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Here’s What “Indigenous Peoples” Did to People They Didn’t Like… It’s Graphic
Conservative Tribune ^ | October 9, 2017 | Ben Marquis

Posted on 10/12/2017 2:58:32 PM PDT by plain talk

The indigenous peoples who populated the New World prior to the arrival of Europeans were arguably even worse than the hated white men who eventually conquered them, in terms of civility and wanton violence toward their enemies.

Indeed, far from things like slavery and genocide being introduced to the continent by Columbus and his successors, such acts of atrocity were already occurring widely among the various warring tribes of natives, who routinely enslaved, tortured, ritualistically slaughtered and even feasted upon their defeated enemies.

That’s right — many indigenous peoples practiced cannibalism upon those they had conquered and oppressed. Is that really what leftists want to celebrate? Don’t answer that.

“Long before the white European knew a North American continent existed, Indians of the Northern Plains were massacring entire villages,” explained George Franklin Feldman, author of the book “Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America: A History Forgotten.”

“And not just killed, but mutilated,” Feldman added. “Hands and feet were cut off, each body’s head was scalped, the remains were left scattered around the village, which was burned.”

Tony Seybert, author of “Slavery and Native Americans in British North America and the United States: 1600 to 1865,” noted that the practice of slavery was already well-established in America prior to its discovery and subsequent settlement by the Europeans.

According to the eyewitness testimony of a Jesuit missionary named Father Barthelemy Vimont, who observed the Iroquois peoples in 1642, captives of the tribe had their fingers or hands cut off, were skinned alive and tortured for hours on end, then were scalped and mutilated in front of everyone.

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To: JBW1949

Just a couple of posts back, you were hoping that the Indians would have eaten me.

I never wanted any cannibals to put you on the menu.

You probably deserve an ass chewing, but that’s just a figure of speech.

No, you have insulted me beyond reproach.

There is only one way to settle this.

I’ll meet you on Main Street at high noon.

I’ll be packing iron.

So bring any wrinkled shirts you have.

If you kill me, then bury me with my boots on.

My socks will stink up the place if you take my boots off.


61 posted on 10/12/2017 5:18:36 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Smedley

Anyone who adopts Western philosophy tends towards the decent.


62 posted on 10/12/2017 5:20:05 PM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: plain talk

Lucky they were Cherokee and not Comanche or Kiowa.


63 posted on 10/12/2017 5:34:13 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: RC one

They killed my great great grandparents and burned their house. The neighbors saw the fire and found the girls hiding in the burning house.


64 posted on 10/12/2017 5:42:57 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: x

The US tolerance of abortion is every bit as disgraceful as what the Indiginous people were doing. BUT I am sick and tired of the Indians being treated as sacrosanct.


65 posted on 10/12/2017 5:45:25 PM PDT by ruthles (.)
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To: x
They are frozen in time while we keep evolving?

The evolution of American indians is over. It stopped when they were relegated to reservations. They don't do the nasty stuff any more, because Americans put a stop to it.

But that's not the point here. The point is that you were trying to make an equivalence between behavior of Europeans versus American indians, that they were the same because both groups were just people. My point is that this may be true, but that the cultures of the two were quite different and that the European culture had mostly evolved past a lot of the barbarity that you pointed out by the time they settled the Americas. Certainly the American culture had evolved past that point, as a whole, by the time most of the Indian Wars occurred.

One last thing - yes the indians were frozen in time before the Europeans arrived. They hadn't even invented the freaking wheel, and there was no reason to believe they ever would.
66 posted on 10/12/2017 5:50:04 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak

The inquisition existed in Spain (most known), France, German and the low countries. The inquisition was a Christian institution. The English punishment for treason was to be hung for 5 or so minutes, cut down, then the genitals were cut off and the belly slit open, genitals and entrails burned while the person was still alive. The individuals head was cut off, and displayed on the Tower gate and the body cut into 4 quarters and disposed of at the pleasure of the King. If I remember correctly the English considered themselves Christians. The Native Americans were no more mindless savages than the Europeans were ruthless barbarians. As I said, just people. Capable of great cruelty at times and also capable of great kindness at times


67 posted on 10/12/2017 6:10:53 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: plain talk

bookmarked


68 posted on 10/12/2017 6:19:23 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: plain talk

One of the ancestors in my tree was scalped by indigenous savages and left for dead sometime in the 1600s in Massachusetts. She crawled up into a hollowed oak and hid until two other savages happened by and found her. According to her account, there was some squabbling between the two, and she surmised the older one wanted to kill her but the younger one wanted to help her, and he won out. They took her back to their settlement and nursed her back to health. So, not all savages were bad guys, I guess.


