Posted on 10/10/2015 5:14:01 AM PDT by GonzoII
I’d like to find your inner child and kick its little ass. Perfect.
Apropos for a native american holiday.
A native friend told me that current natives were the offspring of the "hang around the fort-ers".
Many Lolz!
Could be this is the only country in known human history “where some people complain because they have too much”.
These are the same people who made the long ago ad with the faux Indian with a tear running down his check at the sight of a garbage dump. Footnote: at the time of this ad, there was a tribal type living off the land near where I lived - when he left, he left all his garbage behind, including 5 gal; pails full of human waste - all of it thrown down a once beautiful ravine filled with overflowing greenery dominated by a 12 foot dia. old growth western cedar ... mystical past by an in-touch Indian BS.
Isn’t this an appropriations of someone else culture? I thought the left was so against that sort of thing ;)
Oh, wait! Every day these city council members meet is a field day for feces.
In fact it was just as likely that the population of Europe would have been wiped out by diseases brought back from the Americas.
TOBACCO
For starters, no wheels, no music, war, torture and slavery.
From Wikipedia.
Many Native American tribes practiced some form of slavery before the European introduction of African slavery into North America; but none exploited slave labor on a large scale.[2]
Native American groups often enslaved war captives whom they primarily used for small-scale labor.[2] Some, however, were used in ritual sacrifice.[2] While little is known, there is little evidence that the slaveholders considered the slaves as racially inferior; they came from other Native American tribes and were casualties of war.[2] Native Americans did not buy and sell captives in the pre-colonial era, although they sometimes exchanged enslaved individuals with other tribes in peace gestures or in exchange for redeeming their own members.[2] The word "slave" may not accurately apply to such captive people.[2] Most of these so-called Native American slaves tended to live on the fringes of Native American society and were slowly integrated into the tribe.[2]
In many cases, new tribes adopted captives to replace warriors killed during a raid.[2] Warrior captives were sometimes made to undergo ritual mutilation or torture that could end in death as part of a grief ritual for relatives slain in battle.[2] Some Native Americans would cut off one foot of captives to keep them from running away. Others allowed enslaved male captives to marry the widows of slain husbands.[2] The Creek, who engaged in this practice and had a matrilineal system, treated children born of slaves and Creek women as full members of their mothers' clans and of the tribe, as property and hereditary leadership passed through the maternal line. The children did not have slave status.[2] More typically, tribes took women and children for captives for adoption, as they tended to adapt more easily into new ways.
Several tribes held captives as hostages for payment.[2] Various tribes also practiced debt slavery or imposed slavery on tribal members who had committed crimes; full tribal status would be restored as the enslaved worked off their obligations to the tribal society.[2] Other slave-owning tribes of North America included Comanche of Texas, the Creek of Georgia; the fishing societies, such as the Yurok, who lived in Northern California; the Pawnee, and the Klamath.[6]
When the Europeans made contact with the Native Americans, they began to participate in the slave trade.[7] Native Americans, in their initial encounters with the Europeans, attempted to use their captives from enemy tribes as a “method of playing one tribe against another” in an unsuccessful game of divide and conquer.[7]
The Haida and Tlingit who lived along southeast Alaska's coast were traditionally known as fierce warriors and slave-traders, raiding as far as California.[8][9] In their society, slavery was hereditary after slaves were taken as prisoners of war.[8][9] Among some Pacific Northwest tribes, as many as one-fourth of the population were slaves.[8][9]
The Fact of the Matter is that the Native North American Tribes Were a Stone Age people who didn't even work in Metals or have the Wheel.
Going up against People who created 500 foot tall Cathedrals and Had Guns!
I am not saying that I reveal in the Slow Death Small Pox Brought to the Children of the Natives or that Conquest by the White Man is any more right in the history sense than the Torching of Europe by the Huns. We are simply all people who repeat the same mistakes over and over and over again.
To think that ANY other Culture would have done different is a Fallacy.
What would have happened to the Natives if the Chinese got here first? Or the Koreans? Or Anyone else?
Again people who rode Horses and had Steel Weapons.
Ironically the North American Tribes Lasted Longer than The Central American ones.
The Aztecs and Maya were exterminated and assimilated in 50 years?
