I can’t decide if I love it or hate it.
I like it very much! How true!.. of course, the rifles came well after the 1492 invasions…
Can’t we all just get along?
Brilliant, marvelous, wonderful!
well at least this book tells the truth http://www.skattabrain.com/css-books-plain/0806121653.html
I’ve not read that one yet. Have you? It sounds like a necessity.
I am always amazed at the … I guess the best word would be “audacity”, of people who seem to think that that is just all over and done with and need never be given any serious thought … I almost typed “anymore”, but it has hardly been given any in our nation’s white-settled history.
It also never ceases to amaze me that we have such an arbitrary view of “civilization”… as if none other than the one we currently know has ever existed or been worthwhile. A sad misconception indeed.
Now lest anyone want to assume that I am just a ‘bleeding heart liberal’, no… I know that there were groups with murderous histories too… but certainly not all, or even most. It’s a shame so many people see anyone who is different as being less than themselves, and forget that if you go back in anyone’s family, we have all been immigrants… and depending on which side of the property line you sit (there’s a whole 'nother discussion!) is the difference between immigrant and invader, new neighbor and thief, contribution and rip-off.
What aggravates me is organizations like One Nation, that are large alliances of businesses out to destroy tribal sovereignty. They’ve recently driven Git’n’Go out of business (a longtime Oklahoma convenience store chain) for serving as a supplier for the Cherokee Outpost convenience stores.
i’ve read this book many times. it tells of a deeply religious people, who love their family. when you read it when you’ve got the flue or something, and you read about how they suffered, you think you’re better of with the flue. still, they respected the white man, many became christians.
but they didn’t like the mexicans, many parished in the mines after a few years.
they were no saints either, but they wanted even today there’s some tribal leaders who could do much better.
“in the days of Victorio” is another good book http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/samples/sam23.htm
they wanted peace, these books tell the truth.
In other words, they are and were people… with all the needs, wants, quirks and foibles of the human race. I find that to be true of just about any community of people one takes the time to get to know. Problem is, folks rarely take the time to get to know those they think they need to be scared of. I recall a line in the Bible that says soemthing along the lines of “Go live among your enemies, tend their crops, feed their children. You will no more be enemies”… and the from several peoples, “Do not judge a man until you have travelled a mile in his moccasins.” One cannot understand another until you get to know him/her/them well.
Though this quote makes them sound bad, their mission statement I agree with:
And then the quote by Woodrow Wilson makes a lot of sense too:
“You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.”
– Woodrow Wilson; speech, May 10, 1915 ;
I think the amount of thought given to this difficult issue has been misguided and reached a bunch of conclusions which are hurting both sides.