This is from my Native American friends. A history I did not fully understand: Some will get mad about these facts.
Yes, Gil you forgot the part about the native people helping them to survive the harsh winters and showing them how to plant for food and the value of corn. You also forgot the part about them bringing disease (measles, small pox) that killed hundreds of natives. Oh yes, and don’t forget the part about sending for their friends, to help take the land by force, cheating the very people who helped them (land for Liquor and trinkets). And, we must not leave out the laws they instituted in the land they stole that fostered discrimination, genocide, and plundering against the very people that helped them survive. And let’s not forget the grand finale, life on a Reservation whose numbers are dwindling as the quest for more land reduces their “territory”. Just think, reduced to a being a novelty, reduced to a few hundred acres after owning the purple mountains majesty and the fruited plains. Just sayin……
Being of direct Native descent (thought from the southeast, nowhere near the “first Thanksgiving” pilgrims) that’s all true, but a little heavy for a joke about a grade school kid forgetting the point of a lesson in favor of a funny looking hat. :-)
Kristiaan almost 8 years ago
That’s more than I ever learned about them.
barister almost 8 years ago
This is from my Native American friends. A history I did not fully understand: Some will get mad about these facts.
Yes, Gil you forgot the part about the native people helping them to survive the harsh winters and showing them how to plant for food and the value of corn. You also forgot the part about them bringing disease (measles, small pox) that killed hundreds of natives. Oh yes, and don’t forget the part about sending for their friends, to help take the land by force, cheating the very people who helped them (land for Liquor and trinkets). And, we must not leave out the laws they instituted in the land they stole that fostered discrimination, genocide, and plundering against the very people that helped them survive. And let’s not forget the grand finale, life on a Reservation whose numbers are dwindling as the quest for more land reduces their “territory”. Just think, reduced to a being a novelty, reduced to a few hundred acres after owning the purple mountains majesty and the fruited plains. Just sayin……
Beale_Knight almost 8 years ago
Being of direct Native descent (thought from the southeast, nowhere near the “first Thanksgiving” pilgrims) that’s all true, but a little heavy for a joke about a grade school kid forgetting the point of a lesson in favor of a funny looking hat. :-)
Erwin Schwartz Premium Member almost 8 years ago
The black and white clothing and the buckles were the creation of artists who later depicted the early pilgrim settlements.