Posted on 10/12/2009 12:41:29 AM PDT by Chet 99
Well, perhaps because it marks the beginning of the end of the age of rule by savage stone age cultures engaged in continual warfare and genocide against each other.
Power. NAI are pissed because they can’t commit THEIR atrocities anymore and don’t control the land. Just pure jealousy.
Cannibalism, torture, human sacrifice, warfare....were a part of “indigenous American” peoples life before Columbus.
When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which included what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Texas, not yet part of the Union, was threatened by a more powerful Mexico. And the territories north and west of Texas -- what would become California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and part of Colorado -- belonged to Mexico. When Polk relinquished office four years later, the country had grown by more than a third as all these lands were added. The continental United States, as we know it today, was established -- facing two oceans and positioned to dominate both.
In a one-term presidency, Polk completed the story of America's Manifest Destiny -- extending its territory across the continent, from sea to sea, by threatening England and manufacturing a controversial and unpopular two-year war with Mexico that Abraham Lincoln, in Congress at the time, opposed as preemptive.
Robert Merry tells this story through powerful debates and towering figures -- the outgoing President John Tyler and Polk's great mentor, Andrew Jackson; his defeated Whig opponent, Henry Clay; two famous generals, Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott; Secretary of State James Buchanan (who would precede Lincoln as president); Senate giants Thomas Hart Benton and Lewis Cass; Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun; and ex-president Martin Van Buren, like Polk a Jackson protégé but now a Polk rival.
This was a time of tremendous clashing forces. A surging antislavery sentiment was at the center of the territorial fight. The struggle between a slave-owning South and an opposing North was leading inexorably to Civil War. In a gripping narrative, Robert Merry illuminates a crucial epoch in U.S. history.
The “Howard Zinn” version of American history. Pure Marxist propaganda.
Funny, I never see these hand-wringing liberals yielding up their own properties (that most of them inherited) to the Indians. I take it that any “native Americans” setting up a teepee in Margo Cohen Ristorucci’s backyard would immediately be arrested for trespassing.
A few days ago, I saw an episode of the Sopranos where some Native Americans protested an upcoming Columbus Day Parade. Tony’s thugs came along and “fixed the problem.”
Maybe that’s what’s needed here. These folks should get a visit from Tony’s boys. *smile*
Yeah, the culture was so advanced that the “wheel” was
unknown to them.
Where’s the holy land lease that gave the Indians exclusive rights to north America?
The Europeans acquired the land of the Americas under the real estate transfer rules in place at the time and those used by the Natives; conquest
Too bad she can't drive out the communist pussies from our universities as well.
Your first act of reparation would be to get on a boat and head back to your ancestral land.
The Native Americans had the Americas for perhaps 40,000 years and worked their way all the way up to the neolithic.
Europeans had the continents for 500 years and left footprints on the moon.
The Europeans acquired the land of the Americas under the real estate transfer rules in place at the time and those used by the Natives; conquest.
After my first pot of coffee I'm going to figure out how to use your words to the best effect today.
Well said sir.
When people ask me if there was ever a Democrat I would have voted for, I say Yes! The last one was James K. Polk. They say Who?
You forgot to mention that with the exception of the Aztecs and Incas the indigenous peoples had no idea how to cultivate land for agriculture or harness the natural resources that were staring them in their faces.
His writings and log entries on the journey to the New World speak of spreading the faith and living the Gospel of the Lord.
Unfortunately much of the education about Columbus has done him no favors.
Seems to me the American indian’s penchant for scalping their enemies was the forerunner of the islamic jihadists of today.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what the Aztecs did to anyone who got in their way, including whoever had been living in the area that the Spanish landed on in 1519?
Right, continue to slaughter your enemies, eat their hearts and other body parts, sell captives into slavery, be totally at the mercy of the climate. Indians never had opportunitys so good as today.
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