69 posted on 10/12/2017 6:26:21 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: plain talk; Trillion
The descendants of Ghengis Khan acting like Ghengis Khan... who'd a thunk it.
70 posted on 10/12/2017 6:29:11 PM PDT by Conservative4Life (I'm not too worried, I've read the book and know how it all ends...We win)
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To: plain talk

When you have snowflakes who were taught no history on purpose by liberal progressive propagandists


71 posted on 10/12/2017 6:34:51 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Bull Snipe

And none of that disputes what I posted. Europeans were quite brutal in their day, and became less so over time, largely due to the influence of Christianity. By the time the USA came into being, the (American and European) culture had evolved to where drawing-and-quartering type punishments were not commonplace anymore, nor any of the other brutal things that Europeans used to do. While at the same time, INDIANS WERE STILL DOING THINGS LIKE THIS. That is the point. Modern leftists like to portray American Indians as peaceful noble people when they were often far more savage than the Americans ever were, or the Europeans had been for centuries.


72 posted on 10/12/2017 7:08:17 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: plain talk

“According to the eyewitness testimony of a Jesuit missionary named Father Barthelemy Vimont, who observed the Iroquois peoples in 1642,”

The movie Black Robe is based on his memoir.


73 posted on 10/12/2017 7:13:13 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: plain talk

I remember seeing some of the vases of the Aztec people, and some of the writings of the Mayans. Capture, enslavement, torture, castration, human sacrifice, and murder. I said, “Wow, I thought it was all Disney songs and dancing with wolves till the white man came,” and all the little Lefties gave me dirty looks and didn’t say anything (what could they say?)


74 posted on 10/12/2017 7:41:16 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: plain talk

The noble and peaceful Indian (Native American) is a myth. Many tribes were a bloody, tourturued and viciously wearing group. Silly history can’t be truthful.


75 posted on 10/12/2017 7:43:53 PM PDT by wgmalabama
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To: RC one

American natives were more advanced than cavemen. But they hadn’t even invented the wheel yet.


76 posted on 10/12/2017 7:49:27 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: cld51860

The saddest scene in that movie is when the sensitive guy who is constantly made fun of by his own tribe is shown to be ignorant of how you make babies, because everyone conspired to tell him the wrong thing. Everyone is laughing their head off, and the last shot of the scene is of . . .

. . . the chief also laughing.

An entire tribe of cads and bullies but worst of all: no justice.

It gets worse.

But then better, at the end. Guess who arrives.


77 posted on 10/12/2017 7:57:44 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Actually they had,...for toys.

According to Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel”, (an excellent read!) ancient Native Mexicans invented wheeled vehicles with axles for use as toys, but not for transport. (Archeologist have found them.)

This is because they lacked domestic animals and the need was never there.

Came across a rather un-p.c. website that said they didn’t need pack animals, they had women! LOL!


78 posted on 10/12/2017 8:58:44 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: fr_freak
My point is that this may be true, but that the cultures of the two were quite different and that the European culture had mostly evolved past a lot of the barbarity that you pointed out by the time they settled the Americas.

You originally said, "by the time the USA came into existence." That was centuries after Europeans settled the Americas. Read about the conquistadors, pretty brutal guys.

One last thing - yes the indians were frozen in time before the Europeans arrived. They hadn't even invented the freaking wheel, and there was no reason to believe they ever would.

You were talking about moral evolution, now you're talking about technological evolution. There were a variety of cultures in the Americas. They weren't all one identical thing.

Some of those cultures were higher on a moral scale than others. That means some kind of moral evolution had happened. Or at least some kind of development or differentiation.

No, the Indians weren't saints or moral paragons, but when you look at what horrors the rest of the world was capable of doing in the 20th century, I wouldn't lightly dismiss them as barbarians.

79 posted on 10/12/2017 10:03:52 PM PDT by x
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To: x
Sure, the 20th century had some nastiness, but it was the exception, not the rule. We look down on the Nazis because they did some fairly heinous things that were already unacceptable, even in war, by the 20th century. As for the rest of the stuff done in the various wars. War is war. I don't pass judgement on what anyone does to survive in those circumstances. What they do when survival isn't on the line, for example, with POWs, is another story. So, indians scalping guys in battle doesn't faze me. Indians slaughtering and enslaving non-threatening neighbors, red or white, and torturing them for fun does faze me.

I used the example of wheelless indians to show their lack of change and progress towards anything different. It has nothing to do with their moral values, per se, but it shows their cultural stagnation. If Europeans had never come, I have no doubt indians would still be doing the same stuff they were doing 700 years ago.
80 posted on 10/13/2017 12:27:45 AM PDT by fr_freak
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