But Since the Northerners DIDN'T live in Stone cities had the Open plains to ride the Horses and shoot the guns the White Man Brought.
It took 400 years for the North American Tribes to completely come to end.
If anyone doubts me, look to the Moroccan Conquest of the Songhai Empire.
A powerful and feared Nation who was defeated and brought to heel by the power of a smaller military force who had Guns, where the Songhai did not.
Oldie but a goodie.
Excellent idea! I will do the same come Monday.
I accept your “fairly well-done” wth pride!
In 1597 the first hospital opened in what is now the United States in Florida, which at the time was part of the Spanish dominions. In it both Indians and Blacks were treated alike with the Spaniards. “When the nineteenth century opened, there were only three medical schools in the United States, and only two general hospitals. There were at that time at least eight hospitals in the city of Mexico alone. Two of them, the San Andrés and the Hospital Real of Indians, were large. The San Andrés had 400 beds, all endowed, while the Indian Hospital cared for 350 to 400 patients. In a severe epidemic it cared for over 8,000. Humboldt gave the number of beds available as 1,100 in 1803.” (38)
As a result of this, in New Spain, according to German the humanist who traveled most of the continent, Alexander Humbold: “not only has the number of natives increased for a century, but also New Spain is now more inhabited in 1803 than before the arrival of the Europeans...between 1752 and 1802, in New Spain, the ratio of birth to death stood as 170 to 100, despite a number of torrid-zone plagues; for the cold or temperate part of New Spain the ratio of births to deaths was of 190 and even 200 to 100...The increase of population was simply due, says Humboldt, to an increase in prosperity.” (39)
Spain vaccinates the natives of America and of Philippines against the smallpox
As American Historian Dr. Philip W. Powell, points out, as soon as it was available, “an enlightened Spanish government sponsored very early use of vaccination against smallpox, precisely because the disease was so dangerous to the Indian population.” (34)(*) Along with the gospel, the Spaniards brought the western medical knowledge to America. There was never any attempt of genocide of the Indians on behalf of the Crown, to the contrary. As historian Salvador de Madariaga indicates, “the Spanish Crown constantly reiterated its paramount interest in the natives, this has been a constant feature of the regime, even in its worst days and in the worst governed parts.” (35) (*)
In 1555, a council of the Church of New Spain ordered the construction of hospitals near the church in each village. The hospitals would have to admit not merely the sick but the poor as well even if in good health...No distinction was made between Indians and Spaniards. Some, however, had been founded to meet the special needs of the Indians (there was one in Mexico for Indians not living in the capital who happened to fall ill while there), others catered to certain needs of the Spaniards. Cortés founded one for venereal diseases. Most of these charitable institutions were also used for giving hospitality to travelers and they were comfortable and some even luxurious. (36)
Don Henley captured the emotion of being a liberal exactly!
Do you work for the government at some level? For the rest of us, Monday will be just another work day.
How very un P.C. of the Declaration Of Independence. I'm surprised the liberal bastard whakos haven't changed it yet.
Spot on!
Or the Bering Straight. Or the south sea islands. Or any number of other theories. The Norse also beat the Inuit to Greenland by more than 200 years and that is recorded history. Does that make the Inuit in Greenland interlopers too?
He always seemed like an overrated explorer whose contribution to history was based more in myth and legend than in reality.
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Other than being one of the two or three greatest navigators in history. Before the invention of the sextant—which meant navigating just by the sun and estimating his ship's speed by eye—he sailed across the notoriously stormy North Atlantic without losing his way, and keeping his crew in line with prayer and discipline.
Everyone thought Asia would be the next land mass. Hah! But there was no Wikipedia or Google earth then, sorry. He had his latitude about right for Japan, but of course it wasn't Japan. He landed in the Bahamas on an island the natives named after a lizard—Guanahani—which we now call the iguana. But Columbus had bigger plans and a slightly greater vision. He called it San Salvador or "Holy Savior." He explored the area and sailed back to Spain.
Then he returned to that same spot (4000 miles each way) to explore some more—three times. Safely, without getting lost. How are you on a lake in a rowboat, in a cloudy downpour? Then we can talk about "idiot."
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