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just curious....
how do you feel about hitler & the jews?
How often do you see these people ing and moaning about us Americans taking their land from them through War? Upon defeat We even gave them reserves and let them open casinos. However to give them an "excuse" they were still living in basically the stone age, and didn't have something close to modern era weapons. even the afghanis are putting up more of a fight and the technology gap is about the same if not worse.
Couple side notes:
Did they even know what Horticulture was until it was shown to them?
Ill give them this much did know what fire was.
just curious....
how do you feel about hitler & the jews?
Wow glad I am not near you I would be punching you in the face.
who?
me or the OP?
And this has anything to do with the native americans ing and moaning how?
Dont punch me in the face punch Peter Minuit who purchased Manhattan Island for $1,000 usd (today value)
Yes
And the Native Americans pretty much curbstomped the Spanish in TX for a good 200 years before the Americans ganked them. Pale face had to extinct the buffalo to beat the Native Americans. Puss move imo.
i think there is a double standard on how the govt treats native ppl and the immigrant who came and settle on the land and worked earn a living for themselves and contributed to society...
its only a minority that decides to get the out of the bushes and make a name for themselves for society, but too bad theres the majority that gives themselves a bad name by sitting in the bushes continue to get free handouts from the govt, while ur local citizen gets pushed around by the govt when you want too apply for handouts.
this is a load of horse , so are you telling me how many more generations does the hard working contributing taxpayers or person have to continue to pay for these freeloading ? Theres ppl who come to new country with nothing like refugees and who end up becoming successful out of nothing, why cant native ppl do the same? Im mainly pissed about the bums sitting in the bushes, not the bums who dont need welfare but decide to live off the land they inherited
Most Natives were murdered by invading pathogens, with many millions dead within just a few decades of the first European arrivals.
Others were enslaved and indoctrinated, both in the name of Christianity and a mass land grab.
By the time "cowboys and Indians" were having their battles, the war had been long lost.
Yes the government gave them land, found valueable resources on it and moved them to crappier land, found more minerals on it and moved them again. Lands that couldn't sustain their way of life prior to being expelled, such as hunting or agriculture.
Afghanis had access to weapons, funding, training, and intelligence from other countries along with terrain favoring their fighting style, not long flat plains where there is no hiding. By the same token, the US should be able to control Iraq/Afghanistan since we are so much more advanced. It's not that the allies can't beat them in a battle, it's being able to identify an insurgent from a civilian and finding the insurgents.
Indians didn't have that ability to blend in with their surroundings or being able to hid in mountains and caves.
I don't think you have any idea on how the treaties and reserves worked. They weren't favourable to the natives at all
Exposing the GOP's Shameful Historical Role in the Native American Genocide
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/148478
...business as usual.
The USA. The good guys throughout history.
Spurs fans continue to make the case for dumbest fans on the planet.
Don't worry, Laker/Yankee/Cowboys fans like yourself have got that category all locked up.
Other facts:
* The Indians tried to get the rest of the world hooked on tobacco.
* Hunted the Woolly Mammoths, Mastodons, and Saber Toothed Tiger into extinction.
* Set up oppressive military empires like the Aztecs, Olmecs, Mayans, and Incas.
* practiced cannibalism.
* scalped people, including women and children.
* practiced deviant sexual practices like sex and mariage with underage women.
* rejected the scientific principles of Galileo.
* rejected modern technology.
* rejected the wisdom of the ancient Greeks and Renaissance.
* rejected civilization.
* worshiped fake "Gods" that do not exist.
* failed to recognize freedom of religion and mixed church and state.
* never set up a Cons utional and democratic republic like the US Cons ution.
* more
what's really amazing is that the aztecs hunted wooly mammoths in mesoamerica and studied greek philosophy !!!
Someone help refresh my memory, who were those wise ancient Greeks worshiping again?
LOL...
Besides, who's to say any of those Gods didn't exist? In our Bible, the Chaldean word for God was plural. Not singular.
No doubt we totally ed the "native Americans". We actually ed em twice. Instead of assimilating them into our society we allowed/promoted the reservation system to assuage our collective guilt. That was big governments first dabbling into the Nanny State. Now they are multiple generations into it and are hooked on the government crack. They lost their land, their culture, and now their souls. BTW, some of the southern tribes including New Mexico are exceptions, probably because of the hundreds of years of Spanish missionary influence and assimilation prior. Some of the northern reservations (My personal experience was Sioux in Montana) are just disgusting ghettos in the country even though the government spends millions trying to maintain them. You would see nice homes (maybe $150,000 homes here?) the government built for them to live in for free and garbage would be piled up to the window sills around them because they were too lazy to take their trash to the street to be picked up.
None of us ed Native Americans because we didn't steal their land. White people that lived back in the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s stole land from the Native Americans. I wasn't alive back then and I have never stolen land from anyone. This is just as annoying when black people want to be paid because their ancestors were slaves. I'm sure that if every person in the world looked at their geneaology, they would probably find that they had a relative that was a slave. Does that mean they should be paid because of that? no.
I agree with you, but knowing several native Americans, I have never heard any of them complain about reparations like black people sometime do. I think this is similar to the mascot thing. You get one native American complain about an Indian being used as a team or logo. The PC crowd goes nuts. Funny thing is, many if not most, feel honored by it.
I had a relative that owned slaves...does that count? I also had a great great grandmother on the other side that was full Cherokee.
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