It is hard to understand how Indians can simultaneously fly flags, said Robert Holden, Choctaw, and view the federal government as an occupying, terrorist agency. But that is just the way it is. Nowadays, even when they know that the U. Maybe the hard part for non-Indians to understand, Holden said, is that Indians do not entirely see the homeland they are defending as either American or Indian.
Matthew K. Tafoya, Navajo, who designed the original homeland security T-shirt and marketed it through his Albuquerque company, Tribal Sovereign Tees, is far more blunt. Military, Tafoya said, because they are flag-waving patriots. Tafoya came up with the design and slogan for his homeland security T-shirt a few weeks after terrorists flew jets into the Twin Towers.
Now they know how it feels. There is certainly an irony that a country founded on the concept of inalienable rights and human equality was settled through the violation of many of those rights and the treatment of the aboriginal inhabitants as savages.
Many soldiers, of all ethnicities, join partly for financial reasons but most also choose service for a combination of motives, including patriotism, a desire for adventure, and a sense of purpose. The reservation system is, in many instances, a ghetto from which many can hardly wait to escape. Of course, bad things happened, even by the yardsticks used then. But at some point you have to, dare I say it, Move On and adjust to your new environment or live with the consequences.
We rightly ridicule the Islamist rantings about the loss of Andalusia in Why should this be different? So does that give me absolute moral authority to speak on this topic? Oh, and oskee-wow-wow for any other Illinois fans out there.
Go Chief! The us armys penchant for prioviding smallpox infested blankets to natives is the first use of biological weapons in the US…nice work, makes me want to puke. In any case, Lord Jeffrey Amherst was commanding general of British forces. No one forces the Indians to live in squalor on reservations.
They are not prisoners for God sakes! In fact they are a lesson in liberal politics of what happens when you GIVE people money for doing nothing. Indians have always been small groups of nomadic peoples from the beginning.
Were they supposed to have exclusive rights to the lands of America forever? Plus, Indians in the late 16th century and early 17th were savages-sorry, true. They slaughtered wholesale whenever they had the chance. That would be akin to me and a thousand of my camping buddies living alone in Washington state and killing anyone that came within its boundaries. Hey Indians: get over it!
Here in SW Washington state we are fighting them coming in uninvited with one of the largest proposed casinos in the country. Talk about your revenge…. Or to take a different tack, I have no doubt that somewhere in my family tree were some Danes who decided to go a viking. The most likely took prisoners aka slaves , burned, pillaged, etc. While the specifics of the pox infected blanket story might not be true, the facts are that without the introduction of disease that was introduced to the indigenous population by European settlers the complexion of the north American Continent would not have been as white as it became.
James — nice link, but thats not what the discussion says. All they say is that evidence that smallpox was actually used is not solid — there is definitely evidence that it was seriously considered and indirect evidence that it may have been used. You can also make a case that European domination of the world is owed to the plague.
By shaking up the society order, making labor scarce and thus allowing for more value for labor, taking out a third of the people enabling the land to not marginally but richly support the survivors and finally giving incentive to innovation to replace the labor, Europe went from being behind the Islamic world which would raid Europe for slaves to being in charge of the world.
So yes, there is a great case to be made that the colonization of America would not have proceeded as it did without the devastation of the small pox. But I think Africa or Asia is likely to give a better example of what the result would be rather than to say that Europeans would have never penetrated into America. This shop is powered by CafePress Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy Non-US currency rates are updated daily and may fluctuate.
Geronimo and his Apache Native American peers have been fighting terrorism since Sitting Bull Tatanka-Iyotanka on Fighting Terror Sitting Bull was one of the many original directors of homeland security for the Native Americans fighting terrorism Since Sitting Bull Tatanka-Iyotanka had the same challenges over years ago.
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