Thanksgiving guilt trip: How warlike were Native Americans before Europeans showed up? | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 995876 United States 11/22/2010 05:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My ancestory is partly Iroquois. My tribe actually ate other tribes. We dominated the Eastern Seaboard from Virginia to Maine to Michigan to Tennessee. They were made up of 5 main tribes and if you didn't assimilate you were killed or driven off. It wasn't like this as much in most other areas though. The Sioux, the Apache and the Northen Cheyenne were really the only other tribes that were noted for imposing on other tribes for land. However...almost all of their skirmishes are recorded as occuring because of conflict between individual memebers from different tribes. Eventually the personal dispute often led to all out war between tribes. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1127821 United States 11/22/2010 05:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm NA and I hold no grudge towards anyone, native or non native. But I also don't think that you can paint us all with one broad brush stroke. And as the article pointed out, the Natives did not meet Europeans with aggression. So despite it all they were capable of kindness to others. Sounds a lot like modern humans. We like war, but yet are capable of treating each other with compassion. Happy Thanksgiving...how ever you choose to view it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1164325 United States 11/22/2010 06:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "At every point where I landed, and succeeded in talking to them, I gave them some of everything I had—cloth and many other things—without receiving anything in return, but they are a hopelessly timid people. It is true that since they have gained more confidence and are losing this fear, they are so unsuspicious and so generous with what they possess, that no one who had not seen it would believe it. They never refuse anything that is asked for. They even offer it themselves, and show so much love that they would give their very hearts. Whether it be anything of great or small value, with any trifle of whatever kind, they are satisfied. I forbade worthless things being given to them, such as bits of broken bowls, pieces of glass, and old straps, although they were as much pleased to get them as if they were the finest jewels in the world. One sailor was found to have got for a leathern strap, gold of the weight of two and a half castellanos, and others for even more worthless things much more; while for a new blancas they would give all they had, were it two or three castellanos of pure gold or an arroba or two of spun cotton. Even bits of the broken hoops of wine casks they accepted, and gave in return what they had, like fools, and it seemed wrong to me. I forbade it, and gave a thousand good and pretty things that I had to win their love, and to induce them to become Christians, and to love and serve their Highness and the whole Castilian nation, and help to got for us things they have in abundance, which are necessary to us. They have no religion, nor idolatry, except that they all believe power and goodness to be in heaven. [link to www.bartleby.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1102890 United States 11/28/2010 11:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Whites lived in North America 9,000 years ago, they came over the existing land bridge from what is now Russia. They were more than likely killed off by the invading Indian tribes from south and central America. [link to www.wvwnews.net] |