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Posted on 11/21/2012 5:24:18 AM PST by Renfield
Everybody knows that Europeans took a lot of land from Native Americans, but this animated GIF by Tumblr user sunisup gives a great sense of just how fast the people living in North America were pushed west after Christopher Columbus "discovered" the continent.
She turned an old graphic by Louisiana State professor Sam B. Hillard into a mini-movie that viscerally demonstrates the gradual chopping away of Native American land through cessions, or a surrender of territory to another entity. The green represents Native American land, and any part that turns white was ceded. She writes: "Made because I was having trouble visualizing the sheer scale of the land loss, and reading numbers like 'blah blah million acres' wasn’t really doing it for me." Numbers wise, the amount of green land shown after 1895 is about 2.3 percent of the original size.
Hillard got his information from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of American Ethnology. The history of Native Americans is complicated, so the graphic only documents land that was ceded. Any land that was ceded but then later turned into a reservation may shop up again later in the time lapse. Whatever the in-between negotiations, it's clear the land disappeared quickly. The difference between 1784 and present day Indian reservations is striking.
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The coming of the white man was a net benefit to the white man and the indian living in North America.
P.S. Everyone born here is a native American. No one group has the right to arrogate such a title.
well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?
civilised is also a loaded word, do we mean a passed down culture or a city dwelling culture? Native epics etc? i mean, at what point do we say that for instance the English were civilised? Was it when they were Christianized? When the literacy levels went more than 50%?
The idea that Native americans have some special rights is ludicrous. They were nomads. Conquering territory wa the rule both for the world and the indians at the time.
Don't worry, we are all gonna end up on the US Reservation where we will need permission to do anything, healthcare, taxes, and rights will be gone. Joy.
Who gets to define civilization and savagely?
Who gets to define civilization and savagely?
Looks like a map of GOP cave-ins.
“well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?”
Injuns!
“well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?”
North Asian migrants
It sucks to be a Neolithic people facing the forces of the Enlightenment. Europeans acquired the lands of North America through the accepted real estate transfer process used by Indians; conquest.
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When a culture without a wheel meets a culture with a wheel, guess who gets rolled over. — Darwin Rules
Well, if you consider being dead a benefit over being alive, as is true of the millions that died of disease.
Of course, the disease deaths (which exceeded the actual killings of native Americans probably by a factor of 10) weren't deliberate, and they would have happened even if the Europeans had visited in small numbers to conduct multicultural diversity seminars and then left; of course there was no understanding at the time of how infectious disease was transmitted, either.
One word:
Rifle
Nuff said.
>>well, for classification, what term would you use to define a person who identifies with a pre-columbus ethnicity?
Aboriginal Americans?
Yes but it was the speed and sheer numbers of so many different conquerors that makes it so different.
Yes but it was the speed and sheer numbers of so many different conquerors that makes it so different.
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