Posted on 02/05/2024 1:16:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
"When American GIs poured into Germany in 1945, they were astonished to discover that German children, after 12 years of Nazi rule, could be found decked-out in buckskins and feathers and playing 'Indians'. Every spring in Radebeul, a quiet Dresden suburb, tens of thousands of grown-ups do the same. The explanation for both these phenomena is Karl May (1842-1912), a Saxon weaver's son, jailbird, self-described linguist—and the man who single-handedly invented the wild west for generations of Europeans. Long before the Lone Ranger, May was giving unruly cowboys what-for, befriending Winnetou, a great Apache warrior, and generally bringing peace and order to the frontier. "
Ich bin ein Cowboy The Economist, 24 May 2001
Let's go burn some books.... < s a r c >
I’d change it to Injuns.
I am Scots/Irish and Ani-Yun-Wiya...Not just Indian, but DRUNK Indian....
“Indian” for the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas is not racist, and “Native American” honors an Italian, Amerigo Vespucci. Anyway it’s offensive to have a horse in the painting—that’s cultural appropriation. The Indians didn’t have any horses until the Spanish brought them over.
Karl May visited the USA but apparently never went west of St. Louis.
It still amuses me that many of our friends in Germany, who’d grown up on the many books, thought Karl May some kind of authority about “the West.”
Reminds me of the military 1967 when the B-52 engine department wanted a cartoon mascot they chose a cartoon American Indian riding on an “Engine”.
I hope the guy did not visit Indiana.
Lol.
If King County, Washington, originally named for an obscure Vice President who died in office after serving less than two months in 1853, can be renamed for Martin Luther King, Jr., then Indiana can be renamed for India. Of course by the time they get around to that, India will demand that everyone call it by the Hindi version of the country's name (whether they can pronounce it or not).
What about PETA?
They object to using the name of animals in titles.
The title should be “I***** on H*********”...........
These people are insane.
There is no other word for it.
It’s a mental illness.
It must be contagious.................
Not gonna happen...........
If I had a print of this...I’d buy it and hang it in my house. I love it.....
They didnt have little pointy roofed cabins either.
Now we know that the war band burning this farmstead were likely post Spanish influence and likely before English control.
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