Posted on 07/10/2015 10:36:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai
First Lady Michelle Obama said on Thursday at a tribal youth gathering at the White House that the United States is “finally” embracing the wisdom of Native Americans on conservation and climate change, and claimed that America’s founders modeled the U.S. government partly on the “Iroquois Confederacy.”
“Today, on issues like conservation and climate change, we are finally beginning to embrace the wisdom of your ancestors,” Mrs. Obama said at the event where youth from 230 tribes from 42 states participated.
“Now, long before the United States was even an idea, your ancestors were harvesting the crops that would feed the world for centuries to come,” Obama said. “And places like Seattle and Michigan and natural wonders like Niagara Falls and Yosemite can only be named using your Native languages.” […]
“One of your early democratic institutions—the Iroquois Confederacy—served as a model for the United States government,” Obama said. …
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Look out Native Americans , you are about to get your pockets picked
My American Indian ancestors were forcibly relocated from their homes in the Southern US, so forgive me if I harbor a certain level of distrust when politicians try to pander to American Indians.
So Moochelle has finally noticed spring, summer, winter and fall.
The First Lady is delusional.
The Plains Indians roamed the plains because they had to. They used up all the resources in an area and then moved on.
They lived in hard times and that made for hard people.
When a Soldier went on campaign, there were still people at home to grow crops and raise livestock.
When an Indian Brave went on campaign, the tribe had one less hunter providing for them.
When a Soldier was killed, the folks at home still ate.
When an Indian Brave was killed, his family could starve.
Trick it out any way you want to, the Indian culture was never going to triumph.
Why don’t you shut up and go on another vacation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_use_of_fire
Because native never used fire to alter the environment....
Quote:
[ Romantic and primitivist writers such as William Henry Hudson, Longfellow, Francis Parkman, and Thoreau were major contributers to the myth of pristine pre-columbian landscapes, which became part of American heritage.[4]
At the time of their writings, however, enormous tracts of land had already been allowed to succeed to climax thanks to the reduction in anthropogenic fires caused by the collapse of aborigeneal populations brought about by epidemics of diseases introduced by Europeans in the sixteenth century.
Influenced by Western noble savage views of hunter-gatherer societies, many people still believe that Native Americans lived in complete harmony with the environment and neither disturbed nor destroyed but took only what was absolutely needed for survival. One of the powerful technologies which Native Americans had was fire, and they clearly changed the landscape with it.
Sometimes to clear the woods for hunting or travel, sometimes to create a berry patch, the changes could be found in patches across the continents.}
Volcanoes never used fire to alter the environment either, did they. They’re just innocuous holes in the ground and stuff.
What conservation by Indians?! And has she been to a reservation ever? Or to Mexico, which are Indians as well? God, the idiocy and ignorance.
Some of the tribes had transexual marriage before the liberal “yankees” thought of it too.
(I meant Moose. The little demons are all interchangeable.)
What wisdom? Does she think that rain dances worked?
WTF is this woman talking about ?
Their ancestors were Stone Age hunter gatherers or possibly subsistence farmers when my ancestors were building mighty sailing ships, working steel, and developing civilization.
>>“One of your early democratic institutions—the Iroquois Confederacy—served as a model for the United States government,” Obama said. …
They were Presbyterian???
Hey Mooch!
They burnt wood and crapped until all their resources were used up and filthy. Then they HAD to move.
Some wisdom!
STFU!
The choosing of chiefs for the confederacy seems oligarchic to me rather than democratic; the “clan mothers” choose them. I don’t know where the first lady got the idea of it being “democratic” from.
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