Strange Brew by John Deering for November 23, 2023

“Thank you for the tips on growing local produce. We will have to get together again once you recover from the small pox we gifted you.”

“Your contribution to our dinner get-together was a-maize-ing!”

Like what’s it say, “Thank you for being so hospitable because in another couple of hundred years your land will be taken away, many many of your tribesmen will die and your way of life will change forever. (Enter the casinos). Good for them.

“Several times this happened because of the massacres of Native people, including in 1637 when Massachusetts Colony Governor John Winthrop declared a day of thanksgiving after volunteers murdered 700 Pequot people.”

Thanks for having dinner with us. Next year, there will be many, many, many more of us!

Very funny! Dinner wa fine, the blessing divine.

Sorry about your massacre, hope you’re feeling better.

And fyi, did you see a blunderbuss lying around anywhere?One of our guys must have dropped it.

James Loewen presented quite a few corrections to the Lies My Teacher Taught Me about the indigenous.

“Let’s get together about this time next year.”