from the Native Peoples for introducing tobacco to the world?
Where are the tobacco reparations?
Although I am Indian, my motto is, pick yourself up by the bootstraps and go on with life, trying to make a better world for yourself and your family (and tribe also). It’s not easy as I have emotional problems of past history but try my best to study it and move on. I’m making progress as I am a conservative. LOL that proves something.
It is well past time for American settlers to stop all settlment activity in the occupied territories and withdraw to the pre-1619 borders.
It’s official: The current crop of elected officials area “sorry” lot.
Now that you mention it, shouldn’t all those plaintiffs be revving up their lawyers? Apology? Nuts!
I saw on the History Channel that venereal disease was brought to Europe from the New World. A morbid tit for tat.
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