Posted on 08/15/2022 11:24:18 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
I don’t know much about re-enactments, but I know for a fact that any of these state run organizations such as the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission are the furthest Left of the Left.
These people are nearly all Leftist moonbat types, especially in NorthEast states such as New England and places like Pennsylvania.
These are the same types that inhabit the organizations that vet and approve school textbooks. They are the most rabid of that ilk.
This kind of thing is about as unexpected as the rising of the sun.
In general, if you have to deal with this crappola; encourage a bunch of Indians (from India, next door to Pakistan) to dress up as American Indians. What are they gonna do, then?
Oh, a while back over 300 Indian tribes were polled (some guy working on a doctorate went to all of them) on whether or not it was OK with THEM to be called “Indians”. Except for the parasites calling themselves “native americans” or some such it was unanimous: “fine by us”. It’s like being called black or white, damn few are actually that color. But, as a label it gets the job done.
“You don’t anything about re-enactments do you, and what goes into them?”
Possibly not as much as you do. But I do know that history continues to lie about what happened in many stories for the best agenda of the time. And this is one of them.
It’s kind of like a crime of someone smashing your windshield. Allowing the evidence brought into the court by the perp along with enough friends to lie about his being with them at the time is not going to tell the truth. Nor is it going to represent history to teach our children facts instead of false evidence for a profit. You want your kids to think a bunch of smelly American indians killed British soldiers for no reason?
Joshua Reynolds
Sir Jeffrey Amherst commanded British troops in North America.
Initially, the British assured the Indians that they would receive fair treatment and many gifts as they had received from the French. But by 1761, General Jeffrey Amherst, commander of all British forces in North America, instituted policy changes from his New York headquarters that nullified these earlier promises. He ordered his post commanders to halt the practice of gift giving, no longer willing to bribe the Indians for their loyalty. But the Indians saw it as a time-honored custom to codify treaties and affirm alliances. Amherst also prohibited the sale of rum to the Indians and transferred the sale of arms and ammunition to unscrupulous civilian traders. Additionally, the British continued to maintain fortifications on Indian lands and failed to stem the tide of settlers pouring over the Alleghenies, both in violation of the 1758 Treaty of Easton. The Indians repudiated the army’s continued presence and complained of abuse and deceit. The British countered that the forts existed to protect everyone. By early 1763 Captain Simeon Ecuyer, commander at Fort Pitt, reported that the Indians believed “the English had an Intention to make War” against them “by their keeping Ammunition from them and settling so many Forts in their Country.’” The smoldering embers of discontent flared into open conflagration and a charismatic leader emerged to wage war against the British.
As for my knowledge of the creation and participation in re-enactments, I participated in a number of them during my years working in and with the military for around 35 years. I have been to the Cody Museum which has the finest display of the plains indians to include enactments I have ever seen. I have been to Little Big horn a number of times to include the 144th anniversary in 2020 where they tell the truth of what happened. I was highly impressed with the Crazy Horse Museum especially the beading of warriors and animals. And the Bill Hickok Museum in Cody, Wyoming along with information from facilities in Deadwood to hear about his life and death was very telling.
There are others. I may not be the most knowledgeable person out there, but I have seen too much of how people are treated and lied about for that treatment. Oh, I also was allowed to get up fairly close to the old building at Fort Robinson where Oglala Sioux Chief Crazy Horse was murdered. When he and his small followers surrendered to Red Cloud Indian Agency in Nebraska, he was promised not to be separated from his tribe nor jail celled. When he tried to fight back against his being put in confinement, he was bayoneted in the back by a member of the escorting team. At that time, no indians were allowed to be an overseer of Crazy Horse, so it had to be either he was killed by Private William Gentles or he accidentally stuck himself in the back. A lot of questions. Some witnesses say Gentles missed during the struggle and his weapon was stuck in a door.
Time is the great healer or killer of fact. And fact is illusive when it is no longer advantages. Get the facts right the first time and lies won’t have to be repeated differently.
wy69
“Ban all war movies for showing nazis as bad guys”
I find it hard to compare the actions of four American indians tribes after being mistreated by the British and locals on indian land when the Europeans arrived and killed their food and taking over their natural resources after the tribes asked them to stop to acts by Nazi’s like Operation Reinhard (1942–1943) which was the largest single murder campaign of the Holocaust, during which some 1.7 million Jews from German-occupied Poland, alone were murdered. Stretching it a bit aren’t you?
wy69
The British soldier reenactors are whites only, right?
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