Dear Editor:
Reparations for the American Indian, this is an interesting thought.
The American Indian, or "Native American" were a stone age people when discovered by the Europeans. They had not domesticated animals, they had no written language and they had not even invented the wheel.
However, their lack of technology did not prevent them warring among themselves, practicing genocide (Iroquois, Mahegan), slavery (Choctaws, Chickasaws) and cannibalism (Navajo, Anasazi).
I wonder, will the Iroquois and Anasazi descendants pay the Erie and Pueblo descendants for their "guilt" from their ancestors actions?
Regards,
Slavery talk came up, and my wife mentioned the Indians kept slaves. She was told that was wrong outright. She from Texas, and offered that she has ancestors who were freakin' slaves of Indians, so she knows damn well it's true. The best the prof could counter with is that the Indians learned slavery from the Europeans. ARGH!
The prof wouldn't buy into any of the warring between tribes or slave-taking that occurred before any white man set foot on our shores. It's easy to win arguments when you can just ignore reality...