Columbus, the West, and the Myth of the Noble Savage

Townhall.com ^ | October 9, 2017 | Jack Kerwick

[caseinpoint]

Don’t forget the myth about their model environmentalism. Many tribes lived as one with the land until the land was depleted or wasted and then moved on to deplete other areas.

[trisham]

Correct.

[elcid1970]

That sounds like the late David Yeagley, a Commanche & very politically incorrect.

He once said “your typical Indian likes his guns, hunting, & pickup truck, and is therefore more redneck than redskin.”

[firebrand]

Lewis Carroll’s mad tea party.

It happened all over the world, though, not just here.

[redgolum]

That is pretty much the people I grew up with.

Through in Nebraska football and it matches them to a T.

[Reily]

I remember reading somewhere that “Mohawk” (Iroquois Confederation tribe) was a Leni Lenape (Delaware) word for man-eater. The word “Mohawk” which we and now they refer to themselves is the mangled attempt by English speakers to say the Leni Lanape word.

[Wonder Warthog]

"That sounds like the late David Yeagley, a Commanche & 'very politically incorrect.

Y'know, that might be correct. That name rings a bell, but my memory for names is terrible.

[kearnyirish2]

Interesting; the Lenape were the natives here in NJ.

[Impy]

Viva Colombo!!!!

[GOPsterinMA]

Amen!