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Navajo Nation leaders call Trump out for ‘careless’ Pocahontas comment
Daily news ^ | 11/29/2017 | Daily news

Posted on 11/30/2017 10:21:12 AM PST by mikelets456

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To: mikelets456

This won’t hurt Trump. Snowflakes already hated him, and everyone else will just shake their head at PC run amuck.


21 posted on 11/30/2017 10:31:17 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fido969

That A-hole sheds another fake tear? Most tribal Indians are the least concerned of anyone about the environment and wildlife - except in how much money they can get from them to by liquor and drugs.


22 posted on 11/30/2017 10:31:28 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Navajo Nation leaders call Trump out for ‘careless’ Pocahontas comment

Too many chiefs.

23 posted on 11/30/2017 10:32:58 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: mikelets456

Liawatha’s Cultural Appropriation is rascist, self serving, etc, etc etc...

She is a loud mouth, who speaks in boring Pedantic as well...


24 posted on 11/30/2017 10:33:06 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: rjsimmon

Treaty tribal members (those in the upper ruling families and not consumed by liquor and drugs) are all Democrats and very political, seeking always the advantage over naive city dwellers all to ready to believe they are somehow special as in Special Masters with more rights than any one else.


25 posted on 11/30/2017 10:34:22 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: mikelets456
Let's see...

The actual guy being honored wasn't offended, but now the "leaders" are?

Got it.

-PJ

26 posted on 11/30/2017 10:35:56 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
The Navajo indians were fierce enemies of the Powhatans.

Could you go more in depth on that since they were on near-opposite ends of the continent? Was this after the "Trail of Tears"?

27 posted on 11/30/2017 10:36:23 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: mikelets456

idiots, protecting a fake Indian. Then what did a Navajo bave to do with Pocahontas anyway?


28 posted on 11/30/2017 10:36:31 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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To: nikos1121

Why would you say this?


29 posted on 11/30/2017 10:36:57 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: mikelets456

Where is the OUTRAGE concerning the FAUX INDIAN?


30 posted on 11/30/2017 10:40:38 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12")
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To: PIF

Could be that they are always looking to increase their share from the Bureau of Indian Affairs???


31 posted on 11/30/2017 10:40:51 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: mikelets456

Look at Arizona’s electoral map. The najavo nation is always a blue stain.


32 posted on 11/30/2017 10:41:03 AM PST by pfflier
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To: mikelets456

These grifters just want more free stuff from the government, the perfect example of the pernicious effects of welfare on a population.


33 posted on 11/30/2017 10:42:47 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: mikelets456

Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, paramount chief of Tsenacommacah, an alliance of about thirty Algonquian-speaking groups and petty chiefdoms in Tidewater, Virginia.

Anybody see Navajo in there any where?


34 posted on 11/30/2017 10:43:00 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: mikelets456

She’s a delegate among many and hardly speaks for everybody. The title by the corrupt and biased media is misleading.


36 posted on 11/30/2017 10:50:10 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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Per Wiki:

In July 2015, the Pamunkey Indian Tribe, descendants of the Powhatan chiefdom, of which Pocahontas was a member, became the first federally recognized tribe in the state of Virginia.

Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief[2] of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia. In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of a captive of the Native Americans, the Englishman John Smith, in 1607 by placing her head upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him. Some historians have suggested that this story, as told by Smith, is untrue.[5]

Pocahontas was captured and held for ransom by the English during Anglo-Indian hostilities in 1613. During her captivity, she converted to Christianity and took the name Rebecca. When the opportunity arose for her to return to her people, she chose to remain with the English. In April 1614, at the age of 17, she married tobacco planter John Rolfe, and in January 1615, bore their son, Thomas Rolfe.[1]

In 1616, the Rolfes traveled to London. Pocahontas was presented to English society as an example of the “civilized savage” in hopes of stimulating investment in the Jamestown settlement. She became something of a celebrity, was elegantly fêted, and attended a masque at Whitehall Palace. In 1617, the Rolfes set sail for Virginia, but Pocahontas died at Gravesend of unknown causes, aged around 20-21. She was buried in St George’s Church, Gravesend in England, but the exact location of her grave is unknown, as the church has been rebuilt.[1]

Numerous places, landmarks, and products in the United States have been named after Pocahontas. Her story has been romanticized over the years, and she is a subject of art, literature, and film. Many famous people have claimed to be among her descendants through her son Thomas, including members of the First Families of Virginia, First Lady Edith Wilson, American Western actor Glenn Strange, Las Vegas performer Wayne Newton, and astronomer Percival Lowell.[6]
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She was not of their tribe....


37 posted on 11/30/2017 10:50:27 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Sacajaweau

It costs a lot to maintain our Indians and other disaffected minorities in poverty and misery.


38 posted on 11/30/2017 10:56:52 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: mikelets456

Couldn’t get past the first sentence before squatting and dropping the first lie.


39 posted on 11/30/2017 10:58:22 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: rjsimmon

In the early years of the distribution of tribes across the land, each nation was at war with each other. Boundaries were strictly observed where skirmishes were commonplace. Continuous warfare, however, made territory fungible. Whole nations were driven out of areas and forced to travel a “Trail of Tears” in search of uncontested land.
By the time settlers began arriving so called native nations had been decimated by disease, warfare, and slash and burn environmental disasters. As a result they posed little real treat to early European settlers.
It has only been in the 20 century with the support of Western culture that populations of early native people have rebounded and exceeded all earlier numbers. There are larger numbers of early native people on this continent today than ever existed.


40 posted on 11/30/2017 11:01:17 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (S)
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