Posted on 07/08/2015 3:50:43 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
I guess you never took an aspirin. (The willow bark tea the natives used for a painkiller and to reduce fever contained that). Aloe Vera is another native remedy, and there are a host of other herbs which have contributed to modern medicine. Purple coneflower (AKA Echinacea) is pretty common as an immune ystem booster (Yup, native medicine).
I think the contributions are a wee bit thicker than you know.
That and the Natives were still technologically in the Neolithic age. The didn’t work metal, weapons and tools were still knapped from stone. Other than dogs, no domesticated animals that I know of. There was no way that they were going to fend off the influx of Europeans.
It wasn't so much out breeding, it was out-immigrating. The Yankees replaced some of their losses during the War Between the States much the same way (while the Southern ports were blockaded).
Nope. My family didn’t arrive till well after all the Indian wars and stuff were over. We didn’t have any part in it, so why should I feel guilty?
It’s stupid to hold grudges for hundreds or even thousands of years. Stuff happens. Deal with it. Get over it, and move forward.
Uhhhh. Yep, they did. They didn't work Iron, but they sure did work metal.
How prehistoric Native Americans of Cahokia made copper artifacts
Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America
etc.
Considering the Native Americans (depending on their tribe) were far from squeamish about practicing torture, rape, and slavery, no.
I knew a preacher who claimed the Indians never “practiced war” among themselves. He said when they had disputes they would have games and if one “touched the other” on top of the head it was considered victory.
Every time I say I can’t be surprised again by liberal idiocy someone comes along and makes me a liar.
My ancestors bought the land grant (1641, MD) from the two local tribes of Nanticoke and Powhatan who were fighting over it. That’s right, both tribes. Not guilty.
ping
That is on my list to read.
I think the Reverend was a mite mixed up about 'counting coup'. This was considered exceptionally brave to whack an enemy over the head with a 'coup stick' instead of killing him, and doing such earned eagle feathers as a symbol of bravery, but so did killing your enemy. The way the feather was painted or cut, depending on tribe, indicated the deed that earned it.
The meaning of head dress feathers
The meaning of different birds' feathers.
A group of Metis were attacked by Sioux while in camp. The Metis used Red River Carts and hunted for the Fur companies (Northwest Fur and Hudson's Bay Company). As such, they were crack shots, and handed the Sioux their arses during several separate attacks on the camp. When that little dust-up was over, the Sioux never again attacked the Metis.
The Chippewa (Ojibway), displaced by the Eastern tribes moving west, in turn displaced the Sioux from the lake country of Northern Minnesota and most of the pothole country (glacial moraine) of Northern and Northeast North Dakota. While that did not cause so much of a scrap, the Sioux later got horses and became the prairie warriors they were because of that displacement.
>> Should we be ashamed of the way our ancestors treated them?
If the Left can disregard the Constitution, then we can certainly disregard its perception of history.
Thanks. Limited metal work would have been more accurate.
You obviously didn’t watch the video before you shot your mouth off, because they made that point.
You obviously didn’t watch the video either before you shot your mouth off.
And You obviously didn’t watch the video before you shot your mouth off.
Point was made in the video that you obviously didn’t watch.
And now the mescins and muslimes are out-breeding and out-immigrating whites. California is already lost.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.