This won't go over well in PCville...
Posted on 12/22/2010 1:49:27 PM PST by Fractal Trader
(CHICAGO ) - The Paiutes, a Native-American tribe indigenous to parts of Nevada, Utah and Arizona, told early white settlers about their ancestors' battles with a ferocious race of white, red-haired giants. According to the Paiutes, the giants were already living in the area.
Roaming, man-eating giants
The Paiutes named the giants Si-Te-Cah that literally means “tule-eaters.” The tule is a fibrous water plant the giants wove into rafts to escape the Paiutes continuous attacks.
They used the rafts to navigate across what remained of Lake Lahontan.
Giants roamed the Earth
According to the Paiutes, the red-haired giants stood as tall as 12-feet and were a vicious, unapproachable people that killed and ate captured Paiutes as food.
The legend
The Paiutes told the early settlers that after many years of warfare, all the tribes in the area finally joined together to rid themselves of the giants.
One day as they chased down the few remaining red-haired enemy, the fleeing giants took refuge in a cave. The tribal warriors demanded their enemy come out and fight, but the giants steadfastly refused to leave their sanctuary.
Frustrated at not defeating their enemy with honor, the tribal chiefs had warriors fill the entrance to the cavern with brush and then set it on fire in a bid to force the giants out of the cave.
The few that did emerge were instantly slain with volleys of arrows. The giants that remained inside the cavern were asphyxiated.
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Hundreds of years later archaeologists explored the cavern near Lovelock, Nevada--the cave the Indians had described.
What the scientific researchers found was staggering: over 10,000 artifacts were unearthed including the mummified remains of two red-haired giants—one, a female 6.5-feet tall, the other male, over 8-feet tall.
(Excerpt) Read more at salem-news.com ...
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Big deal. Her female descendant is in the WH.
Where are their fossils?
Phooey!
Would we consider a 6:5 woman a “giant” ???
This won't go over well in PCville...
Okay.... before I click the link, I going to say..... PSYCH!
Big Foot? Sasquatch?
I feel a plea for reparations coming.
12 feet tall is impressive, but
“8-feet tall” not really.
6’11” is considered perfectly normal today - that’s only 13% less than 8ft.
We tend to take height in a very personal way.
Another 200 years of good nutrition & we’ll probably be considering nearly 8’ tall to be normal... again.
They’re going to have to revise the text books. Aren’t the schools currently teaching that the white man took the land from the Indians?
“I feel a plea for reparations coming.”
Nope. Just like the indigenous people of Tasmania, there’s none left to collect.
And besides, the Indians today did not do this. Why should they pay for what their great great great grandfathers did? NO reason at all.
The Bible says the children shall not be held accountable for the sins of the parents.
Well, if they have red hair they probably have Neandethal/Scots genes.
Patagonians? Red hair??
Sounds like Sam the titanthrope’s descendants from Riverworld.
They were living on crannogs on the lake
So, cannibalism is another practice that the “indigenous peoples”engaged in, and therefore somehow less “European” and more “organic?”. Can reparations and equal protection under the law for this “alternative lifestyle” be far away?
Am I the first to call Bravo Sierra???
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